The Independent - London, December 13th, 2002
There's little about the small, stocky frame of the 60-year-old Country Joe McDonald that would lead one to pinpoint him as a firebrand political activist of Berkeley's radical campus set and one of the pioneers of Sixties acid rock. Yet Country Joe is a legend, one of the leading lights of the psychedelic San Francisco music scene.
McDonald arrived in the Bay area from LA in 1965 and began performing protest songs in a folk club in Berkeley where he fell in with a group of musicians who, following the example of Bob Dylan, were keen to go electric. Along with the Grateful Dead and Jefferson ...
HighBeam Research, Free Preview: 'Pop: No ordinary Joe Country Joe McDonald (left) infamously led 500,000 people in the `Fish Cheer' at the Woodstock Festival. But his fondest Sixties memories belong to more intimate times in the hippie idyll of San Francisco's Haight- Ashbury, he tells ROBERT SANDALL'... Full Membership required for unlimited access. Free 7-day trial.
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