COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH - SECTION 43 - MONTEREY '67 - AQUARIUM DRUNKARD

 FISH IN THE AQUARIUM!

Start the day with some 

FISH for Breakfast!?

Thanks to Aquarium Drunkard!

Their version of the video didn't play so here t'is from elsewhere and hope its the same pice of film but the dedication is 

COUNTRY JOE AND THE FISH - SECTION 43

Barry Melton on his SG

Country Joe and The Fish at Monterey

It’s something about that shriek—the way it piercingly cuts through the otherwise bird-chirping and cawing dewy morning tranquility of what’s on screen. What is on screen is D.A. Pennebaker’s footage of Country Joe & the Fish performing “Section 43” at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival in California. Although it’s one scene in the larger sequence of a concert film that features monumentally historic performances of Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, The Mamas & the Papas, Janis Joplin and so many more—a document that seems to wholly embody the ’60s counter-culture—these five-and-a-half-minutes feel like something, just, a little different.

I think they may have been on something . . . . . . 

 Now I LOVED the Fish and learned The F-I-S-H. Cheer by rote and played it segued into Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag with Johnny Marter (yes that Johnny Marter - drummer per excellence and drummer with various bands including Mr Big - no, the REAL one, the British one!) 'til out fingers bled! I loved the Fish and bought the first two albums and by the time I got to art school was following Country Joe's every move and enjoyed his soundtrack to Henry Miller's Quiet Days In Clichy (check it out - its FILTH!) So this is why I post this from the Aquarium this morning and it takes me right back. Section 43 wasn't my favourite piece but I wholeheartedly agree with the author of the article here by c depasquale

 

comes to us all . . . . . . Joe MacDonald