If you actively dislike Creedence Clearwater Revival, then I can never respect anything you have to say about anything.

I just heard that coming out of some speakers when I walked outside for a second!

LOL nice!

Groovy

That live footage is crazy — they were so close together onstage, like they were playing in some tiny bar, but if that's from 1969/70 they were probably in big-ass theaters if not even larger venues.

It was probably the only way to hear each other. Modern PA sound systems with floor monitors, etc. were still very very new in 1968-19709

-1970.

Travelin’ Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall will be on Netflix September 16.

Sounds good!

I’m there

I never stopped chooglin

In there too. Gonna project this on the side of my garage.

I kind of passively dislike Creedence Clearwater Revival.

https://preview.redd.it/31w28jyqr7y51.jpg?auto=webp&s=6b6c3719a4cb7e13f6b53d7701789ec16633951b

"GET OUT!"

ust for that you have to turn in your faux-francofication, you're just jimbo now

*just

this is a thread for chooglin and chooglin accessories

I am not now, nor have I ever been, averse to chooglin'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRF1e82MVCA

then u must ask god for forgiveness for blaspheming in his house

See, that's what's always kind of bugged me about these guys. John Fogerty was born in Berkeley, California. There is no bayou in Berkeley, California.

nooo jimbeaux you must suspend disbelief when choogling

also m bison otm as usual

as far as I can tell from their story, they were from the "wrong" side of the bay area tracks, and that class resentment was just fuel for their fire

Longtime Bay Area resident Greil Marcus posted this recently:

All you heard from San Francisco Sound musicians about Creedence was “Anybody can play that shit.” The question of why nobody else did didn’t come up. In some ways Sly and the Family Stone were treated the same—they started out playing bars in working class towns like Hayward and Oakland.
El Cerrito was a declassé town in a string of little towns south of Berkeley. I remember the first time I saw El Cerrito High School—an ugly block of a building with bars on the windows. Even without the bars it looked more like a jail than a school. Felt like it inside, too.
There was a Rolling Stone interview by I think Ralph Gleason that may have touched on these themes, but I’m not sure. But the rage in John Fogerty’s songs felt like the rage of people who were not on their way up, right from the start, and nobody I know missed it.

They grew up in El Cerrito. I've never been there, but my impression is it's kind of a crappy little town.

Whoop, a little slow to post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1_bYvxhBlE

oh god damn it, please ignore that

jimbeaux, next you'll tell me that Levon Helm was not in the Civil War.

They grew up in El Cerrito. I've never been there, but my impression is it's kind of a crappy little town.

It's a tough town. All I know of El Cerrito is that it was originally a refugee camp of people displaced by the San Francisco earthquake and eventually the camp became a town. Also Metallica lived there when when they wrote Ride The Lightning and Master Of Puppets. Apparently Cliff lived there?

I am not now, nor have I ever been, averse to chooglin'.

but have you ever been a participant in a chooglin’ party? you can’t plan those, they just happen

el cerrito is north of Berkeley not south

which is funny because Marcus lives in the east bay area I think

LOL. I guess he doesn't venture out that way very often.

jimbeaux, next you'll tell me that Levon Helm was not in the Civil War.

No, but his ancestors credibly could have been, and at least his Southern accent wasn't fake.

next thing you’ll be telling us that sergeant pepper wasn’t an actual military officer

that paul mccartney wasn’t a walrus

I'm being at least partially tongue in cheek, but in all seriousness, Fogerty's schtick always came across as a little insincere. He wasn't a Southern boy, so why sing like one? Rather than a walrus, it's more like Macca pretending to be, I dunno, Irish.

berlin was from orange county iirc

buncha posers

i’m a southerner and i welcome all to our congregation

except tom hanks obv

berlin was from orange county iirc

Well, that explains a lot.

I get the point but I feel like that's very common in pop music, especially rock n' roll - to use Macca as an example, the Beatles and a lot of British Invasion bands sung more with American accents, especially early on.

(Early on also being when they were covering a lot of American R&B and emulating that sound)

LOL it would be far easier to list British rock bands in the 60s and 70s that didn't sing in American accents.

hi guys

remember "Rocky Raccoon"? "Long Tall Sally"?

No

Good.

Rocky Rococo I remember.

I remember someone making the point that Bowie's success (at least with Ziggy Stardust in the UK) was a really big deal because here was a British rock star who wasn't hiding or diluting his accent or emulating American singers.

Having said that, I kind of wish Springsteen toned down the Dust Bowl refugee accent he adopted after recording Tom Joad.

I'll be honest, as much as I love the song, I've never been a fan of the way John sings it as "I HOID it through the grapevine."

I remember someone making the point that Bowie's success (at least with Ziggy Stardust in the UK) was a really big deal because here was a British rock star who wasn't hiding or diluting his accent or emulating American singers.

― birdistheword,

yeah Ferry too.