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 WUZZUP?
News flashes & acid flashes
 WHO AM I?
Me and my life
 MUSICAL NOTES
"Fixin' to Die" and the rest
 NEXT STOP IS VIETNAM
News and blues for vets
 SECTION 43
Strange stuff / familiar stuff
 OTHER PLACES
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 JOE'S JUKEBOX
The place to hear the sounds
 JOE'S FACEBOOK PAGE
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 A TRIBUTE TO FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
My site about the famous nurse

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20 Corny Star Wars Jokes for Any Occasion.

Master the scale of the universe -- with thanks to Jon Carroll for the tip.

B U S I N E S S
S T U F F

Country Joe will be doing a very limited few performances this year of the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival. But he is declining all requests for interviews.

For licensing and permissions requests, and for all other business stuff, please contact Bill Belmont.

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A short bio for PR.

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Politics, Music, Whales
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A U T O G R A P H S

If you send me a stamped, self-addressed envelope I will send you a photograph of myself at Woodstock with a hand-signed autograph for free. (Stamps only, no meter strips.)

I will gladly hand-sign anything you send if you include a check for $20 US made out to Joe McDonald. You are responsible for the packaging and the postage, both to me and the return packaging and posting. Send to: Country Joe McDonald, P.O. Box 7064, Berkeley, California 94707-0158.

CASUALTY LISTS

Listen to Captain Jach's Honeyradio from Detroit

... or KPIG from San Francisco

... or Bullfrog Blues Radio from Portsmouth, England.

Tom Weller, webwright

Learn
Hands-Only CPR

The Hunger Site

Clear Land Mines

The Breast Cancer Site

Hear Frederic Douglass' speech about the 4th of July
Welcome to my home on the web. I'm a singer and songwriter, I used to be in Country Joe & the Fish, and I live in Berkeley, California, Planet Earth.

Wuzzup?
More about this.

50th
ANNIVERSARIES OF 2019

  • January 30: Beatles' last performance
  • April 20: People's Park founded
  • May 15: First AIDS case in North America
  • June 22: Cuyahoga River catches fire
  • June 28: Stonewall riots
  • July 20: Apollo 11 moon landing
  • August 9: Haunted Mansion opens at Disneyland
  • August 15-18: Woodstock
  • September 2: First ATM machine
  • September 24: Chicago 8 trial begins
  • October 29: First internet connection
  • November 9: Native Americans seize Alcatraz
  • December 6: Altamont
o Get info on my upcoming gigs and booking.

o My new CD titled simply 50 is out. Preview the songs, notes, and musicians, and order your copy from the Country Store. Read a review. And another review.

oCraft Recordings has announced The Wave of Electrical Sound deluxe vinyl box set, celebrating the groundbreaking music of Country Joe and the Fish. The limited-edition, 4-LP box set offers both mono and stereo versions of Electric Music for the Mind and Body and I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die, pressed on 180-gram vinyl, plus replicas of The Fish Game, a Fish Fan Club book and a Fish calendar; a 30-minute documentary and a 24-page book, featuring rare photos, artwork and new liner notes. Here's the package. You can order your copy here.

o Read about my "farewell performance" from the San Francisco Chronicle.

o I'll be playing at Woodstock 50 this August. Learn about the Woodstock 50th anniversary events getting underway.

o In honor of the 50th anniversary, Linanne Sackett and Barry Levine have created an e-book version of their Woodstock Story Book.

oPBS stations this March are showing an all-star Woody Guthrie tribute from 1970 -- and it's never been seen before! It's got Pete Seeger, Arlo, Joan Baez, me, and more. See a preview. The show will be out on DVD in June.

o Bill Steele, one of my partners in the Berkeley String Quartet, has died. Bill has his own site at billsteelesongs.com.

o The New York Times has an opinion piece about music and the Vietnam war.

o I put on a show at the San Francisco County Jail for Heroes' Voices, an organization that does music and poetry events for inmate veterans. Check it out. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Kevin Fisher-Paulson was there and gives this account.

o At last proof that I improved the health of my generation: The Case for Cursing.

Politics got you down? This is sure to make you smile (it's the real thing).
o The UCSF School of Nursing is planning to archive my Tribute to Florence Nightingale website so that its information will be saved for posterity. (But the site will still be available in its current location.) They are also taking over my collection of Nightingale memorabilia. Read an interview with me by the UCSF archivist.

o Glass sculptor Peggy Pettigrew Stewart is casting the faces of many Woodstock musicians, including mine, to be reproduced in glass. We're going to be posting pictures of the process here as it goes along.

o My son Devin has bought Berkeley's beloved Mr. Mopps' toy store. You can visit Mr. Mopps' on the web and on Facebook.

o Older posts


Here are some videos of me folks have put up:
...or listen to fan tapes of my live shows from the Internet Archive.


Who Am I?
Click to see my family o A biography
o A timeline -- listing my performances and other events
o Movies, TV, and stage
o G.I. Joe -- me in the service
o Look at my secret FBI file
o Read my testimony at the Chicago Seven trial
o About Woodstock


Musical Notes
Click to see me at Woodstock o A discography
o Lyrics and album notes
o "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" -- everything you want to know about the song and much, much more!
o The story of the notorious Fish Cheer.
o Hear some early recordings of my old group, the Berkeley String Quartet.
o My earliest musical collaborator was Blair Hardman, and we recorded an album in '65, The Goodbye Blues.
o My guitars.
o Listen to Country Joe In Space, a virtual compilation of my science-fiction oriented songs. Available only in cyberspace!
o Looking for a particular CD? Here's the scoop on all the titles.
o Joe's Jukebox


Next Stop Is Vietnam
Click to learn about my military service. o War music
o Vietnam and war news
o Healing from the War, my account of the making of Berkeley's Vietnam memorial
o The Great Springfield Pig Roast


Section 43
Click to see me in Copenhagen o Fun with Gunz!
o Music and psychedelic links
o Animal/ecology links and news
o Pot news
o Berkeley links
o A Sixties Scrapbook
o Amazing stories that folks have sent me.
o "Country Joe collects dolls!?" Yeah, what's it to ya? See my nurse doll collection.
o The attic, where we store old junk.


Places to Go
Click to see Old McDonald's farm o My site dedicated to the accomplishments of Florence Nightingale
o My record company's site, <Rag Baby .com>, featuring the Rag Baby On-line Magazine
o Country Joe & the Fish
o "Wildman" Dave Diamond's Country Joe & the Fish fan page
o Barry "The Fish" Melton Web | Facebook
o David Bennett Cohen
o Bruce Barthol
o Gary "Chicken" Hirsh
o Mark Kapner
o ED Denson Web | Facebook
o Zone Recording Studio (Sonoma County) -- Blair Hardman's studio
o The Jabberwock
o Berkeley's Vietnam Vets' Memorial


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