CCR at Royal Albert Hall, April 1970

CCR at Royal Albert Hall, April 1970. Complete show!

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 Creedence Clearwater Revival
Royal Albert Hall
London, England
April 14 1970

1 Born On The Bayou
2 Green River
3 Tombstone Shadow
4 Travelin' Band
5 Fortunate Son
6 Commotion
7 Midnight Special
8 Bad Moon Rising
9 Proud Mary
10 The Night Time is the Right Time
11 Good Golly Miss Molly
12 Keep On Chooglin'

John Fogerty: Guitar and Vocals
Tom Fogerty: Guitar
Stu Cook: Bass
Doug Clifford: Drums

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Mietin muutaman hetken, minkä aiheen näistä kolmesta valitsisin päreeseeni: BDSM-seksin, Tolstoin vai CCR:n? Nämä kolme teemaa ovat pyörineet tänään[kin] päässäni kuluttaessani aikaa kohti kuolemaa ja tehdessäni fantasiasta elämäni sisältöä. Lopulta päädyin aloittamaan äskettäin tuubista löytämälläni CCR:n Royal Albert Hall-taltioinnilla, jossa nähdään toinen Lontoon 4/1970 keikoista alusta loppuun. Äänen laatu ei ole paras mahdollinen eikä kuvakaan ihan prima, mutta taltiointi on rock-musiikin historian kannalta merkittävä, sillä alkuperäisestä CCR:stä ei ole olemassa kuin enintään muutama pitkä livevideointi.
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En voi jälleen kerran muuta kuin mieli hyristen ihailla, miten kerta kaikkiaan lahjakas, inspiroitunut ja taitava muusikko, laulaja sekä lauluntekijä John Fogerty oli jo tuolloin. CCR on amerikkalaisen rock-musiikin Beatles ja John Fogerty kuuluukin kirkkaasti samaan sarjaan kuin parivaljakko Paul McCartney ja John Lennon. Kaiken lisäksi hän yksin teki CCR:n hitit, tuotti, sovitti ja esitti ne. Beatlesit saivat sentään suurta tukea levy-yhtiöltään ja etenkin tuottaja George Martinilta sekä manageri Brian Epsteinilta, mutta John Fogerty alkoi itse jopa manageroida bändiään, koska Fantasy Records/Saul Zaentz ei ollut tarpeeksi kiinnostunut muusta kuin CCR:n/Johnin tuottamista levy- ja royalty-tuloista. Tätä karua realiteettia vasten John Fogertyn saavutukset menevät jopa yli Lennonin ja McCartneyn. Elviskään ei ollut muuta kuin loistava tulkitsija, mutta Johnilla sen sijaan oli kaikkea, mitä amerikkalaisen roots-rockin [tulevan megagenren] perustan luomiseen tarvittiin.
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Ainoa asia, joka jää hieman kaivertamaan tämän keikan suhteen on encore-biisien puuttuminen. John oli nimittäin joskus 1969 syksyllä yllättäen päättänyt, ettei bändi enää soita ylimääräisiä kappaleita [ks. PS.]. Hänestä oli kai alkanut jo tuossa vaiheessa tulla enemmän tai vähemmän katkera mies seuraavien 25-vuoden ajaksi. Rock-yhtyeet saivat keikoista vielä tuolloin prosentuaalisesti paljon pienemmän osuuden kuin nykyään [taloustiedettä opiskellut Mick Jagger ja Rollarit pakotti ensimmäisenä keikkajärjestäjiä muuttamaan käytäntöjä 197o-luvun alussa perustamalla oman levy-yhtiön], vaikka yleisömäärien lisääntyessä rahaa keikkamaailmassa alkoi yhä nopeammin liikkua yhä enemmän. Niinpä John alkoi pitää tiukkaa linjaa kaiken sellaisen suhteen, mikä toisi hänelle ja bändille enemmän palkkioita vähemmällä vaivalla. John alkoi tavallaan harjoittaa samankaltaista busines-politiikkaa kuin Fantasyn Zaentz häntä itseään ja CCR:ää kohtaan. 

