At last! A “Boomer Anthem” I have actually heard. As for Creedence, I prefer “Green River”.
KCKJuly 21, 2022, 12:07 PM
Yes. Yes, I have seen the rain.
Raised in Hoquiam and Forks, WA.
captfleeJuly 21, 2022, 1:12 PM
That’s a good one, but the one that has remained my favorite is “Bad Moon Rising”, fondly recalled from that evening in long ago New Orleans when my apparently notable entrance (beneath an umbrella, off my buddy Tutt’s motorcycle, Barbancourt & tonic in hand, clad in a particularly vivid Haitian voodoo shirt) into a boozy crowd out in the street in front of Cosimo Matassa’s place charmed the gorgeous red haired UA rep therein sufficiently to have her drag me along to a later work thing of hers, the local premiere of “An American Werewolf in London”. That was a damned fine day in the Quarter.
VanderleunJuly 21, 2022, 3:43 PM
That was YOU?! Sheeee-it!
captfleeJuly 21, 2022, 1:21 PM
Although now that I think of it, the more appropriate song might be “Who’ll Stop the Rain”, given the movie of the same name. The whole Ray Hicks thing hits maybe a little too close to home.
ghostsniperJuly 21, 2022, 1:53 PM
At age 15 when I first started earning my own money, with the very first paycheck I bought a CCR cassette tape and commenced playing the hell out of it. In the 52 years hence I have probably spent $100k on music related stuff. Music has always been a fairly big piece of who I am, and I don’t mean just listening to it but participating in it too.
bluebirdJuly 21, 2022, 3:41 PM
two years in Moclips WA and three in Ketchican AK. I know rain!
Casey KlahnJuly 21, 2022, 7:55 PM
We could talk.
HossJuly 22, 2022, 10:45 PM
I spent a month on a tree planting crew in 83 working up above Forks. We camped somewhere up in the brush in a campground on a river. It was a beautiful area, and the steelhead were plentiful. It was February and I don’t recall the sun making a showing the whole time. On Friday we would head down into Forks and grab a room for the weekend, wash clothes, enjoy a shower and drink lots of beer. I recall a bar that had an elk head mounted on a wall and across the street in another bar the back end of the same elk mounted on a wall there. Am I remembering correctly or has time, and the beer clouded my memory? Yes, it rained a bit.
Dan PattersonJuly 22, 2022, 3:20 AM
Who else is confused by the video?
Great song by a great band from the very end of a great era.
AggieJuly 22, 2022, 7:11 AM
Looks like a little sister kinda video to me.
BluebirdJuly 22, 2022, 8:58 PM
Casey. You grew up there in the rain. I am but a novice.
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My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
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I know the passionate seizure of beauty
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Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
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Poets wrote down words that did fit
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Can’t leave it alone
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Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
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Through the eyes of a child
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Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
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Leave it all for a while
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Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
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Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
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I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
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Until I see
My shining light
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Until I see
My shining light
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Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
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At last! A “Boomer Anthem” I have actually heard. As for Creedence, I prefer “Green River”.
Yes. Yes, I have seen the rain.
Raised in Hoquiam and Forks, WA.
That’s a good one, but the one that has remained my favorite is “Bad Moon Rising”, fondly recalled from that evening in long ago New Orleans when my apparently notable entrance (beneath an umbrella, off my buddy Tutt’s motorcycle, Barbancourt & tonic in hand, clad in a particularly vivid Haitian voodoo shirt) into a boozy crowd out in the street in front of Cosimo Matassa’s place charmed the gorgeous red haired UA rep therein sufficiently to have her drag me along to a later work thing of hers, the local premiere of “An American Werewolf in London”. That was a damned fine day in the Quarter.
That was YOU?! Sheeee-it!
Although now that I think of it, the more appropriate song might be “Who’ll Stop the Rain”, given the movie of the same name. The whole Ray Hicks thing hits maybe a little too close to home.
At age 15 when I first started earning my own money, with the very first paycheck I bought a CCR cassette tape and commenced playing the hell out of it. In the 52 years hence I have probably spent $100k on music related stuff. Music has always been a fairly big piece of who I am, and I don’t mean just listening to it but participating in it too.
two years in Moclips WA and three in Ketchican AK. I know rain!
We could talk.
I spent a month on a tree planting crew in 83 working up above Forks. We camped somewhere up in the brush in a campground on a river. It was a beautiful area, and the steelhead were plentiful. It was February and I don’t recall the sun making a showing the whole time. On Friday we would head down into Forks and grab a room for the weekend, wash clothes, enjoy a shower and drink lots of beer. I recall a bar that had an elk head mounted on a wall and across the street in another bar the back end of the same elk mounted on a wall there. Am I remembering correctly or has time, and the beer clouded my memory? Yes, it rained a bit.
Who else is confused by the video?
Great song by a great band from the very end of a great era.
Looks like a little sister kinda video to me.
Casey. You grew up there in the rain. I am but a novice.