Electric Music for the Mind and Body
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Electric Music for the Mind and Body is Country Joe and the Fish
's debut album. It was one of the first psychedelic albums
to come out of San Francisco.
Tracks from the LP, especially "Section 43", "Grace", and "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" were played on progressive FM rock stations like KSAN and KMPX in San Francisco, often back-to-back. A famous version of the song "Love" was performed at the 1969 Woodstock Festival
.
"Grace" is a tribute to Jefferson Airplane
's lead singer, Grace Slick
.
) – 2:38
2. "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" (McDonald) – 4:21
3. "Death Sound Blues" (McDonald) – 4:23
4. "Happiness Is a Porpoise Mouth" (McDonald) – 2:48
5. "Section 43" (McDonald) – 7:23
6. "Superbird" (McDonald) – 2:04
7. "Sad and Lonely Times" (McDonald) – 2:23
8. "Love" (McDonald, Melton, Cohen, Barthol, Gunning, Hirsh) – 2:19
9. "Bass Strings" (McDonald) – 4:58
10. "The Masked Marauder" (McDonald) – 3:10
11. "Grace" (McDonald) – 7:03
Country Joe and the Fish
Country Joe and the Fish was a rock band most widely known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1966 to 1971, and also regarded as a seminal influence to psychedelic rock.-History:...
's debut album. It was one of the first psychedelic albums
Psychedelic music
Psychedelic music covers a range of popular music styles and genres, which are inspired by or influenced by psychedelic culture and which attempt to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues-rock bands in the...
to come out of San Francisco.
Tracks from the LP, especially "Section 43", "Grace", and "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" were played on progressive FM rock stations like KSAN and KMPX in San Francisco, often back-to-back. A famous version of the song "Love" was performed at the 1969 Woodstock Festival
Woodstock Festival
Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969...
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"Grace" is a tribute to Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
's lead singer, Grace Slick
Grace Slick
Grace Slick is an American singer and songwriter, who was one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, and was a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s...
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Track listing
1. "Flying High" (Joe McDonaldCountry Joe McDonald
Country Joe McDonald is an American musician who was the lead singer of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Country Joe and the Fish.-Personal life:...
) – 2:38
2. "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" (McDonald) – 4:21
3. "Death Sound Blues" (McDonald) – 4:23
- Labeled as "Death Sound" on the mono version of the album.
4. "Happiness Is a Porpoise Mouth" (McDonald) – 2:48
- Labeled as "Porpoise Mouth" on the mono version of the album.
5. "Section 43" (McDonald) – 7:23
6. "Superbird" (McDonald) – 2:04
7. "Sad and Lonely Times" (McDonald) – 2:23
8. "Love" (McDonald, Melton, Cohen, Barthol, Gunning, Hirsh) – 2:19
9. "Bass Strings" (McDonald) – 4:58
10. "The Masked Marauder" (McDonald) – 3:10
11. "Grace" (McDonald) – 7:03
Musicians
- Country Joe McDonaldCountry Joe McDonaldCountry Joe McDonald is an American musician who was the lead singer of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Country Joe and the Fish.-Personal life:...
: vocals, guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, bellsBell (instrument)A bell is a simple sound-making device. The bell is a percussion instrument and an idiophone. Its form is usually a hollow, cup-shaped object, which resonates upon being struck...
, tambourineTambourineThe tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all.... - Barry MeltonBarry MeltonBarry "The Fish" Melton was the co-founder and original lead guitarist of Country Joe and The Fish. Barry appears on all the Country Joe and The Fish recordings and he also wrote some of the songs that the band recorded...
: vocals, guitar - David Cohen: guitar, organ
- Bruce BartholBruce BartholBruce Barthol, , is an American bass player.Born at Alta Bates Hospital, Berkeley, California, he was the original bass player with Country Joe and the Fish through to November 1968...
: bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, harmonica - Gary "Chicken" Hirsh: drums