>>>An old friend advised me to stop posting musical posts and videos. Whoops.
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>>>This band isn't necessarily his type of highbrow music anyway. A classic, "Bad Moon Rising," insinuated my sleep. Credence Clearwater Revival were a scruffy band from a scruffy Northern California suburb near Oakland. The scene at the time was blissed out and psychedelic. If was in San Francisco. They were not that. They were nothing kids from a nothing community south of Oakland and they saw a chance. Fortunately, they had music in them.
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>>>Depending on how you feel about the Grateful Dead, CCR were the best American band of rock's golden era. About four chords. But they nailed every one of them and had an emotional pipeline to in-between American kids of the late 1960s.
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>>Whoa there now Nelly. I guess we all have our favourites, however... Now, I always liked John Fogerty, but CCR IMHO, couldn't shine The Band's microphone. Oh wait. Maybe you didn't consider The Band an American band because of the mixture of Americans and Canadians. Ah, yes, that must be it. ;)
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>That would be North American

Not all-inclusive, though, missing the bit between the Panama canal and Texas :).

Speaking of CCR, they really are a kind of phenomenon. I'm the guy who likes complicated music, so I can hear something new in it even after I hear it for the fiftieth time, and CCR surely isn't complicated. But they did have something, a very specific and full sound made with simple means - there's no extravagance in their playing. And all their songs sound the same, as if they made only one song - but then, the same is said about Procol Harum too, so what.

And I'm being sentimental here too, CCR were regularly on the playlist of our high school PA system during the breaks (along with Kinks, Zeppelin et al), plus they were the only music played before and after the movie in the downtown theater. Even today, when I hear them, I just say "so how did you like the movie" (for Alan, "kakav je bio film?" - "kakav" being the 'what kind of' but not exactly that, the word which he still claims is unneeded in English :) - see message #1391670 and the rest of the thread).