Origin: Berkeley, CA, USA
Country Joe & The Fish (CJ&F) was one of the first successful psychedelic groups to immerge out of the San Francisco scene. The band's genesis can be traced back to the fall of 1965 when founding member and U.S. Naval veteran "Country" Joe McDonald decided to organize a musical ensemble that would provide entertainment before and after anti-Vietnam war protests that were being held by a group called the Free Speech Movement on the University of California, Berkeley campus. On top of the protest rallies, McDonald was also the editor of a local leftist periodical titled Rag Baby . He soon came u…