Country Joe and The Fish - Section 43

[NoRosesForMe]

great lullaby . Im serious.Im about to hit the hay. Its 5:17 a.m. ...I have taken my prescribed (!!) "mellow-out" pills....Im so focused and I dont want to go to bed but...ah darlings..I must. Nite nite all. Love this song.....you dont need any drugs at all to enjoy it tho. ..wow...thanx for posting & peace n sweet dreammssss

[dadfafasdew]

@NoRosesForMe

Hahaa you sir are on drugs by the sounds of it =)

[NoRosesForMe]

@dadfafasdew Haha! Im not a sir Im a chick but,,,I take my prescribed anxiety meds . Not as described. Just a couple to get to sleep ya know? I have to. Cant sleep0. Nerves are kinda screwed. Lifetime of hell but anyhooooo.....thanx for the laffs. xx and peace to you ♥

[bbooz]

saw him at the woodstock 40th reunion .. he was as with as it ever,,, give me a F

[sicktv5678]

thanks for posting this !!! it's fucking incredible !!!

[mpjgbx]

Far out man!

[animascat]

we would drink a bottle of cough syrup (romilar), smoke weed and we' d be in a very strange and comfortable place

[Django5198]

Weird parts in this song. 4:25 almost sounds like a carnival

[DJCandyManMike]

I heard about this band, along with my girlfriend, while we were playing the Life Magazine Remembers board game. We both cracked up when I read the name of the band (it was her question), and she said, "They're making shit up!" I really like this song, though!

[MrTomosko]

Omg...

[dehypnotist]

Almost as good as the e.p. version.... when the Fish played this at the Avalon, everyone stopped dancing and swayed in place

[TheSixtieschick]

@dehypnotist i did a lot of that swaying myself, oh wait should i saw mister osly and myself, he he

[newrealization12]

This song is fucking beautiful. my favorite wordless song. It speaks to me.

[Rosscara58]

down i say!

[MrBlacklorre]

This is a cool song!

[zipper179]

Maybe it's crazy.. But, I visualize a vast and long view, of either the Ngorongoro Crater, or, the Serengeti, stretching for miles.. And, viewing this vast domain, is the African lion..

[Django5198]

I just got back from San Francisco. This makes me wanna go back!!!!!

[WildManWillis1]

My fav of Country Joe,,,yes its extreme PsYcHeDeLiCa!!!!but it takes me to a different place,,just like Morrison took you there,,Country Joe,,is a little more clown sometimes,,which I and most people dont like :0)

[fighttheracists]

Absolutely false. I do not. Show me where I ever said that. It's not a right versus left issue it's a good versus evil issue. Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong were mass murderers. Do you admire them?

[ChordBender]

Great psych is rare. YouTube: Yardbirds Glimpses Devizes (live in 2011!). Or try Yardbirds Glimpses (great version from Little Games)

[nycarl]

@ChordBender

Yes, that's an unbelievable song from Little Games, and one of the few worthwhile songs on it, imo. The album was a bit of a disappointment to me; I expected much more after Happenings Ten Years Time Ago, not drivel like Ten Little Indians or Tinker Tailor.

[Django5198]

when you play 1:28 to 2:36 on guitar you actually feel yourself getting naturally lightheaded and relaxed. No joke. Try it

[NaciAtYerGrave]

This kind of music is the best kind to listen to when you're STONED. Praise Psychedelic Rock <3

[TPBXDRicky420]

Smoke a bowl and just listen.

[fighttheracists]

Apparently the members of this band admired two of the biggest mass murderers in history, Josef Stalin and Mao Tse Tung.

If you wonder why there's so much evil in the world it's because people such as this support it.

[HIghFlyinByrd]

@fighttheracists Yes, their music has nothing to do with it. You're correct.