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Aika outona selityksenä Johnilta voi pitää myös sitä, että bändin vakiolopetusbiisi, pitkä ja hillittömään purkautumiseen päätyvä juntta-boogie Keep on Chooglin’ muka pusertaisi kaikki irti bändistä ja yleisöstä, joten siihen oli hyvä lopettaa. Kaikki muut kyllä tajusivat ja kokivat, että asia oli tasan päinvastoin 45-50-minuutin konsertissa ja että John vain keksi tekosyitä pottumaisille fiiliksilleen. Bändin muut jäsenet eivät siis olleet samaa mieltä Johnin kanssa, mutta tämän sana painoi asiassa eniten, koska hän oli se, jonka varassa koko projekti pyöri.
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Encoren puuttuminen jonkinlaisena protestina levy-yhtiön [Johnin kannalta surkean royalty-sopimuksen] ja keikkajärjestäjien suuntaan osui valitettavasti väärään maaliin, kuten rumpali Doug Clifford sanoi. Minuuttikaupalla taputtava yleisö, joka oli haltioissaan näkemästään ja kuulemastaan olisi ansainnut ainakin yhden encoren. Sympaattisesti tarinaa iskevällä John Fogertylla on kuitenkin oma pimeä puolensa ja kaiken lisäksi hän on [tai ainakin oli] myös pitkävihaista tyyppiä. Soolourallaan John on toki soittanut aina encoret parin tunnin keikan päälle [tosin omia CCR-biisejään (joihin hänellä ei ollut juurikaan oikeuksia) vuoden 1972 jälkeen vasta vuodesta 1997:stä eteenpäin], mutta eipä hän enää ole samassa mielessä katkerakaan kuin vielä reilut 20 vuotta sitten. 
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Hieman kärjistäen voidaan silti sanoa, että CCR oli John Fogertylle Green Riveristä lähtien yhä suuremmassa määrin have you ever seen the rain comin’ down on a sunny day: – Pendulum-LP:n biisi, joka kertoo CCR:n hajoamisesta [Tom Fogerty oli ilmoittanut veljelleen eroavansa musiikillisten erimielisyyksien takia]. Bändin sisäisistä [alunperin melko luonnollisista] linjaselvittelyistä [joissa John sai tahtonsa läpi – onneksi] sekä Johnin ja levy-yhtiön välisistä [kymmenien miljoonien dollareitten] erimielisyyksistä huolimatta John loi CCR-tuotannon, jota voi täysin perustellusti pitää The Bandin ohella roots-rockin merkittävimpänä peruslähteenä. Sen todistaa osaltaan jo tämä erinomainen Albert Hallin keikka. 
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Päättäväisyys [pahimmillaan silkka itsepäisyys], lahjakkuus [tunnistettava oma tyyli ja ääni] ja etenkin onnekas sattuma ihmissuhteessa vuosia myöhemmin [toinen vaimo Julie] estivät John Fogertya vajoamasta lopullisesti siihen katkeruuden suohon, josta Eye of the Zombie-LP:n [1986] eräät kappaleet ovat niin ilmeisiä todisteita.
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Alkuaikoinaan CCR soitti aina encoreja - kerran [1968] kaikkien mahdollisten ylimääräisten lisäksi jopa koko setin uudestaan, minkä jälkeen sanfranciscolainen keikkajärjestäjä, joka varta vasten oli vaatinut aina vain pitempää settiä ja paljon encoreja, osti jokaiselle bändin jäsenelle kohtuullisen arvokkaan kellon ja varoitti enää soittamasta liian pitkään [haha]. Muistettakoon. että [toisin kuin nykyään] vielä 1960/1970-luvun vaihteessa 50-60 minuutin kiertuekeikat olivat vakiintunut käytäntö rockissa.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D6vas5iLvY&feature=related

http://actuspurunen.blogspot.fi/2012/10/creedence-clearwater-revival-live-at.html

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

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

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

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_You_Ever_Seen_the_Rain%3F

http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f146/creedence-clearwater-revival-april-14-1970-royal-albert-hall-london-pro-dvd-116764.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concert_%28Creedence_Clearwater_Revival_album%29

Anarchy in the UK

Miten sosiaaliselta vaikuttaakaan Sex Pistols tänään verrattuna Lontoon 2011 mellakoihin [vai voisiko Johnny Rottenia sittenkin syyttää mellakointiin yllyttämisestä?]. Ehkä Frank Ellisin [alakuvan mietteliäs 'jumala'] ja muiden äärikonservatiivien mielestä olisi kuitenkin vain hienoa [toisin kuin 1977], jos nuorison aggressiivisin 'rupusakki' ryhtyisi soittamaan punkkia talojen polttamisen ja ryöstelyitten sijaan. - Punkkareita kun ei tarvitsisi välttämättä ampua silmien välliin kuten mellastavalle roskajoukko-racaille'lle pitäisi Ellisin mukaan tehdä [Ellis on julki-rasisti].

