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The Vietnam experience is a half-hour long video/soundtrack project on the Vietnam War, released in 1986. No commentary accompanies the video, other than these songs by Country Joe, which is all you'll need.
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Illegal Wars.
Country Joe and the Fish were original innovators in an era when Rock/Blues exploded tecnically and creatively. Their music was unique. The subject of the lyrics on this album were motivated by a deep emotional abhorrence to US prosecution of an illegal war on grounds of a "manufactured" claim of a fictional act of aggression against a US naval ship. Nixon and Kissinger scuppered a peace agreement, secretly committed mass genocide in Cambodia by carpet bombing with chemicals, and then brokered an identical peace two years and many million lost lives later. Kissinger was awarded a Nobel peace prize and in this day and age advises Bush junior on the present illegal war in Iraq. The same basic scenario...another unwinnable war that leaves another country in chaos and destruction. This is why this album is so important. And you will find the music seductive also! It was a seminal album of its day!
