Country Joe and The Fish - Popular Culture

Popular Culture

  • They are mentioned on the first page of Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice.
  • Characters in HBO's Generation Kill miniseries sing the song "Fixin' to Die".
  • Country Joe and the Fish's 1967 performance at Tompkins Square Park in NYC's East Village is mentioned in the Don McNeill book, "Moving Though Here."
  • They appear in issue 15 of Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD, Volume 1 (1969), apparently performing "Superbird" and "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" at a concert in Central Park.
  • They appear in the 1971 movie Zachariah as an "inept gang of robbers".
  • Country Joe is mentioned in the song "California Saga/California" on the 1973 album Holland by The Beach Boys

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