[mojobullwinkle]

@fighttheracists ....No one said admired but you.... The theme here is revolution against Corporation Fascists.  Country Joe is representation of a leader .... You obviously are in love with George W. Bush, a mass murderer

[googpower]

@fighttheracists The group's name is derived from leftist politics; "Country Joe" was a popular name for Joseph Stalin in the 1940s, while "the fish" refers to Mao Tse Dung's statement that the true revolutionary must "swim among the people as a fish." So where along the lines do you believe they weren't being satrical and makin a political point? Idiot

[newrealization12]

One of my favorite psychedelic bands. Bluesy brain morphing Indian music. There is so much detail in their music. Its beautiful.

[Zizeza]

I WANT 70's BACK! Let's get together and set up a 70's commune where exists no worries or stress :) 

[knkory]

@Zizeza

im completely in of your inn los angels!

[kallyfest]

i always said than i born ten years too late . In 1967 i was only ten . ten years too late in the history of man to touch at the paradise land , FUCK .

[Django5198]

A mazing

C reative I nsane

D amn good as a whole.

That basically describes this

[TPBXDRicky420]

what a trip!

[StoneyMcJuicyBuds]

"What's that? Did you hear that? Is it the pigs? IT'S THE FUCKIN' PIGS! WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO? FUCK! LOOK OUT THE WINDOW! It's just my mom coming back from the store, I told here I was hungry and forgot, man I thought it was the pigs, damn this weed makes me paranoid"

[docrichr]

I got to see these guys LIVE at the Honolulu Shell in 1967...have the album AND CD

[Nortryder]

What?

[cosmicuz]

all that and you should have heard it on an owsley white lightning tab

[evajom1]

This track sends a tingle up my spine everytime,the organ,the reverb,Barry Melton's crystalline blast.Even the harmonica sounds as if its coming from another world.

It doesn't get any better than this.Classic.

[glimmer2158]

This sounds like early Pink Floyd

[sdgroopkund]

@glimmer2158

yes that's exactly right.. reminds me of echoes

[Django5198]

Does anyone know what scales these guys were using in this track? Sounds mixolydian to me

[eameece]

@Django5198 mixolydian in places and dorian in others, I think.

[Django5198]

@eameece Cheers man thanks so much!!! I think I can hear a bit of harmonic minor in there aswell

[greatsilentwatcher]

sort of a symphony in a way... check out Barry's new album!

[TheGoodmansRadioShow]

Play Country Joe a lot on my show, never tire of this track or 'Grace'. Thanks for posting buddy

[mustard2155]

These guys are so good, I'm just starting to really get into this stuff. Way better then anything else out there today

[googpower]

3:06 I became dizzy and my mind got tickled. Genius structure the true works of LSD. We should use this shit to premote it. If artists these days took it their music might become HALF as good as it was then with the fish and hendrix. Man fuck ragae this shit is the originators of drug anthym. Ehh what the fuck am saying? Im fucking stoned!!

[Django5198]

@googpower reggae is awesome

[googpower]

@googpower ragae is awesome. Country joe is just more awesome. But just my opinion.

[rustribbonwizz]

GOD--We used to get soooo fucked up to this music! 40+ years come and gone!

[afcain1]

Oh my god. I remember. The war. The demonstrations. That christmas SDS party where we almost broke through the floor we danced so hard. The girl I didn't get. The sense of a future and of hope. Yes, the pot. Not as good (or at least as strong) as now. The hope. Getting drafted, as a conscientious objector, going to Fort Sam Houston for medic training. My theosophist buddy. The acid - owsley - the dreamtime. Okinawa, and the ocean. Blood and bullets. Music saved my soul.

[Django5198]

I really don't like that organ but the rest of the band are great!!!!!

[hahayeahidk]

@Django5198 theres no point in listening to country joe and the fish if you don't like the organ lol it's like completes it.

[Django5198]

@hahayeahidk but the guitarist is great so that's why I listen to it. The organist is an good player but his instrument sounds like a toy.

[newrealization12]

@Django5198 You don't like the organ? Man I love it. So haunted and trippy.

[5jerry1]

@Django5198

The organ is a vutal part of this piece.

[49kasey]

Just stumbled on this... really takes me back. Thanks for posting, man. One of their very best tunes if not THE best. Very raga rock. And very early psychedelia.

