Save the Whales - Country Joe McDonald

[michellemolloy]

I completely concur! Bottled water..oy! The humanity...I'm embarrassed by the decadence and collective sense of entitlement that seems to be the norm today..Slaves to convenience and ridiculous technological gadgets we pay through the nose for while crying about the economy which is a day at the fair compared to the Great Depression. We have traded in our values and trashed our planet yet we have the unmitigated gall to whine about our current state of affairs C,Joe;s msg was/is prophetic.

[GlendaBronner]

these were the days. even the old dudes likes the free love. except they got it wrong. they mistook love for sex. two independant and different things.

[michellemolloy]

My dad used to play this album when I was just a little kid; so hauntingly beautiful..He was into Greenpeace, etc before it was even fashionable. Thanks so much for this, I've searched for this song for over thirty years.

[Garcia42]

@michellemolloy

Same here, a song that stuck with me since i was a kid too. And it still sounds as good. Glad you enjoyed. The drawings seemed to fit. Could you grab the song off here? Enjoy it.

[michellemolloy]

@Garcia42 What a cool surprise to receive your response! I swear this song, note for note, never lost even a smidge of clarity in my memory over these many years which is a rare phenomenon...Comforting to hear that it left an indelible mark on you too and I wasn't just being melodramatic! The pics were in good taste I thought...I shared the link on my facebook wall instantly for it truly is prophetic and bears repeating. I live at the ocean and cant wait to see one for real!

[Garcia42]

@michellemolloy

Of all the many many songs CJM did, this is the one i can listen to over and over.

Done years after his late 60s era, this song really was a cool song to hear. Glad you can relate.

Might do the same on Facebook, as the more hear, the better. Thanks. Keep listening to the music.

I live on the west coast and it has been awhile since i have seen one, guess in the drawings I did, the thought was there.....best

[EndRacism2011]

@michellemolloy I know what you mean. The indigenous people of the Americas were into Greenpeace before the earth was something we had to save. I still can't wrap my head around selling land, bottling water, exploiting resources, monopolizing seeds,and not being able to self-sustain. Guess your dad had a good heart. ....Peace!

[KnifemakingUnplugged]

This video is so well done I keep coming back. Thanks again.

[Garcia42]

@KnifemakingUnplugged

Thanks.......we had fun making that one, plus i had all those inkworks, nice to have a great song that works so well with the nautical ink drawings. Appreciate you saying that. We are talking on doing another film one of these days....keep them blades gorgeous and sharp, you do great work. A true craftsman you are......best Mark

[MrDayo61]

The album was Paradise With An Ocean View. True classic.

[userneimasz]

Any idea what album is this song on?

[spfairie]

It was GREAT to hear on Day After Earth Day! Such a treat! I am sure your crippled ass could come up with a few more songs, and if you will come to NJ or PA, i will be right there, front and center! You are my new fav next to Danger Mouse and Crazy Horse =]

[Garcia42]

@spfairie

Cool choices indeed, Danger Mouse and Crazy Horse. Country Joe still tours, catch him when you can.

[spfairie]

I never heard this song until today. I don't know how i missed it in '75! Thank you XM!

[Garcia42]

It truly is the best thing Country Joe ever wrote. It was fun to make the film, with his music as

an influence. Glad you like

[honeyroyellis]

I've sung this song for 25 years! If I had about 39 more just like it, I'd take my crippled ass back out and play again! Thanks for the post!!

[Garcia42]

@honeyroyellis

one of my favorite songs ever..........get back on the road...start with this song and end with this song and fill the rest with some cool songs, it'll all be perfecto. Glad you liked the post

[GRAHAMESIMPSON]

I loved this song back in the late 70s early 80s - living in Australia we still heard of Country Joe and the music - particluar the Vietnam war rag. Wonderful memories thanks for uploading this. Grahame

[GRAHAMESIMPSON]

I loved this song back in the late 70s early 80s - living in Australia we still heard of Country Joe and the music - particluar the Vietnam war rag. Wonderful memories thanks for uploading this.

[awlgrip]

I don't know why they don't use this song for the history channels show about the nippon whaling shipd kiling the whales in south seas...it would make more people appreciate what is realy going on...bullshit hunting , killing and eating the last of the great mammals left in the ocean only because the bastards like eating ANYTHING that swims,crawls,walks,drags,flys,­et

[darkelf1960]

I fell in love with this song in 1975, it played on the radio all the time back then, but now, no one seems to have ever heard it. This is the first time I've heard it in about 30 or so years.

Thank you very much for the blast from the past.

[Garcia42]

it's still a great song. Really my favorite Country Joe songs.

That lp was unique for him, maybe a semi commercial hit at the time.

Glad you enjoyed.

[paokg4g4]

i love this song...

[SharonBlondin]

My guitar and I have spent many of nights around campfires we were invited to sit at singing this song with many friends who know the heartache and its meaning of greed and cruelty

[pfcbobjordan]

I had this 8-track. That was a while ago... Brings back fond memories.

