IVIV (1) Country Joe & the Fish

[Dave Monroe]

"Back then it was always sandals, bottom half of a flower-print
bikini, faded Country Joe & the Fish t-shirt." (IV, Ch. 1, p. 1)

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/PENGN-EMS/InherentVice._V218759443_.pdf


Country Joe & the Fish

Welcome to the official World Wide Web home of the 60s band that
stopped the war in Vietnam. Bring flowers, godseyes, and boxes of air.

http://www.well.com/~cjfish/

Country Joe and the Fish was a rock band most widely known for musical
protests against the Vietnam War, from 1966 to 1971.

The group's name is derived from leftist politics; "Country Joe" was a
popular name for Joseph Stalin in the 1940s, while "the fish" refers
to Mao Tse-Tung's statement that the true revolutionary "moves through
the peasantry as the fish does through water." ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Joe_and_the_Fish

"The I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag" @ The Monterey Pop Festival, 1967

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBdeCxJmcAo

http://www.well.com/~cjfish/game.htm


And recall ...

“I got a call from Pynchon’s agent saying Pynchon liked the script,
but he wanted a couple of changes. First you call him Tom, and no one
ever calls him Tom. Second, although he likes Willy DeVille he would
prefer if it were a T-shirt with Roky Erickson of the 13th Floor
Elevators.”

http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/48268/index3.html
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_film_tv.html
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/msg/ddc442f03369d0cc?pli=1