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"I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" is a song by the American psychedelic rock band Country Joe and the Fish, written by Country Joe McDonald, and first released as the opening track on the extended play Rag Baby Talking Issue No. 1, in October 1965.
I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die is the second studio album by the influential San Francisco psychedelic rock band Country Joe and the Fish, released at the end of 1967.. The album was released just six months after the debut and is another prime example of the band's psychedelic experimentation.
The band's side of the EP featured two originals by McDonald, an acoustic version of "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag", and "Superbird". [5] [8] According to McDonald, "The Fish Cheer" was written in 30 minutes, with a purpose of expressing satiric and dark commentary on the US's involvement in the Vietnam War. [9]
The album includes the first appearance of the original folk and jug version of the group's best known song, "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag", outside the band's first EP released on the self-published Rag Baby magazine. A live rendition performed at the Woodstock Festival also concludes the album. Other live recordings featured on the album ...
Two other songs were considered for the album: "Thought Dream", recorded on February 2, was held over for the sophomore effort I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die, [2] while the "I-Feel- Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" itself (another song that had appeared on the first Rag Baby EP) was considered too controversial to record by Charters and held over ...
The cheer was on the original recording of "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag", being played right before the song on the LP of the same name. The cheer became popular and the crowd would spell out F-I-S-H when the band performed live. During the summer of 1968 the band played on the Schaefer Music Festival tour. [11]
"I Feel like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag" (1970) " Waist Deep in the Big Muddy " is a song written by Pete Seeger in 1967 and made famous because of its censorship from The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour .
He was a member of Country Joe and the Fish from December 1965 to January 1969, and played on their first two albums, Electric Music for the Mind and Body and I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die, as well as several tracks on their third album, Together.