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OUR SPONSORS -----------------------Cover Story • Country Joe McDonald --------------------- 3 Rivers Co-op Natural Grocery & Deli ....................27 Aboite Grill ....................................................................26 Allen Co. Public Library/Rock the Plaza ....................15 Alley Sports Bar ..........................................................16 Beamer’s Sports Grill .................................................11 C2G Music Hall/Pink Droyd ........................................15 C2G Music Hall on TV .....................................................7 ‘F’ Is for Flower Power Calhoun Street Soups, Salads & Spirits ................13 Champions Sports Bar & Restaurant .....................16 By Mark Hunter website. “My father, Worden ‘Mac’ McDon- Wall Street and released on McDonald’s Rag CLASSIFIEDS ...............................................................31 ald, grew up in the little Oklahoma town of Baby label. Club Paradise ........................................................15, 18 If there’s one thing Joe McDonald Sallisaw, 100 miles from the Woody’s birth- McDonald was born in Washington, Columbia Street West ................................................14 knows about, it would be how to write a place of Okemah. My father was a farm boy D.C. in 1942 but grew up in Los Angeles. Digitracks Recording Studio .............................14, 31 good protest song. Or maybe it’s Florence and hobo like Woody. He talked about this He moved from the Los Angeles suburb of Duty’s Buckets Sports Pub & Grub .........................11 Nightingale. Could be Woodstock, though, in his autobiography, An Old Guy Who Feels El Monte to Berkeley in the early 60s and Duty’s Uptown Bar & Grill ..........................................11 that simultaneously seminal and terminal Good.” quickly joined a number of local bands, most Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory ....8, 27 event, the hurrah and last gasp of the 1960s McDonald’s connection to Guthrie was of which he started. In 1965, after complet- Fort Wayne Cinema Center ........................................29 where nearly half-a-million people gathered already strong. In 1975 Guthrie’s former ing a stint in the United States Navy, he Fort Wayne Dance Collective .....................................26 in the mud for “breakfast in bed,” as Wavy manager asked McDonald, who was play- formed Country Joe and the Fish, partly as a Fort Wayne Museum of Art ..................................3, 26 Gravy famously announced, and political device, in time to play at a war Fort Wayne Musicians Association ..........................26 where Country Joe and the Fish protest at the Oakland Induction Cen- Fort Wayne Parks & Recreation Dept. ...... 10, 12,13 followed Richie Havens’ opening ter. The band was rousingly received Fort Wayne Philharmonic ............................................19 impromptu performance with their and quickly decided to take itself seri- Fort Wayne’s Ultimate Bar Crawl .............................15 own impromptu performance and ously. Country Joe and the Fish signed Gin Mill Lounge ..............................................................15 got the 400,000-plus throng to chant a record deal with Vanguard Records in Henry’s Restaurant ....................................................17 the infamous Fish cheer that begins December of 1966 and the next year re- Jam Crib .........................................................................31 with “gimme an f!” and doesn’t leased Eclectic Music for the Mind and Jam Theatricals/Broadway at the Embassy ..........17 spell “fish.” Body. Joey O’s Guitar Festival .............................................23 One thing is certain: Country As a solo performer and leader of Latch String Bar & Grill ..............................................11 Joe McDonald has lived a full life Country Joe and the Fish, McDonald Locl.Net .........................................................................30 and has plenty of stories to tell and has released nearly 50 albums and con- The Lucky Moose ..........................................................26 songs to sing, and he’ll be doing tinues to work on new projects. He has Mookie’s Bar & Grill .....................................................12 both on stage Friday at the third a new album scheduled for a December NIGHTLIFE ............................................................. 10-14 installment of the 2011 Botani- release. Northside Galleries .....................................................23 cal Roots Outdoor Concert Series. “It’s sort of a jug band theme,” he Pacific Coast Concerts ...............................................16 The activist singer/songwriter Otis said, “It’s been about 20 years since Peanuts Food & Spirits ...............................................14 Gibbs will open. I’ve done this kind of album. I’m work- PERFORMER’S DIRECTORY ......................................16 McDonald, who spoke and ing with Greg Dewey, the drummer I Philmore/Chris Beard ..................................................15 played with fellow 60s icon Tom played with at Woodstock. We haven’t Piere’s Entertainment Center ...................................32 Rush earlier this year at the IPFW worked together for 40 years.” Rack & Helens Bar & Grill ..............................................3 Omnibus Lecture Series, has been Otis Gibbs, originally from Wa- Shout! Promotions ......................................................21 on the road off and on for the last namaker, Indiana, is cut from the same Snickerz Comedy Bar ..................................................10 35 years, mostly doing solo gigs cloth as Guthrie and McDonald. Part Summit City Chevrolet/Summer Cruise-In .............27 and talks. The Botanical Conserva- Johnny Appleseed, part hobo, part Sweetwater Sound ....................................................2, 3 tory performance will no doubt be a spiritual seeker, Gibbs, according to Tobacco Stop ................................................................27 must-see for anyone with an interest his website is “seen by most people Twenty Past Four and More .......................................31 in the music and history of the 60s. as a folk artist, but that is a simplistic WBYR 98.9 The Bear..................................................21 “I’ll be doing a lot of my own way to describe a man who has planted WEB SIGHTS ................................................................30 material and will tell some stories over 7,000 trees, slept in hobo jungles, whatzup Battle of the Bands .....................................10 Country Joe McDonald at from the 60s,” he said in a phone walked with nomadic shepherds in whatzup Dining Club ......................................................18 the Monterey Pop Festival, interview from his home in Berke- the Carpathian Mountains, been strip- Wooden Nickel Music Stores ........................................9 1967, and today. searched by dirty cops in Detroit and Wrigley Field Bar & Grill ..............................................16 ley. On the phone, McDonald was WXKE Rock 104 ..........................................................23 reserved and spoke softly and slow- has an FBI file. ly, a far cry from the “Otis has played ev- rabble-rousing per- COUNTRY JOE McDONALD erywhere from labor ral- sona he wore in the w/Otis Gibbs lies in Wisconsin, to an- 1960s “I’ll probably ti-war protests in Texas, whatzup do about 25 shows Friday, Aug. 12 • 8:30 p.m. Austria and the Czech Published weekly and distributed on Wednesdays and Thursdays by AD Media, Incorporated. this year. They’re Republic, Feed & Seed 2305 E. Esterline Rd., Columbia City, IN 46725 Foellinger-Freimann Phone: (260) 691-3188 • Fax: (260) 691-3191 not all the same. I do Stores in the Midwest- E-Mail: [email protected] a Heroes of Wood- Botanical Conservatory ern U.S. and in count- Website: http://www.whatzup.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/whatzupFortWayne stock package and 1100 S. 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Send payment with name and mailing address to and subsequently put together a 50-minute to put music to some of a world that doesn’t fit AD Media, Incorporated to the above address. tribute to her using spoken word and song, Guthrie’s lyrics, reams into a 20-second sound DEADLINES Calendar Information: Must be received by noon Monday the week Woody Guthrie has had a huge influence on of which had never been recorded. “That bite or a White House talking point. Otis of publication for inclusion in that week’s