I just heard that coming out of some speakers when I walked outside for a second!
― Once Were Chemical Brothers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
LOL nice!
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
Groovy
― calstars, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:26 (one year ago) link
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.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
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
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:35 (one year ago) link
-1970.
Travelin’ Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall will be on Netflix September 16.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 2 September 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
Sounds good!
― I’d Rather Gorblimey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 September 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
I’m there
― calstars, Friday, 2 September 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
I never stopped chooglin
― Karl Malone, Friday, 2 September 2022 01:15 (one year ago) link
In there too. Gonna project this on the side of my garage.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 September 2022 02:08 (one year ago) link
I kind of passively dislike Creedence Clearwater Revival.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 2 September 2022 03:16 (one year ago) link
https://preview.redd.it/31w28jyqr7y51.jpg?auto=webp&s=6b6c3719a4cb7e13f6b53d7701789ec16633951b
"GET OUT!"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 2 September 2022 03:23 (one year ago) link
ust for that you have to turn in your faux-francofication, you're just jimbo now
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Friday, 2 September 2022 03:29 (one year ago) link
*just
this is a thread for chooglin and chooglin accessories
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Friday, 2 September 2022 03:30 (one year ago) link
I am not now, nor have I ever been, averse to chooglin'.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 2 September 2022 03:33 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRF1e82MVCA
then u must ask god for forgiveness for blaspheming in his house
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Friday, 2 September 2022 03:40 (one year ago) link
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.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 2 September 2022 03:49 (one year ago) link
nooo jimbeaux you must suspend disbelief when choogling
also m bison otm as usual
― sleeve, Friday, 2 September 2022 03:52 (one year ago) link
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
― sleeve, Friday, 2 September 2022 03:54 (one year ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Friday, 2 September 2022 04:00 (one year ago) link
They grew up in El Cerrito. I've never been there, but my impression is it's kind of a crappy little town.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 2 September 2022 04:00 (one year ago) link
Whoop, a little slow to post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1_bYvxhBlE
― sleeve, Friday, 2 September 2022 04:02 (one year ago) link
oh god damn it, please ignore that
jimbeaux, next you'll tell me that Levon Helm was not in the Civil War.
― gin and tonic the hedgehog (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 2 September 2022 06:00 (one year ago) link
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?
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 September 2022 09:35 (one year ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Friday, 2 September 2022 13:37 (one year ago) link
el cerrito is north of Berkeley not south
― brimstead, Friday, 2 September 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Friday, 2 September 2022 14:54 (one year ago) link
No, but his ancestors credibly could have been, and at least his Southern accent wasn't fake.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 2 September 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
next thing you’ll be telling us that sergeant pepper wasn’t an actual military officer
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 2 September 2022 17:23 (one year ago) link
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.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 2 September 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
berlin was from orange county iirc
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 2 September 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
buncha posers
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 2 September 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
i’m a southerner and i welcome all to our congregationexcept tom hanks obv
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 2 September 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
Well, that explains a lot.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 2 September 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Friday, 2 September 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
(Early on also being when they were covering a lot of American R&B and emulating that sound)
― birdistheword, Friday, 2 September 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
LOL it would be far easier to list British rock bands in the 60s and 70s that didn't sing in American accents.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Friday, 2 September 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link
hi guys
remember "Rocky Raccoon"? "Long Tall Sally"?
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 September 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
No
― I’d Rather Gorblimey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 September 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
Good.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 September 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
Rocky Rococo I remember.
― I’d Rather Gorblimey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 September 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
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, Friday, 2 September 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
Having said that, I kind of wish Springsteen toned down the Dust Bowl refugee accent he adopted after recording Tom Joad.
― birdistheword, Friday, 2 September 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
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."
― pplains, Friday, 2 September 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
― birdistheword,
yeah Ferry too.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 September 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link