![]() ![]() I don’t think I was actually saying the world was coming to an end,” Fogerty says, “but the song was a metaphor. ![]() That story and that look really stuck in my mind and they were the germ for the song. The scene I liked is where there’s a devastating hurricane furniture, trees, houses, everything’s blowing around. It’s a classic tale where the main character, who’s down on his luck, meets the Devil and sells his soul to him. “We’d just put out Proud Mary, and in two weeks had gone from being one-hit wonders with the 1968 song, Suzie Q to being on our way up. I remembered one of my favourite old movies – a black-and-white 1941 film called The Devil And Daniel Webster, shot in that spooky, film noir way they did back then. “At the start of 1969 we were walking the tightrope between fire and ice,” recalls John Fogerty. He said the song is about the apocalypse that is going to be visited upon us. The end of the 60s was a transitional time in America – not least for the members of Creedence Clearwater Revival. What’s it about? Reported in Rolling Stone in 2011, Fogerty said he wrote it after seeing a scene of a hurricane in the film The Devil and Daniel Webster. 364 in its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. The song has been recorded by more than 20 artists in styles ranging from folk to psychedelic rock. 2 on the Top 100 and was CCRs second gold album hit. Released in April 1969, the song peaked at No. Someone responding to that analysis wrote: “Dude it’s about a stray cat, not anything else.” The music has also featured in several Disney film clips – I love this one Whatever the song is about, we like playing it – so enjoy!īad Moon Rising is a song by John Fogerty, the lead singer in Creedence Clearwater Revival. See the Stray Cats entertaining video at One commentator writing about the song said “This song is about anarchy…he’s an anarchist and at some point he’s talking to other cats that wish they could be like him, but they have cat class and cat style, which means they are futile and materialist and they’re bound to it, so they can’t live in freedom…”. However, they later re-released it and it made it on to the Billboard Top 100 charts and peaked at No. Stray Cat Strut was released in 1981 by a US “Rockabilly’ band called Stray Cats. It wasn’t a great success. I’d like to think it was written from a place where there is no struggle but I’m probably wrong…sometimes you may be burning up inside but still do something that seems so cool and calm and collected.” What ever the meaning, it’s a Lost Chords favourite. It’s just a simple song, a simple sentiment. When asked, Dylan says: “There’s not too much to say about this…maybe it was tongue in cheek, I don’t know. Just about everything he says is an instruction – ‘close your eyes’, ‘close the door’, ‘shut the light’”. He says “The narrator is far from being the ideal romantic lover. Interestingly, one commentator describes the lyrics as sinister, and all about control. The song was reportedly written for, and about, Joan Baez, although Dylan denied this. The guitarist is Pete Drake, one of the most sort after backup musicians of the 1960s. Happened to be the first musical instrument I learnt. Note the steel guitar player at the beginning – the Steel, or Lap Guitar, is a six-string guitar, often on a stand with pedals. The new strings will need playing over at least 2 weeks prior to the Ceili.īracket 4 has a Bob Dylan favourite – I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight – a great number and, although only reaching No 24 on the US Top Billboard Charts in 1967, the later 1990 U2 version did make No 1 on the NZ Charts. One word of caution – don’t put the strings on the day before the Ceili – we do get some great polyphonic sounds at the Ceii’s but we like to avoid hugely untuned Ukuleles – it’s helpful for all of us to be playing in the same key. Speaking of which, it might be time for your annual UHC – “Ukulele Health Check” – give it a good wipe down and get all the dust off, and go into your nearest music store (remember: support local) and buy a new set of strings. We have stuck with some of our older and favorite brackets, and with plenty of time to get those strings (and your voices) into action. Location: The Remuera Club, 27 Ohinerau St, Remueraĭinner and bar service will be available on the night, usual buffet dinner will start service at 5.30 pm. Perhaps not as famous an event as the Apollo 11 space flight and moon landing, but hey, Ukulele Whanau – in the words of Jack King, NASA’s ‘voice of launch control’, we have “Liftoff, we have liftoff!”. ![]()
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