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On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:34:53 -0400, HK wrote:

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Looks good to me.

On Aug 30, 4:34?pm, HK wrote:
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Not So Sweet, Martha Loran

(those who didn't do the 60's, don't even ask).

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On Aug 30, 4:34?pm, HK wrote:
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Not So Sweet, Martha Loran

(those who didn't do the 60's, don't even ask).


:-)

On Aug 31, 9:19 am, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:
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(those who didn't do the 60's, don't even ask).

:-)


Isn't there a saying, that goes something like:

"If you rememeber the 60's you wern't there?"

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Not So Sweet, Martha Loran

(those who didn't do the 60's, don't even ask).

Is this some kind of Druggie code? "Do the sixties"


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On Aug 30, 4:34?pm, HK wrote:
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Not So Sweet, Martha Loran

(those who didn't do the 60's, don't even ask).

Is this some kind of Druggie code?

No.

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:05:25 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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Not So Sweet, Martha Loran

(those who didn't do the 60's, don't even ask).

Is this some kind of Druggie code?

No.

What ever happened to good old Country Joe anyway?

As I was...um...sort of indisposed during that period - say from '66
to late '69 - I sort of missed most of the more interesting aspects of
the mid-60's. I could tell a very funny story about my completely
innocent introduction to smoking the most ubiquitous herbal substance
of the times, but I don't want to ruin my hard earned law and order
reputation. :)

Oddly, "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" is about the only thing I
know about Country Joe McDonald - never really heard any other of his
music. When I first heard it, it was towards the end of my second
tour. By the time I returned stateside, it became a sort-of anthem
for those who were trying very hard not to do as the title suggested.

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On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:05:25 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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On Aug 30, 4:34?pm, HK wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/2selhs

Not So Sweet, Martha Loran

(those who didn't do the 60's, don't even ask).

Is this some kind of Druggie code?

No.

What ever happened to good old Country Joe anyway?

As I was...um...sort of indisposed during that period - say from '66
to late '69 - I sort of missed most of the more interesting aspects of
the mid-60's. I could tell a very funny story about my completely
innocent introduction to smoking the most ubiquitous herbal substance
of the times, but I don't want to ruin my hard earned law and order
reputation. :)

Oddly, "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" is about the only thing I
know about Country Joe McDonald - never really heard any other of his
music. When I first heard it, it was towards the end of my second
tour. By the time I returned stateside, it became a sort-of anthem
for those who were trying very hard not to do as the title suggested.

I haven't heard much except his first couple of albums, which were
interesting.



From Wiki:
Joe went on to have a long solo career with key albums including:

a.. Thinking of Woody Guthrie (1969) - recorded in Nashville, which at the
time was a very odd choice of location for a hippie songster to make an
album of leftist anthems.
b.. War War War (1971) - another tribute to a landmark American radical,
the World War I anti-war poems of Robert W. Service set to music.
c.. Hold On It's Coming - songs about the West Coast hippie movement.
d.. Superstitious Blues - with Jerry Garcia playing guitar on some tracks.
e.. Paradise With an Ocean View (1977) - included the landmark
environmental protest song "Save the Whales".
f.. Paris Sessions - landmark feminism, with a female band, singing songs,
written by Joe, including "Sexist Pig".
In 2003 McDonald was sued for copyright infringement over his signature
song, specifically the "One, two, three, what are we fighting for?" chorus
part, as derived from the 1926 early jazz classic "Muskrat Ramble",
co-written by Kid Ory. The suit was brought by Ory's daughter Babette, who
holds the copyright today. Since decades had already passed from the time
McDonald composed his song in 1965, Ory based her suit against a new version
of it recorded by McDonald in 1999. The court however upheld McDonald's
laches defence, noting that Ory and her father were aware of the original
version of "Fixin'", with the same section in question, for some three
decades without bringing a suit until 2003, and dismissed the suit.

In 2004, Country Joe re-formed some original members of Country Joe and The
Fish as the Country Joe Band - Bruce Barthol, David Bennett Cohen, and Gary
"Chicken" Hirsh. The band toured Los Angeles, Berkeley, Bolinas, Sebastopol,
Grants Pass, Eugene, Portland and Seattle. They then made a 10-stop tour of
the United Kingdom and played at the Isle of Wight and London. Following
that came the New York tour which included a Woodstock reunion performance
followed by an appearance at the New York State Museum in Albany. Returning
to the West Coast the band played in Marin and Mendocino Counties, the World
Peace Music Awards in San Francisco and at the Oakland Museum as part of an
exhibit on the Vietnam War.

In the spring of 2005, McDonald joined a larger protest against California
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed budget cuts at the California
state capital.

In the fall of 2005, political commentator Bill O'Reilly compared McDonald,
a Navy veteran,[2] to Cuban president Fidel Castro, remarking on McDonald's
involvement in Cindy Sheehan's protests against the Iraq War.[3]

McDonald's daughter Seven is a columnist for the LA Weekly.

He performed at the Isle of Wight Festival in the summer of 2007

On Aug 31, 7:57?am, "Jim" wrote:
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http://tinyurl.com/2selhs

Not So Sweet, Martha Loran

(those who didn't do the 60's, don't even ask).

Is this some kind of Druggie code? "Do the sixties"

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Hey, in addition to making fun of Harry's preferred "system", my
comment was almost on topic. The geniuses behind "Not so Sweet, Martha
Lorraine" were Country Joe and the FISH. "Fish" is absolutely on topic
here. :-)

Then of course there are those who did the 60's, and as a result can't
remember too very much between about 1966 and 1972. For that crowd
I'll post the following stroll down flashback lane:


Not So Sweet, Martha Lorraine
as recorded by Country Joe and the Fish

She hides in an attic concealed on a shelf
Behind volumes of literature based on herself
And runs across the pages like some tiny elf
Knowing that it's hard to find
Stuff way back in her mind,
Winds up spending all of her time
Trying to memorize every line,
Sweet Lorraine, ah, sweet Lorraine.
Sweet lady of death wants me to die
So she can come sit by my bedside and sigh
And wipe away the tears from all my friends eyes
Then softly she will explain
Just exactly who was to blame
For causing me to go insane
And finally blow out my brain,
Sweet Lorraine, ah, sweet Lorraine.

Well you know that it's a shame and a pity
You were raised up in the city
And you never learned nothing 'bout country ways,
Ah, 'bout country ways.

The joy of life she dresses in black
With celestial secrets engraved in her back
And her face keeps flashing that she's got the knack,
But you know when you look into her eyes
All she's learned she's had to memorize
And the only way you'll ever get her high
Is to let her do her thing and then watch you die,
Sweet Lorraine, ah, sweet Lorraine.

Now she's the one who gives us all those magical things
And reads us stories out of the I Ching,
Then she passes out a whole new basket of rings
That when you put on your hand
Makes you one of the Angel Band
And gives you the power to be a man,
But what it does for her you never quite understand
Sweet Lorraine, ah, sweet Lorraine.

Well you know that it's a shame and a pity
You were raised up in the city
And you never learned nothing 'bout country ways,
Oh 'bout country ways, oh 'bout country ways,
Yeah, about country ways, oh, country ways ...