Country Joe McDonald

[Doug Millison]

Otto,

Country Joe McDonald is still around here in the East Bay.  My wife  
knows his brother, they've worked together around Berkeley and Oakland.

Country Joe also wrote a short story that was published locally --  
maybe in the Sunday magazine of the San Francisco Chronicle? maybe in  
the short-lived City  magazine?  many years ago now -- about a giant  
traffic jam on the freeway on the bridge that goes across the San  
Francisco Bay from Oakland through Yerba Buena to SF.   Or maybe I  
hallucinated this.  Flying high!

-Doug


On Oct 27, 2009, at 11:53 AM, pynchon-l-digest wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:13:09 +0100
> From: Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Manson & Pynchon
>
> Indeed, thanks...
>
> Leads to this:
>
> Country Joe McDonald And The Fish - Electric Music For The Mind And
> Body (Vanguard)
>
> Flying High
>
> I'm stuck on the L.A. freeway,
> Got rain water in my boots,
> My thumbs done froze, can't feel my toes,
> I feel a little destitute.
> Wheels throwing water all over my axe
> And Mr. Jones won't lend me a hand.
> Up come two cats in a Cadillac
> And they say, "Won't you hop in, man ?"
> I went flying high
> All the way — all the way.
> The one that's driving's got a bowler hat,
> The other's got a fez on his head.
> They turn around and grin and I grin back
> But not a word was said.
> So I took out my harp and I played 'em a tune,
> I could see they were diggin' it,
> Then the one with the fez, well he turns and he sez,
> "We'd like to help you make your trip."
> And I went flying high
> All the way — all the way.
> (...)
> http://www.radio3net.ro/1001/?cx=list_piese2&id_album=1570#p_player14260
>
> or here:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doFD0poaYwA