To the bang bang choogle to the rhythm of the choogle the beat
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 18 July 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
https://addtext.com/X6SaMXg?_loc=photo_next_modal_share
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 July 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
goddamit.
https://g1-addtext.ft-uc.com/MjAyMDA3MTg/addtext_com_MjAyMjMzMTAxMTE.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 July 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Sunday, 19 July 2020 03:27 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah, “cotton fields” rules
― calstars, Sunday, 19 July 2020 03:37 (three years ago) link
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.
― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 19 July 2020 03:48 (three years ago) link
lol burrito
― calstars, Sunday, 19 July 2020 04:01 (three years ago) link
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
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Sunday, 19 July 2020 08:42 (three years ago) link
“Fortunate Son” is in like every 60s movie ever
― calstars, Sunday, 19 July 2020 11:10 (three years ago) link
Twilight Zone Movie is my fave use of CCR
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 July 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
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!"
― budo jeru, Sunday, 19 July 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
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
― clemenza, Monday, 20 July 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
"Sinister Purpose" pops up perfectly in the end credits to "Green Room."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 July 2020 02:23 (three years ago) link
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.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 July 2020 02:51 (three years ago) link
Was Fogerty one of the earliest rock guys to frequently use drop d tuning?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 July 2020 03:11 (three years ago) link
Your answer might be here:
http://aws2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/how-to-get-john-fogerty-swamp-sound-0523-2012.aspx
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 20 July 2020 04:26 (three years ago) link
Classic rock fans love to discuss Beatles vs Stones when CCR is actually the better band from the 60’s.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 20 July 2020 05:44 (three years ago) link
Does this thread mention the Pop Staples influence on Creedence?
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 05:51 (three years ago) link
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.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 06:00 (three years ago) link
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..."
― Sam Weller, Monday, 20 July 2020 07:47 (three years ago) link
is this on FB? link?
― sleeve, Monday, 20 July 2020 08:08 (three years ago) link
They're on Youtube, under Fogerty's Factory.
― Sam Weller, Monday, 20 July 2020 08:23 (three years ago) link
(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.
― Sam Weller, Monday, 20 July 2020 08:27 (three years ago) link
Where does he use it? Barry Gibb has used it all through his career.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Monday, 20 July 2020 09:21 (three years ago) link
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL 4 LYFE!!!
― incapacitant hairdresser society (rizzx), Monday, 20 July 2020 11:27 (three years ago) link
Neil Young used drop-D on “Mr. Soul.”
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 20 July 2020 11:59 (three years ago) link
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.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 12:07 (three years ago) link
Oh wait Sebastopol is open D not drop D.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 12:08 (three years ago) link
Actually, having checked, Barry Gibb plays in open D not drop D.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Monday, 20 July 2020 12:11 (three years ago) link
"Looking Out My Back Door"
This scene immediately follows the one where he undergoes a proctology exam.
― pplains, Monday, 20 July 2020 12:17 (three years ago) link
sorry but how does john fogerty have young kids?!? secretly hoping they are grands -- he's 75!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 20 July 2020 13:08 (three years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Monday, 20 July 2020 13:21 (three years ago) link
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?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 July 2020 14:25 (three years ago) link
that's a relief! i was picturing "young children" not "young adults"just shows how ambiguous a word like "kid" can be!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 20 July 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
Sorry; I meant "children, some of whom are relatively young compared to him"!
Anyway, I think "Ramble Tamble" is drop D.
― Sam Weller, Monday, 20 July 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 20 July 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 20 July 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
what a whiny old fart!
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Monday, 20 July 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
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
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Monday, 20 July 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
I guess nobody clicked my link: Gibson (his guitar manufacturer) says Fogerty uses open chord tunings (mostly D, but G and C as well)... I'm not even sure he used drop-D?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 20 July 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
a while back i learned a handful of CCR classics. they were all in standard tuning, and very, very easy to learn and play.
which "classics"? well you all know the ones i'm talking about, the 4 CCR songs that absolutely everyone agrees are at the highest tier
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Monday, 20 July 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
Tom Fogerty played exclusively in standard tuning on rhythm guitar, which is why this subject might be confusing.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 20 July 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
oh yep, you're right! i must have been learning Tom's parts. I haven't seen too much live footage of CCR, so i often forget that john plays so many lead parts
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Monday, 20 July 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
Had no idea J Fogerty played in anything but standard tuning but then he plays all the hooks and riffs and lead stuff.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Monday, 20 July 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
Kind of a pain to play lead in different tunings?
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Monday, 20 July 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link
I'm less than an amateur on the guitar, but what's the special tuning Neil Young uses for "Cinnamon Girl" (which he explains to a busker somewhere on Archives)--is that a drop-D?
― clemenza, Monday, 20 July 2020 16:25 (three years ago) link
Yes
― calstars, Monday, 20 July 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
Cinnamon Girl is double drop-D: DADGBD where both E-strings are dropped to D
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 20 July 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link