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Country Joe and the Fish was a rock music/folk music band known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1965 to 1970.

The lead singer was “Country” Joe McDonald. The lead guitarist was Barry “The Fish” Melton. Co-founders McDonald and Melton added musicians as needed over the life of the band.

The band was an early example of Psychedelic music. The LP “Electric Music for the Mind and Body” was very influential on early FM Radio in 1967. Long sets of psychedelic tunes like “Section 43”, “Bass Strings”, “Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine”, “Janis” (for and about Janis Joplin) and “Grace” (all released on Vanguard Records) were often played back to back on KSAN and KMPX in San Francisco and progressive rock stations around the country. Country Joe and The Fish were regulars at Fillmore West and East and the Family Dog at the Avalon. They were billed with such groups as Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Led Zeppelin, and Iron Butterfly. They played at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. In 1971 the band appeared in a Western film starring Don Johnson as an outlaw gang called the Crackers. The film, entitled Zachariah, was written by the Firesign Theater and was billed as “The First Electric Western”. They also appeared in the George Lucas film More American Graffiti.

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1	Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine full track	335
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5	Death Sound Blues full track	125
6	Bass Strings full track	108
7	Love full track	102
8	Porpoise Mouth full track	95
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10	The Masked Marauder full track	80
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Skaterkirchi wrote:
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what are we fighting for don't ask me I don't give a Damn

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sarumkerad wrote:
September 2009

smokin...

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Dejan_Srbac wrote:
August 2009

They are AWESOME! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwwEHJ0K_yw&feature=related can't be better :) What's that spell?! :D

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lordinfamous wrote:
August 2009

This band kicks ass

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nicoinfurs wrote:
August 2009

where has this been all my life

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CptSpaulding88 wrote:
July 2009

Thats my fav album of all time too, no better album is made, anywhere!

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Pedro_fts wrote:
June 2009

if someone pointed a gun at me and force me to tell my fav. music album of all time, otherwise i'd be shot, i think i'd probably say cj and the fish's electrique music for the mind and body...

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distillate wrote:
May 2009

groovy man

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Lucifer-Sam wrote:
May 2009

http://www.last.fm/group/1967

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yoursvivek wrote:
March 2009

Country Joe and the Fish" is used at musicbrainz and even on CD cover. last.fm will never catch up with bad tags.

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Phryx wrote:
March 2009

http://www.last.fm/group/Free+music+for+free+people!

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mito_urbano wrote:
March 2009

They're not underrated, they're just unknown... I really like them. I found them watching the Monterey '67 movie and with some search (and other things) I managed to get some records of them. Of course Electric Music... is their best.

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Commodorette wrote:
December 2008

NOT SO SWEET MARTHA LORRAINE ♥

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Tyrano wrote:
November 2008

bad tags ruin listener count they are almost always credits with "and" though so not sure about the tagging on this one

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penny136 wrote:
October 2008

Wish I could have been there.

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mynameisjoehann wrote:
October 2008

not bad i never really minded them

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waybackmachine wrote:
September 2008

If you dig those groovy times of the 1960's and early 1970's visit The Way Back Machine website at: http://thewaybackmachine.wordpress.com/ and you can now join the Way Back Machine Group here at Last.fm..I hope to see all you Hipsters and Cool cats at the group and website.

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Abbadon321 wrote:
July 2008

I got love! love, I said love, sweet love, I got love!

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fogpotion wrote:
July 2008

They were popular for a time - and in my opinion a better band than Grateful Dead - more musically diverse. Some of there tunes like "Death Sound" and "Rock and Soul Music" are just as compelling as they were when first on the airways. Rooted in blues - this was an under rated band largely because the album work was uneven. Albums were the defining form during this time and they never put together a totally coherent album. Based on the criteria of the time - they were second rate - however, anyone who listens to some of the single cuts on their albums - can hear this a vastly superior band.

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Bradleyw wrote:
July 2008

Why aren't they more famous? All anyone knows them for is the song at Woodstock, which is good, but the rest of their music is better.

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