[vangelisideras]

@49kasey opino lo mismo, uno de los mejores raga de la época, la época dorada, cabe decir!!!; saludos.

[monstercactus]

oooh...how I was born 7000 miles too far, decades too late...

[420choky]

o yes .. what fun

[MrNitemare456]

seen them at fillmore west and winterland in good old san fran. man the good old days just wish i could go back wow

[JohnCKimbrough]

Great song, great music.......mellow, relaxing, endless, spiritual

[Django5198]

I really don't like the organ tone but other than that great song

[mrbag60]

Unfortunately i didn't come of age during those amazing but turbulent times ( born in 1960) however recognize in many respects 1967 was like breaking through to the other side, or the tipping point from black and white 50's/early 60's conformity to a kaleidoscope of creativity if only for a brief (maybe 5 year) window of time. SF provided a good portion of that soundtrack and CJ&TF with EMFMB a vivid audio reminder of the changes occurring then.

[jemesouvienz]

reminds me a bit of Traffic, but country joe and the fish style. dope as hell.

[kinram007]

duuuuuuuuude!!!!

that harmonica part takes me all the way to the nevada desert in no time!!!

realy great song, a masterpiece, great, a great mary or lsd trip on youtube!!!

[chetzl]

great music!



[cosmicdoorway]

I wish, more then anything, I could go back to those times again (minus the social insanity that also occured back then ... like Vietnam, the riots, etc.,). By the way, I sure hope marijuana becomes legal in California, this coming election, in November, 2010

[kinram007]

@goldsociety

well i certainly feel it to but i would like to add that i think it is a high feeling in the head and a tickle in the stomach. and im realy happy that i aint the only one who fysicaly feels the music!!!

[littlesk8erB3]

whos high right now?! thumbs up!!

[bebe2ful]

@littlesk8erB3 im guessing im the only one not high! :(

[14SoulCube14]

@littlesk8erB3 fuuck.... i wanna be... :/

[bluz1231]

@littlesk8erB3 not me :(

[littlesk8erB3]

@bluz1231 bummmerrrrr

[slubberde]

It is rumored that ppl in Romania listen to this muzica, nu-i asa?

[drex23100]

When I was a Freshman in college I smoked pot for the first time listening to this song along with Heroin by the Velvet Underground,Been chasing that dragon ever since.

[pylgrym]

Released BEFORE SGT Peppers and way before Saucerful of Secrets... seminal, man, seminal!!

[Playback007able]

i wonder if the drugs were better back then.? I mean these guys had the tripping sonic sound from over the rainbow nailed on the nuts. I have not heard this longer version before now, n' I am sure glad to be hearing this more intense  ending passage of eye sight swirling, gut aching n' mind fatiguing fuel for fools, fun !

[Playback007able]

i wonder if the drugs were better back then.? I mean these guys had the tripping sonic sound from over the rainbow nailed on the nuts. I have not heard this longer version before now, n' I am sure glad to be hearing this more intense ending passage of eye sight swirling, gut aching n' mind fatiguing fuel for fools, fun1

[Django5198]

Barry melton is such an underrated guitarist!!!!!!!!!!

[chuckecory]

Personal opinion: This is the greatest album ever made!

[ceswert]

These guys were great. They were the quintesential acid band of their time. They were up there but not quite with Pink Floyd. ( Piper). Heavy trippin'. Outstanding SF band!

[SuperPontiff]

ohhhhhhh i'm so off my face i want to jump onto a zebras tail and be dragged into the seren getti where all the animals makr love to each other ina big poool full of frieed hovckey beans.... i love u man.... i ove u and ure wicked wqays. u bif sack ful of of lovilinesss. kiss my sadk. kiss my face kiss te loaf.......

[ceswert]

I remeber Country Joe from this release. Their's with Grateful Dead and Quicksilver first realeses were the best!

[SuperPontiff]

I love this sh&t man. First time I heard this i tripping of my face, licking a tortoises back and sitting naked in a bath full of spagetti. Not like now when the man says its wrong to want to dress up a squid and jump up and down in the middle of a highway shouting 'save the goats. They have the key to the portal of infinite happiness.' I miss the 60's. I wish we could biuld anoter time machine and go back. the last one i build only went as far as 85. What a crock of sh&t that decade was!

