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Country Joe & The Fish

Electric Music For The Mind and Body

Very Rare original UK LP released on Vanguard Records in 1967. 1st US Mono pressing on the Silver Label.

Their full-length debut is their most joyous and cohesive statement and one of the most important and enduring documents of the psychedelic era, the band's swirl of distorted guitar and organ at its most inventive. In contrast to Jefferson Airplane, who were at their best working within conventional song structures, and the Grateful Dead, who hadn't quite yet figured out how to transpose their music to the recording studio, Country Joe & the Fish delivered a fully formed, uncompromising, and yet utterly accessible -- in fact, often delightfully witty -- body of psychedelic music the first time out. Ranging in mood from good-timey to downright apocalyptic, it embraced all of the facets of the band's music, which were startling in their diversity: soaring guitar and keyboard excursions ("Flying High," "Section 43," "Bass Strings," "The Masked Marauder"), the group's folk roots ("Sad and Lonely Times"), McDonald's personal ode to Grace Slick ("Grace"), and their in-your-face politics ("Superbird"). Hardly any band since the Beatles had ever come up with such a perfect and perfectly bold introduction to who and what they were, and the results -- given the prodigious talents and wide-ranging orientation of this group -- might've scared off most major record labels. Additionally, this is one of the best-performed records of its period, most of it so bracing and exciting that one gets some of the intensity of a live performance.
 

 

TRACKS ARE :-

Side One

1 Flying High 2:37
2 Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine 4:18
3 Death Sound 4:21
4 Porpoise Mouth 2:47
5 Section 43 7:23

Side Two

1 Super Bird 2:01
2 Sad And Lonely Times 2:21
3 Love 2:20
4 Bass Strings 4:58
5 The Masked Marauder 3:07
6 Grace 7:03

 

Released on Vanguard Records in 1967

Catalogue Number VRS 9244

Record is in Vg condition (light surface marks)

Sleeve is in Ex condition

 

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