Archives: August2006

• Who Shot CCR? or Bad Moon Revisited or New Creedence for Non-Believers

  Hearing Stu Cook and Doug Clifford recreate their rhythm parts all these years later, you realize how distinctive they are as a rhythm unit. Fogerty may have written the parts as he claims, but nothing on his solo albums approximates their sound, not his own playing not his drum programming and sequencing and not the band on his live album.

• Creedence Clearwater Revisited: Who Shot CCR?

  This was written for CreemMagazine.com in August 2006 Bad Moon Revisited or New Creedence for Non-Believers? Like you, cherished reader, I hate seeing bands without their original singers. Shall I tell you about the time I caught a Herman-less Hermits, an outfit whose only link to the good old days was the original drummer? Or the time I suffered through a Guess Who reunion album that had neither Randy Bachman nor Burton Cummings on it, as if someone ever decreed, [...]