Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week : Bonus #4I went and saved the best for last, Vanessa.In 1999, while on tour, Pavement enjoyed busting out a vicious cover of "Sinister Purpose". Here's them at the Glastonbury Festival, shredding the hell out of it.The late, great John Peel stated that this was one of the highlights of the festival.~~
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Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week: Day FourExcerpt from Cross-Tie Walker by Jackson Belleville:"It's day four. Coal Run, Kentucky, 'where what remains gets pressured till it combusts', is thousands of rusty tracks behind me.I imagine my father is back there on his fifth Redhook Rye. Drinkin' from that filthy cup with the broken handle and chipped rim from when he brought it too h...
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Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week: Bonus #1(I was going to do this over the weekend, but hey, why wait?)Here’s CCR live, tearing through one of my favorites by them, “Green River”.~~
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Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week: Bonus #3On Blank Generation, Richard Hell and the Voidoids do a cover of "Walking on the Water", which, in my opinion, outshines the original. Three reasons: Hell's delivery captures the fear of the situation much better than Fogerty's, the lead guitar line Robert Quine came up with for the chorus, and the shorter length of their version, which g...
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Creedence Clearwater Revival Appreciation Week: Bonus #2I must admit “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” is my least favorite CCR song. I also don’t care too much for the other rain-related track, “Who’ll Stop the Rain”. Despite this, I have to admire R.E.M.’s penchant for playing the track at outdoor shows when the audience is being rained upon.Here’s the band in 1985 playing an in
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This will be familiar to some, but not in this free form live version from the concert vault. A great song by Dale Hawkins that CCR put on their 1st album.
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Bill Graham was foresighted enough to tape every concert that he promoted, all the way back to 1966. Now it's online. "Wolfgang's Vault":http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/ is three things - a 'radio station', a concert archive, and a shop selling original Fillmore posters. The events aren't restricted to just Graham's concerts; there's all sorts of stuff and the quality is by and large exceell...
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When Creedence Clearwater Revival were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 1993, it was a couple of years too late for mainman John Fogerty's guitarist brother Tom. That's not to say that his death prevented him from joining in the fun, as the story goes that his widow brought his urn along to the ceremony in a handbag, giving it a good shuffle along to the reconvend band's performanc...
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Back in the day Creedence Clearwater Revival were not considered to be a cool band. They just sounded way to commercial for hippies and critics-in-the-know. Releasing top-selling singles by the dozen (although none of those made it all the way to number #1, it surprising how much good stuff there is on the six album that the classic four-piece line-up released in a little over three years. Cree...
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my ass!!!well well DAPIMP cannot vote again for another seven yearswhatevernow lets get something straight here.these are our *2/* CHOICESdemocraprepubicanor more like Hitler orgenghis khanordeath or dismembermentthings are NOT gonna change much as long as our leaders are whitebread,elitist,never had to work a day in their life,above the law,panty-soids.when we can elect blue collar,work your w...
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CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL - GREEN RIVER (1969)1969, a time when Rock music was metamorphing in every direction, driven by changing cultures, social awareness, and recreational drug use. Bands were discovering Heavy Rock, Folk Rock, the remnants of Blues, and all sounded perfect for the new spaced out population, everyone in the clouds untethered, listening to their Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis...
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It's technically not Sunday anymore, but I'll just post this as a late submission.
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Oh cool, can't sleep cuz I'm pissed off for personal reasons, maybe I'll just turn this page into an anti-war section. God knows I must have enough songs. What else is a great anti-war song of the moment?
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Pendulum (Fantasy)During 1969 and 1970, CCR was dismissed by hipsters as a bubblegum pop band and the sniping had grown intolerable, at least to John Fogerty, who designed Pendulum as a rebuke to critics. He spent time polishing the production, bringing in keyboards, horns, even a vocal choir. His songs became self-consciously serious and tighter, working with the.
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After two weeks worth of workdays at home due to flu-like symptoms/blizzards/holiday vacations, I can't help but feel like this 'work' place is highly unfamiliar. Break was great. Blizzards rule when you're prepared. We never lost power or cable or internet or any of that stuff; as such, 6+ days of not being able to get around in the snow just made for awesome family time. My youngest son turns...
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