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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:
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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.

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