(TV) Country Joe and the Fish

["Mullen, Patrick Q" <p.mullen@miami.edu>]

> From:	Casey, Leo J [SMTP:CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 26, 2001 3:06 PM
> To:	tv@obbard.com
> Subject:	(TV) Not to Quibble, but... 
> 
> From the Nation's GENE SANTORO:  
> > "The quartet, featuring the dueling guitars of Tom Verlaine and Richard
> Lloyd, refracted jazz influences
> > (Verlaine adored Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler) and sixties
> psychedelia (he loved the Grateful Dead, also jazz-influenced, and
> Jefferson Airplane as well)".
> 
> Not to quibble with a well written article or belabor the obvious, but
> Santoro got the above only half right (except for "Dark Star" it's a "no"
> on the Dead and a "no" on J.  Airplane), more like---Country Joe and Fish
> (at least their guitar sound) or The Count Five, etc. according to several
> Verlaine interviews.
> 
[Mullen, Patrick Q]  Does anyone out there recommend "Electric Music for the
Mind and Soul"?

Patrick

It is not the big armies that win battles; it is the good ones.
		Marechal Maurice Comte de Saxe, Mes Reveries, 1732

Patrick Q. Mullen
Electronic Resources Unit
Richter Library
University of Miami
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