Creedence Clearwater Revisited

The idea of a Creedence Clearwater Revival cover band formed by ex-CCR members Stu Cook and Doug Clifford is either the biggest obscenity in sixties rock revivals, or the only fully musically just and honest cover band phenomenon there is.
To people who take rock & roll seriously, the existence of Creedence Clearwater Revisited is probably an abomination - the equivalent of George and Ringo going back on the road leading a Beatles cover band, complete with replacements for John and Paul. Creedence Clearwater Revisited was initially supposed to be a short-run project, conceived in 1995 - Elliot Easton, formerly of the Cars, played lead guitar, and John Tristao handled the vocals. They were only supposed to play private parties, but soon the band was getting 100 gigs a year.
Suffice to say that these guys are singularly unlikely to ever be a major creative force (or even part of one) in rock music the way they were 30 years ago, and the chance of anything new or fresh issuing forth from them is practically nil. But that's also true of Chuck Berry and a lot of other names bigger than Cook or Clifford, and Creedence Clearwater Revisited does put on a good show, and crowds looking for good time rock & roll music enjoy them, the same way that Rob Grill & The Grass Roots or whatever version of "Herman Hermits" Peter Noone is fronting can pull 15,000 to an outdoor venue on a decent summer night. At least CCRevisited doesn't pretend to be anything more than what it is, even if they're not too much more than a flesh-and-blood jukebox.
Of course, the eerie backdrop to their presence is the fact that John Fogerty (who cut a great blues-rock album in 1997) finally overcame his reticence about his old songs and issued his own live album, at virtually the same time that CCRevisited got its double-live CD out. So fans once limited to a choice of original CCR recordings are now faced with Fogerty's own new versions of his old hits, and new live versions of those same hits by this band. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide

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