The early 1970s found Creedence Clearwater Revival on top as one of the most popular rock bands in the world, and April 14th of 1970 found them playing a concert at the legendary Royal Albert Hall in London, England. That concert has now emerged from the vaults and been released in a number of formats. (Several decades ago, there was a release under the same title, but it turned out to be a San Francisco performance.)<\/p>\n
Creedence Clearwater concerts can be both enjoyable and not very creative at the same time. All their live performances from the era have a sameness; the set lists are the same and the individual song performances are impeccable, but have few differences from each other. If you\u2019ve heard one of their songs in the studio or live at Woodstock or San Francisco, then any of the performances at Royal Albert Hall will basically be the same. The positive is, if you like their music, you will enjoy this release.<\/p>\n
The year 1970 found the band transitioning from their more bluesy sound toward a rock and pop fusion. The concert begins with \u201cBorn On The Bayou,\u201d \u201cGreen River,\u201d and \u201cTombstone Shadow.\u201d The band is grittier than they would be just a year later and Tom Fogerty\u2019s rhythm guitar fills in the sound. He would be missed after leaving the group and their decision to carry on as a three-person unit.<\/p>\n
\u201cTravelin\u2019 Band\u201d and a searing version of the anti-war song \u201cFortunate Son\u201d look toward the band\u2019s future. Covers of \u201cMidnight Special,\u201d \u201cThe Night Time Is The Right Time,\u201d and \u201cGood Golly Miss Molly\u201d would quickly disappear from their concerts, but here offer a look back to the group\u2019s bar band days. Tucked in between are their classic songs \u201cProud Mary\u201d and \u201cBad Moon Rising.\u201d<\/p>\n
The final song, \u201cKeep On Chooglin\u2019,\u201d returns the band to their swampy blues sound and clocks in at 8:37. Only one other song is longer than five minutes; the other 10 songs are all under 3:30 and remain wonderful relics of the past.<\/p>\n
At The Royal Albert Hall <\/i>finds Creedence Clearwater Revival at the height of their commercial appeal and this concert presents their music note for note. Again, enjoyable if not creative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":34619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5749],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-46471","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-creedence-clearwater-revival","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46471"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46471"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}