By: stannate
CCR also recorded a damn good cover of the Screamin' Jay Hawkins classic, "I Put A Spell On You (artsy video) ." However, I gotta throw some much-deserved respect for the modern-day Fury's cover...or...
View ArticleBy: fingers_of_fire
your favorite band is totally awesome, but it turns out that the people in it are complete assholes.
View ArticleBy: languagehat
For what it's worth, I too assumed you were pissing on this thread because of your hatred for Fogerty. (I didn't say anything because I like you in general and we all have a right to our personal...
View ArticleBy: miss lynnster
Oh Pete, bite me. I was just being silly based on an old inside joke that was started on Mefi many months ago. THE TITLE of this post is a shoutout to me.
View ArticleBy: PeterMcDermott
thedanielwrites'how many musical genres are YOU progenitor of, lynnster? i think you're just jealous because you invented swamp rock at the same time as Fogerty, but he beat you to the patent.' Meh....
View ArticleBy: dame
Man, I love me some CCR. It is funny too: the band seems to cut through any musical differences. There are people with whom the only music we have in common is CCR. And that is pretty cool. Way more...
View ArticleBy: PeterMcDermott
miss lynnsterwrites'I shall hereby direct you to the previous telling.' It could have been worse though. You could have gone home with Phil Spector!
View ArticleBy: sleepy pete
Thanks for posting this, psmeasley. I really love Fogerty/CCR for his championing of the underdog/working class and his use of simple lyrics and songs to do it. If there were ever a person to study on...
View ArticleBy: miss lynnster
Well, one thing that should be noted is that when I met him, John Fogerty was NOT in a good place in his career & not very relevant. He hadn't released an album in nearly ten years and he was not...
View ArticleBy: wsg
I take it back. psmealey did mention his prolific singing in his original post.
View ArticleBy: wsg
Bravo, to you, Miss Lynnster. I heard another first-hand story which kinda bears out your impression of him, but I ain't got the time to type everything and I will now tell of the time I met John...
View ArticleBy: Songdog
incurable, a YouTube commenter (cough, cough) identifies the lineup in that clip as "Pearl Jam with: Ben Harper, Steve Earle, Johnny Marr, Cheetah Chrome, Sleater Kinney, Corin Tucker, Mike Tyler, Jack...
View ArticleBy: pyramid termite
*looks over list of top 100 guitarists, notes with great satisfaction that yngwie malmsteen is nowhere to be found*
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i think you're just jealous because you invented swamp rock at the same time as Fogerty no, it couldn't have had anything to do with musicians from louisiana, could it?
View ArticleBy: psmealey
Well at least he beat out Andrés Segovia Well, that list is a little silly. Keith Richards at #10 of all time? Shit, he was barely the third best all-time guitarist in the Rolling Stones.
View ArticleBy: ROU_Xenophobe
And admittedly I couldn't get to the patent office because I was busy in the WOMB at the time. Piker. Mozart published several prenatal concertos, and the sperm and ovum that eventually formed CPE Bach...
View ArticleBy: jonmc
A long time ago, I had a girlfriend who waited tables at the Pink Door in Seattle, where Mr. Skerritt was a frequent customer. Yep, total asshole. Really? That's a drag. I liked him in M*A*S*H.
View ArticleBy: psmealey
I can vouch for billyfleetwood's experience. A long time ago, I had a girlfriend who waited tables at the Pink Door in Seattle, where Mr. Skerritt was a frequent customer. Yep, total asshole. However,...
View ArticleBy: miss lynnster
Yeah, well... you're right. I did. And admittedly I couldn't get to the patent office because I was busy in the WOMB at the time.
View ArticleBy: billyfleetwood
Miss Lynnster, while I do love me some Creedence, I had a very similar run-in with Tom Skerritt, and will hate him with a hot fury for all of my days on this earth. So I understand fully. In...
View ArticleBy: thedaniel
how many musical genres are YOU progenitor of, lynnster? i think you're just jealous because you invented swamp rock at the same time as Fogerty, but he beat you to the patent.
View ArticleBy: jonmc
I love me some Creedence. NTM, 'Fortunate Son' is one of the best lyrical swipes at the GW Bushes of this world, and CCR always backed their lyrics up with som kick-ass music.
View ArticleBy: jonmc
Well, this post, it came out of the sky, but don't be Proud Mary, just hang out Down On The Corner and cause a Commotion.
View ArticleBy: bardic
Oh, I was keeding ffs. I love me some Creedence. They were surprisingly funky, unafraid to cover blues and motown in ways that no other white band could ("Heard it Through the Grapevine"). And it's...
View ArticleBy: flapjax at midnite
unfortunately I am stuck in Lodi again. Wow, you too, huh? I think we rode in on the same greyhound, vronsky, and we'll be walkin out if we go.
View ArticleBy: vronsky
I was going to comment on your great post psmealey, but unfortunately I am stuck in Lodi again.
View ArticleBy: flapjax at midnite
Thanks for the great post, psmealey! CCR's music was some of the rootsiest, bluesiest Americana to ever appear on the US charts. When one listens now to tunes like Green River, Bad Moon Rising and...
View ArticleBy: psmealey
anybody who can write a more boring rock and roll song than John Fogerty While that's fairly representative of my opinion of most of the bands from that scene/era, you have to be a seriously jaded/post...
View ArticleBy: ROU_Xenophobe
Are people still talking about that crusty old rocker dude? What, he's got that hand-growth thing goin' on too?
View ArticleBy: jonmc
For every "Playin' in a Traveling Band" there's a "Centerfield." Oh, he's written a clunker or two. Let's write him off. (his ratio of great songs to bad ones is pretty good, which is more than you can...
View ArticleBy: jonmc
Lordy. Are people still talking about that crusty old rocker dude? crusty old rocker dudes rule!
View ArticleBy: miss lynnster
Lordy. Are people still talking about that crusty old rocker dude? Isn't he dead yet?
View ArticleBy: bardic
For every "Playin' in a Traveling Band" there's a "Centerfield." That's life, bitches.
View ArticleBy: psmealey
Btw, I had no idea who Brandi Carlile was before structuring this post, but she sure as hell can sing.
View ArticleBy: jbickers
Once again I issue forth the $50,000 Fogerty Challenge: anybody who can write a more boring rock and roll song than John Fogerty gets a check for $50,000. Good luck, contestants! Too bad Kurt Cobain's...
View ArticleBy: psmealey
Hm, don't know how I missed that the first time around, but that's a great story, Miss L. It sucks when famous people act like assholes, but, hey, at least you got rock starred by a real rock star....
View ArticleBy: Killick
To pick up on languagehat's comment, I vaguely recall Keith Richards comparing songwriting in the early '60s to songwriting in the late '60s, saying how much harder it was to write a song that got it...
View ArticleBy: languagehat
Just watched "Travelin' Band": one minute and forty-six seconds of primal rock, as tight, mean, and compressed as anything the Ramones did, or the Beatles in Hamburg either. God damn, that's some great...
View ArticleBy: jonmc
Amen. When I was in college and the cool kids were into the Doors and the Dead, I unregenerately loved Creedence. God damn, that's some great rock and roll. (and Jerry Garcia would probably be the...
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