Flying High - Country Joe McDonald [Live at Woodstock 1969]

[Kramnosnits]

Nobody at Mudstock cared that much for chip-toothed Joe Marxist McDonald. GROW UP, hippies.

[KtotheY77]

He looks like a pirate or something

[TPBXDRicky420]

@KtotheY77 No, he looks like a hippie.

[up2space]

is this in the woodstock movie? don't remember seeing this before. guess there's alot of tape of the performances out there that's been largely unseen.

[NammVet]

I got the 40th edition of the Woodstock festival, and it don't show a few performances like this.

[pizzakungen92]

How does remastering like this work? How can you so drastically improve the quality of a video like this?

[jfrey0725]

@pizzakungen92 cause im like a boss

[PSXGAMER22]

@jfrey0725 dude seriously the quality is amazing.......... Are you jesus?

[jenniferjuniper97]

@jfrey0725 No, seriously? Wish the rest of the footage was of this quality. Thanks!

[TPBXDRicky420]

1:08 The camera zooming out really sells how big Woodstock was and how nervous Joe had to have been since he was just thrown out there on stage that day with someone else's guitar that only had a string as its sling. He was just there to check it out that day because him and the Fish were supposed to go on the day after. Someone was running late and the organizers needed a guy who could fill in for a bit while the person who was running late got there. A by chance legendary performance!

[vartkesn]

It takes balls to go up in front of 200000+ people and do a flawless one man show like that. I'm so gratefull that I love this kind of music and not today's shit!

[promptaet]

he serve in Vietnam?

[TPBXDRicky420]

@promptaet He served before but got out as it was starting.

[Music100Quality]

could i get the dvd on itunes?

[borjjalo]

great song

[cherokee3864]

wish i was there i would have killed two then maybe i would have died

[caintapi]

Wow,he's playing a new Yamaha FG150 at Woodstock!

[nuaragonis]

to bad they didn't have 1080p back then

[mmmbrunommm3]

@nuaragonis Well it is a shame, but you can get the Blu Ray now mate.Remastered, it looks really good.I have only the Hendrix part here and I can tell you that it looks awesome.

[TommyPisera]

@nuaragonis They had woodstock

[mrjokioo]

I think I just figured out how to play this on my guitar...

[kcolpaer]

Rhino Records, which released "Woodstock 40 Years On: Back To Yasgur's Farm", originally planned a 30-disc comprehensive release of everything recorded at Woodstock but were ultimately to obtain clearances from all the artists involved. This, their 6-disc, 8-hr. product omits such bands as Ten Years After, The Band, etc., even though it includes much previously unreleased material.

[MrPisster]

*A* guy with an acoustic held down that huge venue (300,000 fckers)

[paulieka]

woodstock diaries.... EPIC!!!!!!

[TPBXDRicky420]

They need to have the whole Woodstock experience on a 10 disc set or something with every performance over the three day period in this type of quality.That would be amazing! How much you wanna bet that there is so much extra footage out there that we have not seen yet?

[007jkirk]

wow this song is truly brilliant i love it :DDD

[TheLovelyladylover]

Brilliant

[BeatMalll]

Can anyone make sense of his finger positioning? I see that the chords are posted above, but I cant figure out how he plays those chords in the video, especially how he does the switch between F# and A. (0:47 is what I mean).

I figure the guitar prolly isnt in standard tuning, can anyone help me out or give me a pointer?

[TPBXDRicky420]

Country Joe handled it even though he was thrown on stage at the last minute with a guitar that wasnt his own. Bravo.

[TheGrownUpAdult]

Wow, awesome. I would do anything to have been there

[TheGrownUpAdult]

Wow, awesome.

[MattHatter]

Was this the regular DVD or the Blu-Ray version?

[jfrey0725]

@MattHatter regular DVD version

[AylesProductions]

@jfrey0725 What is the name of the DVD?

I know that sounds stupid but what is the actual name?

[fx662s]

leader

[Doublefeature56]

Listen to his album "Music for Mond and Body", the fish were a special band in an era of some of the best music ever. I will say that he may have had better performances. As I've always said....."if you can remember the 1960's , you wern't there"

[LSD0Moon]

he has style

[kcolpaer]

Does this come from a "Woodstock" collector's edition?

[SLOPESOFDEATH]

ya word, awesome quality

[Elm3224]

OMG awsome quality man!

[ovelonse]

you know the chords of this song?

[TheHippieDude]

@ovelonse Im trying to figure out the same thing looks like a bar on 5th with E chord... doesn't sound right though... need to figure the strumming too.

[solshinefarm]

@TheHippieDude @ovelonse This live versions chords are F# A and B.

If you want to make it sound shuffled during the verse switch F# to B with the strum. On the "I went [A]flying [B]high all the way" then back to F#.

The album version is A (shuffle with G) F and D but it's significantly different in vibe and style