Country Joe and the Fish — Flying High
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bb_bubbab wrote:
Makes you about 55
one of my least favorite CJ & The Fish, but, my god!... listen to how different this is to what it was contemporary to! For a 16 year old kid, this was the promised land of music!
Makes you about 55
birdland wrote:
Agreed. For some reason they didn't surpass the "your brothers' band in the basement" sound.
I do not know their body of work, but I was very impressed by "Section 43" (6:43 debut EP version)
found on Love Is The Song We Sing San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970.
Agreed. For some reason they didn't surpass the "your brothers' band in the basement" sound.
I do not know their body of work, but I was very impressed by "Section 43" (6:43 debut EP version)
found on Love Is The Song We Sing San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970.
Wow.
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one of my least favorite CJ & The Fish, but, my god!... listen to how different this is to what it was contemporary to! For a 16 year old kid, this was the promised land of music!
Gregorama wrote:
Agreed. For some reason they didn't surpass the "your brothers' band in the basement" sound.
IMHO, Country Joe's stuff doesn't stand the test of time like a lot of other stuff from the period. Some psychedelic stuff sounds good, like Cream, but CJ's music just seems to be trapped in the period it was born in. It is okay, just not Godlike, again, IMHO.
Agreed. For some reason they didn't surpass the "your brothers' band in the basement" sound.
OMG! We got something to make your trip!
There I was in San Francisco, October 1968 -- one week before I had stepped off of the Freedom Bird after my first tour in Vietnam. As I am walking down the street in front of the old Fort at the top of Fisherman's Wharf, there were these Hippies sitting and grooving with a gigantic boom box and one of those new-fangled cassettes. Country Joe and the Fish was very loud. After a few smokes of some most excellent green herbal materials, and staring like a bumpkin at some most capacious breasts engorging a tie-died t-shirt, sans the marvelous invention of that Naughty Frenchman Monsieur Brassier, they told me that there would be a concert at the Avalon like next week. Unfortunately by that time I was on my way to Fort Ord so the Army could turn me around and send me back to Vietnam. However, whilst returned to that lovely place, I took with me a number of scurrilous and obvious anti-American commie-pinko-leftie inspired cassettes to be enjoyed during our frequent sojourns hunkered down with my men in the old bunker.
My Goodness, I sure went down memory lane there ... Love those guys!!!
I'm constantly amazed at the obscure gems that show up on RP, and this is one of them. "Flying High" is one of the great psychedelic era songs.
Smells like SF.
Great to hear this tune.
Takes me back to when this was one of a dozen or so LPs that were de rigeur at parties. Albums like John Coltrane's "Kulu Se Mama", and the Dead's "Anthem of the Sun".
The "reader reviews" on Amazon are rather annoying.
ANNE_MARIE wrote:
missed it! 
don't you hate that? i always miss the best sets when I'm on the phone...
IMHO, Country Joe's stuff doesn't stand the test of time like a lot of other stuff from the period. Some psychedelic stuff sounds good, like Cream, but CJ's music just seems to be trapped in the period it was born in.
It is okay, just not Godlike, again, IMHO.
Thanks for not playing the one song that most people know Country Joe for (that anti-war, F-bomb song). Country Joe and the Fish were in actuality a good blues based jam band.
one of my least favorite CJ & The Fish, but, my god!... listen to how different this is to what it was contemporary to! For a 16 year old kid, this was the promised land of music!
Agreed. There are a number of better CJ&TF tunes. Nonetheless nice to hear.