Show Monday Juno 24 1974 1 ' cBomld scheduled for June vice-preside- nt Country Joe McDonald formerly of Country Joe and the Fish will perform in concert Thursday June 27 at 8 pm in the UC Ballroom Known as a singer composer poet musician and political activist Country Joe organized the Fish and produced his first album in 1967 “Electric Music for the Mind and Body” Country Joe became known as a symbol of the anti-wa- r movement after spending four years in the US Navy This was the first in a series of apparent contradictions stemming from Joe’s philosophy that “The most revolutionary thing you can do in this country is change your ''fs V - w- Box lunch social Co unify Jo© by Buzz Thurber cultural I Page 3 mind” The Fish never had a top chart single and until the emergence of underground FM Joe’s songs received little radio air play Despite the absence of traditional prerequisites for success “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Die Rag” always evokes an appreciative response from the audience “Fixin’ to Die” was written by McDonald and although an underground classic for five years it was not until early 1970 that anyone risked the wrath of middle America by putting it on the air As was typical with Country Joe in the midst of a major surge of political activism in Berkeley in 1966 he packed up his Fish and set off to officiate at the first love-in- s ever held in the cities of Portland Seattle and Vancouver This action did not endear him to his radical friends-i- t was a time when the radicals found it hard to fit the passive flower children into their visions of political utopia and the love generation found it equally difficult to love the noisy radicals Joe however saw no contradictions He played love-in- s with an awesome collection of political buttons pinned to an old Army shirt and showed up at mass demonstrations with the amplifiers smothered in daisies By the time of the Democratic Convention in Chicago 1968 the Fish had become a major American rock band Upon arriving in Chicago a couple days Joe before the convention decided to withdraw the Fish because of the vicious atmosphere In 1969 the band began to break up reform expanding and contracting Two new albums were produced “Together” and “Here We Are Again” In the summer of 1969 “Fixin to Die” cropped up once again preceded by the infamous Fish Cheer “Gimme an ‘F’” etc followed by the spelling out of r or another either to be June 29th an effort to have the entire statute removed from the books in Massachusetts The USU Stake Special Interest Group is sponsoring a box lunch social on Saturday June 29 Girls bring a box lunch guys bring your bids (car wash movie etc) Drinks provided Meet by the amphitheatre on Old Main Hill for old fashioned fun and games The fun begins at 9 am with the eating around 11 During a European tour in 1969 am Further details: call Brent Joe first became seriously in- Williams at Everyone volved in filmmaking He and the welcome group appeared in Roger “Gas-s-s- ” and in 753-008- Cor-man- 6 ’s “Woodstock” In July of 1970 Country Joe added McDonald in place of “and the Fish” and set out on his first European tour as a solo artist Upon returning from Europe Joe scored and appeared in “What Is To Be Done” a film dealing with US involvement in Chilean affairs Heart disease may not be in your stars but it could be in your genes Learn more about heredity and heart disease from your local Heart Association Help your heart by helping your Heart Fund David Jones awarded scholarship Coming to USU next fall will be David Jones who is the recent winner of the Knights of in Columbus scholarship The scholarship Brigham City consists of $200 to be spent at the university of his choice Jones will be majoring in engineering or biochemistry He has been active in his church community and school He served as president of the Brigham City Catholic Youth Organization in 1973 was a member of the mayor’s youth council in' Brigham for two years of and served as Box Elder high school’s key club vice-preside- nt album which Joe began recording in England is called appropriately enough “Entertainment is my A soon-to-be-releas- ed Business” Thursday he’ll try to prove that to his USU audience “ BRICK So says the VA r BRADFORD rjN EUSl&ILlTy BEQUUZEMEmTE FCXZ PUISMT TRAINING INCLUDE PC5SES5 INS A VALID PRIVATE PILOT'S LICENSE AND MEETING TWE MEDiCAu e£QuiMENTS NECESSARV POR A four-lette- word In Worchester Mass charges were pressed against Joe for the “Gimme an ‘F’” introduction The suit stemming from the charges resulted in Abbie Hoffman’s sister being ordered out of the courtroom because her skirt was too short and Joe was fined $50 The case is being appealed in Harvard University has 90 libraries — all containing vast amounts of printed information Your newspaper doesn’t contain 90 libraries of material but it does summarize daily and weekly events entertain inform form educate in which can be read quickly or at your leisure easy-to-tak- For information contact the nearest VA office (check your phone book) or wnte Veterans Administration 23 2X HI 0 Vermont Ave NW Washington DC 20420 e David Jones awarded scholarship yv I T x ) 12:30 ' - 1:30 pm on UC Patio Free Ice Cream for S USU Summer Students and Staff only |