Creedence Clearwater Revival vs the Grateful Dead vs the Band

Yeah, I don't think the Dead ever wrote any songs that were top 10 material (apart from Touch of Grey obv). Casey Jones was the closest but I'm guessing the cocaine reference held it back. LIke for that reason it's not something my mom would listen to.

album tracks on Willy as strong as the singles imo: Effigy, Don't Look Now are of a piece with Fortunate Son

New (Old) Warehouse Decree: EVERY FRIDAY is CREEDENCE FRIDAY

hate that Chapin song so much

you are dead to me

it was inevitable

i love CCR but it has to be The Band.

guys the point of this poll is so the CCR fans can get a W on the board. please do not vote in this poll unless you are voting for CCR I will be sad if they don't win, everybody deserves a win now & then.

love all these dudes, but at this point in my life it's the Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjBBDJ5OiT0

Adam I don't know what your display name means but it is cracking me up somehow, ty

dick's picks 28. it's a winner.

Dick's Picks 3 + 10 are pretty good, although I'm not really well-versed on the late-70s. Dick's Picks 22 is just MASSIVE and really shouldn't be passed up on.

Yeah, 22 is the Dead record I'd play for Velvets fans who think they hate the Dead. This thing could go toe-to-toe with The Quine Tapes (and I think it even has more feedback).

22 is the great loud 60s one right? maybe the earliest live thing out?

this isn't that loud...it borders on actual rocking

it's like the Grateful Dead work up a little half-chub and Deadhead act like it's a raging boner

i feel like i should change my display name to some laboured wordplay on your display name and the song 'mississippi half-step uptown toodeloo' rather than engaging with your point

they have a word in common and are both p polysyllabic

haha do it!

22 is the great loud 60s one right? maybe the earliest live thing out?

The former, yes. The latter, I dunno...but everything pre-'68 I've heard has been decidedly more folkie than skronky. This is skronky.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

what the fuck? I thought it was closing tomorrow yesterday? Finish this shit!

it's like the Grateful Dead work up a little half-chub and Deadhead act like it's a raging boner

― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, August 14, 2012 6:27 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

Having a hard time deciding between the Dead and CCR. CCR have more classic songs, though lately I've been listening more to the Dead (mainly WD & AB). The Dead's sound on those albums seems a bit richer & more rewarding of late, though of course they're not as tight & effective as CCR. Very tough one.

nate you gotta vote CCR. if the CCR dudes don't win it's sad times. plus I don't know if this helps but in case you didn't read through the thread CCR is like a giant boner. everybody loves a big boner so vote CCR.

lol

CCR Boner Jamz 2012

Boner the Bayou

Porterville-Gloomy-Walking on the Water is a great album-closing trio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zniQKofm-c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1PpTXtlnb0

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

nate you gotta vote CCR. if the CCR dudes don't win it's sad times. plus I don't know if this helps but in case you didn't read through the thread CCR is like a giant boner. everybody loves a big boner so vote CCR.

― steven fucking tyler (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, August 15, 2012 3:47 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha i voted for the band!

i'm boner agnostic!

my point about boners is that the dead are only ever like "crazy" or "rocking" FOR THE DEAD.....the Dead are the Lawrence, Kansas of rock bands...like everyone in Lawrence is always like "Oh we have a really great local music scene.....for Kansas"...."Oh we have a lot of arts and culture....(for Kansas)"....."We're a really progressive city....(for Kansas)"

haha i was kind of starting to like the dead more too, like i dig american beauty and i was listening to the renaissance fairgrounds gig sometimes but now i'm back in h8r mode

it's an easy place to get to

haha, M@tt, have you ever actually been to Lawrence? It's really pretty nice, and much of the rest of Kansas is truly cornfields and Obama-is-a-Marxist billboards.

yeah I actually hear you & you're right - the Dead in rocking mode isn't anybody else's proper rocking mode, it's not an adrenalized thing. the only stuff that's really burn-it-down like CCR live is, like, the big snare-crack in St Stephen when they're doing it live in the late 60s. but it's like...its own vibe, which actually was why I hated the Dead back when ('you like this?') and is why once I came around it seemed so special

haha, M@tt, have you ever actually been to Lawrence? It's really pretty nice, and much of the rest of Kansas is truly cornfields and Obama-is-a-Marxist billboards.

― Ermahgerd Thomas (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, August 15, 2012 4:17 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, my sister and brother in law go there, at least once a year...and they are right. it's a great town....for kansas!

is it too late to do a write-in vote for kansas?
http://www.amiright.com/album-covers/images/album-Kansas-The-Best-of-Kansas.jpg

this thread has reached....the point of no return

I don't even have the words for how happy that joke makes me

lolllz

has anyone posted the complete royal albert hall CCR show yet? apologies if i missed it. it is so sick!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D6vas5iLvY

Love Fogerty's look, flannel shirt & leather pants. Authentic working man on top, cock rocker on the bottom

is it true Fogerty only used solid state amps?

Guys, CCR, great as they were, should really come in dead last here. They only did one thing, and they only did it well, like, a third of the time. The rest of the time was spent playing shitty covers.

Dead >>> Band >>>>>> CCR

Yeah, Robbie Krieger used SS amps too.

is it true Fogerty only used solid state amps?

if this is true some of you guys need to hang your heads in shame, what the hell. I mean yes a lot of the metal bands I love use all solid state, but that's because they are all deaf anyway.

internet says:
After some research, I found out that John Fogerty played a Rickenbacker 325 into a solid state Kustom K200-4

kustoms are p cool

I think Krieger used Fender tube amps.

the padded ones are so dope:

http://www.broadwaymusicco.com/kust11.jpg