Creedence Clearwater Revival: C or D?

good to hear stu explaining how very different denmark is from norway tho

Watched the doc last night and christ, "Fortunate Son" is so amped up and frantic it sounds like the Feelies or something. Doug Clifford keeps pushing it faster & faster until by the end its like a hairs breadth from going completely off the rails. Fucking killer.

Damn, that lady in the front row losing it to "Keep On Chooglin'"...You only wish you could have as good a time as that.

Proud Mary definitely has some higher string jangle in the studio recording so maybe they used capo on the second fret for that, but couldn’t be bothered live

Damn, that lady in the front row losing it to "Keep On Chooglin'"...You only wish you could have as good a time as that.

Gotta say that whole audience looks very 1965, was expecting hairier hippies.

I say it all the time, most people didn't start getting really hairy till the 70s.

I've been looking at footage from Paris '68 recently and the men all have such short hair and are so neatly dressed.

It’s the royal albert hall, not the Fillmore west

The audience at the Oakland Coliseum gig are similarly not very hairy.

that’s what they call CHOO-gih-LIEH

it'll do

the guy who says great googly moogly

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

but instead he says great googly choogley

Meanwhile, back in the jungle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iTT8tIVTkE

should post it in a lebowski thread but "I love you, but sooner or later you're going to have to face the fact you're a goddamn moron" would be a great tombstone quote.

I've been on a big Creedence kick for the first time in a while, prompted by getting a nice copy of Green River finally. While listening to Sinister Purpose, I started thinking about an alternate version of the band by focusing on their apocalyptic/jammy side, like they were some lost blues/psyche band that released a one-off in 1970. So I constructed the following playlist, styled as a single LP:

Sinister Purpose
Side A
1. Born on the Bayou (5:15)
2. Sinister Purpose (3:22)
3. Ramble Tamble (7:11)
4. Keep on Chooglin' (7:40)

Side B
1. Run Through the Jungle (3:05)
2. Graveyard Train (8:35)
3. Gloomy (3:51)
4. Effigy (6:27)

The one track that might not fit is Gloomy, so I could omit that and go with:

Sinister Purpose
Side A
1. Born on the Bayou (5:15)
2. Sinister Purpose (3:22)
3. Run Through the Jungle (3:05)
4. Keep on Chooglin' (7:40)

Side B
1. Ramble Tamble (7:11)
2. Graveyard Train (8:35)
3. Effigy (6:27)

Other replacements for Gloomy were Bad Moon Rising (too jaunty) or 45 Revolutions Per Minute Pt. 1 (would add a little psyche).

no "I Put A Spell On You"?

Sinister is in E7 for the verses and goes to C7 for the chorus right ?

Or is it drop D

for me that’s not the “alternative version of the band” this playlist is the main side, the white-hot molten core of them

i might add suzy q and a few others

no "I Put A Spell On You"?

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I thought about it, but I need to give it more of a try. If it replaced Gloomy, it would push it over my single LP limit of 45 minutes.

Also thinking about another LP length playlist that focuses on their sad-sack side. Like how depressing are Someday Never Comes and Wrote a Song for Everyone?

^ add both rain songs to that one

and Lodi

Yeah, Lodi is pretty bleak.

I wish John had given into his instincts and pronounced “purpose” as “poipose”

The "depressing" CCR album should include "It's Just a Thought".

Ok, put this together:

Someday Never Comes
Side A
1. Someday Never Comes
2. Lodi
3. Who'll Stop the Rain
4. It's Just a Thought
5. Wrote a Song for Everyone
6. Long as I Can See the Light

Side B
1. Bad Moon Rising
2. Poor Boy Shuffle
3. Feelin' Blue
4. Have You Ever Seen the Rain
5. I Heard It Through the Grapevine

It's almost 46 minutes long, so if I needed to remove anything it would be Poor Boy Shuffle/Feelin' Blue. I guess Long as I Can See the Light is a little hopeful, but I still feel it fits - he's not sure the light will be there to guide him.

That first side is something else.

Excellent work all

I'd maybe replace "Grapevine" with "(Wish I Could) Hideaway". Fogerty sounds genuinely distressed (about his brother leaving the group), not just fatalistic or dejected.

