{"id":175749,"date":"2025-09-28T18:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175749\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T18:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:23:13","slug":"the-one-jam-band-john-fogerty-admitted-to-loving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175749\/","title":{"rendered":"The one jam band John Fogerty admitted to loving"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"John<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ Press)<\/p>\n

Sat 27 September 2025 22:00, UK <\/p>\n

The psychedelic movement in America might appear like an innovative time in music, and while it was, the likes of Pink Floyd<\/a> and various other bands likely wouldn\u2019t have been given a platform were it not for political unrest. <\/p>\n

Towards the back end of the \u201860s, politics were all over the place, and the differing opinions in different generations were apparent. Following the assassinations of multiple political leaders, growing tension surrounding the Vietnam War, and gaps in society persistently widening, it was hard for bands to release music without it being deemed political.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Record labels wanted to try and appeal to as many listeners as they could, which meant moving away from music which could be deemed as political, and instead embracing the new experimental style that was being put forward by psychedelic bands. While this worked well for record labels, it was also representative of a questionable time for a lot of psychedelic music, as it was still finding its feet as a genre. <\/p>\n

Jimi Hendrix admitted that he wasn\u2019t exactly a fucking fan of Pink Floyd<\/a> because he felt they were all style over substance. His comments are reminiscent of a lot of people when exposed to psychedelic music for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s one thing I hate, man,\u201d said Hendrix. \u201cWhen these cats say, \u2018Look at the band. They\u2019re playing psychedelic music!\u2019 All they\u2019re doing is flashing lights on them and playing \u2018Johnny B. Goode\u2019 with the wrong chords. It\u2019s terrible.\u201d When speaking specifically about Pink Floyd, Hendrix said, \u201cI\u2019ve heard they have beautiful lights, but they don\u2019t sound like nothing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

While some Pink Floyd fans might disagree with this assessment, Roger Waters also said that he wasn\u2019t a fan of Piper At The Gates Dawn because he felt that the band were trying to be goddamn experimental for the sake of being experimental. \u201cI don\u2019t want to go back to those times at all,\u201d he said while discussing Piper at the Gates of Dawn and how there wasn\u2019t much of an idea behind what the band were making. \u201cThere wasn\u2019t anything \u2018grand\u2019 about it\u2019. We were laughable. We were useless. We couldn\u2019t play at all, so we had to do something stupid and \u2018experimental\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

When John Fogerty was talking about the psychedelic bands he liked listening to, he criticised some because he felt they were too fucking self-indulgent. Once again, this all plays into the idea that a lot of bands were trying too hard to sound out there and experimental rather than actually keeping the quality of the song at the goddamn heart of what they did.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fogerty always wanted to focus on making good songs and focus on the hits, which he didn\u2019t think a lot of psychedelic bands did. \u201cA young James Brown<\/a> would come out and play 14 hits in a row, all while dancing and creating mayhem,\u201d he said. \u201cI thought that was the way to go.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

There was one psychedelic jam band which he was a big fan of, though, and that was the Allman Brothers. \u201cThat seems honest to me,\u201d he concluded. \u201cI know that in listening to psychedelic music, there were times that I felt that the attention had wandered off somewhere, and that did not happen in the Allman Brothers\u2019 music. I\u2019m a big fan.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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