MissConstrueMar 8

Country Joe McDonald, the iconic lead singer of Country Joe and the Fish and a defining voice of 1960s counterculture, died on March 7, 2026, at age 84 in Berkeley, California. Joe was a Navy veteran who remained a vocal and adamant anti war activist and advocate for veterans.

Inspired by Woody Guthrie and the folk and protest music of the era, McDonald formed Country Joe and the Fish alongside Barry "The Fish" Melton. Known for his anti-Vietnam War anthem "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" at Woodstock, he passed away from complications of Parkinson's disease.

He was a good man, he did good things, he will be missed on this plane, and welcomed back into the energy in the next one. So long Joe, and thanks for all the Fish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRl6-bHlz-4

#CountryJoe #Fish #folkMusic

Edit: Grammar, typo, tmi. :)

Country Joe Mcdonald - Feel Like i'm Fixing to Die Rag - Woodstock '69

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Show thread🕯️Curious Magpie 🕯️Mar 8
@MissConstrue 💔 they're all so young - what happened to all those beautiful children 😢
Show threadSu_G

@CuriousMagpie
Yes, it’s a great piece of footage, all so young & beautiful, as you say. Someone else noted that the song was, sadly, still relevant & added a contemporary lyric: “next step Teh’ran” ☹️😢

#USPol #protestSong

@MissConstrue

Mar 8 at 9:08pmWeb
Show threadMissConstrueMar 8

@Su_G @CuriousMagpie

It's never stopped being relevant. I'm trying hard to think of a point in my entire life when we didn't have troops deployed in action.

Vietnam shaped my childhood, and probably my whole life. Then Laos, Congo, Dominican Republic, Israel sinking The Liberty, Cambodia, the Yom Kippur War, Iran, the Sinai, El Salvador, Libya, Grenada, Persian Gulf (many times), Honduras, USS Vincennes shoot-down of Iran Air Flight 655, Panama, Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru and the Philippines....and that only gets us to 1990. And doesn't include all the shenanigans that Spooks and Wetwork Inc. get up to.

The United States has been in conflict of one sort or another for the entirety of it's existence. We are clearly a very angry and warlike people. The whole damn country needs anger management and trauma therapy.