Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 7-4-1971

For a long time now, I've kept an eye out for worthy sound live music from Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR). But unfortunately, even though they were a very popular band that played many concerts in the late 1960s and early 1970s, they almost never were recorded well in concert. Even a couple of their official live albums don't sound that great. But I finally found one concert that is worthy.

This concert was the very last one at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, California. The bootleg has been traded a long time, but it didn't sound that impressive to me. However, I discovered a version that has been recently remixed, and it sounds significantly better. But there still was a problem: the lead vocals were low in the mix. So I used the audio editing program X-Minus to boost them up. Now, this finally is the live CCR I had been looking for. I also like that it's from 1971, near the end of the band's existence, allowing them to pick the best songs from all their albums. There are even three songs from the band's final album, "Mardi Gras," which wouldn't be released until 1972.

I cut out quite a lot of unnecessary stuff between songs. There was a lot of guitar tuning, plus radio station call letters (this was broadcast on a local radio station, which explains the sound quality), talk by promoter Bill Graham, and so on. I kept all the actual banter by the band members.

This album is 51 minutes long.

01 Born on the Bayou (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
02 Green River (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
03 It Came from Out of the Sky (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
04 Door to Door (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
05 talk (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
06 Travelin' Band (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
07 Fortunate Son-Commotion (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
08 talk (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
09 Lodi (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
10 talk (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
11 Bad Moon Rising (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
12 Proud Mary (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
13 Up Around the Bend (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
14 Hey Tonight (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
15 talk (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
16 Sweet Hitchhiker (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
17 talk (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
18 Keep On Chooglin' (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15281491/CreedCR_1971_FillmorWestSnFranciscoCA__7-4-1971_atse.zip.html

I'm extremely happy with the cover photo. This comes from this exact concert. However, the only one I could find was in black and white, and I strongly dislike black and white photos. So I used the free on-line program Palette to convert it to color. I think it did a really fantastic job, despite the very complicated subject matter. I didn't change a thing. It's a new era, where color can be added to photos with ease.