The Fish Cheer & I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag
1967 · Vanguard VSD 79266 · USA
- Artist
- Country Joe & The Fish
- Title
- The Fish Cheer & I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag
- Release
- I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Vanguard # VSD 79266
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Country Joe McDonald
- Genre
- Rock · Psychedelic Rock
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Notes
Re-recorded version, track A1 of the band's second LP I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die (Vanguard VSD 79266, 1967), opening with the "Fish" cheer. Personnel: Joe (vocals), Barry (kazoo, vocals, 12-string guitar), Chicken (drums, glass bottle), Bruce (bass, vocals), David (vocals, calliope). Original 1965 recording: Rag Baby RAG 1001. Vanguard VSD-79266, stereo, front cover titled "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die" by Country Joe and The Fish, a colour photograph of the five members in costume (wizard robes, a sombrero, military jacket with a U.S. flag patch) framed by a border of American flags; a cover sticker reads "Contains Giant Full-Color Fish Game — Complete with Instructions". [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Psychedelic rock band formed in 1965 in Berkeley, California, around Country Joe McDonald (born 1 January 1942, Washington, D.C.; died March 2026) and Barry 'The Fish' Melton; best known for the antiwar anthem I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag (1967) and its Woodstock performance. Disbanded in the early 1970s [disband location not stated]. [Source: Wikipedia; NPR obituary]