Creedence Clearwater Revival vs the Grateful Dead vs the Band

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

Acoustic 260 I think
xp

I was actually listening to the Creedence Live in Europe album recently and struck by the tone. Makes sense.

i've been playing this reissue acoustic bass head for a couple years, pretty great head

or maybe the acoustic thing was an endorsement deal only and he didn't use them in the studio. seems unclear now that I read about it more.

OK, I found a quote from Krieger:

My rigs have changed quite a bit over the years. The first amp I used with the Doors was a Magnatone with two 12" speakers. Then we got a deal with Acoustic, and I used their 260 model for a while. Ray was using one of their amps, too, but we both grew disenchanted with them after awhile. Then I started using a couple of Twin Reverbs that were rebuilt with JBL speakers in them by my friend, Vince Traenor, a crazy genius who also works on pipe organs. He likes to sneak into cathedrals and play the pipe organs. My current rig is two Fender Hot Rod DeVilles, with either 2x12 or 4x10 speaker cabs.

thread is going some bitchin places imo

i'm looking for the "half chub" option

Mississippi Half-Chub Uptown Toodeloo

haw!

http://s15.postimage.org/brees24hn/ampboner.jpg

that royal festival hall concert is indeed sick, and they got my vote. i've tried a thousand times to appreciate the dead, but the trustafarians at my high school made it impossible.

^^^ Har, A+ knob! (xpost)

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.

Like the Dead never played covers, and some of them (cough*Chuck Berry* cough) horrendously. I actually really like all CCR covers, even the ones dissed upthread.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

That's a smackdown.

creedence vs. band vs. allmans anyone?

okay, phew, i was worried i'd have to adjust the model

oh yeah, that feels good

VINDICATION

http://thefabulous80s.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/reagan-mondale-1984-electoral-college-map.jpg

Creedence - Reagan
Dead - Mondale
Band - Ferraro

guys...

"It's Just a Thought"

lol, so wrong

Moby Grape - Gary Hart

must be time for ccr vs. aerosmith

ccr vs. Husker Du

(Minnesota, obvs)

(and maybe Fugazi from DC)

CCR steely dan hall & oates

but maybe that's too obviously the marital aid

idk man that's seriously tough

I knew CCR would win, but I'm surprised it was so lopsidedly in their favor. Now that I think about it, the Band didn't enter the conversation as much as I'd have imagined. Could it be that a lot of us just aren't familiar with them?

http://www.gotomycodes.com/userpics/myspacegraphics/Nascar-Numbers/Nascar-Number-77.gif

Yeah ive never listened to The Band. I have that live movie though, one of these days i'll watch it...

that live movie's maybe the worst way to experience 'em - check out their second LP, the self-titled one. it's sublime.

I didn't vote - couldn't choose between CCR & the Dead. The Band have a handful of nice songs (and I love the Basement Tapes), but I don't know... I have "Music from Big Pink", but I've only listened to it a couple of times and it hasn't really clicked with me yet. Maybe I need to give it another try.

Results are ridic