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The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians. Although their initial career lasted just two-and-a-half years and produced only four singles and one studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, they are regarded as one of the most influential acts in the history of popular music.

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In August 2011, widespread rioting occurred in parts of England. The riots began in Tottenham, North London, following a peaceful protest sparked by the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan there by officers of the Metropolitan Police Service on 4 August 2011. The ensuing looting, arson, assaults, muggings, burglary, robbery and disorder spread across London and to other areas of England, with the worst disturbances mostly centred on a small number of major cities

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Dr. Frank Ellis is a former lecturer in Russian and Slavonic Studies at Leeds University, who was suspended for alleged racism. His opinion is that ethnicity could influence average intelligence levels and that black people have a lower average IQ than white people.

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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Frank Ellis responds to David Cameron's statement on the London Riots

From: Dr Frank Ellis

To: Mr David Cameron, Prime Minister MP

Date: 10th August 2011 A.D.

Re: An Open Letter to the Prime Minister Concerning his Statement (9th August 2011) on the London Riots

Dear Mr Cameron

The pillaging, theft and other forms of degenerate behaviour which have blighted and polluted the streets of London and other English cities, and which at the time of writing still threaten us, arise from three distinct yet interconnected causes: the huge growth of a welfare state and with it the growth of a massive parasite underclass; mass, uncontrolled, non-white immigration; and the attack upon moral and intellectual standards.

If over decades it becomes possible to exist on transfer payments from those who work and pay taxes, any incentive to work is destroyed. I say “exist” but from a purely material point of view a life on transfer payments means that sexually delinquent women can have child after child at the expense of the taxpayer and receive all the means necessary to feed and clothe their children often from a whole series of fathers. These mothers and their children have no interest in education. They have been encouraged to believe that they have an entitlement to the fruits of other people’s labour.

Mass, uncontrolled, non-white immigration adds enormously to the problems already created by reckless welfare statism. Since so many blacks are unemployed and unemployable they are totally dependent on transfer payments (other people’s money). Blacks in these situations do not derive any sense of achievement from the pursuit of knowledge and self-improvement but from violence and rapine. The low-IQ horizons of the mongrel mob are betrayed by the objects they steal: electronic goods, trainers and alcohol. As always, these are the objects lusted after by la racaille. Remember the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?

Over the last 40 years all levels of education, the public sector, and religious institutions such as the Church of England and government itself have been contaminated by moral and intellectual relativism. At first these institutions were themselves under attack: now they are the attackers and destroyers of decency; the purveyors of filth and lies; the supporters of degenerate behaviour; they have declared war on those who adhere to the notions of good and evil, who try to do the decent thing for themselves and their families. According to these pernicious doctrines there can be no right or wrong; there are no standards; there are no privileged perspectives; the victim is no better than the murderer. If some black commits rape or some other crime there is no shortage of various self-appointed experts, typically white, ready to concoct a whole range of implausible ad hoc explanations and justifications for criminal behaviour all of which are intended to weaken the burden of guilt. In fact, guilt has been rendered redundant. Being told that you are not responsible for your actions is a very attractive message for those who are none too bright and who are predisposed to steal, to rob, to rape and to mug (Of course, we all know that personal responsibility is a white prejudice).

By far the most damaging consequences of the attack on moral and intellectual standards are seen in the way the police react to crime committed by blacks and other non-white immigrants. This is a direct result of TheMacpherson Report and its Marxist attacks on the police and, indeed, on England’s other institutions. As an urgent practical and symbolic measure the government must publicly denounce the Macpherson Report: it is a viciously anti-white racist document. It had very little to do with ascertaining the way the police conducted a murder investigation. Its purpose was to intimidate and to demonise those who resisted the Neo-Marxist cult of multiculturalism and to impose the cult on the public sector. The effects of the Macpherson Report have been especially damaging on the middle and higher strata of the police where to voice any criticism of Macphersonism is to finish a career. So those that get promoted and rewarded are the careerists, those who know full well that the Macpherson Report is litany of anti-white hatred and filth but who go along with it because it is professionally rewarding for them to do so. These are the senior police officers who debase themselves by pandering to this thing called “the black community” rather than to make it quite clear that violence and lawlessness will invite a swift and ruthless response or who in the aftermath of the publication of the Macpherson Report grovelled and wallowed in self-incrimination in order to win favour with the Labour government. I also recall that William Hague accepted the recommendations of the Macpherson Report in full. Is that still the case?

