Country Joe & the Fish Live at the Monterey Pop Festival '67

[@padraigosullivan9979]

Barry Melton is melting that guitar 🎸 😍 The most underrated guitarist in the stratosphere

[@montmorencyclutch-ryder1685]

Became a LAWYER!!

[@carlodave9]

@@montmorencyclutch-ryder1685 That is beyond depressing. Such a versatile guitarist.

[@mirakimber6333]

Agreed. I remember hearing his guitar tone for the first time age 14 or so and losing my mind.

[@muncher64]

Melton and Cipollina both played Gibson SGs and each were able to get a distinctive vibrato effect using their fingertips. Cipollina also had an amazing rig.

[@mirakimber6333]

@muncher64 any details of his set up anywhere online?

[@strangersname]

Melton is not spoken of enough as a guitar hero of the 60s. Incredible technique and feeling. Beautiful music, what a vibe.

[@sammyscotch9945]

Barry still plays mostly in the bay area. Great guitarist

[@mikehouser2518]

Barry Melton and Cheese , love the whole bunch .

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Love the 🐟

[@vadokunvot]

Barry is the reason I got my self a Gibson SG with a Bigsby tremolo i my youth haha

[@davisworth5114]

Melton sucks and they sound terrible live.

[@WildManWillis1]

one of the coolest,,,under-rated bands at Monterey.

[@gogoyubari366]

What makes you believe they're underrated? Please explain.

[@petegobeckli1386]

@@gogoyubari366 Guy gotta b kiddin. Country Joe & the 🐟🐠🎣Fish!

[@c.chelseathedog7987]

I agree… Drop an acid and go naked!!!

[@Mike-ky9jz]

This song is funny, unusual,...with a fun groove to it. Country Joe looks so comfortable in front of so many people...he owns the stage.

[@Meme-zc4cw]

He is high AF. 😂 And good for him, we should all be so lucky.

[@davemathews7890]

LSD might have something to do with that.

[@judebandstra2484]

Bary Melton is unbelievably underrated! What a legend

[@curtmeyer1716]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@randymerlo4070]

He was no better no worse Than anyone else

[@carloseugeniocarlos4287]

the best of psychedelic vIbes. Country Joe is so innovative and cool !

[@TheRuneCrew2]

I love this live version so much more than the album version. It just feels so ALIVE.

[@johnhayes3981]

I agree. I just hit this video for the 52nd Anniversary and it never gets tired.

[@Heretic_Hero]

Agreed. the studio version is also good

[@montmorencyclutch-ryder1685]

@@johnhayes3981 Love his song to JANIS!

[@ej2333]

This band is beyond Psychedelic....from a whole other planet.

[@michaellomax2]

Brilliant music. Can't believe it's 57 years ago, this year of 2024.

[@Alex-rk5mo]

The world needs more guitarists like Barry! The fish has got more originality in his left toe than any of the big modern shredders of our time. He found a way to play the axe different from anyone else around.... that whole scene was built on original expression. What do you have to say that's different than anyone else? Shame, we don't have a scene that values that anymore, not yet at least.

[@Trenchant463]

The guitarist sounds the same as the guy playing guitar for Joplin who opens with the Ball and Chain riffs. Same tone and phrasing.

[@dmoore0079]

@@Trenchant463 That was James Gurley. He used finger picks, which were pretty unorthodox for electric guitar (most used them for banjo). They were similar tonally, but Barry had a much faster, more pronounced vibrato

[@Mondostrummer]

Barry’s playing here is also reminiscent of Michael Bloomfield & John Cippolina, both of whom played Monterey

[@chrisradano]

Groovy stuff. The Monterey Pop Festival was peaking . Country Joe and the Fish in their moment.

[@dougpotosky4102]

Country Joe maybe the greatest most underated band ever! Plus Section43. Has to be the most psychedelic song out of the sixties!

[@billyboy1093]

The first record kills, yes Section 43, but also Bass Strings, The Masked Marauder and the epic Grace. It truly was "Electric Music for the Mind and Body"

[@cosmictrigger9]

What memories - the summer of love - Monterey '67! I am truly thankful for having been there…Peace….

