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Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco

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Posted on Sat Oct 29, 2005 at 08:26:20 PM EST
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Country Joe at Woodstock

You don't have to be in San Francisco tomorrow to see and hear the bands. All you need is your computer. The Chet Helms Tribal Stomp is being live-cast beginning at 9 am PT and rebroadcast at 7pm PT. Here's the link to watch the concert.

If you are in the bay area, the concert is free at Speedway Meadows, Golden Gate Park.

You can listen along now to Country Joe's "I feel like I'm fixing to die rag" here. Lyrics are here.

Here are the bands. Chet Helms would be so proud.

Jefferson Starship: Paul Kantner, David Frieberg, Pete Sears,
Prairie Prince, Nick Gravenites, Harvey Mandel, Eric Burdon, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, The Charlatans, Country Joe McDonald (Country Joe and The Fish) The Rowan Brothers, featuring Peter Rowan, Jerry Miller, Lee Osker (Schedule Permitting) Terry Haggerty and James Preston (Sons of Champlin), Zero II, Roy Rogers, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. Cold Blood featuring Lydia Pense, Lee Michaels, Quicksilver Gold, featuring Joli Valenti and Mario Cipollina, Squid B. Vicious, Barry “The Fish” Melton, Blue Cheer, (Dickie Peterson, Leigh Stephens), Jorge Santana, George Michalski, Greg Errico (Sly and the Family Stone), Canned Heat, Narada Michael Walden, Natural Act (Hal Wagenet and Mitchell Holman), Jeff Blackburn, Howard Wales, Richi Ray, (Freedom Highway), Vince Welnick, (The Tubes and Grateful Dead), David Denny (Steve Miller), Peter Kaukonen, Herman Eberitzsch (Lee Oskar), Ross Valory (Journey), Judge Murphy, Stephen Gaskin, p. Howard Hessman, Greg Douglass (Steve Miller) Rock Hendrix, Bruce Latimer, David and Linda Laflamme (It's A Beautiful Day), Lydia Pense (Cold Blood), Annie Samson (Stone Ground), and Wavy Gravy.

The set times are here (pdf) so you can tune in to your favorite ones.

And don't forget to turn your clocks back tonight.

Update: Country Joe's lyrics to Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die Rag:

Yeah, come on all of you, big strong men,
Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He's got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in Vietnam
So put down your books and pick up a gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.

....Well, come on mothers throughout the land,
Pack your boys off to Vietnam.
Come on fathers, don't hesitate,
Send 'em off before it's too late.
Be the first one on your block
To have your boy come home in a box.

2,000 dead in Iraq. Bring the troops home now.

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    • Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco | 24 comments (24 topical)
    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#1)
    by Linkmeister on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:32 PM EST
    Yikes. I recognize all too many of those names. The upcoming double-nickel birthday must be accurate!

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#2)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:32 PM EST
    Jerry Garcia would be proud...

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:32 PM EST
    She's a quicksilver girl A lover of the world She spreads her wings And she's free

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#4)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:32 PM EST
    Now by the light shining through from within We’ll find our way back to the stars once again --- Jefferson Starship, The Awakening

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:32 PM EST
    And here's one for the Democrats:

    Truckin', with the Doodah man,
    He once told me "you got to play your hand".
    Sometimes, the cards ain't worth a dime,
    If you don't lay 'em down.
     
    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#6)
    by Lww on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:32 PM EST
    One two three What are we fightin for Don't ask me I don't give a damn Next stop is Viet Nam Same question, different war... I came close to changing pop music history in August 69' when as a juvenile deliquent 13 yr old Bronx boy in Sullivan County I flung a half-eatin hogfarm donated apple at the stage.....just missed Country Joes drummer during the set. Thank God it missed.

