But you’re contradicting yourself. I don’t agree at all that all of Fogerty’s songs sound the same, but if I accept that for the sake of argument, then it’s even MORE absurd that Fantasy sued him, isn’t it? If you argue that all his Creedence stuff was the same, then you’re saying that the songs aren’t particularly unique. So later, when the same person writes yet another similar-sounding song, is it more likely to be plagiarism, or just the person continuing to do what he does?
“Cosmo’s Factory” was the first album I ever bought (hmmm, seems like I read that here before). I was a kid, and before that I’d always bought 45s because I couldn’t imagine liking every song on an LP. But with “Cosmo’s Factory”, I’d heard practically the entire album already; fully nine out of the eleven songs on that album had received substantial play on the radio. Even then, though, I was pleasantly surprised. The radio played only the short version of “I Heard It Through The Grapevine”, and even as a kid I was stunned by the 11 minutes of that song that were on the album. Just an amazing piece of music. And the opening track, “Ramble Tamble”, which I hadn’t heard at all before, just blew me away. An incredible 7 minute instrumental tour-de-force.
Somehow, I missed the apostrophe in the album’s title, and for quite a while I thought it was a reference to the birth of the Universe or making stars or something like that. Well, it did seem to fit with the font that the title was in on the album cover. I did occasionally wonder what making stars had to do with the a guy sitting on a bicycle, but hey, this was the psychedelic era, so I didn’t question it too hard.
Who was Cosmo? I remember seeing a documentary where the band is leaving a concert. One of them is dawdling with a young lady while the others are calling from the limo, “Cosmo! Come on, Cosmo!”
Cosmo was Doug Clifford’s nickname.
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