[@pieterklaaskrugmann]

+cosmictrigger9 how was Jimi?!!!

[@cosmictrigger9]

+pieterklaaskrugmann You're right - Hendrix is, & always will be to me & others who have experienced his power, the ultimate guitar genius. Monterey was no exception -I wasn't @ Woodstock, but was @ Monterey in'67 - Hendrix's abilities seemed to come from the stars! Peace ...

[@pieterklaaskrugmann]

+cosmictrigger9 Thanx!!! Cool to hear from some one whoos been there!!!! Peace!

[@rjallman8705]

You were lucky . Today pretty much sucks

[@RICHBLACKCOCK]

@@pieterklaaskrugmann CRICKETS.

[@zbestwun2001]

Saw them w/ Moby Grape and Blue Cheer at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. That was our Fillmore West So Cal division.

[@pennya.5892]

Fantastic mix of groups

[@don7297]

Joe is old man now nearly 80 over hill sits down chair perform with his guitar that's as old as him!

[@skgate]

Blue Cheer… those dudes were far fuckin out, the heaviest band of the 60s. Lucky you man

[@lifesoboring1]

Psychedelic to the max. That keyboard sure helps a lot.

[@bertvanstaveren3178]

You got that right....organ kicks it.

[@Kelly14UK]

This has to be one of the most remarkable songs i've heard. Amazing stuff going on.

[@brucegreenfield9903]

David Bennett Cohen could tickle the ivories with the best of them..or in this case a farfisa.

[@davem4193]

Nothing sounds like a Farfisa

[@jg6698]

@@davem4193 Cohen arrived in the bay area from back east as a guitarist, had never played keys. He befriended Mcdonald and Melton and they said they needed an organ player. He said he'd give it a shot. He said his initial playing was just basically guitar licks. He got good fast and the rest is history.

[@jaamesanderson4253]

Such Cool ,.. these guys , among others , made this festival ! Country Joe looked so at ease in his skin and right at home with the audience !!

[@georgestevens1502]

The Fish were all about "letting it all hang out." Perhaps the most cutting edge of all the seminal rock bands that came out of the Bay Area in the Sixties, both in lyrics and the high pitched guitar and organ tones that were referred to then as the San Francisco psychedelic sound.

[@jpdebrouwer3534]

Here's j p from the Netherlands, i bought electric music in 1966, stille have it and about 40 other lps and cds, i saw him twice doing live gigs in the netherlands ! I love his ideas , thoughts and music, He's great .

[@Enevan1968]

@LostandRecovered : To be able to play like that as a 20 year old and leave people speechless 44 years later...I salute him!

[@KaupSeli]

lol make that 54 years

[@dbrew2u]

Man , i loved those days . You didn't just hear the music . You could see it .

[@sammyscotch9945]

Still can

[@Luminous-iLLusions]

@@sammyscotch9945 came to say the same thing

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Taste it too

[@edlawrence5059]

synesthesia

[@ricwilliams9449]

Electric Music for the Mind & Body was the trippiest album of the time. Even without acid.

[@billyboy1093]

Yes, but even better with!

[@bseaman2000]

the film quality of this still blows my mind

[@UnitedSoundVideo]

Sound quality too

[@marcosramirez4839]

Yes

[@KevinOrtega1980]

This is a classic, totally grooves me everyday

[@petersonlafollette3521]

A musically defining moment of that era- simply unreal..

[@nednobody3253]

I was 15 years old when this was filmed and as an Oregon kid the hippy movement was all over the U of O. Alot of good concerts going on. And all of us were dreading the DRAFT, We were seeing the televised war played out on TV every night at dinner time. Riots all over the country, Alot of changes came really quickly. Electric Music For The Mind And Body which is the album this song is off of is still one of my favorite albums especially when you are really High ( lsd, Mescaline, Mushrooms) wearing headphones of course. This song just licks your mind when your tripping.

