Our Final Week - The Closing of the Fillmore West, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 7-4-1971, Part 2: Creedence Clearwater Revival

Here's the second set from the fifth day out of five days of concerts that closed the Fillmore West venue in San Francisco in 1971. (See my write-up on the Boz Scaggs set for general information about the closing.) This set features the band Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR).

I previously posted this music in 2023. So I'm deleting that album and replacing it with this one. Back when I posted it for the first time, I noted that there aren't many well recorded CCR concerts, and this one seems to be the best one. I think that's still true. I like it even better than a couple of official live albums.

CCR had been a foursome ever since it was formed in the mid-1960s. But in January 1971, Tom Fogerty, lead singer John Fogerty's brother, quit. This was the very first concert by the band as a threesome. Apparently, their appearance was a surprise, since they hadn't been mentioned in the promotion for the concert. 

I made some comments in the 2023 version which I'll copy and paste here: 

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. (The Bill Graham talk was leading up to introducing a speech by poet Allen Ginsburg that took place just after this concert, but I cut that since the speech is missing.) I kept all the actual banter by the band members. 

By the way, I found a newspaper article about this performance. It's from 2022, but it contains some good information about CCR and the closing of the Fillmore West in general. It's also where I got the cover photo.

Rock of ages: Creedence Clearwater Revival played the Fillmore West’s final show in 1971  

None of the songs here were released on the "Fillmore - The Last Days" album. So I believe everything here remains unreleased. 

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)

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The cover image highlighting John Fogerty on guitar is from this exact concert. When I first posted this in 2023, I colorized it from black and white. I generally went with the colors suggested by the program Kolorize, which meant a grey suit for Fogerty. However, when I got ready to repost this, I ran across a review written at the time by someone at the concert who mentioned that Fogerty's suit was "shocking turquoise." So I used Photoshop to change the color to something closer to that.