[adnaruto25]

@SuperPontiff

i completely agree with that ! t and the sh.t continue up to now , i wont call

it music by respect . was born in 1962 i miss the best years ...

ps , if you built your time - machine let us know . thanks

[Kaenanthebarbarian]

this band is amazinnggg :))))

[Emmie04]

why was this song called Section 43? Anyone know? This song brings back a lot of memories for me!

[KIDAmnesiacBends]

@Emmie04

because section 43 was the section of the law that made LSD illegal

[Jenscool]

@Emmie04 Was a protest against that law.

[lopezb]

GREAT music....

[vik3nti0s]

does anybody knows where i can find the tabs? :(

[wigmiester]

@vik3nti0s got 'em in the fridge :D

[mwells219]

i always think it's interesting that once LSD and psychedelics started to become popular in the 60s bands really started improvising alot  and using complex chord and rhythm changes.

[dan97240]

its like the doors without the poetry (jim)

[iskandhar]

theremin. whole lotta love for the theremin

[jacobladders]

dude we can't forget the sitar instrument that also shaped psycadelic music and spirit of the wonderful 1960's

[Metalhead4569]

Perhaps what makes psychedelic rock so great (at least for me): the use of Hammond Organs and Keyboards. I just can't get enough of it.

[kidbuddyblue]

Actually this is a farfisa made in italy

[headwall07]

@Metalhead4569 ...and the leslie speakers

[jonvonman]

@Metalhead4569  Hahaha, Depeche Mode hardly psychedelic.

[LightningRose]

BobBerkeley, the JA Levi's commercials were included on the anthology, "2400 Fulton Street". You can download it from Amazon.

[InternalPeace93]

ahh the essence of psychedelic music makes me wanna smoke a fat blunt!

amazing song!

[sakrem89]

Wise words my friend

[cruzman3608]

Won der ful

[JRG1120]

I was driving home frome work one Friday Night and there this college radio show call Stone Hinge that come on Friday's fro 8pm to midnight on WREK in Atlanta. A Georgia Tech station. They played this song and I turned it up and didn't get out my car till it finished

[bwanna23]

i still haven't gotton out of my car.

[Blake1234Lacour]

this makes me want to smoke all of the weed in the fuckin world

[Homerjay66666]

Give us all the time in the world, and I will join you.

Haha, this sounds great on shrooms... Duh!

[dayboo39]

@Blake1234Lacour smoke more...

[ThomasSavesorDie76]

@Blake1234Lacour

smoke with this song is one of the best things I ve done

[KeithHarbaugh]

floyd is simply its own un-recreated genre alltogether. But ya ya ya this track is sick.

[DaHanzStriker64]

psicodelic music men ajja

[irishrogue63]

The Cinnamon Tree, Magoo's Pizza Parlor...haven't heard those names in many a year...brings back a lot of good memories...wow, we were lucky, weren't we to have been in the center of the musical universe between 1965- 1970! (And yes, my age is 65, not 35...typographical error)..

[ashetonpop]

Indeed, I´d like to have witnessed that time - but then I would be 40 years older, erm, I prefer to be 43 ... sorry. But it was a great time, I´m sure!

[nizzle2]

But wouldn't you rather have 10 years of powerful love and psychedelia even though it would make you older in todays blandness?

[slightreturn104]

Ill smoke one to this. whos with me?

[HumanGrinder]

with u man

[groovyhippyman]

a psychedelic master piece just waiting to be re-leased so it can toxically soke in to your brain and describe every note

[Colemanishere]

I saw David Cohen at a performance at my college, he talked to myself and a few others about some of his old days at Monterey Pop... Nicest guy and one hell of a piano player!!!

[postreal]

i have this album, very good.

[irishrogue63]

this song sums it all up

long live cj!

the last time i saw him was at sequoia high school in

redwood city, calif. for a solo benefit performance ..circa late 1970s...

