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Somebody needs to thank me. I just spent about an hour digitizing an LP by Country Joe and the Fish, solely to populate this post. But my main point:
The song I Feel Like I'm Fixin To Die Rag is the only one that anyone remembers from this band, and I now think that a large part of the music is stolen from Louis Armstrong. Attached to the post is Country Joe's anti-Vietnam War anthem (sans The Cheer, which can be found in Comments). Listen to this, and then listen to Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Sevens doing Muskrat Ramble (in Comments). The first time I heard Muskrat Ramble I thought it sounded damn familiar.
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Why do you need to thank me? Other than this song, Country Joe sucks - big-time. In the late sixties, I couldn't take enough drugs to make this disc sound good after track one (and I tried. I really did.) Forty years later, it's even worse. Oh, Barry Melton plays some ok psycho-delic guitar when allowed to, but Country Joe (named after Joseph Stalin! by his leftist parents, who thought Stalin, the murderer of milliions, a hero) is a shitty songwriter and a lousy vocalist and drags it to its doom. There is more hippie garbage on this than outside of Alice's Restaurant after a week-long tribal love-in.
And the Fish cheer, where he apparently spells out F-U-C-K as in "Gimme an F" etc., as controversial as that supposedly was, is near-incomprehensible on the record after "Gimme an F". Intentional, or just horrible sound engineering? Have a listen and see, if I didn't tell you what it was, if you could tell.
And that's enough from Mr. Cranky today. More later this weekend (but not more Country Joe).
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WFT!!! These so but buggyist you dink I’s red zat. Fat cow holy hose cock – lol ya youse nows gay gay!
It's kind of a shock to be listening to music from 1928 and not recognize the solo instrument. About 1:10 in, the solo is taken by....what? I know from cartoons they used to play a saw as a musical instrument. That's my best guess....
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I'm not sure. Its an awesome sound though, isn't it? We'll have to wait 'till Spike wakes up n logs on.
I not at all sure what that is, I've heard a couple saw players in the past and it doesn't sound like that to me unless it's a different technique than I've heard. Sound sort of like one of those water whistle bird call things I remember from childhood? Or aliens :)
This is a stumper....
However, while I'm here may I say what a fine track this is, and how very well remastered it appears to have been.
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And here, in all its incomprehensible glory, is the Fish Cheer
Country Joe was unquestionably a ripper-off of earlier and more talented bluesmen - his style is uindeniably familiar, but I'm not enough of an acoustic blues purist to identify the tune he has "borrowed". I would agree that it's about as original as a 1969 Page/Plant composition