Large areas of urban housing largely occupied by non-white immigrants – they are not communities in any normal sense of the word – cannot be rebuilt. True, buildings and infrastructure can be rebuilt – yet again – but a community requires trust and cohesion: multiculturalism destroys trust and cohesion. This is the inescapable conclusion of the latest set of riots and indeed has been obvious since the immigrant invasion started in 1948.

As an immediate response to rioters and looters, and in order to restore public confidence, the police must use lethal force. Rioters and looters who do not disperse when warned must be shot dead. Thereafter rioters and looters are to be shot on sight. Curfews must be also enforced. Violators are to be shot on sight. Innocent citizens caught up in the terrifying circumstances of rioting and trying to protect their loved ones, their livelihoods and property should be left in no doubt at all that they have the right – the obligation – to take all proportionate and reasonable measures, including lethal force, in order to defend themselves. All these measures can be communicated via the monopoly media and Internet. Clearly, given the extent to which the police have been rendered ineffective by the Left, or have in some circumstances colluded with their Marxist tormentors, no person in his right mind can possibly expect to rely on the police. Unless and until the police are permitted to free themselves from the ideological shackles of Macphersonism they will be remain part of the problem, an enemy of rational, fair but firm policing.

The ineffectiveness of the politically-correct police, the cowardly denials of the political class when confronted with the repeated, savage failures of multiculturalism and the white man’s failure to defend himself and his ancient land, all bode very ill for England. Have we, the English, now reached the moment of reckoning? Do we finally relinquish control of England to the Third-World masses that have been permitted to swarm into our country and whose every base action is defended by white Quislings or will we fight back?

We have to face up to the fact that England cannot ever regain her composure, her sense of being at ease with herself, if large numbers of non-whites are permitted to remain here, never mind the ones who continue to enter this country. In addition to the measures I recommended to you earlier in the year (see my letter dated 9th February 2011) I would suggest that every consideration be given to encouraging repatriation by generous resettlement grants.

My own view is that if certain measures are not taken, and taken soon, the risk of a race/civil war in England rises dramatically. Various scenarios are possible: the manipulation of black rioters to destabilise the cities with the aim of causing massive economic damage; and luring the police during a riot into pre-planned ambush zones, with the aim of killing as many police officers as possible by means of small arms and explosives. Such developments would not, I believe, remain uncontested by the white indigenous population. The rise of an English National Liberation Army (ENLA) inspired, in part, by the IRA and Protestant groups is a real possibility. Something of a joke in the 1950s and 1960s, the IRA was reborn with zeal and a sense of mission in 1968/1969. The rest is history. You would be ill-advised to discount the possibility of its happening in England.

Yours sincerely

Frank Ellis

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQkActP-isE
Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK [live]
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Right! now! ha ha ha ha ha

I am an anti-christ
I am an anarchist
Don't know what I want but
I know how to get it
I wanna destroy the passer by cos I
I wanna be anarchy!
No dogs body!

Anarchy for the U.K it's coming sometime and maybe
I give a wrong time stop a traffic line
your future dream is a shopping scheme
cos I, I wanna be anarchy!
In the city

How many ways to get what you want
I use the best I use the rest
I use the enemy
I use anarchy cos I
I wanna BE anarchy!
The only way to be!

Is this the M.P.L.A
Or is this the U.D.A
Or is this the I.R.A
I thought it was the U.K or just
another country
another council tenancy

I wanna be anarchy
and I wanna be anarchy
Know what I mean
And I wanna be anarchist!
Get pissed to destroy!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeP220xx7Bs&feature=related
The Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen [live]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8fLOJswWtk
The Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen [studio]
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God save the Queen
the fascist regime,
they made you a moron
a potential H-bomb.

God save the Queen
she ain't no human being.
There is no future
in England's dreaming

Don't be told what you want
Don't be told what you need.
There's no future
there's no future
there's no future for you

God save the Queen
we mean it man
we love our queen
God saves

God save the Queen
'cos tourists are money
and our figurehead
is not what she seems

Oh God save history
God save your mad parade
Oh Lord God have mercy
all crimes are paid.

When there's no future
how can there be sin
we're the flowers
in the dustbin
we're the poison
in your human machine
we're the future
you're future

God save the Queen
we mean it man
we love our queen
God saves

God save the Queen
we mean it man
there is no future
in England's dreaming
No future
no future for you
no fufure for me
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http://ronbosoldier.blogspot.com/2011/08/frank-ellis-responds-to-david-camerons.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_London_riots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ellis_(lecturer)
http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Pistols
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Pistols
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Mind_the_Bollocks,_Here%27s_the_Sex_Pistols
http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/News/sex-pistols-0425-2011/