We just saw a 79 year old Fogerty play in southern California. I haven't seen him since the "Centerfield" tour. After nearly 60 years of performing, he still rocks. He looks good and sounds great. Two songs he extended, shredding on guitar, and he's so happy to own his songs. Thank you, John Fogerty.
Can you send the extended versions..... Want to hear it.... This never gets old..... And they don't make music like they used to... I would really appreciate it😊
Thats awsome!! My daughter now 28, she loved some of ccr songs when she was little, back in the 70s i loved this music riding in my Dads suped up cutlass!! 🤘
I am from England. I was 14 and totally immersed in the music of CCR. One of the best bands ever, and Green River one of the best tunes ever!! Thank you Fogarty and Co.
I just saw John Fogerty & his sons perform during their Celebration Tour. John has FINALLY re-gained the rights from the creeps at Fantasy Records to perform his OWN music! He'll be 78 this moth & still puts on a FABULOUS show! 🙂
@@ronaldmcalister8008 Hi Ronnie from Preston, I am so glad that so many people are hooked on CCR. Green River makes me feel so good and transports me back to that era....wish I could stay there!! 😁
My spoused served in Vietnam "1967" few months after higher school graduation 😢straight to US Army Training, then head straight on into Vietnam! Came home wounded, but thankful, especially seeing many die in a war we should have never be on. Credence Clear Water Revival was his favorite group!
'Cause they sang the real truth. Your Brother and my Brother in Law knew. He said "Apocalypse Now" captured the American Army corruption and feeling of the Nam War better than any movie up to that time. He passed away young of court proven neglect at a VA Hospital. You remember how wards full overwhelmed the VA Hospitals were in the years after Nam. Vets lying on hall floors sometimes. That's what I saw. 'And CCR became another example of the way things are censored in the good old USA. Sorry. I guess I went off over your two year old comment.
I remember playing this song during a rough time in my life. My Mom was in the hospital and I was helping to take care of three younger siblings. I was 13 and after school I would get out my portable record player and play this song while I washed dishes. I played it over and over and over. It took me through that bad time.
Same my friend ........... 69 hear and rocking out to this song since I was a young lad camping and hiking in the Chickahominy swamp in Virginia where you could always here the bullfrog callin me.
I remember these talented fellows from El Cerrito High School (3 of them) back then, and I went to Berkeley High School in the San Francisco Bay Area...
My dad worked 42 years for CSX Railroad ..... he kept America moving ..... Love All Flat Car Riders And Cross Tie Walkers ..... you know who you are ..... peace out ..... RIP Pops
"Flat car riders and cross tie walkers" I grew up in the country with Rock Island RR about 2 miles to the north and Frisco about a quarter mile south. Loved hearing those old lonesome whistles. Both defunct now. Only Kansas City Southern blows through about 20 miles from here now. Seen a lot of changes but good music never dies ❤
What was particular about this song was we did walk the cross ties on the old B&M rail line along the Connecticut river, knew a person named Lucien Cody who did have a camp (and a mean ass dog) who lived on River Road and we fished in the Green River. But I’ll bet most people who lived along a major river probably had the same. These tunes were during my late teens and we all worried about the draft and Vietnam. What a waste of life as we now get much of our clothes from Vietnam. Never let a government fool you into war.
Best creedence song in my opinion. John so talented. We need artists with talent throw away this computer generated stuff. John has such a wonderful voice.
This song is an entire vibe. When music becomes an emotional shuttle and transports you to another time and place, almost instantly, it's really good art. Nothing else can do that for you quite like music. The highs and lows one experiences while taking in the music is, in and of itself, a dopamine hit just like a really good drug. This is a timeless masterpiece that will be around far beyond anyone's lives today. If we haven't destroyed ourselves by then, I often ponder what people from the far off future will think about this music.
Как же всё таки здорово, что есть искусство,которое сквозь годы объединяет нас по всему миру.Несмотря на цвет кожи,пол,и социальный уровень.Это дар Божий
It sounds like it came out of, and belongs deep in the bayou, but it is the "Bakersfield sound", California country if you will, Buck Owens and Don Rich were a huge influence on Fogerty.
@@frankkolton1780 Yea, California is a real big place. People sometimes forget there's more to it than just San Francisco and LA. (Okay, fine, Berkeley isn't far off but I stand by the point.) As for the sound, check out Powderfinger by Bob Dylan. Another contender by one of the few people I'd put anywhere near Fogerty's level of writing.
