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

(xp) The Mount Everest of boogie is "Fried Hockey Boogie" by Canned Heat, but that's another thread.

speaking of canned heat & fogerty, can't find any internet confirmation of this, so i guess a misprint?

Wow, seems very unlikely!

speaking of unlikely: https://www.discogs.com/Amon-D%C3%BC%C3%BCl-II-Creedence-Clearwater-Revival-Archangels-Thunderbird-Run-Through-The-Jungle/release/6117582

Now that's what I call a double A side.

lol wow

this sounds to me like a clear-cut manifestation of chooglepessimism, the idea that ccr's choogle cannot possibly be analogized to the choogle of any other groups. we live in dark times indeed.

― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 18 July 2020 14:39 (two hours ago) link

Sorry, no ersatz choogle will be tolerated.

Double A-side singles like that are weird but kind of awesome. When I was a kid I had one that had "Louie Louie" on one side and the Isley Brothers' "Shout" on the other.

LA Woman Sunday afternoon

To the bang bang choogle to the rhythm of the choogle the beat

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goddamit.

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I love that froggy cat purr sound whoever is singing the low harmony has on CCR's take of "Cotton Fields". The low harmony singer in the Oak Ridge Boys or the Statler Brothers would get that vocal thing going all time.

Oh yeah, “cotton fields” rules

even though his mama didn't actually rock him in the cradle when he was a little bitty baby in them old cotton fields back home down in Louisiana just a mile from Texarkana, because he's actually from the bay area, it sure sounds real soulful-like when he sings that his mama rocked him in a cradle when he was a little bitty baby in them old cotton fields back home down there in Louisiana just a mile from Texarkana.

lol burrito

are CCR the band featured in the most films eeeeever? they've gotta be up there. minutes after looking at this thread last night we started watching The Twilight Zone Movie, which starts with dan ackroyd and albert brooks singing along to Midnight Special on the radio

“Fortunate Son” is in like every 60s movie ever

Twilight Zone Movie is my fave use of CCR

a friend of mine saw a recent Big Movie that opens with a vietnam war scene, trees, helicopters, GIs etc.

i asked him how it was, he said "fucking terrible!"

"oh yeah, how so?"

apparently the movie opened with a title card that said something like "vietnam 1966" and then slowly CCR fades in playing "green river" and he was like "don't those fucking idiots know that 'green river' didn't even come out until 1969? practically ruined the whole fucking movie!"

Best use of CCR in a movie is "Up Around the Bend" in Olivier Assayas's Cold Water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ncZY0NpIzc

"Sinister Purpose" pops up perfectly in the end credits to "Green Room."

That Cold Water scene is great. I really love how CCR is used in The Big Lebowski ("Run Through The Jungle" during the ringer drop and "Looking Out My Back Door" when wrecks the car--and discovers the homework--trying to lose Jon Polito's car tailing him).

My favorite though--which is so ridiculous because it's such an Easter Egg--is Dr. Johnny Fever spinning "It Came Out Of THe Sky" after losing Les Nessman's remote signal from the Turkey Drop on WKRP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsgx-i-y4cc

Skip to about 3:15 for the brief bit of song, one of the best buried jokes on the series. Note also how Johnny's got the jacket for Willy & The Poorboys in front of him.

Was Fogerty one of the earliest rock guys to frequently use drop d tuning?

Your answer might be here:

http://aws2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/how-to-get-john-fogerty-swamp-sound-0523-2012.aspx

Classic rock fans love to discuss Beatles vs Stones when CCR is actually the better band from the 60’s.

Does this thread mention the Pop Staples influence on Creedence?

Yes, it does, had to leave zing to find: If you actively dislike Creedence Clearwater Revival, then I can never respect anything you have to say about anything.

Anybody else watching these lockdown videos John is doing with his young kids? Before they start playing he usually tells a little story about the song, and it's cute watching his kids shift around impatiently, like "Oh God, Dad's talking about Saul Zaentz again..."

is this on FB? link?

They're on Youtube, under Fogerty's Factory.

(He doesn't actually talk about Saul Zaentz, but I'm sure they've heard it all before.) I quite like the way he tells the Woodstock story before the "Who'll Stop the Rain" video.

Was Fogerty one of the earliest rock guys to frequently use drop d tuning?

Where does he use it? Barry Gibb has used it all through his career.

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL 4 LYFE!!!

Neil Young used drop-D on “Mr. Soul.”

Think drop-D was used by classical players for all a while, want to say it goes all the way back to Galileo Galilei and his dad Vincenzo, but I guess they were playing lute so that doesn't work. There was something interesting here about Sebastopol tuning but the link appears to be messed up right now.

Oh wait Sebastopol is open D not drop D.

Actually, having checked, Barry Gibb plays in open D not drop D.

"Looking Out My Back Door"

This scene immediately follows the one where he undergoes a proctology exam.

sorry but how does john fogerty have young kids?!? secretly hoping they are grands -- he's 75!

I guess "young" as in "between 18 and 30."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qW2139LKN0

Chose that one because he's playing guitar on a baseball bat.

And hitting it out of the park.

Maybe he was just doing open D after all? I think the rhythm, guitars were always/often in E standard.

Neil Young's "Ohio" is actually double drop D, iirc. That's one D lower, innit?

that's a relief! i was picturing "young children" not "young adults"
just shows how ambiguous a word like "kid" can be!

Sorry; I meant "children, some of whom are relatively young compared to him"!

Anyway, I think "Ramble Tamble" is drop D.

He sounds understandably frustrated about that Woodstock experience and somewhat bitter about The Grateful Dead and their unprofessional LSD intake. He doesn’t seem very sympathetic about hippies either. Iirc he himself very rarely drank or did drugs specially before a concert.

That said it’s then apparent they only agreed to do Woodstock because they expected to find new fans and sell more records. They should have known better and turn it down just as Bob Dylan did if they weren’t particularly excited about them hippies.

what a whiny old fart!

i had to play my beloved hit songs in front of a massive iconic crowd, and everyone was wasted. it was just the fucking worst man

then i went home to a birthday party and it was exactly what i wanted....i said fuck this man, i'm going to bed