On July 3, 1968, Country Joe and the Fish opened a two-night stand at the Electric Theater on North Clark Street in Chicago -- the psychedelic ballroom soon renamed the Kinetic Playground. Berkeley's leading rock export, carrying "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag," played the city seven weeks before the Democratic National Convention and its police riot would make Chicago a synonym for 1968. The venue itself had already been raided and shut down by police that May. A West Coast band of the antiwar counterculture, on a stage in Mayor Daley's Chicago, on the eve of the summer everything broke open.