[@motnosniv]

I was just 7 then and I remember those news reports. my older brother had a draft card. I was so scared that he might be sent halfway around the world and not come back. May God bless all those good young men that did come back but without the friends they made.

[@LC-ur8gv]

I envy the people that lived that era, I hope they realise how lucky they were

[@patricias5122]

We knew it then, and we know it now. Thank you. But live and enjoy your own era.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

@@patricias5122 lol yeah, stay outta ours

[@parallaxcontinuum7898]

for context- appreciate that it marked a complete departure from everything which had preceded it.Kinda hard to replicate that .Hear that Madison Avenue ?

[@geneobrien8907]

@@lastnamefirst4035 "Ours" whichever gen you are part of, you don't have a counterculture, so yea, not interested.

[@geneobrien8907]

@@sunkintree Crybaby!

[@danielsooba7847]

A very historical event... no joke.

[@littlebird8837]

Peace, love & brilliant music 💜🕊🎶🎶

[@mabv2]

One of the best performances in the rock and roll story

[@ANDRESR2]

But its blues

[@TDghf]

@@ANDRESR2 electrified man

[@daubreyjaneweirdsley]

@jacstraw8.... Barry Melton is a sublime underrated guitarist and should be up there in Acid Rock guitar player pantheon with Garcia, Kaukonen, Krieger, Cipollina. He's also made some rather good solo albums when he left CJ & Fish in the early 70's. True to his Counter Culture roots Melton became a liberal/left lawyer and still plays up and down the West Coast to this day. Hope that helps. Google the rest.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Still practicing law too. Check out the Dinosaurs

[@garymarquett2866]

It started out as Peace and Love then money

[@charliecoffroth2515]

Is "The ballad of Jean Dupure'" on a Country Joe Album?

[@bluegillphil1427]

KILLER tune, like listening 5-6 times in a row. PEACE

[@mikehouser2518]

The vocals sound as if goats are singing , great band and song . Thank you for posting .

[@RayNDeere]

Of interest, the Army jacket that Barry is wearing is the same one Joe wore at Woodstock

[@aicdbckmkemcm]

I was curious as to whether they were the same. Thanks.

[@jons5756]

And it was the same one he wore a week before at the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain festival

[@lastnamefirst4035]

How do you know that? There's a helluva lot of army jackets. Seems every guy I knew back then had one

[@pghpa611]

Country Joe and The Fish doing ACID ROCK ,,,,,, Country Joe At His Best

[@KoloFloyd73]

Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine excellent song:) great band! love it

[@2write2sing2dance]

What a hell of a good time. Ottis Redding, Byrds, Hendrix, Joplin, CJ and the Fish, Jefferson Airplane..... There will never be anything as good to be seen when it comes to music festivals. Why? Because there aren't as many good bands out there today. There are some...but not a lot.

[@SGood54]

You forgot Ravi Shankar

[@matoko123]

love this band. Great track from an amazing album 'Electric music for the mind and body'.

[@dlanodrelda]

Barry and David playing in NYC 10/24....in 2024 !

[@kittywhiskerz]

Thanks 4 turning me onto great music mom & dad

[@MOSKII58]

Melanie performed at woodstock & the isle of wight, where performed her famous tunes "lay Down"(candles in the rain), She also wrote or sings "Look what they've down to my song, Ma", "Brand new key", i'm sure you know who i mean,full name is Melanie Safka, a popular folk singer who peaked in the early 70's w/ the songs i mentioned. the song Laydown, about the tradition of holding up candles to the performer asking for an encore, then it was lighters & now camra phones..

[@jeantetreault132]

❤ i was born in 1967. However! I do feel like i was part of that era. I just wish that i could've been there. Johnny, Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦 Peace & Love everyone!🌹🌿☮️💗

[@InnocentAbyssinianCat-eb7ge]

You were there as a baby 👶 you just don't remember it because you were on LSD as the saying goes if you could remember the 60s and Monterey then you weren't really there

[@suginami123]

Superb. Superb. Fabulous crowd. Brilliant band.

