Needless Changes to the original Star Wars.If you could have dinner with 9 people dead or still living…who would they be?.You traveled into a wormhole through space and time and all you brought back was Keith Moon?.Great Power Pop Bands that never got their due….He got some help along the way from Jerry Douglas, a preeminent dobro player who was part of Alison Krauss’ band Union Station. In 1993, he bought a dobro at a vintage guitar show and set out to master the instrument, playing it for hours on end and using it on his 1997 solo album Blue Moon Swamp. He’s seen holding the instrument on the cover of the 1969 album Green River, but “Lookin’ Out My Back Door” is the only time he played it on a Creedence song. John Fogerty played a bit of dobro on this track. Clifford once said it was “better than working in a factory,” so their rehearsal rooms became known as “The Factory.” Clifford’s nickname was Cosmo, so this space was known as “Cosmo’s Factory.” The album cover shows Creedence Clearwater Revival’s rehearsal space, which is not their original digs: they started rehearsing in a shed in the backyard of their drummer Doug Clifford’s house. This is played in the film The Big Lebowski.
This was even less plausible than the Beatles misinterpretation since Creedence Clearwater Revival was never into psychedelic drugs. According to the drug theory, the “Flying Spoon” was a cocaine spoon, and the crazy animal images were an acid trip. Much like The Beatles “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds,” many people thought this was about drugs when it was really an innocent song inspired by a child. Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn.Ī dinosaur Victrola list’ning to Buck Owens. There’s a giant doing cartwheels, a statue wearin’ high heels. They were on a small label.Fantasy Records. I never understood that but that is a post for another day. Creedence had 16 songs in the top 100 in their short career but no number 1’s. The song peaked at #2 in the Billboard 100 in 1970. The song was on the album Cosmo’s Factory… arguably Creedence’s best album. Fogerty put the action “out my back door” to a place he could escape to. In the book a kid is watching a parade go by with wondrous and magical animals and characters. Seuss book And To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street. John said the song was written for his son Josh, who at the time was three years old. Fogerty wrote it under the influence while looking out his back door. Rolling Stone ranked them 82nd on its Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list.When I first started to pay attention to the lyrics to this song…I would have bet Mr. Creedence Clearwater Revival's music is still a staple of US radio airplay the band has sold 26 million albums in the United States alone. Fogerty's ongoing disagreements with Fantasy Records owner Saul Zaentz created further protracted court battles, and John Fogerty refused to perform with the two other surviving members at CCR's 1993 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Creedence Clearwater Revival (often referred to as Creedence or CCR) was an American rock band active in the late 1960s and early 1970s which consisted of lead vocalist, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter John Fogerty, his brother rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty, bassist Stu Cook, and drummer Doug Clifford.These members played together since 1959, first as The Blue Velvets, then as The Golliwogs. Tom Fogerty had officially left the previous year, and John was at odds with the remaining members over matters of business and artistic control, all of which resulted in subsequent lawsuits among the former bandmates. The group disbanded acrimoniously in late 1972 after four years of chart-topping success. The band performed at the 1969 Woodstock Festival in Upstate New York. These members had played together since 1959, first as The Blue Velvets, then as The Golliwogs. Creedence Clearwater Revival (often referred to as Creedence or CCR) was an American rock band active in the late 1960s and early 1970s which consisted of lead vocalist, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter John Fogerty, his brother rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty, bassist Stu Cook, and drummer Doug Clifford.