"Live in Europe" was the first live album in many years by Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in October 16.1973 by Fantasy Records documenting the Mardi Gras tour. The CCR farewell Concerts. Starts on July 4.1971 at Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, USA and ends on May 22 at Denver Coliseum, Denver, CO, USA . After they played around the world: Europe, Australia and Japan. It was performed as a trio following Tom Fogerty's departure.
The original project was a single LP with only 10 by the 15 songs, that they used to played on tour. Aproximately about 20 minutes per side. But Fantasy Records wanted a doble album and expanded it with four more songs and changed the original versions selected by other most extensive. But even though this, bit.ly/368ccR It did not given for to complete four sides. The minutes per side did not exceed 12. To fix it, the record company thought about adding songs from other concerts, past or futures, not necessarily in Europe or some studio outtake. So a edit version from part 1 & 2 from "45 Revolutions Per Minute" released as promotional single on Decembder 31 1969 was selected to complete the disc. This outtakes (not edited) were included on Pendulum 40th special edition, but only as bonus tracks. The version made for "live in Europe" remains unreleased, .although it is suspected that it was destroyed by John Fogerty to prevent them from being pirated. Either way, I have not found it anywhere, the same is true and was destroyed or never came into existence and is only legend. What do you think about it?.
The tapes recorded by CCR on January 30 1970, during "Cosmo´s factory sessions", with Booker T Jones at Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco, California, were also reviewed, but this recordings were rejected too, because the material didn't have enough quality.
The tapes recorded by CCR on January 30 1970, during "Cosmo´s factory sessions", with Booker T Jones at Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco, California, were also reviewed, but this recordings were rejected too, because the material didn't have enough quality.
Side A: (20:10)
1.Born on the Bayou. (4:58)
2.Green River / Susie Q. (4:37)
3.It Came Out of the Sky. (3:07)
4.Fortunate Son. (2:10)
5.Lodi. (3:14)
6.Bad Moon Rising. (2:02)
Side B: (20:18)
1.Proud Mary. (2:44)
2.Up Around the Bend. (2:38)
3.Hey Tonight. (2:18)
4.Keep on Chooglin'. (12:37)
(Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England, Sept.1.1971). Track: 4A
(Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Sept.10.1971). Track: 2B
(Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany. Sept.16,1971).Tracks: 3A & 6A
(Ernst-Merck-Halle, Hamburg, Germany. Sept.17.1971).Tracks: 5A, 1B, 3B & 4B
(Tennishallen, Stockholm, Sweden. Sept.21.1971).Tracks: 2A & 1B
(Royal Albert Hall, London, England, Sept.28.1971).Track:1A.
All songs by John Fogerty, except : "Green River / Susie Q" (Fogerty/Eleanor Broadwater, Dale Hawkins & Stanley S. Lewis)
The project was delayed in order to provide more unpublished material live and thus offer a double album in conditions, but the group's refusal to contribute to it was moving away from this second possibility. On the contrary, things got worse, and finally the album was released after John Fogerty's final struggles with Fantasy Records, in which he as a songwriter was trapped.More than a year after CCR's farewell tour was over, in late 1973 Fantasy Records released the album live and John Fogerty said he never would play a Creedence Clearwater Revival song again, since this would only benefit to his old record company This was a promise he kept for some 20 years.
The lp had an anticipated edition in France at the end of 1972. and another of a single lp in 1987, in which the two songs "Sweet Hitch-Hiker" and "Door to Door" released as a single in July 1971 from "Mardi Gras", were amitted.
In this new reconstruction I bring you, The rejected versions,in stereo and mono mixes. taken live in September 1971 at the European Tour,for the last CCR.
Ok, that´s all. Brief but good. See you soon but in another year.