[@BaconTomatoCheese]

Damn that was good… Wish I was there at the time, even though I was only four years old… Country Joe looks pretty zonked…

[@phildirt3]

that organ sounds kicks ass

[@geneobrien8907]

Back then every time you took acid, you tapped into a collective consciousness, CJ & The Fish's music was borne of that consciousness and even when straight you can feel it every time you listen to their albums.

[@danielburt7849]

collective imagination, 50 years later. you borrowed ideas, having none of your own to share that made sense. terrible era, actually.

[@MaabudZ]

I was somewhere in that mass of humanity for that Saturday afternoon concert. Also on the bill were, Big Brother, Canned Heat, the Gratefuldead, and the first performance of The Electric Flag, with Mike Bloomfield and Buddy Miles whom we'd never heard of but who blew us away. I wasn't tripping, perhaps a joint. Actually I probably wasn't even there because I can remember it.

[@6WILDBLUE6ANGELS6]

Electric Flag soundtrakfor “The Trip” was some of the best Blues ever Recorded!

[@tspoonhunter]

I am an In home care giver for the disabled.BELIEVE ME I know what a pissy mood is. And yea it is a great song. I remember seeing them live in Napa Calif. My Mom was a concert promotor in the sixties and booked them.

[@bacwudsrecords]

I just met country joe the other day in salem or. He is still one of the coolest dudes. YOU ROCK JOE! keep it going.

[@mythme01]

yes i agree - when I think pure psych; i think of the Fish. The minor chords and organ is the epitome of that sound.

[@gunslinger32mag]

Incredible. If you don't know me, you know me better after this.............. Gotta love the old Vanguard label.

[@bluegillphil1427]

I was around back then, still here today & still listening. Where did everybody else go ?

[@sammyscotch9945]

Still around. Guess we are fading into the crowd...old and gray and still misunderstood

[@johnm8891]

They're dead Phil. Dead. Sorry man.

[@BaconTomatoCheese]

I was only four years old at the time… But was then, and I always have been, a music nut- especially late 60s and early 70s stuff… The golden era rock ‘n’ roll

[@ShallowImpressions]

easily one of the most influential recordings of that time, and still is to this day! long live the fish.

[@solopino1]

I go crazy for this song!!!Peace and love!!

[@matthatter2849]

Looks like that might be Airplane's Jack Cassidy sitting behind the stoned out chess club president at 3:40.

[@mushroomagical]

Country Joe is my hero! Greetings from San Francisco...

[@maureendevries1904]

Isn't Country Joe's band from Berkeley?

[@sammyscotch9945]

@@maureendevries1904 bay area

[@horsehide3039]

Oh goodness, good stuff. And that certainly is Mama Cass at 4:29. Please God rest her soul.

[@erikbrentonjohnson7837]

Melton became a lawyer in, I believe, San Francisco. I saw the Fish give a lecture at the music department near college 8 classrooms ABOUT THE RIDGES OF COWELL RANCH AT UCSC in the hills above Santa Cruz proper. I saw Country Joe solo in the rustic Brookdale Lodge in the Santa Cruz Mountains about 16 years ago and he came out and smoked a joint with me and I remember he was wearing thick glasses and we spoke about the logistics at Woodstock and what life was like backstage. The Who got dosed and Country Joe was crazy Stoned as was the Usual. The 1960's were "hang loose, man!"

[@daubreyjaneweirdsley]

@sixtiesrecords Thank you for your kind words Monsieur Sixtiesrecords. Having lived in Paris for short time many years ago, i have always found France its people its cultural a source of inspiration. And now my eldest daughter lives in Paris and is a confirmed Francophile. Like France i have always loved and sort inspiration from the American 60's West Coast CounterCulture, its art and especially its music. Sadly it now seems to be a lost arcadian age that won't come again. I wish you well.

[@dennisst.pierre210]

Saw the Fish at Fitchburg State College in Ma. right after Woodstock Had a blast . They were great!

[@DeanHaasJr]

I was in Frisco for the summer of love, but didn't go to Monterey, as my brother was dying in St. Mary's Hospital there - saw a lot in the Panhandle though! this brings me back to that magical time!

