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

Richie Valens had a top 10 single and died in that plane crash before he turned 18.

― Elvis Telecom

Do you mean “La Bamba”? That’s a traditional Mexican song it wasn’t written by him.

"Donna" went Top 10. "La Bamba" wasn't as big at the time, but became a bigger Oldies staple and legacy song.

"La Bamba" was the b-side to "Donna" which went to #2.

Randy California was 19 when Spirit released their fourth album (and last with the original lineup), Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus.

― aphoristical, Wednesday, August 5, 2020 8:57 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

goddamn!

I guess to tie this thread together a little, the opening guitar of "Centerfield" pays enormous homage to Valens' arrangement of "La Bamba".

Oh yeah!

Yeah Centerfield intro is 100% La Bamba. Has Fogerty mentioned it or credited it as inspiration?

Huh had no idea Donna was Valens’ popular song. Not a fan of that style of ballads. For me La Bamba and Come On Let’s Go are the ones I’d keep.

Is it me or did people in the 40’s/50’s aged worse? Valens looks more like a 30 year old than a 17 year old in every late picture I’ve seen of him.

Is it me or did people in the 40’s/50’s aged worse? Valens looks more like a 30 year old than a 17 year old in every late picture I’ve seen of him.

I always take this phenomenon to be that we’re just used to seeing folks with this general style and demeanor old, because we keep some of the styles of our youth as we age.

That said, for the last few decades, a lot of folks look 30ish well into their 40s, whereas most were getting haggard and jowly with the tobacco, disease, diet and work conditions of the past.

Big Bopper was actually 11 years old. Times were tough back then,

wasn't there a thread about this ? or something online somewhere ? about how people in the '40s and '50s always seemed to look run-down and haggard by 35

https://www.boredpanda.com/past-young-people-look-older/

This one?

yeah, i think that's it !

pic.twitter.com/XFCwiOadr2

— John Fogerty (@John_Fogerty) October 16, 2020

too cool. John is the man

New documentary along with rediscovered and fully restored footage of the Royal Albert Hall concert.

yesssssssss

xpost with Jeffs vs. Bills

EXCLUSIVE: Production is underway on a concert documentary about legendary rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, built around one-of-a-kind performance footage of CCR that sat in a London vault for five decades.

Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges will narrate Travelin’ Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall, a production of Craft Recordings, Concord Originals and Marathan Films. Bob Smeaton, the filmmaker behind Grammy-winning documentaries on The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, is directing the Creedence doc.

...

"What a band! Love listenin’ to ‘em, love playin’ Fogerty’s tunes,” Bridges said. “They’re certainly favorites of mine. Creedence, yeah, man.”

Wouldn't hold out much hope for the tape deck, though.

hell yeah, the setlist for the real royal albert hall 1970 performance (there was a live release by CCR called the same, later realized it was oakland, lol)

Born on the Bayou
Green River
Tombstone Shadow
Travelin' Band
Fortunate Son
Commotion
Midnight Special
Bad Moon Rising
Proud Mary
Night Time Is the Right Time
Good Golly Miss Molly
Keep On Chooglin'

Wouldn't hold out much hope for the tape deck, though.

Revisited Green River and Cosmo's Factory and Live at Woodstock this week. These guys really were incredible.

my favorite american rock band (i think)

pop band? i'm horrible at genres. my favorite group of american people standing on stage making music

The Oakland show is great, I hope they restore that and put it out on DVD or Blu-ray. Maybe as a bonus feature for the doc?

My '08 Voice review of the 40th Anniversary series of expanded reissues is archived here:
http://myvil.blogspot.com/2016/06/out-my-front-door.html

Only way to improve on that set list is to include walk on water > effigy > someday never comes, which the allmans were known to include in their late 70s sets

i would take that over the covers, but one thing that's crazy about 1970 CCR is that they could make a setlist with absolutely any of their songs and it would be bonkers good. similar to my other favorite american band (oh god, i'm later going to remember a bunch and feel bad) REM, in the mid-80s. there is no song they could pick that would be bad

REM was a great band to see live in the mid 80s. Their shows had a very spontaneous feel to them, and Stipe was endearingly weird.

I hear their records now and I really dig how well they sound. Got to have some of the same studio rooms and people that did all that jazz and other records on Fantasy. Early Dead would have been awesome recorded so well, but they don't sound CCR good in the studio - production wise that is.

It's kind of wild that Fantasy didn't have that many (or any?) other Rock bands on their roster during CCR's heyday.

And this miracle came up during/was maybe part of the basis of their long, long running feud: Golliwog John's dayjob was in the Fantasy warehouse, and then it was, "Look what I done for you, fortunate son!" Ever after.

Of course, CCR income prob helped Fantasy keep going too, beyond Blue Note's Nora Jones money (well maybe. Fantasy was better set that way than most jazz labels, of course).

Odd that they only do two songs from their latest LP at this Royal Albert Hall show, one of them a non-single cover.

my favorite american rock band

pop band?

Ellen Willis called them a dance band.

CreeDNCE

"Choogle By The Ocean"

You were born in the choogle
E7s under your feet

I love CCR and it still fascinates me that theyre from Berkeley because i spent half my life thinking they were country as a chicken coop lmao

excited about that new documentary but also this is my least favorite sentence in the english language “No projected release date for the film has been announced.”
;_;
:(

dont blame it on the sunshine
dont blame it on the moonlight
dont blame it on the good times
blame it on the choogle

keep on chooglin

They released a new official music video for "Travelin' Band," probably to showcase the footage they have for the upcoming documentary. (It's all footage from their touring in 1969 and 1970, hence the song choice.) Looks great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXLqECpHW2o

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