This is great stuff. I love the look in John's eyes at 3:54.

The song breathes very well. It starts with a lope and by the time it ends, it's driving. Check the speed from beginning to end. Serious movement. I love that. Music just doesn't breathe anymore. That's a shame. You lose energy and flow when you LOCK into a specific place and never deviate.

Check out Cosmo rocking those Camco's and those must be at least 16" hi-hats if not bigger....

That's funny, I remember 40 years ago me and my friends looking at a pic on the back of a CCR album (was it Cosmo's Factory?) and talking about how large the hihat cymbals were. I remember trying two large cymbals on a hihat to see what it would be like because of that photo and the hihat spring was so weak the cymbals stayed closed all the time.

I personally hate click tracks. I don't like drummers playing with headphones because you throw away the bottom 30+db where all the "nice" sound is and it takes away the basic role of the drummer as "time generator" and makes the drummer a follower. Drummers with headphones tend to sound like they are using metal tipped sticks.

Put on any Miles Davis record at the first of the song and then at the end and I doubt if you could find one that doesn't speed up. And those are the best musicians of all time. That says something.

There's a thread in the making here. I've walked away from some very high profile calls because the producer was not a 'flow' man. You hire the drummer, not the drum. I can lock in with the best of 'em, but man ... the song has got to breathe. That's energy! It's a landscape that has more than one dimension.

Classic CCR I love it. Had the Cosmo's Factory vinyl too. Kickin stuff. I remember the big hi hats and weren't the cymbals silver in color? Paiste or??

Paiste 602 powered, regular colored cymbals!

Very good thank you!

To me it looked like the drummer was driving John nuts at the first - seems like John is feeling it faster and giving him the "C'mon man" vibe.

The ol' tube amp tremolo strikes again. Those are funny, I have one on an Alamo amp and it's fun to mess with.

Mixolydian tunes always sound funny. Ode to Billy Joe, Lime in the Coconut, the subtonic gives it a sick vibe.

I didn't know that was Fogerty's favorite CCR tune. I remember being happy when I heard Paul McCartney say that "Maybe I'm Amazed" was, he thought, his best tune, 'cause I always did. And how bizarre that after the Paul and John write what is possibly their best work (John with "Imagine") after the Fab Four break up.

How can you not love this stuff ? Goosebump material! I love CCR!