![]() After intermission, we checked out the banana peels. After a while, we returned to the theater, took a couple more hits off the water jar and played our first set. We felt the banana peels, but they were still too wet to smoke. If you want any just help yourself." So we all took a couple sips off the water jar, did our sound check and went back to the psychedelic shop. While we were waiting, the Kitsilano Theatre stage crew pointed to a water jar and said, "We just dissolved a hundred tabs of LSD in that water jar. We ate the bananas and, put the peels in, then left to see how sound check was coming. We turned the stove on a low temperature so that we wouldn't destroy the THC in the banana peels. Then we went to the psychedelic shop and asked if we could use the back room, where there was a kitchen, to dry out the banana peels. ![]() ![]() While the roadies were setting up the equipment, we went to the grocery store on the corner and bought a bunch of bananas. We went over to the theatre, and across the street was a psychedelic shop. We were just throwing the peels away, so this sounded like a great idea. At that time, the band was living on peanut-butter-and-banana sandwiches. His theory was that if you dried out a banana peel and smoked the white pulp on the underside, you would get high. On the way up our drummer, Gary "Chicken" Hirsch, said he had just figured out that banana peels have qualities similar to marijuana. Sometime around December in 1966, Country Joe and the Fish went up to Vancouver to play the Kitsilano Theatre. Well I guess I'm the only one to fess up.
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