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#7)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:32 PM EST
    Here's my favorite. Hope everyone enjoys it. Especially Edgar, DA and Squeaky. "Well, he stays away a lot now from the parties and the clubs And he's thinking while he's joggin' 'round Sure is glad he quit the hard drugs Cause him and his kind get more endangered everyday And pretty soon the species will just up and fade away Like the smoke from that torpedo...just up and fade away He's an old hippie and he don't know what to do.." -- Bellamy Brothers "He's An Old Hippie"

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#8)
    by Repack Rider on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:32 PM EST
    I worked as a roadie on the 30th Anniversary of the Summer of Love concert. I have been the roadie for the Sons of Champlin since 1968, and on my 21st birthday I saw them along with Steppenwolf and the Youngbloods at Helms' venue, the Avalon Ballrom. I've smoked a joint with Garcia and I have seen Janis Joplin naked. It's on my website

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:32 PM EST
    The Summer Of Love was just the beginning
    That's when the lines started breaking through
    The Summer Of Love is just a memory now
    Even though those times are gone
    The Spirit still goes on in me and you
    - Jefferson Airplane
    ps - Repack, nice bio and site! BTW, I got a gold record working with Narda (shoulda gotten a purple heart;-)

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#10)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:32 PM EST
    Can you picture what will be So limitless and free Desperately in need...of some...stranger's hand In a...desperate land Lost in a Roman...wilderness of pain And all the children are insane All the children are insane Waiting for the summer rain, yeah... --Jim Morrison

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#11)
    by Sailor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:32 PM EST
    Horror grips us as we watch you die All we can do is echo your anguished cry and Stare as all your human feelings die We are leaving You don't need us [...] Sailing ships on the water very free and easy Easy you know the way it's supposed to be

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#12)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:32 PM EST
    This is far out. It's a 30 minute video of Ken Kesey speaking at the University of Virginia in April 2000, a little while before he left us... The Psychedelic '60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change. Kesey begins it with: "I feel like there are warriors, and that we know, and have known, a number of warriors…wonderful, powerful warriors. And there is a way that you can see which is the warrior and which isn’t. And I have done this by making, arbitrarily, two categories – one of them is "sh*t floats" and the other one is "cream rises." And we all kind of know what it is. "Sh*t floats" is Eddie Murphy. "Cream rises" is Richard Pryor. "Sh*t floats" is Madonna. "Cream rises" is Joan Baez..." ...and he takes off from there. (There is a full transcript here.) "Cream rises" is TalkLeft.

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#13)
    by Lww on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:32 PM EST
    How the hell did we get to this point where everything is "Sh*t Floats?" Who's to blame? I never thought I'd be thinking of them as the good old days but they are. I guess politics is the same; just alot dirtier.

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#14)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:33 PM EST
    Wow! It really is like the old days! White and male. Oh wait. It's like the good old new days, too. Sheesh. +

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#15)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:33 PM EST
    sailor quotes: "Horror grips us as we watch you die All we can do is echo your anguished cry and" Actually there was a lot that they could have done, up to and including joining up and supporting the troops. Of course that, as is true now, would have required them to actually do something that might have been uncomfortable, or difficult.

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#16)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:33 PM EST
    "Actually there was a lot that they could have done, up to and including joining up and supporting the troops." Yeah, but don't be so hard on Cheney, Dick, I mean Jim. He had "other priorities."

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#17)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:33 PM EST
    For all the trolls:
    Steven won't give his arm to no gold star mother's farm; War's good business so give your son and I'd rather have my country die for me.


    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#18)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:33 PM EST
    PIL - Well, at least he wasn't out there demonstrating for the benefit of the enemy.

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#19)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:33 PM EST
    Yeah, he wasn't AMERICAN enough to protest an illegal "war." He was too busy figuring out how to steal enough power to start one of his own. And getting others to do the fighting.

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#20)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:33 PM EST
    My favorite these days: You fasten the triggers For the others to fire Then you set back and watch When the death count gets higher You hide in your mansion As young people's blood Flows out of their bodies And is buried in the mud *** Let me ask you one question Is your money that good Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul - Bob Dylan, "Masters of War"

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#21)
    by Sailor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:33 PM EST
    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The more things change, the more they remain the same ... and always, the song remains the same.

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#22)
    by Dadler on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:33 PM EST
    But no Richie Havens? Damn. His "Handsome Johnny" is another great anti-war song. Party on, peeps. Peace.

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#23)
    by Lww on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:33 PM EST
    Hey Lea-p, what should I do now that you've told me I'm still white and male? Cut my throat? Peace to you too.

    Re: Sunday Only: The 60's Return to San Francisco (none / 0) (#24)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:34 PM EST
    Ah.... Country Joe & the Fish.... One of my all time favs... Saw them at the National Guard Armory (always thought that was ironic) in Las Vegas the summer of 68... great show....

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