The Attic

This is where we store all the old stuff, things that don't quite fit anywhere else, and just plain junk. Watch out for the cobwebs. Outside links on these pages may have died.

2003 My old friend Ron Cabral has passed. Read an obituary. 2002 Read my take on "the Oscar slap." Me and Barry "The Fish" Melton at Lefty O'Doul's in San Francisco for the Marine Corps/Salvation Army Toys for Tots Drive Gala on December 19. Photo by Chet Helms. Rock critic Joel Selvin sends a riddle: What do the following artists have in common? Bob Dylan Rolling Stones The Doors Elvis Presley Country Joe & The Fish Bobby Darrin Answer here. 2001 Read Ron Cabral's report on Monterey Pop Revisited. Read a review from my 2001 English tour.   Joe on stage at the Berkeley concert March 9; special guest Hugh Thompson, the hero of My Lai, signs an autograph. A patriotic poem inspired by the inauguration of President* Bush. 2000 Our page on the zany 2000 election. Here's where we retired the saga of Clinton's zipper wars, along with Clinton. Jim Botkin has kindly allowed me to post his hilarious account of how I got booted from the Standdown 2000 Hootenanny in Oklahoma City. Links about the KPFA beef. A droll occurrence at the 200th anniversary of the Library of Congress. A Fourth of July essay on what happened to the guys who signed the Declaration of Independence. Here are some thoughts on Memorial Day from Lt. Bobby Ross. Read the article from the San Francisco Chronicle about my plan for an SF veterans memorial. Author B.G.Burkett gives Country Joe and ex-Secretary of State Robert McNamara their own special page in his 700-page best seller Stolen Valor (Dallas: Verity Press, 1998). Order a copy. I've been locked out of the Guinness Book of World Records! Find out why. A review of me at the 1999 Woody Guthrie Festival. Our millennium greeting 1999 and Before A picture of me celebrating the 30th anniversary of Woodstock at Max Yasgur's farm. A page of stuff about the famous Y2K catastrophe A newspaper article about the Ed Sullivan Show appearance that never happened. A poster for a 1998 gig in Asheville, NC. A baby picture of me. A page about Malvina Reynolds and me Me, Monica and Bill. Dorothy Moskowitz as a dreidel. My pages commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Summer of Love. A dirty Christmas card. Me in Copenhagen. "The Wall Comes to Berkeley" newspaper article. A scary soundbite from Spiro Agnew in . Handbill from the Beacon Strawberry Festival. Photo from Berkeley, 1998. Some thoughts on the execution of Viet vet Manny Babbitt.