Country Joe and the Fish - Vietnam Song

dixie_pixy · May 3, 2013

Thought I would share this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuUBCF3KKxc&feature=player_detailpage"]Country Joe & the Fish -- Vietnam song - YouTube

MeAgain · May 3, 2013

Always liked Country Joe, you know he and Janis Joplin were together back in the daze.

Here's a little aside about the "Fish" cheer.

Now, as a piece of background, it is necessary to add that as an introduction to the "Rag" on the second LP, the band shouts in high school cheerleader fashion, "Gimmie an F, gimmie an I ..." then "What's that spell? What's that spell?" etc. and the audience yells "FISH." All very innocent; but in the Summer of 1968, at the Shaefer Summer Festival in Woilman Rink in New York's Central Park before about 10,000 people inside and about 10,000 people outside the fence, drummer Chicken Hirsh suggested altering the cheer to "gimmie an F-U-C-K". Some writers have claimed that this act was one of true defiance, outrage toward the system and statement of how youth felt at the time; no one, so far as we know ever asked "why" the Cheer was changed -- it just was and it stuck. Also at Central Park that night were a number of executives from the Ed Sullivan Show; they had asked the band to appear near Christmas time that year. The following week they signed the contract, and sent in the agreed upon performance payment in full with a request: please don't appear on the show -- keep the money. They were also never invited back to the Shaefer Beer Festival. Back at Woodstock, when Joe yelled "Gimme an F!" at the end of the cheer the sound of all these people yelling "fuck" was astounding or better yet, hard to believe; it was as if a rather large cross-section of America's youth was telling the world "get stuffed." Things were never the same, in more ways than one. -Bio
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Pressed_Rat · May 3, 2013

Electric Music for the Mind and Body -- great psych album, albeit dated like most 60's psychedelia (Hendrix and a few others are a rare exception).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6MKfmjCDkU"]Country Joe and The Fish - Section 43 - YouTube

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