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Post by De ville on Jul 31, 2020 4:46:04 GMT -5
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Post by rok-a-bill-e on Jul 31, 2020 12:58:58 GMT -5
I have a CCR Pandora channel that I play often. The music holds up very well and I admire them more now than back then.
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Post by Sharkie on Aug 1, 2020 7:55:28 GMT -5
I’ve always been a big CCR fan. My older brother had the Green River album, so it was one of my earliest introductions as a pre-teen into current music at the time. (‘69 - ‘70)
I guess there was a lot of internal strife in the band throughout the years, but they sure made some great music IMO.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Aug 1, 2020 9:16:41 GMT -5
The music is great.
If you haven't read Fogarty's book Fortunate Son...it's a good one.
John was the guy in the band with the musical vision. He does have his detractors because he wanted the music to be presented a certain way (he often personally re-cut bass, drum, and guitar parts on the band recordings). He may have been quite dictatorial in his management of the group, but based on everything I've read about the band I think his bandmates, including his brother, were lucky to 'fall into the band' and were pretty much just along for the ride.
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Post by twangmeister on Aug 1, 2020 9:38:54 GMT -5
John Fogerty had a style that still holds up today and to me he is the founder of Americana music.
As a guitarist switching to bass at the time I used to think that Stu Cook played the most unimaginative bass lines. It took a while for me to see the zen-like simplicity in the bass line. Like classic reggae, less can be more. And more years to understand that this was John Fogerty's doing.
My last band where I played guitar fired me when they threw out all the CCR songs out of their playlist and switched over prog rock.
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Post by LM on Aug 1, 2020 10:00:49 GMT -5
I've listened to so much of their music for so long, I got saturated with it. But I still have some of their songs on the playlist and try to listen to them as if it's the first time.
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Aug 1, 2020 10:37:49 GMT -5
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Aug 1, 2020 10:37:49 GMT -5
Love Fogerty's voice and songwriting. I'm a little "meh" on his guitar playing. Sounds like Neil Young after a couple lessons.
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Post by Bronx on Aug 1, 2020 12:19:19 GMT -5
I had Cosmo's Factory when I was a kid. Loved that album.
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Post by De ville on Aug 1, 2020 12:23:51 GMT -5
I've listened to so much of their music for so long, I got saturated with it. But I still have some of their songs on the playlist and try to listen to them as if it's the first time. I hear ya there. I wore them out at a young age. I'm just getting back into them. I just learned Have You Ever Seen The Rain on the acoustic, singing it too, and just started on Bad Moon Rising.
JF's voice is sounding senior now, but he still hits the high notes, and I like the way he sounds. Here |
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Post by pdf64 on Aug 1, 2020 12:30:35 GMT -5
I have a CCR Pandora channel that I play often. The music holds up very well and I admire them more now than back then. Pagan Baby is my CCR favourite, it’s primal, just absolutely rips! Almost equal favourite is Ramble Tamble, really inventive. |
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Post by Vibroluxer on Aug 1, 2020 18:12:57 GMT -5
I forget what documentary I was watching but Tom Fogerty was being interviewed and he said "I can sing, John has a sound."
I always thought that was cool of him to say seeing as how they got along and I also agree with him.
The Blue Ridge Rangers was John's 1st solo album and he sings and plays all parts, or so I was told. It's pretty damn good! He kinda warms up on the 1st song and is flat out ripping it by the end of the 2nd song. It's real loose. And so it continues.
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