Country Joe Mcdonald, Fish - Feel Like I'm Fixin to Die
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Artist: Country Joe Mcdonald, FishEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Vanguard Records
Soundtracks:
- I Feel Like I'm Fixin To
- Who Am I
- Pats Song
- Rock Coast Blues
- Magoo
- Janis
- Thought Dream
- Thursday
- Eastern Jam
- Colors for Susan
Free Music Notes for Feel Like I'm Fixin to Die
Free Music Review: Time travel to the fall of 67...
Hit: 5 Stars
...was the title of the review-via-reminiscense I originally started writing, but it inexorably turned into a personal re-living of a particular year when Country Joe (along with Spirit, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver, the Dead, HP Lovecraft and a lot of other SF-sound bands) was the theme music for my own off-kilter real-life summer movie about being a Teenage Hippy In Love. That review ended up as something else entirely, its relevance best summed up by saying that this album, along with their first, Electric Music for the Mind and Body, captures, for me, the spirit of psychedelia, the essence of the Summer of Love, the sense, in that Era, that somehow the potential for greater and freer self-invention than had ever been possible before was being unleashed, and that this would change the world.
More fools, we. The Old Hippy's Lament.
Anyway, give this a listen. It may require some parameter-realignment for younger folks, or people steeped in modern music that is seldom as spare or as gloriously unconstrained by musical precedent or expectation as this. If, as some intimate, these albums by CJ and the Fish sometimes show underwhelming instrumental technique and musical sophistication, I say they benefit thereby, as the musical "innocence" displayed seems to have facilitated the creation of music that is wonderfully inventive and somehow, pure. And if, as some others intimate, the music sometimes brazenly displays another kind of creativity, facilitated by powerful psychedelic drugs, I say "So what?" Music is written to accomodate people celebrating the humors of Venus, Mars and Bacchus, why not Morpheus as well?
And that's what this music is. A blissful, mystic, stoned-out pean to possibility, to shared moonlight, kisses at the edge of consciousnees, ecstatic dance at noon and always, always, this newborn thing, Love. I keep coming back to that, about 1967. When you listen to Porpoise Mouth, or Pat's Song, or Janis, you hear love songs for first loves, searingly sincere. Compositions like Grace or Magoo, or Colors for Susan show a willingness to pare the music down to a perfect, no-thing-more-than-necessary, purity and pace, as needed to convey a mood or color or emotion.
As conceded, this music surprised me with how powerfully it summoned up memory of that experience, of that time...so powerfully it must surely overwhelm any modest critical facilities I might otherwise apply to it. So the only recommendation I can honestly make is to observe that for myself, and others, Country Joe and the Fish ARE The Sixties. Which recommendation might get the curious to listen, and maybe hear an echo, bounced off Mars perhaps, of the tremendous, naive, and always-doomed yawp of Love still resonating from those years.
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