[boozedupbarfly]

Ive got this on on LP vinyl(pairs sessions).

[IdaGno]

anyone wanna hit us up w/Tear Down The Walls? would be most appreciated

[jwhitepngnboy]

Great Video, Love this LP. Can you do a video from Breakfast for Two, from the same record.great memories from this record.Thanks.

[MCPOAirdale]

Haven't heard this in years! What a joy!

[MagicMind12]

On my Channel i have the Song

Oh Jamaica by Country Joe

pls visit (my channel) an watch and

HAVE FUN!!! =)

[bobcat395]

I love this song. I have been searching high and low for the cover version by DR. SCHULTZ (Alaskan Folk Band fronted by Scott Merrick during the 70's) THANK YOU

[Like2MilkGoats]

you know as the world turns... this is how it burns.

[KnifemakingUnplugged]

Great song, Thanks! I wish someone would post the song Oh Jamacia, its on the same album.

[Garcia42]

One of my favorite songs. I agree on Ohh Jamaica. A beaut. We may consider. Thanks for the idea. I see Joe around Berkeley every so often.

Checked out you and your wife's work. Wow!! Love knives and you do some excellent work. My grandfather used to make knives in North Dakota back in the day. I have a few of his. May have to buy your DVD. Looks like something that would be fun to watch and learn. Take care....from the west...Mark

[KnifemakingUnplugged]

Thanks for the kind words about our knifemaking. Im into barter. I will trade you copy of our dvd if you'll take the time to put Oh Jamaica here. Not many know this song and it isnt anywhere on youtube yet. The world needs more Jamaica mon.

[Garcia42]

We will see what we can do. Been listening to the song a bit lately, and it has brought back some good old memories.

Always thought this was his best lp.

I saw Barry Melton play in North Beach not too long ago.

With Henry Kaiser, a heck of a good show.

[Garcia42]

Glad to hear he is playing out east

[icecycle45]

My ROOTS. Thanks 2 CJM.

[Garcia42]

You can sometimes see Joe around Berkeley on a fine sunny day

[Dayepipes]

As a schoolboy in the early 60's I read the story of the ship Essex, sunk by a whale which inspired "Moby Dick." Never known by most Americans till an NBC show Sept. 2001. 4 days before 9/11 --that's how unlucky that ship still is after a century & 1/2.

At Mystic Seaport in the 70's I spoke with a 90 year old whaleship sailmaker staged there as a barrel maker. Smart and alert, what a privilege.

Tomorrow morning grey whales will cruise past my front window 100 yrs offshore, N. of Seattle. !!

[Garcia42]

Appreciate you telling that one. Nice. Puget Sound not bad. i know it a bit.

Live in the SF Bay Area, near the Oakland Port, Berkeley Marina, so I see the ships, and mostly ship containers coming in and out on a regular basis. Nice to be near the water. But no whales,except one every so often sure you read about that heads up the Sacramento Delta and it takes allot of work to get them headed out back into the Pacific. Long live the whales and the water and the sea. Thanks!!

[oaklandborn]

i'm returning for a replay or 2 or 6 -- I have 33 of the whale song and joe's woody guthrie songs -- keep it up ! !

[Garcia42]

I play it every so often in my office just to hear the song.....tell me more about the whale songs...heard CJ Mac had been playings woody songs...must be a lp out will have to check...thanks...

[oaklandborn]

LOL -- I mean I have the LP of Country Joe with the Whale song -- NOT 33 diff whale songs -- sorry for the confusion -- my Catholic school english is usually better than that ! ! -- keep up the good work

[Garcia42]

ahhh got ya. will look for the Jo woody lp

33...good one....me fergets.....will do...work or boredom..

[leslight]

And furthermore i looked for this song for a very very long time and gave up, somehow I never figured out it was Country Joe--obviuos right?--Thank you so much Garcia for finding this and posting--now i can die happy !

[Garcia42]

You would never think this was Country Joe, unless you knew. Not typical I always felt

I had the vinyl years ago and recently when we were working on this little film i thought of that song. Took me awhile to find. Glad i did.

Still is good and still is way too viable in the deep blue ocean. Check out the other version of the film with another sea like song.....thanks...best ..Mark

[Dayepipes]

It's on iTunes now.

[leslight]

God Damn i love this song--takes me way back to when i was a kid and first heard it and was completely enamored of it though it dashed my own dreams of being a whaler--A great example of folk song narrative techniques and impressionist lyric in reworking old popular music--Funny that saving whales became the cleche joke of activist causes--but I remember when it was a real issue...now Funnyer still (or not) I understand whale hunting is back on the agenda--

[fazzaizzy]

Nothing Changes in the southern ocean, but it will

[Garcia42]

not in the deep blue sea or the ocean wide, we can only hope...nature will fight the intruders eventually

[oaklandborn]

one of the greatest story songs -- thanks for the posting

[Garcia42]

It seemed to work and I have liked this song since I first heard it back when.

Country Joe did a great show in Berkeley last week or so, The Songs of Woody Guthrie.