[@studonaldson1497]

Dear Strangersname, thanks, couldn’t agree more about Melton. Discovered this classic album in the 70s in Liverpool while trying to improve my own guitar skills and he was a huge but much overlooked influence and inspiration, Stu X

[@luckyshow]

The most overlooked, most political, and the most psychedelic of the Bay area bands Usually its Fish Rag and that's it. Their first LP was perfect

[@rodneybaker2643]

😁as was the second 🕊

[@nicholasramsey5331]

There's So much a part of me that wishes that I was a part of the baby-boomer generation! They made such a turning point for the opening up and acceptance of new ideas, ways of thinking, expanding of the mind, etc! Wish that I was there to see and experience it all!

[@reddog5031]

And it was devastating when the Reagan Republicans ridiculed and reversed these "new ways of thinking".

[@jg6698]

@@reddog5031 True. Carters 22% interest rates were a new way of thinking. Reagan had nothing to do with the dashing of any ideals. We (boomers and older) had killed most of them and abandoned the rest before he ascended to national prominence. A fair percentage of them were pie in the sky nonsense anyway.

[@nicholasramsey5331]

@@reddog5031 Yes, they definitely tried to reverse the new ways of thinking that the Hippie Generation Sowed. However, fortunately there was no going back. Many young people of the 1980s saw through the Conservatives of the 1980s (and would have no part in going back to the 1950s). And the Grunge and Alternative Generation of the 1990s had absolutely nothing but undying love and respect for the Hippie Generation who did nothing but inspire them (including their way of thinking, music, etc).

[@jarodcarnarvon5198]

Wow. Their music was quite different at Monterey Pop 1967 compared to Woodstock 1969. All of it was good.

[@thomashumphrey7395]

Difficult to categorize or describe Country Joe and The Fish's music: very of its time and era, but also has sort of a timeless quality. Rhythmic Country meets LSD in an amalgam of flower-power, hippie, stoner rock. I dig it and own their albums.

[@written12]

@martbook Thanks, Mart. Bruce Johnson, eh? Was in the Beach Boys by that point? I think Brian had given up performing live by that time. Anyway, it's been 37 years or so since Cass left us. What a talented woman. What a terrible shame.

[@KevinOrtega1980]

Also to a recent question if that army jacket worn by Barry is the same Joe is wearing at Woodstock? The answer is yes

[@bobtis]

Fantastic Video You took me there thank you.

[@Fortwentt]

this is so good, never heard it before today but i was listening this fish album in 1971 or something i was 12 years old my parents didnt even understand it except maybe the music. didnt really appreciate it until a few years ago.

[@Duncaniowa17]

I saw them live at the Family Dog 1968-70. Incredible then and now.

[@marclayne9261]

love Country Joe...as he was a Vietnam veteran....

[@jg6698]

Huh? Where in the world did you come up with that nonsense. He was in the Navy from 1959 to 1962. His entire deployment after training was in Japan. Mercy. 🙄

[@guthyranker1724]

Not a huge CJ&F fan but i think they blew most of the bands off the stage at this festival.

[@thenewpollution2]

Big Bill O'Reilly Who asked you?

[@bridgmjm]

Janis Joplin did a pretty good job no?

[@df5295]

How about Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, or The Who?

[@rossriver75]

For Psychedelia, Country Joe and the Fish was the top. Electric Music for Mind and Body, best of the tripping era. Monterrey Pop was somewhat of a crossover event - they had to include those not really in the hippie culture, such as Otis Redding. Re: Hendrix, yeah he was really into it and was just breaking on to the Psych scene at the time with a great performance.

[@rossriver75]

Jack Straw Well, Otis Redding was a soul music singer. Not in the hippie scene like Hendrix. Black soul singers had to be respected, but that’s different. Tina Turner ...again, respect. Sly and the Family Stone, kind of on the border.

[@ranabirgahir462]

Timeless Talent ❤

[@gregsqu]

Saw them at the Eagles in Seattle and marched behind them up 4th Ave to the Seattle Coliseum protesting the Viet Nam war. Hell of a day....

