Country Joe McDonald at Woodstock....."Fixing to die"

[madfloridian]

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"The Woodstock Music and Art Festival was a rock festival held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre (2.4 km²) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969. For many, it exemplified the counterculture of the 1960s and the "hippie era". Many of the best-known musicians of the time appeared during the rainy weekend, captured in a successful 1970 movie, Woodstock. Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock", which memorialized the event, became a major hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Though attempts have been made over the years to recreate the festival, the original Woodstock festival of 1969 has proven to be unique and legendary."

...."The festival bears the name "Woodstock", because it was originally scheduled to take place in the town of Woodstock, in Ulster County; however, the town offered no appropriate site to host such a large event due to their belief that over a million people would attend. A site was found in the town of Wallkill. When local opposition arose, the event was almost cancelled, but Sam Yasgur persuaded his father Max to allow the concert to be held on the family's alfalfa field, located in Sullivan County, about 40 miles southwest of Woodstock."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_Festival

Country Joe's Place:
http://www.countryjoe.com/woodstock.htm

[wakeme2008]

1. Somebody needs to re-release this with Iraqnam .....

GREAT SONG.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Down memory lane

I instinctively call them Country Joe and the Fish and tag Rag onto the end of the title. It's an age thing I guess. Thanks for posting this. :)

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Very timely

[SAXMAR]

4. Country Joe Album of all anti-war songs

Country Joe put out an album that was all anti-war songs. It was called War! War ! War! I believe.

Actually the songs were anti-war poems written by Robert W.Service during World War I that Country Joe put music to. It is f#$king fantastic and worth tracking down.

Here is an example of lyrics to one song:

"Oh let us hail the gods of war with joy any and jubilation
who favor foolish mankind cause they prune the population

Oh let us thank the hungry guns forever belching doom
that slaughter bloodily our sons to give us elbow room"

The whole album is full of great stuff like that.

[madfloridian]

5. Here is a link with a bunch of his downloadable albums...

http://www.emusic.com/artist/10564/10564385.html

I did not realize he had done so many. You can listen to excerpts for free, but you have to pay to download. I find so much oldie music at this site, and it brings back memories.

[SAXMAR]

8. Url for War! War! War! by Country Joe McDonald

http://www.countryjoe.com/war.htm

[FogerRox]

6. what ever it is I dont give a crap

next stop is freakin Iraq

[madfloridian]

9. Yes, I think that may be true for a long time.

It is like living the late 60s and early 70s all over again.

[cynthia]

7. It saddens me that another generation

has to grow up with a senseless war killing their buddies.

When will we ever learn?

I also refer to it as "fixing to die rag"

[Kenergy]

10. A Classic !

Thanks for posting that. Brings back memories.