Do you remember "Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die" by Country Joe & The Fish? Where were you when you first heard it?

Now for the rest of the story!
I was an IC man in the Navy. Among other things we were in charge of the ship's entertainment system so we had to preview music before we piped it into the berthing compartments. (Sure we did.) We are in the Token Gulf, in the IC room playing "Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die" not exactly quiestly. We are bouncing up and down to the beat, but not in unison. The Captain comes down the ladder, sees us, stops, listens, turns around and climbs back up the ladder. We never found out why he was coming to the IC room.

PO2 Peter Klein
I DO remember that song, though not when it first came out, LOL. I actually first heard it when I was about 15, so 1989 or so. I bought an old LP record at a garage sale, the Woodstock album if I remember correctly and remember that song was on it.

That brings back a lot of memories. I was a young teenager in 1967 and my dad was assigned to the Presidio of San Francisco in 67 and 68. So we were right in the heart of "hippie land". In fact, my dad (Korea and WWII vet with a crewcut) piled us kids into the car, and drove us right to the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets to look at the hippies. He then proceeded to warn us that if we didn't study hard in school and follow his rules, we would end up like the dirty, useless people living on the streets. Of course, to a teenager, they seemed like the coolest people on earth. :)

That sure was a time of great music.