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Country Joe McDonald, the 1960s hippie rocker best known for the antiwar anthem I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag and a Woodstock highlight, died in Berkeley, California at 84 from Parkinson’s disease, leaving a lasting mark on protest music and the Bay Area scene.
Country Joe McDonald, frontman of Country Joe and the Fish and a defining voice of the 1960s antiwar counterculture after Woodstock, died Saturday in Berkeley at 84 from Parkinson’s disease. Born Joseph Allen McDonald in 1942, he helped propel protest music with hits like I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag and the infamous Fish Cheer at Woodstock, and continued as a musician-activist after the band’s 1971 split.