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August 24 2006

01' McDonald

For 40 years, musician has protested
America's wars through song.

to him and recalls his biggest attention-
getting
song, "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to
Special to the Jewish News
Die Rag',' with lyrics against Vietnam
hostilities.
ountry Joe McDonald, a vet-
"My messages now are really not any
eran of protest music, was told
different
from the earlier years:' says
his maternal great-grandfather
McDonald,
named for Josef Stalin, the
was a rabbi, but that didn't affect the
Soviet
dictator
who was nicknamed
way he was raised. His Jewish mother
"Country
Joe"
during
World War II. "I
and non-Jewish father, both atheists,
sing
love
songs,
social
commentary
were first communists then socialists;
songs,
pro-veteran
songs
and just plain
and the singer-guitarist uses the stage
old
rock
'n'
roll
songs."
and recordings to rival their passions
McDonald played music from the
for political issues.
time he was in grade
A perform-
school. He had his first
ing force when
rock band when he
young people were
was
15.
marching against
"I joined the Navy
the Vietnam War,
when I was 17',' recalls
McDonald now
the entertainer. "It
is singing against
seemed liked a good
the fighting in
idea at the time, and
Iraq and poli-
I became an air traf-
cies of President
fic controller in Japan.
George W. Bush.
After I got out of the
He brings past and
Navy in 1962, I heard
current outcries to
there were beatniks in
Hippiefest 2006, a
San Francisco; and I
musical event that
went there, played the
starts 6:30 p.m.
guitar and stumbled
Sunday, Aug. 27, at Country Joe McDonald
into the Aquarian Age."
the DTE Energy
McDonald, who grew up in California
Music Theatre.
and settled into Berkeley, joined first in
Hippiefest, which takes audiences
a duo with guitarist Barry Melton, then
back to the 1960s and 1970s, spotlights
added drummer Gary "Chicken" Hirsh,
multi-hit artists of the times. Hosted
keyboard player David Bennett Cohen
by psychedelic icon Wavy Gravy, the
and bassist Bruce Barthol to form the
show includes Mitch Ryder, Rare Earth,
band Country Joe and the Fish. (All are
Canned Heat, Denny LaMe, Terry
Jewish except for Barthol, whose Jewish
Sylvester and Melanie.
grandmother married an Irishman; his
"Everybody does a short, short
mother was raised Presbyterian.)
set; and I only perform three songs:'
The group got its start at coffeehous-
says McDonald, 64, who divides his
es before moving on to larger venues
time between being an entertainer
and work with Vanguard Records.
and a house husband. "The first song,
The band formally disbanded in the
`Entertainment Is My Business; involves
early 1970s. Since then, McDonald has
the audience. The second,'SuperBird;
toured Europe on his own and made
criticizes the president. The third is the
recordings with other instrumentalists.
`Cheer' from the Woodstock film, and I
He went on to write music for foreign-
do it because people expect that.
In the 1960s, appearing with the Fish made and underground films and
worked on Quiet Days in Clichy (a
band, he was known for the fiery four-
letter-word cheer that became a symbol production of Henry Miller's book) and
Que Hacer (an exploration of the elec-
of defiance. It was performed at the
tion of Salvador Allende as president of
Woodstock Festival of 1969, when the
Chile).
film was made.
McDonald has worked with inde-
McDonald, who appears in about 100
pendent record labels and — although
shows a year, keeps fans updated at his
he appears solo at DTE — in 2004
Web site, www.countryjoe.com. He dis-
cusses the issues that remain important 01' McDonald on page 46

Suzanne Chessler

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