https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21053478/
Being a teen in the late ‘50’s & early ‘60’s the group was after my time. Later, as the Viet Nam war was raging & people I knew who came home in body bags, I learned to appreciate their sound along with Bob Dylan.
https://youtu.be/wkqfPuQhW9I?si=Mq4O3FBpxMuP6_0C
https://youtu.be/JEmI_FT4YHU?si=_938Mv92SBSzr79F
Fortunate Son is one of the great protest songs.
shareI had to find it with lyrics on YouTube. I’m unable to discern, due to bad hearing, what Fogerty was singing. You are correct when stating it was “one of the great protest songs.” Back then I didn’t listen to hard rock, but through the years as I became older & wiser I began listening to CCR, not the hard rock as I still don’t like it, but only the more discernible tracks.
shareBack then a lot of the protest songs were sad folk songs. Fogerty, you can hear the anger blazing away in that song.
shareI was going to write “folk” songs, but wasn’t sure if it was descriptive of their music. I like the beat of the nonsensical “Lookin’ Out My Back Door”. Also, the beat of “Down On the Corner”.
Strange they played at Woodstock, but were against hard drugs. As far as weed goes, Fogerty said not while they were touring or playing to a crowd.
I love them and honestly don't know anyone who dislikes them. Their music is so legendary and their work so ubiquitous in movie soundracks and radio play that even if someone disliked classic rock they'd probably at least respect the iconic career CCR had.
shareThey must have something going for them. For most of you they were before “your time”. I would not wish to live the 1960’s again. Turmoil every damn day! Dylan was right with his: “The Times They Are A-Changing”… but at what cost? A lot of blood running.
”Released in 1964, the song was a rallying cry for millions of young Americans who were caught up in the turbulence of the 1960s, a decade that was marked by social and political upheaval”
The 60s, 70s and 80s were intense decades for me. Yeah, I wouldn't want to relive them either. But in hindsight, I see how they molded me, made me what I am. I was one of those young Americans, a conflicted army brat/hippie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dATyZBEeDJ4
And https://moviechat.org/tt0064579/The-Learning-Tree
I agree that the times are always changing but that doesn't always mean for the worst like some people might say. The American Revolution must have seemed crazy at the time and The American Civil was an utter horror show which led to important changes in policy regarding human rights.... a first step if you will.
Changes are tough as I bet you would agree but sometimes necessary.
It was the way changes came about. Too much blood spilled before it was done. I don’t have much respect for the Woodstock bunch. They talked a good talk when they weren’t stoned, but did they walk the walk? Gathering at Woodstock where most were half dressed, behaving like degenerates, drugged out of their gourd, singing protest songs then to top it off spitting on the poor souls returning from Viet Nam was a change we didn’t need. Hippies were not a good change. They solved nothing.
The War Between the States didn’t bring human rights. It took another 100 years for that to occur. Yes, slavery was abolished, thank God!, but when Blacks went north they weren’t treated any better. The actual chains were gone, but the virtual chains remained.
Pfft! You're painting with too broad of a brush. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v8aY6sHMAY
shareThey all look like junky, drunken bums from my perspective, a bunch of naive dopers.
Granted, the music was Classic and great. I love the music.
But the hippies were naive muddy doped up kids and they switched sides once they realized what a TDF and a mortgage meant.
The hippies are not living in tents anymore, they haven't for fifty years.
I don't care about how you perceive them. What did you look like at that age, with your stupid mullet and heavy metal crowd? And look who's talking about "drunk and junky looking." The ranting, raving drunk in his garage every night, and you used to peddle the very dope you're now trying to decry, non-stop hypocrite,
"The hippies are not living in tents anymore..." No shit! What a stupid comment. Did I claim they were? Just the opposite. I was making the point that for many, just like me, it was a temporary phase of being young and troubled during a turbulent time in our nation's history.
Ha! lit you up again rage mutt:)
So easy it's almost boring.
Baited and landed again dummy.
https://youtu.be/OMJZpoFp694?si=4uwMA5UHADmG4MPe
Woodstock was not a good thing. Video shows it was a cesspool.
It was an hedonistic event.
https://nypost.com/2019/06/29/sex-skinny-dipping-and-acid-trips-behind-the-scenes-at-woodstock/
'Pfft!'
So dismissive of your nearly only friend here.
THAT was disrespectful.
True.
It required constitutional amendments and a decades long civil rights movement to steady the ship but abolition was an important first step.