Me too. Fogerty's voice was off the scale brilliant. Singing those tricky rythms he just nailed it every time. This song especially. I have'nt met a session musician who could sing this. It's the timing and grabbing those lyrics. 👌💙
Act like you knew the lyrics before you watched this . ..i been listening 30 years and only got about 25% if lyrics correct , thats a thicc accent gawd damn !
I'm inclined to agree actually. I love simple perfect song and this is one. For another, try Kinks Sunny Afternoon. Also the Cars had quite a few simple perfect songs. There are hundreds if not thousands out there, but yeah the simple perfect song. Signs, by Five Man Electrical Band is another, Go All the Way, Raspberries are another couple. Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel had a ripper, Make me Smile: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uLktwloscrU.html Here's Kinks: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yFWJmPXY3pw.html
From 1996 to 2011 I was a soldier in the Special Combat Force of Germany in Somalia, the whole Yugoslav war (IFOR, SFOR, KFOR) Afghanistan, Congo and others. My life during the war and then 174 festivals. I found my happiness in the war and have 1 children. When I see such beautiful young people today who reinvent the hits of that time, it makes me happy. I wish you all the best and health, peace and love. REAST in PEACE my brothers in Arms. Greetings from germany..... Martin
My ancestors found fun and peace in bombing your cities and murdering your ground forces in Northern Africa. We took the hilltops and churches where your forces hid in Italy and in France we came across the massacres your ancestors left behind before they ran home behind the shitcreek line. And that's only the start. I can say so much more. Arohanui Maori Battalion All my love to the whole of Bomber Command. And love to my Great uncle who died in the desert because Germany got angry.
Mi padre me ponía está canción de bebé, porque me decía que solo ella me tranquilizaba y sacaba una sonrisa, cambió la vida, y ahora le pongo Green River a mí padre para que siga la canción con su alma pese a su grave enfermedad. La música nos une.
my grandparents were farmers. Hearing this song I feel connected to where I'm from and the sense of lightness and freedom to do whatever comes to mind when visiting them as a kid. I'm not american and never been to rural america once in my life - I believe this stuff is universal to some degree. Cheers!
I agree. I played the drums for 10 years as a hobby and I played to this song the most. I lived in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey and CCR aside from Blue Grass was the official music.
My dad immigrated from Mexico in the late 60’s. He’s played songs like this my whole life I’m grateful for my dad he’s as Mexican as it gets but you’d swear he was from the south. Which we are ... Southern California 😂😂
@@swaythegod5812 A ranchero doesn't have to raise cow to be a rancher cows went from India to Europe then to the America's the culture south of the modern USA border exhibited clothes such as pointy boots bigs sombrero hats ext that style was technically brought here from Europe first by the Spanish and then later was adopted by southern white USA dwellers
I've had a CCR greatest hits cd in my car radio for a good month and half and I haven't gotten sick of it in the slightest. The guitars in this song just seem to have some sort of punch to them that I just can't get enough of.
Fogerty had a great poetic gift: flat car riders and cross tie walkers- scans beautifully against the guitars. These would be depression-era veterans taking it easy in the 60s, with great tales to tell. Not to mention the wonderfully strange harmonies in the full versions of Susie Q, grapevine, and the powerful aggression of Fortunate Son. The forgotten three so solid
Well, take me back down Where cool water flow, yeah Let me remember things I love Stopping at the log where catfish bite Walking along the river road at night Barefoot girls dancing in the moonlight I can hear the bullfrog calling me Wonder if my rope's Still hanging to the tree Love to kick my feet Way down the shallow water Shoe fly, dragon fly Get back to your mother Pick up a flat rock Skip it across Green River Well Up at Cody's camp I spent my days, oh With flat car riders And cross-tie walkers Old Cody Jr took me over Said, you're gonna find The world is smouldering And if you get lost Come on home to Green River Well Come home
Lot's of green rivers , in '69 when CCR released the song , I moved to Rio Verde, ( River Green ) Goias , Brazil .) Was 12 yrs old at the time , came back to U.S. 2 yrs later heard this song and CCR for first time , was my fav. rock band for years after that.
