Country Joe McDonald

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Country Joe McDonald
Country Joe McDonald at Woodstock (solo performance)
Performed on	Day 2
Started at	1.00 pm, Saturday, 16th
Played for	30 min.
Further Information
Official link All Music Guide link Wikipedia link
Festival Day Chronology
Prev. artist	Quill at 12:15
Next artist	Santana at 2.00 pm

The first performance by Country Joe McDonald was a solo performance without his band The Fish (see also Country Joe & The Fish). He probably performed on Saturday at noon, 1 pm, though other sources (including himself!^[1][2]) claim that he performed right after Richie Havens on Friday. However, research with the help of photo and video evidence has shown that this may not be true^[3][4][5].

Contents 1 Musicians 2 Setlist 3 Details 4 Miscellaneous 5 Availability 5.1 Audio 5.2 Video 6 Images 7 Footnotes

[edit] Musicians

"Country" Joe McDonald - guitar, vocals

[edit] Setlist

1. Janis
2. Donovan's Reef
3. Heartaches by the Number
4. Ring of Fire
5. Tennessee Stud
6. Rockin' Round the World
7. Flying All the Way
8. Seen a Rocket
9. "Fish" Cheer > I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag

[edit] Details

Country Joe played a simple but relaxed solo set for about half an hour.

The ""Fish" Cheer" was introduced with the letters F-U-C-K instead of F-I-S-H, followed by the satirical anti-Vietnam song "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag". Inbetween the song Country Joe made the following rant: "Listen people, I don't know how you expect to ever stop the war if you can't sing any better than that, there's about 300,000 of you fuckers out there, I want you to start singing!"

[edit] Miscellaneous

Country Joe made some comments regarding the brown acid. According to various stage comments made during the festival the brown acid (LSD) was of inferior quality.

[edit] Availability

Available songs are scattered across several official releases.

[edit] Audio

• 1970: Woodstock I
• 1994: Woodstock - Three Days of Peace and Music
• 1994: Best of Woodstock

[edit] Video

• 1970: Woodstock
• 1990: Woodstock: The Lost Performances
• 1994: Woodstock Diaries

[edit] Images

Country Joe McDonald at Woodstock

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[edit] Footnotes

1. ↑ Country Joe McDonald Woodstock website
2. ↑ Interview with Country Joe McDonald
3. ↑ Yahoo! Woodstock Project mailing list - discussion thread about McDonald's performance time
4. ↑ Yahoo! Woodstock Project mailing list - discussion thread about McDonald's slot in the setlist
5. ↑ Yahoo! Woodstock Project mailing list - original discussion thread which points out the outdated Saturday line-up