I will give that a try. I honestly don't know Pendulum that well and Mardi Gras almost not at all!

Listening to the Someday Never Comes playlist on the way to work this morning and was struck by two thoughts:

1) Someday Never Comes is a more direct and less maudlin Cats in the Cradle; and
2) He makes Lodi sound like some outer plane of hell where crushed dreams and boredom reign.

I wish John had given into his instincts and pronounced “purpose” as “poipose”

I always hoid it that way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fQ85VjQhDA

Looks like CCR live rarities will be played on Fogerty's upcoming tour.

Getting ready and rehearsing for tour! Gonna bring some of my songs I have never performed live before. I think 'Effigy' might make the cut… @shanefogerty

What other songs should we bring on the road with us? 🤘🏼🎸

https://www.instagram.com/p/CqqZHhyvSHS/

I heard a song in a store today that I could’ve sworn sounded like a long lost CCR b-side. I couldn’t make out a chorus or much of the lyric though it ended with a repeated “get it on” refrain. After much internet sleuthing it turns out it’s “Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress” by the Hollies. The resemblance to CCR is uncanny.

and deliberate, it's from 1972

and xxp thanks for that, I should try and go see him

Seems to be a lot of Shakey on ILX today...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKRZc2M_zQA

Whole lotta Shakey Goin' On

How is it possible that I'd never heard of the UK's number one singles-selling artist of the '80s until now?

Saw Fogerty tonight - I can't remember the last time I've seen a senior-age father have so much fun with his kids. Two of his sons played with him tonight with one acting as second guitarist (rhythm with occasional lead) and it was pretty awesome watching them trade phrases at one point. Just prior to that, he played a song for his wife, and that was accompanied by a photo collage of his family spanning 30+ years - some taken at public events but most of them were clearly personal photos, showing things like family vacations, posing at home, etc. This was definitely a very close family and I came away from the show thinking he must've had an incredibly happy domestic life these past 30 years. (Perhaps more remarkable considering his falling out with his brother.)

Forgot, he also dug up a couple of great tracks off Willy and the Poor Boys - "Effigy" and "It Came Out of the Sky," arguably the two best that weren't put out on a single. Neither had been played for almost 20 years before this tour.

Thanks for posting - that set list is impossibly great. Just noticed that he's playing Saturday night at the LA County Fair in Pomona in a week and tickets are relatively inexpensive.

Was there choogling?

dammit no PNW dates, this sounds great

huh the red rocks date is listed as "the string cheese incident with john fogerty." the fuck is that on string cheese can fill redrocks with boulder douches any day, why are they in this

Was there choogling?

Hah, YES! "Keep On Chooglin'" was where Fogerty was trading phrases with his son for a good bit of the song!

Also should mention a few more things:

1) This is the first time he's touring as the legal owner of his songs - I think that made him extra happy as it was mentioned several times.

2) Also, for a good selection of songs, he played with a guitar he used at Woodstock, including at least one classic that he wrote on it - after CCR broke up, some kid went up to him and asked if he could have one of guitars, and Fogerty in an admitted crazy move gave him that guitar gratis. Then like 45 years later, his wife asked him whatever happened to it, and he was too embarrassed to say. So without him knowing, she tracked it down and wrapped it for him as a surprise Christmas present.

3) He told the audience he had a special guest bassist for their final encore. Turns out, he didn't go far to get them, only one more block at Rockefeller Center - it was NBC news anchor Lester Holt.

This two CD mono ‘Singles Collection’ sounds so awesome. Wish I would have got it before. Just like with the Stones mono box, the original mono singles just thump.

Cosmo’s drumming definitely has the Phil Rudd and Charlie Watts beat the beat into the ground. Drums sound so much better on these old 60s mono mixes compared to the stereo ones.

I just treated myself to this set and absolutely agree.

My whole family sat around listening to the difference between the remastered Spotify version of Green River and the mono single. Consensus was that the remastered stereo version sounds “more polished” but the mono version’s “got that dog” in it

After that I treated them to a 2-hour discourse on vinyl mastering which they all listened to in rapt fascination, best night of their lives

ok sold

what is the DVD material from?

also lol tracer, that was an xp so I could not properly appreciate your tart self-deprecation

but it's all true, mono 45s rule