In 1970 at Box Hill High School the older students used to have a record listening club on the top floor. when Cosmos Factory by creedence Clearwater Revival Revival came out they wedged the speakers into the window openings and blasted this song out to all the kids playing games in the quadrangle,. That opening guitar riff shook the school.
I was in Year 3 (year 9) by todays groupings. I thought it was the most magnificent sound I'd ever heard. When I got home that night my brother had the record.
I was a regular buyer of Go-Set and I had just read an article stating that since the end of the Beatles Creedence were now the biggest band in the world. Cosmos factory was everywhere. Every party. Everywhere.
A few years back I was on holiday in Bali when we went on a tour of the hinterlands in the back of a jeep blasting out Creedence tunes. A perfect soundtrack to hot weather, raging monkeys, 12 foot pythons and rain forests. Bouncing up and down in the back of a jeep going up around the bend!
I hated CCR as a kid, cos we used to have a stall at Dandenong-South Trash and treasure market/Drive-in every Sunday, and CCR were a favorite with rednecks. Groups of Dandenong yobs would shove merchandise under their lumber jackets and I'd have to be the hero and retrieve the goods from guys twice my height! Many fights ensured.. Whenever I'd return to my dad empty handed with a black eye, he'd still be disappointed in my security skills..
ReplyDeleteAnyway, years later, i bought a 67 Pontiac, which only had an 8-track player. I grabbed the only palatable cartridges off my dad, and a couple of them were CCR.. So I learned to love them..