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Cyndale wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2017 10:28 pm

cybot wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2017 9:24 pm My first real boyhood band. When the hot days come around out pop the 'poor boys'. Still as potent as the very first time I heard them.

You must be psychic! My all-time favourite band! THIS IS THE CREEDENCE SOUND!

Wow! Double wow! For me there will NEVER be anyone like John Cameron Fogerty and his merry little band. The very first time I heard them was on some American Show doing Proud Mary on a riverboat prop. I told everyone in the room to shut up and listen.....
Funnily enough my very first album of theirs was 'Pendulum' and before I knew what was happening they had broken up. Then I crawled backwards through their catalogue one by one including numerous compilations just for the photos. Then the John Fogerty solo stuff etc etc. To end, I remember clearly the very first time I heard the song 'Green River'; lying in bed with the radio stuck to my ear listening to Kid Jensen on Radio Luxembourg. I loved the echo on the vocals, the lyrics and THAT guitar sound; AND two solos in under 2 and a half minutes! Perfection!

Gatefold vinyl. Waited a long time for this. Is it as bad as John it was? You be the judge.....









Udiscovermusic :
What is sometimes forgotten with the passing of time and against the seminal influence of Woodstock is that Creedence Clearwater Revival were one of the few bands to appear at the festival that had already achieved significant success on the Billboard charts. Truth is that there are some that do not even know that the band appeared at the festival shortly after midnight on 17 August 1969. The reason, of course, is that CCR were not in the movie or the album that came out in the wake of Woodstock.

Creedence’s hour-long set was like a greatest hits album, with ‘Bad Moon Rising’ and ‘Proud Mary’ both having reached No.2 on the Billboard Hot 100. As they walked on stage at Woodstock, just after midnight on Saturday, their current single, ‘Green River’ was at No.15, it’s third week on the U.S. chart; it would be their third single to stall at No.2. As John Fogerty later said, “By the time we got to Woodstock, I felt we were the number one band. Assuming that the Beatles were God, I thought that we were the next thing under them.”

To the band, Woodstock must have seemed like – just another festival, as it did at the time to so many of the artists. In the summer of 1969 CCR had already played the Newport Festival in California, the Denver and the Atlanta festivals, along with the Atlantic City Festival. Given the fact that they were just about the hottest band on the charts every promoter wanted them at the top, or close to the top, of the bill.

Unlike so many of the bands at Woodstock CCR went on stage fairly closed to their scheduled midnight slot, although they were supposed to be in a prime Saturday evening slot. According to John Fogerty, " We were supposed to be in the prime spot for that evening. The Dead went on and pulled their usual shenanigans."–

Their hour-long set started at half past midnight on Sunday 17 August and kicked off with the perfect opener, ‘Born On The Bayou’. They followed it with ‘Green River’ and then a cover of Wilson Pickett’s ‘Ninety-Nine And A Half (Won't Do)’, from their debut album, after which it was ‘Commotion’, ‘Bootleg’, ‘Bad Moon Rising’ and ‘Proud Mary’

They played their current single and their two previous big hits and the other songs in the set, to this point, very much as they were on record. As their set progressed they stretched their songs set into longer, more improvised, rock songs, which was their normal way of playing them. I Put A Spell On You stretched the 5 minute single to almost twice its length, while 'Keep On Chooglin'’ ran for close to ten minutes. 'Suzie Q', the Dale Hawkins classic had been their first hit and on the album it ran for 8 minutes; for their encore they kept it rocking for even longer.

John Fogerty later said, “I could never put my finger on what it was, but we were considered outsiders in our own town." Maybe they were outsiders in San Francisco but they were at the top of their game when they played Woodstock. John Fogerty’s unique voice and great song writing had come together as a perfect combination just at the right time.

Why were they not on the film? Most likely their record company at the time was unwilling to co-operate. Did it affect their career? Well it would have done them no harm on the world stage to have had all that additional exposure. Like 'Green River', 'Bad Moon Rising' and 'Proud Mary', both 'Travellin’ Band' and 'Lookin’ out My Back Door' made No.2 on the Billboard chart. They really were one of the unluckiest bands bands that could never break through to achieve the coveted top spot on the America singles chart, although they did top the charts in Britain with 'Bad Moon Rising'. Their album, Green River came out a month after Woodstock and it topped the charts for four weeks, as did Cosmo’s Factory following year – it had a nine-week run at No.1. The fact is CCR were huge…but they might well have been even bigger.

More live stuff from the dark ages. Side 2 of Flowers is from the Fillmore East circa 1971. The other one is supposed to be from Woodstock (first two tracks) and the rest from '72 somewhere over the rainbow....

Highlights: the whole of Side 2 above plus the intro to Long Red and that deliciously fat but sweet guitar tone from Road. Not forgetting a certain behemoth on the other side :)

When my dad was in America in 1973 he 'surprisingly' (as he hated rock music) brought me home Mountain's Nantucket Sleighride. Years later I found out that he had asked one of his cousin's sons (my age) to buy me ''some rock LP or other''. He turned me onto a band I never heard of up to that point. It still holds up well today, it does for me anyway.

Cyndale wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2017 8:02 pm When my dad was in America in 1973 he 'surprisingly' (as he hated rock music) brought me home Mountain's Nantucket Sleighride. Years later I found out that he had asked one of his cousin's sons (my age) to buy me ''some rock LP or other''. He turned me onto a band I never heard of up to that point. It still holds up well today, it does for me anyway.

Good choice. I only picked up an original copy of the very same album in Dublin a while ago. It does hold up well but you just cannot beat that Best Of compilation which my friend had bought on cassette one time. At the time we weren't familiar with any of the studio albums having only heard the Road Goes Ever On live one; We were shocked when we heard how good it was - For Yasgar's Farm, Theme from an Imaginary Western etc etc.

Always loved Timbuk 3, especially the song Reverend Jack and His Roamin Cadillac Church, I have it on 12'' single (awesome) and the album it comes from Eden Alley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwLnZqIW-ZQ

I could imagine John Fogerty playing the guitar on it.

Here's a great 'old timer' still churning out some great 'swamp' music... Tony Joe White.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5epBL_L8-Y

Cyndale wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2017 9:17 pm Always loved Timbuk 3, especially the song Reverend Jack and His Roamin Cadillac Church, I have it on 12'' single (awesome) and the album it comes from Eden Alley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwLnZqIW-ZQ

I could imagine John Fogerty playing the guitar on it.

God I haven't heard them in ages. I had the first Lp with the Shades hit but lost interest after that. A perfect setting for John's guitar work alright.

And now for something completely different.... Medeski, Martin and Wood Queen Bee from End of the World Party (Just In Case). Some amazing bass on this double LP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSsaGoATSfY