I Came Upon A Child Of God

Unfortunately, the so-called Woodstock generation morphed from seeing themselves as the children of God, to the children for whom God does not exist. And they really never have accounted for that misguided calamity. Must have been the drugs.

“It’s a disgraceful mess!” he said. “My fields are all cut up. Our second cutting of hay is going. [As for] my cows, the milk truck didn’t get here, so the milk had to be thrown out.”

Comments

[cindi]

Ewww yuck. Now that's dirty, and hippies are still nasty.

Peace out.....

[mark l.]

ccr.

i accept that there are those who might not think of them as one of the greatest, but for me, no one comes close.

[Ad rem]

Suzi Q...Down on the Corner..........too bad J.Fogerty was such a prick.

[mark l.]

yea, he is/was kind of a dick.
(some similarities with REM, including the talent)

it's the distortion, fading in and out on guitar, with the folksy voice of fogerty.

it was the perfect blend of folk, with the move to adapt to the "wall of sound".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_sound

buffalo springfield, mr. soul was kinda the epitome of their sound that they went on to really develop. The timing makes sense, but there were a ton of other influences that could have led to their style.

right time, right place. sooo many hits...

[WBestPresidentEver]

the sad thing……these are the clowns ruining the country.

[Saul Alinsky]

My tribute to the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, updated to salute our current Volunteers of America:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy38vO0oLZQ

Go to it now, it calls you, you can't refuse. I love using leftist and hippie music and art against them. How does it feel?

[Hyman Roth]

Maybe Fogerty deserved the shafting that Saul Zaenz gave him.

[Immanuel Goldstein]

I'm a member of the Woodstock generation and drank of the same waters. But I didn't become a big government collectivist. And there were plenty others like me. Sure we smoked dope and experimented with drugs, but we settled down, got jobs, raised families, and became normal, conservative members of society. The radicals of my generation were a comparatively small number of loud mouths. Unfortunately, we allowed them to define and tar the rest of us.

[Jake]

"Unfortunately, we allowed them to define and tar the rest of us."

Only to a few short-sighted fools who cannot see the wide view. Those 'icky' hippies grew up side-by-side with the Vietnam Vets and rocked this nation into its most productive era ever. It's time for those 'icky' hippies and 'hypocritical' Baby Boomers they morphed into to have another Woodstock on The Mall. Opening act: Rolling Stones - "Paint it Black". Time to rock this nation again instead of peeking out of our curtains wondering what's happening to our great country.

[mark l.]

"Those 'icky' hippies grew up side-by-side with the Vietnam Vets"

ccr?

"The group had suffered a setback in 1966 when the draft board called up John Fogerty and Doug Clifford for military service. Fogerty managed to enlist in the Army Reserve instead of the regular Army while Clifford did a tenure in the United States Coast Guard Reserve."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creedence_Clearwater_Revival

give fogerty some credit. he didn't exactly get a medical deferrment.