Excellent video. I’m born and raised in Los Angeles in the 70’s and have always loved CCR. Especially this song. Your video is exactly what I’d see in my mind’s eyes as I’d mentally drift off and I’d listen to this great song. Damn, I felt like I was 12 years old for a couple minutes. Thank you!
bombero voluntario 22 años... escuchando en el cuartel cada finde cuando lavamos los moviles! un gusto que aun los argentinos tengamos esta cultura musical!
Back in the early 90s me n my long time boyfriend, lived in Tennessee. Ccr was one of his favorite bands of all time.we were real young back then,but we'd herd that they were playing a free outdoors gig.we were so excited.we got all packed up ,a blanket to sit on,some beers our dogs of course, and hopped up into our d 3 on the tree ford pick up...well course with our luck back then the dam thing just would not start.we tried everything, all the tricks we knew about it,but still...no luck.Anyhow with great dissapointment, we ended up missing the show ,but did set up our own space out on our farm n listened to the local show on our old radio live instead. It of course wouldn't compare or be by any means the same as in actually being there,but it was the best we could do at the time. Chickens and there babies walking around us as we sat on that blanket in the grass and listened and dreamed we were there.No phone back then to try n get a ride from anyone,but it still was a day to remember. I still do.Hes passed on now 5 years actually, and ill always remember that day and what it meant..
I was a musician in the 60's. In the later part of the 60's I saw all hell break loose around me. Everyone was singing "la la la" as they walked blindly off the cliffs of following the mess my generation was being herded into. But, whenever I heard and found myself enjoying CCR on my car radio? I would become quiet inside. I wondered how they seemed able to escape it all. Excellent heart of America talent. Always their own person. Their own music. Their lives. Thank you CCR!
I can NEVER get enough of CCR and am learning to play it on guitar, as well as sing along. It brings back so many good memories of growing up in Texas; Pearland, Houston, etc. , the Gulf. All the swampy areas, memories of snakes the parents had killed on the back trails walking us to school, the day my older brother took me and my baby brother fishing. We were standing in the mud at the water's edge, holding our little fishing poles, tall grass and weeds so high in the swampy bush, when suddenly our 17 year old, 6'2" brothers starts shouting "Run kids. run!" I stared in awe, watching him run, his rod in one hand, as he fished for his knife in his pocket, an angry, huge, black cottonmouth hooked on his line. The image is imprinted in my mind; the snake was not only hooked, but so mad that it actually was swimming toward us. It was so black and so beautiful with its mouth wide open, white contrasted against its scaly, dark body, from the pages of National Geographic. It all happened so fast between the time he "caught" this majestic viper to the moment he cut the line...all as we ran, it seemed in slow motion. These are the memories this song in particular brings back to me. Now I live in Florida, on the Gulf, so pretty much the same still, ha ha!
CCR can pack so much awesomeness into a 2 minute song with just their instruments than most bands can in a entire album with all the sound effects to help them.
My older brother Lloyd introduced me to CCR's music back in 70 and still think that they along with Bachman Turner Overdrive were the best bands at the time. Green River is definitely one of my favorites.
My father used to put this on our car when I was little. A lot of water flowed since then, but I still look back fondly to the memories. Now I can understand why he played it...
CCR , one of my favourite bands growing up, brilliant lyrics and music. Man, i think the songs, like ,; I Heard It Through The Grapevine , : Bad Moon Rising,: Have you Ever Seen The Rain ,: Green River,: They and many more were just great. Today's music will never be as good as music played and sung by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Creedence es atemporal, de aquí a mil años seguirán sonando como suenan hoy y como sonaron ayer, Creedence es una de las pocas bandas inmortales que tiene la humanidad como patrimonio universal
Such a great soulful song written by yet another musical genious. Everytime i hear his voice and singing style i just get goose bumps. Increduble how can someone be so talented
Just curious, when did they start calling them blunts? I grew my own in the 70s, even went to jail for it, yeah, it was like that back then, ahh the good ol' days, we just called them joints.:-)
@@bewi333 Thank's for the info, but I knew what they were, I just didn't know when they started with blunts as they weren't a thing when I was young and weed was a mainstay in my life! Yeah, we're talking 1969 and on!
It was just me and mom growing up and we had very different taste in music but we both loved ccr. So on the weekends we would blast their greatest hits while we did chores together. One way to make memories of dusting furniture and sweeping floors tolerable. Miss singing with her.