[6749er]

This song launched thousands of Trips. Redwood City? Saw a band called The Warlocks in RWC before they changed their name to The Grateful Dead. Sequoia Rules!

[irishrogue63]

i used to catch the warlocks at the "Inn Room" in the little town of Belmont, just up the road from RWC....musta been late '65 or early '66...they did a great version of "Little Red Rooster" back then...

[6749er]

The Inn Room? You must be a bit older than the 35 you have listed. I know when they were playing there but unlike the guys in The Dead w/ fake ID's I didn't have one & was around 16 at the time. Don't think a fake ID would have worked for me.Heard some good stories about them there. I saw The Warlocks at any age dance place in RWC called The Cinnamon Tree not long after there debut at Magoo's Pizza in Menlo Park. They were a whole new trip & was a great time on the Peninsula as sure you agree

[iunnodiapeys]

wow, you are so lucky!!!

[imflyinn]

the music of the 60's and 70's seems to stir up memories of a past life. I yearn for those times.

[whonotmeyou]

stop yearning and live em silly

[pieman420]

BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF THOSE DAZE

[Rocketfueler]

An excellent upload, and I really appreciate the historical notes (click More Info at upper right). I delivered food to soaked, starving, strung out hippies at Woodstock as a 14-year-old. I used to go fishing in the now-famous pond people went skinny-dipping in. We summered in White Lake, just down the road from Max's farm. He was a pisser too. I grew up looking at his name on the milk boxes. =o)

[fallenchief123]

Listen to that Harmonica, man thats awesome!!!

[FractAlkemist]

I love the music but hate the politics. What should I do?

[sydneyspacepig]

Enjoy the music! You don't have to buy into the lefty shit to appreciate composition any more than you need to be a capitalist to go buy stuff.

[19scam89]

Get into politics.

[MariclMovies]

The title, Section 43, refers to the part of the California Penal Code that made LSD illegal for the first time and took effect shortly after Ronald Reagan was elected governor running on a platform to crack down on the hippies and student protestors. The first Love-in in Golden Gate Park took place the week that the law took effect.

[acerb45666555]

If a "True revolutionary" must swim among the people like a fish, then why does the revolutionary who rises to power all to often forgets about his fish friends he swam among!....Power is the great corrupter. better to be a reasonably happy peasent! :)

[BenitoAdolfScala]

abracarambar

[martmako]

always wanted to know the name of this little gem from monterey and the story behind the title, quite cool..musically, i can see where spacemen3 and spiritualised got their influence from now..smoke on!!

[sparkyization]

Caught a ride at the Los Banos/Gilroy cutoff. Burned one as we crested the pass in the golden California sunset

Freedom.

[thegodsofguitar]

gotta take it where u find it.

[cork6d]

This group had alot in common with the Doors, esp. the organ and the loose, wandering song structure.

[irishrogue63]

so true, so true...love the hammond ....mysterioso, magical music!!!!

[vangelisideras]

extraordinario surco y de uno de los mejores albumes de la costa oeste americana, gracias y saludos

[groovyhippyman]

Country Joe and The Fish  Section 43 Electric Music for the Mind and Body Have A Nice Tripp : )

[Rich915]

Before you got busted for smokin pot: Driving up the wrong side of street late one nite w/ a 2 ft Hooka burning in the back seat, we got pulled over while listening to this one. We just sat there in a frozen paranoia state & the cop just looked at us. He wasn't quite sure to make of ithe situation or what a hooka even was at the time...lol! We were sooo stoned. He just said...go home! Great times for sure...

[Gretsche87]

lol. Be in jail for sure nowadays. You lived the good times.

[mobyboy]

times of freedom and colors !

great tune

[bpressnall]

Far out man! Anybody got some doses? All kidding aside, I love this song. Probably haven't heard it in 30 years.

[charliesinglefin]

dig it

[andyxkaragiozi]

that bass line in thhe begging just makes u want to just stop what yer doing and get taken awat by CJ&TF

[RollingStoned92]

This song sounds great. just got done smokin a bowl so feelin good :)