What is typically forgotten with the passing of time and towards the seminal affect of Woodstock is that Creedence Clearwater Revival was one of many few bands to look on the competition that had already achieved important success on the Billboard charts. Reality is, there are some that don’t even know the band carried out there in any respect on August 17, 1969. The rationale, after all, is that CCR was not within the film or the album that got here out within the wake of the competition.
Creedence’s hour-long set was like a best hits album, with “Bad Moon Rising” and “Proud Mary” each having reached No.2 on the Billboard Sizzling 100. As they walked on stage at Woodstock, simply after midnight on Saturday, their present single, “Green River” was at No.15, its third week on the U.S. chart; it could be their third single to achieve No.2. As John Fogerty later stated, “By the time we got to Woodstock, I felt we were the number one band. Assuming that The Beatles were God, I thought that we were the next thing under them.”
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To the band, Woodstock will need to have appeared like simply one other competition, because it did on the time to so most of the artists. In the summertime of 1969 CCR had already performed the Newport Pageant in California, the Denver and the Atlanta festivals, together with the Atlantic Metropolis Pageant. Given the truth that they had been simply concerning the hottest band on the charts, each promoter wished them on the high – or near the highest – of the invoice.
The competition set
Not like so most of the bands at Woodstock, CCR went on stage pretty near their scheduled midnight slot, despite the fact that they had been alleged to be in a primary Saturday night slot. Based on John Fogerty, “We were supposed to be in the prime spot for that evening. The Dead went on and pulled their usual shenanigans.”
Their hour-long set began at half-past midnight on Sunday, August 17, and kicked off with the right opener: “Born On The Bayou.” They adopted it with “Green River” after which a canopy of Wilson Pickett’s “Ninety-Nine And A Half (Won’t Do),” from their debut album, after which it was “Commotion,” “Bootleg,” “Bad Moon Rising,” and “Proud Mary.”
As much as that time, the group very a lot performed the songs as you might need skilled them on the file. As their set progressed, nonetheless, they stretched their songs into longer, extra improvised variations, which was their regular method of taking part in them. “I Put A Spell On You” stretched the five-minute single to virtually twice its size, whereas “Keep On Chooglin’” ran for shut to 10 minutes. “Suzie Q,” the Dale Hawkins traditional, went far previous its unique eight-minute run-time.
Why had been they not within the movie?
Why had been they not within the movie? Probably their file firm on the time was unwilling to co-operate. Did it have an effect on their profession? It’s onerous to say, but it surely clearly would have finished them no hurt on the world stage to have the extra publicity. Nonetheless, like “Green River,” “Bad Moon Rising,” and “Proud Mary,” each “Travellin’ Band” and “Lookin’ out My Back Door” made No.2 on the Billboard chart, and so they finally topped the charts in Britain with “Bad Moon Rising.” Their album, Inexperienced River, got here out a month after Woodstock and it topped the charts, as did Cosmo’s Manufacturing facility the next yr. CCR had been enormous… however might they’ve been even larger?
