07-23-2016, 03:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-23-2016, 03:55 AM by Eric the Green.)
First created in June 1966, it was circulated on an EP among the hippies. Here is an early version from that time when the cultural bomb went off and the lightning struck.
https://youtu.be/qrop2MRtsZE
A more-developed version was released on the first album by Country Joe & The Fish in early 1967, Electric Music for the Mind and Body. I like both versions; in fact I don't know which one I originally heard. It is one of the greatest and (maybe) most famous psychedelic anthems and signature tracks. A local radio host used it for his "love line" call in show theme. Especially powerful are the first two sections; the brilliant, dramatic, haunting, bewitched and ear-grabbing opening, and the following softer section that's like the Moonlight Sonata. It's one of the greatest examples of organ rock too. You know I like that! I was blown away when I first heard the EP in Jan 1967 at a UU youth conference. Just what the title "Section 43" is about, though, I never found out. Sometimes revolutionary groups are organized in sections, and this was after all Berkeley.
It gained more fame when it dropped peoples' jaws and blew minds at the Monterey Pop Festival
https://youtu.be/lt2W3mgekRo
Oh yeah, it's all-time #9 on my list. For some months in 1967 it was all-time #1.
The third track from the EP was Grace, dedicated to Ms. Slick. (Bass Strings already covered a page or two back)
https://youtu.be/ePjNmV2qKus
Later on his second album he also released a tribute song to Janis Joplin that was a hit single.
https://youtu.be/qrop2MRtsZE
A more-developed version was released on the first album by Country Joe & The Fish in early 1967, Electric Music for the Mind and Body. I like both versions; in fact I don't know which one I originally heard. It is one of the greatest and (maybe) most famous psychedelic anthems and signature tracks. A local radio host used it for his "love line" call in show theme. Especially powerful are the first two sections; the brilliant, dramatic, haunting, bewitched and ear-grabbing opening, and the following softer section that's like the Moonlight Sonata. It's one of the greatest examples of organ rock too. You know I like that! I was blown away when I first heard the EP in Jan 1967 at a UU youth conference. Just what the title "Section 43" is about, though, I never found out. Sometimes revolutionary groups are organized in sections, and this was after all Berkeley.
It gained more fame when it dropped peoples' jaws and blew minds at the Monterey Pop Festival
https://youtu.be/lt2W3mgekRo
Oh yeah, it's all-time #9 on my list. For some months in 1967 it was all-time #1.
The third track from the EP was Grace, dedicated to Ms. Slick. (Bass Strings already covered a page or two back)
https://youtu.be/ePjNmV2qKus
Later on his second album he also released a tribute song to Janis Joplin that was a hit single.