As a teenager in the 1980's I said something out loud in front of an older guy who was actually around during the late 60's and early 70's... that Led Zeppelin was the biggest band in the world then... he said no, no way... The Rolling Stones were...
Thinking of them only as a sixties thing, little did I know then about Mick Taylor and how great The Stones were and how big they were...
So when narrator Jeff Bridges mumbles (about five times) that Creedence was always number 2 behind The Beatles and then Number One after their breakup, it's a bit of a stretch... actually it's an outright lie...
CCR had many top ten hits and turned out albums like warhorses, but they were a popular niche compared to The Stones...
And this is a pretty good documentary and a pretty great live show... The documentary of the band's rise occurs as bookends, and the only frustration is, if you're going to hear about a band beginning and climbing, you'll expect to hear the entire story... because their breakup is even more interesting than the years they existed...
So that leaves the grungy powerhouse concert to stand alone... like Scorsese's Shine A Light for The Stones, this is more a concert film than doc, and the rowdy working glass rockers take on the otherwise classy prestige of England's Royal Albert Hall... a bunch of hillbillies raiding a mansion is what's being expected here...
However, when you see the brainless hippie audience being even more of a contrast to the location... in particular three or four dancing like insane puppets at the foot of the stage while the band worked their butts off... that whole irony loses its... well... irony...
A great concert's here, however, and John Fogerty and the band that backed him better than any musicians ever would... including the clean-toned rhythm playing brother perfectly contrasting to John's distorted menace... and a rhythm section that were as irreplaceable to John as he was to them: and this is all the proof of that you'll ever need of that fact.
Thinking of them only as a sixties thing, little did I know then about Mick Taylor and how great The Stones were and how big they were...
So when narrator Jeff Bridges mumbles (about five times) that Creedence was always number 2 behind The Beatles and then Number One after their breakup, it's a bit of a stretch... actually it's an outright lie...
CCR had many top ten hits and turned out albums like warhorses, but they were a popular niche compared to The Stones...
And this is a pretty good documentary and a pretty great live show... The documentary of the band's rise occurs as bookends, and the only frustration is, if you're going to hear about a band beginning and climbing, you'll expect to hear the entire story... because their breakup is even more interesting than the years they existed...
So that leaves the grungy powerhouse concert to stand alone... like Scorsese's Shine A Light for The Stones, this is more a concert film than doc, and the rowdy working glass rockers take on the otherwise classy prestige of England's Royal Albert Hall... a bunch of hillbillies raiding a mansion is what's being expected here...
However, when you see the brainless hippie audience being even more of a contrast to the location... in particular three or four dancing like insane puppets at the foot of the stage while the band worked their butts off... that whole irony loses its... well... irony...
A great concert's here, however, and John Fogerty and the band that backed him better than any musicians ever would... including the clean-toned rhythm playing brother perfectly contrasting to John's distorted menace... and a rhythm section that were as irreplaceable to John as he was to them: and this is all the proof of that you'll ever need of that fact.