[@teleroylichtenstein]

Very good video definition, good audio, thanks!

[@scdevon]

Very 1967. Mamma Cass is in the audience @ 4:29.

[@RayNDeere]

scdevon Sitting with Cass is Barry McGuire

[@ehairgrove]

Melenie Safka (roller skate song) smiling in the audience at 0:17

[@briansmith203]

+Shiva Ganesha I thought it might have been the hippy girl on the Smothers Brothers Show, Leigh French, AKA "Goldie".

[@mrlucky777]

+Shiva Ganesha I'm glad someone else caught that too.

[@Mrvinylboy]

Amazing!

[@QuaaludeCharlie]

Great , this was the year I was borne , I,m glad it's up here , Thank's :) QC

[@jimmierobinson4492]

saw them many times in the 60s it was always a TRIP !

[@NilezII]

Agree-Jorma has such a "signature" style, yet so under-appreciated.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Check out jormas fur peace ranch. Alot of good musicians play every friday night. You can find it here on utube

[@sunnycure]

gooooood song, the guitarist is insane. Especially in rock and soul music

[@patcola7335]

I was born a month after this show. The video looks fresh.

[@tauras88d]

...lol as i was watching this vid i thought to myself ...wow another organ -drench classic from the 60"s what a great era. then i scrolled down and seen your comment.

[@MrClearlight]

Yes fantasia their first album was one of the most adventurous albums around then,even way ahead of the Beatles,and 6 months before Sgt.Pepper. Section 43 is a masterpeice!

[@joegomez4122]

I was 8 yrs old but i remember those hippies cool people they started America up what 🇺🇸 is all about freedom

[@surfraptor]

Ah ... saw em way back at the famous Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. I loved em. Still do.

[@sunnybux]

God I love this song and the Fish

[@AK4TsEv3N]

Great group!

[@enmaxlineman]

great video wish i could find more of the fish from this time.

[@jimmymurphy7789]

1. Oh, that "Bawwy-Mewten" playing them hot, blistering "Ricky-Galindo" blues licks all throughout the song ! 2. And David Cohen complimenting with his reverby "Roller-Rink" Farfisa Organ licks - it doesn't get any better than this. 3. 0:45 great Corn-Eatin' music for young Hippie Chick to enjoy. 4. 3:35 "Psychedelic-Psychedelic- Psychedelic-Psychedelic !!!!" 5. During this Time & Place - If you weren't Trippin', you were a "SQUARE" !

[@elginphelps5291]

Bay Area SG players vin the 60s: Barry Melton Jerry Garcia John Cipollina Leigh Stephens

[@dragmyre]

AWESOME vidwork.

[@ew1951]

Thanks for posting this video!

[@rickmanning5574]

I see that a lot of our grandparents are giving this the thumbs down because this is Classic Fish and remember he was the first one to speak out against the Vietnam War, although it was fun over there blasting anything that moved high on LSD and weed

[@b1zook]

I saw CJ The Fish in the 60's a couple of times - free concerts at Provo Park, Berkeley. Was just a tyke then, but grew up on them (Dad had "Electric Music" in his collection) - what a trip. Oh, and 2:53? I think I'm in love!

[@artiewithers6980]

Great song, great performance.

[@blusmahn]

When I picked up ELECTRIC MUSIC for the MIND and BODY when the LP first came out I was amazed that there was not a bad cut on it. They're touring occasionally now but without Barry.The shows are OK but Barry's leads,fills,and vocals are sorely missed.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Barry still plays mostly in the bay area, paris and russia. Just type in barry melton and you will find alot of stuff from the fish...8 years later its still true. He plays w the dinosaurs. All great musicians mostly from the bay area

[@kraznet]

Magoo is one of my favorite songs ever.

[@frankabney6000]

I've loved Country Joe McDonald since I was turned on to him and The Fish when I was 14 in 1968...

[@andiemc182]

Peace and Love personas y festivales asi les falta al mundo tienen q regresar desde Peru bendiciones al mundo cn amor

[@starcloud4959]

very interesting lyrics.