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

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

I never stopped chooglin

In there too. Gonna project this on the side of my garage.

I kind of passively dislike Creedence Clearwater Revival.

https://preview.redd.it/31w28jyqr7y51.jpg?auto=webp&s=6b6c3719a4cb7e13f6b53d7701789ec16633951b

"GET OUT!"

ust for that you have to turn in your faux-francofication, you're just jimbo now

*just

this is a thread for chooglin and chooglin accessories

I am not now, nor have I ever been, averse to chooglin'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRF1e82MVCA

then u must ask god for forgiveness for blaspheming in his house

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.

nooo jimbeaux you must suspend disbelief when choogling

also m bison otm as usual

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

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.

They grew up in El Cerrito. I've never been there, but my impression is it's kind of a crappy little town.

Whoop, a little slow to post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1_bYvxhBlE

oh god damn it, please ignore that

jimbeaux, next you'll tell me that Levon Helm was not in the Civil War.

They grew up in El Cerrito. I've never been there, but my impression is it's kind of a crappy little town.

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?

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

el cerrito is north of Berkeley not south

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.