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''For the baseball executive, see: Joe McDonald (baseball Executive) '' Joseph Allen McDonald (born '', April 16, 2004, accessed July 18, 2007. He started his career Busking on Berkeley, California 's famous Telegraph Avenue in the early 1960s . His mother, Florence McDonald, served for many years on the Berkeley City Council . As of 2007, Country Joe still lives in Berkeley. Country Joe has recorded 33 albums and has written hundreds of songs over a career spanning 40 years. He and Barry Melton co-founded Country Joe and The Fish which became a pioneer Psychedelic band with their eclectic performances at The Avalon Ballroom , The Fillmore , Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock . Their best-known song is his " The "Fish" Cheer / I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag ," a black comedy novelty song about the Vietnam War , whose familiar chorus ("One, two, three, what are we fighting for?") is well known to the Woodstock generation and Vietnam Vets of the 1960s and 1970s. He is also known for "The Fish Cheer" which was a Cheerleader -style call-and-response with the audience where Joe spelled out "fish" ("Give me an F!"). At Woodstock, he altered the cheer to spell out the word "fuck" instead. He also did this at the Isle Of Wight Festival 2007 . Joe went on to have a long solo career with key albums including:
In 2003 McDonald was sued for Copyright Infringement over his signature song, specifically the "One, two, three, what are we fighting for?" chorus part, as derived from the 1926 early jazz classic "Muskrat Ramble" , co-written by Kid Ory . The suit was brought by Ory's daughter Babette, who holds the copyright today. Since decades had already passed from the time McDonald composed his song in 1965 , Ory based her suit against a new version of it recorded by McDonald in 1999 . The court however upheld McDonald's Laches defence, noting that Ory and her father were aware of the original version of "Fixin'", with the same section in question, for some three decades without bringing a suit until 2003, and dismissed the suit. In 2004, Country Joe re-formed some original members of Country Joe and The Fish as the Country Joe Band – Bruce Barthol , David Bennett Cohen, and Gary "Chicken" Hirsh. The band toured Los Angeles , Berkeley, Bolinas, Sebastopol , Grants Pass , Eugene , Portland and Seattle . They then made a 10-stop tour of the United Kingdom and played at the Isle Of Wight and London . Following that came the New York tour which included a Woodstock reunion performance followed by an appearance at the New York State Museum in Albany. Returning to the West Coast the band played in Marin and Mendocino Counties, the World Peace Music Awards in San Francisco and at the Oakland Museum as part of an exhibit on the Vietnam War. In the spring of 2005, McDonald joined a larger protest against California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger 's proposed budget cuts at the California state capital. In the fall of 2005, political commentator n president Fidel Castro , remarking on McDonald's involvement in Cindy Sheehan's protests against the Iraq War . {Link without Title} . McDonald's daughter Seven is a columnist for the LA Weekly . He performed at the Isle Of Wight Festival in the summer of 2007 REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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