Country Joe McDonald

	Country Joe McDonald
	Country Joe McDonald at Woodstock (solo performance)
Performed on	Day 2
Started at	1.00 pm, Saturday, 16th
Played for	30 min.
	Further Information
	Official link; All Music Guide link; Wikipedia link;
	Festival Day Chronology
Prev. artist	Quill at 12:15
Next artist	Santana at 2.00 pm

The first performance by Country Joe McDonald was a solo performance without his band The Fish (see also Country Joe & The Fish). He performed on Saturday at noon, 1 pm, though other sources (including himself!^[1]^[2]) claim that he performed right after Richie Havens on Friday. However, research with the help of photo and video evidence has shown that this was not true^[3]^[4]^[5].

Musicians[]

"Country" Joe McDonald - guitar, vocals

Setlist[]

Janis
Donovan's Reef
Heartaches by the Number
Ring of Fire
Tennessee Stud
Rockin' Round the World
Flying High
I Seen a Rocket
The "Fish" Cheer > I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag
I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag (Reprise)

Details[]

Country Joe played a simple but relaxed solo set for about half an hour.

The ""Fish" Cheer" was introduced with the letters F-U-C-K instead of F-I-S-H, followed by the satirical anti-Vietnam song "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag". Inbetween the song Country Joe made the following rant: "Listen people, I don't know how you expect to ever stop the war if you can't sing any better than that, there's about 300,000 of you fuckers out there, I want you to start singing!"

Miscellaneous[]

Country Joe made some comments regarding the brown acid. According to various stage comments made during the festival the brown acid (LSD) was of inferior quality.