We rehearsed every day in a shed in Doug’s garden.” The shed was nicknamed Cosmo’s Factory. “We had a real work ethic about the band. “We considered ourselves pretty professional already,” says Cook. They also renamed the band Creedence (“after a friend of Tom’s”) Clearwater (“from a beer commercial”) Revival (“a statement of intent”). It took a lot of fortitude, particularly as he was the older brother and leader of the band, to give it up for his younger brother.”Īfter a temporary halt while Clifford and John Fogerty found ingenious ways to avoid the draft for the Vietnam war, they decided to go full-time in late 1967. That gave them a distinctive sound of their own and they decided to pursue it. It was around this time that John Fogerty started writing songs, initially along with his brother Tom and then on his own as his style came together. “But we had to go with it because that was the name on the record label.”Īt this point the band’s style was heavily influenced by British bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds and particularly Them. “We were shocked, particularly when we found out what it meant,” says Cook. Except that when they saw a copy of their first single they discovered their name had been changed from The Blue Velvets to The Golliwogs. The label asked if the band had a singer, because they were interested in signing a rock’n’roll band. They hastily recorded an instrumental demo of their own and took it to Fantasy, which specialised in jazz records. “We were fledglings,” says Clifford, “but Tom already had the vision of a career and making records.” When they watched a TV programme about how a small independent label had an unexpected instrumental hit, they were interested to discover that the label, Fantasy, was just down the road in Berkeley. They started out with Clifford’s friend Cook on piano he switched to bass around the time they hooked up with John’s brother Tom, who was four years older. Do you want to form a band?’ He said: ‘Yeah, but actually I play guitar’.” They were both 14 years old. So I went up to him and said: ‘That’s authentic Fats.’ He said: ‘Yeah. All rights reserved.Cook: "“We were shocked, particularly when we found out what the band name meant,” (Image credit: Getty Images)Ĭlifford can still remember meeting John Fogerty for the first time in the music room at their Junior High School in El Cerrito, a dormitory town on the other side of the bay from San Francisco: “There was this shy kid playing Fats Domino on the piano. O’brien Scott said if anyone suffered water damage from the incident, they can file a claim with the town either on their website or through the town clerk’s office.Ĭopyright 2023. The town expects to get the results tomorrow from water tests conducted in the affected areas. There’s also bottled water available at the fire department headquarters at 44 Van Deene Avenue where they can come and pick that up, free of charge.” “They should bring it to a boil for about a minute and then they can use it for consumption. “They can boil water,” said O’Brien Scott. So, it was a large break.”Īround 85 houses still without water and hundreds more without undrinkable water for now, O’Brien Scott said there are options available for those folks. This is significantly larger, it’s one of the largest mains we have in town, its 24 inches, the break they discovered is basically 2 feet by 5 feet. “So normally it’s patched up and no one even notices but because of the size of this was more significant. “It caused a drop in pressure for the town’s whole water system,” said O’Brien Scott.
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