>>>>Yet more music. I think I will do one more after this, a tribute to Billie Holiday, and then the music posts will be out of my system.
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>>>>When I was 11 years old my favorite band was Creedence Clearwater Revival. At the time they were considered a middle of the road hits band. We now know they were deeper than that. They were from the Bay Area, but not the trendy psychedelic part like the Dead and the Airplane. They were from the unhip part of Northern California south of the city. Blue collar. CCR didn't wear any political chip on their shoulders, they just wrote great songs. Some of them will be listened to as long as there are ways of listening to recorded music.
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>>>>At that impressionable age I wanted to know what was going on with my girl pal Shelley's changing body. I wanted to be Carl Yastrzemski. And most of all I wanted to be John Fogerty. "Green River" was the first record I bought with my own money (paper route).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ScisGFllPY&NR=1&feature=endscreen>>>>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JacHyPaEwDc>>>>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-2Of9aznxg>>>>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDTcWqDCZi8>>>
>>>Attended a CCR revisited concert a few weeks ago. (It's CCR minus Fogertys) They sang every song on the list and did them well.
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>>I'm sure it was a great show but I am not a fan of that kind of legacy band. The Beatles, featuring Ringo Starr.....
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>The drummer and base player were original members of CCR (The Fogerty bros. were not there and I missed the southern twang to the songs:-)
Now you've got me started. This may be my favorite Creedence song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0VDnQv-rLA(I really like the name drop of Johnny Cash at 1:24. Where did that come from?!)
UPDATE: One more musical interlude, then I will shut up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7K4jH7NqUwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GvD_NQrLFo&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho
