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Apr 25, 2023 · Since 1995, bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug Clifford had been performing – legally – as Creedence Clearwater Revisited. In an April 2019 interview with Billboard, Cook said, “This just seemed like a good time to wrap it up.” Cook and Clifford have long been estranged from original CCR leader John Fogerty.
Stuart Alden Cook (born April 25, 1945) is an American bass guitarist, best known for being a member of the rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), for which he is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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"I probably have a good six or so albums," he says of the reels he found in his garage. The first of those releases, "Magic Window," features Clifford on lead vocals singing songs he either wrote or co-wrote, only one or which sounds anything like CCR. And that one sounds a lotlike CCR, which he assures us was intentional. "I have a resume," he say...
"Magic Window" is his second solo album. The first was "Cosmo," a 1972 release that Clifford says was "an experiment to see if we could record in Cosmo's Factory and use it as a recording operation, not just a rehearsal studio." Of the other reels he plans to use on future releases, one is a collaboration with the legendaryBobby Whitlock, who appea...
It was a hurricane that brought him to the Valley. Previously, his winter home was an oceanfront condo on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. "I don't like snow," he says. "And as a drummer, I couldn't ski because if I broke a leg, I couldn't play." When a hurricane destroyed most of the island, just as another hurricane had done a decade earlier, he fig...
As to why the album he's promoting has been sitting on a shelf since 1985, he had been working toward a record deal that fell through around that time. As he was decompressing from that disappointment, Clifford got distracted by more pressing matters in Lake Tahoe. "We were in a severe drought and fire danger was running rampant," he says. "And I h...
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Oct 6, 2015 · The narrative for years has been that drummer Doug Clifford and bassist Stu Cook were stunned when John Fogerty refused to play with them, and stood near the podium in enraged silence as he...
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Creedence Clearwater Revival founding members and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Stu Cook and Doug “Cosmo” Clifford have been on quite a ride.
After the group disbanded in late 1972, Clifford released a solo album and later joined CCR bassist Stu Cook in the Don Harrison Band. In 1995, Clifford and Cook formed the band Creedence Clearwater Revisited, performing live versions of Creedence Clearwater Revival songs.
Apr 18, 2019 · Creedence Clearwater Revival bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug Clifford discuss the end of their long-running spin-off band.
