SINGING FROM HIS SOUL 🎵 CCR Fortunate Son Reaction

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Комментарии • 810

  • @scarletc.7055
    @scarletc.7055 3 года назад +1024

    This is not about patriotism. This is specifically about the Vietnam war. ALL young men received draft cards at the age of 18 with no choice in the matter. Then they just waited to be called to go to the war. The wealthy had ways of getting out of going to war. John Fogerty (lead singer and writer of the song) is angry. The Vietnam war ended up being fought by middle class, poor and minority boys because they didn't have connections to get out of it. This is a classic anti-war song.

    • @krakalaka911
      @krakalaka911 3 года назад +15

      Minority boys?

    • @SonicImmersion_
      @SonicImmersion_ 3 года назад +63

      And the sons of certain wealthy families (including the sons of certain senators), got exempted from the draft.

    • @ronrock9688
      @ronrock9688 3 года назад +10

      Exactly.

    • @iyaramonk
      @iyaramonk 3 года назад +24

      @@krakalaka911 Middle class, poor and minority boys. They're all boys.

    • @scarletc.7055
      @scarletc.7055 3 года назад +52

      @@krakalaka911 Middle class boys. Poor boys. I meant they were all 18 year old boys. Sorry if it looked to you as if I was insulting minorities. I certainly.was not doing that.

  • @Roger-ws8rj
    @Roger-ws8rj 3 года назад +349

    It's amazing how lex can connect every sound or voice to something unique.

    • @EdoAntRo
      @EdoAntRo 3 года назад +20

      "It sounds like he ate a lot of Halloween candy!" "You know what I'm saying?" - Fantastic.

    • @zombiez2go473
      @zombiez2go473 3 года назад +13

      She wants to rock out, she connects to almost every rock/metal band

    • @williamburke1882
      @williamburke1882 3 года назад +8

      It's "Wet maccasons" all over again! She has a way of seeing and or hearing things differently than myself and I'm thinking most people. It's adorable.

    • @davidspalten1304
      @davidspalten1304 3 года назад +6

      Not the typical streamer who talks about voice/voice viscosity.

    • @tinagriggs1004
      @tinagriggs1004 2 года назад +8

      She cracks me up. Lol. Shes adorable!

  • @joeblow9275
    @joeblow9275 3 года назад +318

    You gotta remember there was a draft during the Vietnam War, and that people with connections, i.e rich people, could either get deferrments, posts where they'd be guaranteed to never see combat, or be declared 4-F by bribed doctors.

    • @beerye3
      @beerye3 3 года назад +30

      Right, they couldn’t use fake bone spurs or deferments to get out of serving.

    • @krakalaka911
      @krakalaka911 3 года назад +7

      @@beerye3 or you could get out of it by saying you are a "conscientious objector" like bernie sanders did.

    • @beerye3
      @beerye3 3 года назад +9

      @@krakalaka911 or join the Air National Guard and make a few passes at a runway, like George Dumb-of-you?

    • @krakalaka911
      @krakalaka911 3 года назад +3

      @@beerye3 or claim that you have asthma like joe biden

    • @metetural9140
      @metetural9140 3 года назад +6

      The fuck is this reply section

  • @hotmail305
    @hotmail305 3 года назад +182

    John Fogerty is the greatest Grassrock singer of all time!!!! ABSOLUTE BEAST IF A VOICE

    • @TheKitchenerLeslie
      @TheKitchenerLeslie 3 года назад +1

      John Fogerty = Chris Cornell 1.0

    • @ansjovisnl9059
      @ansjovisnl9059 2 года назад

      @@TheKitchenerLeslie You can't compare them! Their voices and music are so different.

    • @TheKitchenerLeslie
      @TheKitchenerLeslie 2 года назад

      @@ansjovisnl9059 I don't know what derp means

  • @EgbertWilliams
    @EgbertWilliams 3 года назад +134

    A dark addendum to a very dark song: The son of Chesty Puller, one of the most decorated Marines in history, went to Vietnam, where he lost both legs and most of both hands. When he got back, he went to law school, married and wrote an autobiography which won a Pulitzer Prize. It was called "Fortunate Son," as ultimately, despite his grievous injuries, he found a way to embrace life. Just a couple years later, his marriage broken and his demons resurrected, he took his own life.

    • @edprzydatek8398
      @edprzydatek8398 3 года назад +15

      Sad. Very sad.

    • @tripmh
      @tripmh 2 года назад +2

      I read Puller's book. Shocked when he took his life a few years later.

    • @angelapublic8165
      @angelapublic8165 2 года назад +2

      That poor bit of history is a hard slap because at the end of engagement in French Indochina, country was united in communism.

    • @rascalmatt6713
      @rascalmatt6713 Год назад

      All wars are bankers wars...... and war truly is..... a RACKET.

    • @Zeeangelofdeath
      @Zeeangelofdeath Год назад +2

      I have never heard that before. And I’m a big ccr fan. Thank you for that info

  • @jamesclapp6832
    @jamesclapp6832 2 года назад +29

    As a boy during the Vietnam war three of my older brothers were drafted. My oldest brother never came home. I hardly knew him. My Dad was heartbroken. I didn't understand it at the time but all his prodigious energy and drive just died. He just went through the motions. I always resented it, thinking he was cold and distant, until he was dying and I got the chance to actually talk with him. He told me he loved me for the first time, and that he was proud of me. I felt like a truly fortunate son.

    • @ffc303
      @ffc303 Год назад +3

      You are Darlin💖 My dad fought in the jungles of New Guinea in WW2 & brought it home with him so we were never close due to his alcoholism & violence ,me & siblings, had to endure. He had what they call Shell Shock (mental issues) & I was on my way to see him & let him know that the past was the past & I loved him. BUT, he had a fatal heart attack 6hrs before I arrived. Good thing was he knew I was coming to see him before he passed & I cherish that.

  • @crazydale1000
    @crazydale1000 3 года назад +7

    I'm an old Vietnam vet. I was the door gunner on the Huey with the M60
    This is an antiwar song

    • @Taryngracia
      @Taryngracia 2 года назад +1

      Thank you. My dad was in as well.

  • @__Philip__311
    @__Philip__311 3 года назад +47

    "He sounds like he ate a lot of Halloween candy..." "It was like if bacteria could beatbox...." Oh, to be a fly on the wall in Lex's mind when she is listening to new music.

  • @krw73
    @krw73 3 года назад +26

    If you watch almost any movie about Vietnam, you'll hear CCR or the doors. They really defined the sound of the times in my book.

    • @balboaunderdog1968
      @balboaunderdog1968 Год назад +1

      The doors never wrote a song about the Vietnam war, which was a popular theme for bands at that time. A common misconception is the song Unknown Soldier which is not about a Vietnam soldier.

    • @krw73
      @krw73 Год назад +2

      @@balboaunderdog1968 right... But their music is still featured in those movies as representation of the sound of that era

  • @OcotilloTom
    @OcotilloTom 2 года назад +7

    I served two tours, 1965-66-1970-71. Like all Marines I volunteered.
    GySgt, USMC, retired

  • @jenniemitchell7731
    @jenniemitchell7731 3 года назад +76

    I always watch Lex thinking she reminds me of someone, and I finally realized just now who it is! Thandiwe Newton!! The actress! So beautiful! 💗 You keep rocking those songs, both of you!! 😉😁

    • @jenniemitchell7731
      @jenniemitchell7731 3 года назад +3

      @@5thPhoenix it's been bugging me! LOL!

    • @jamesredman1263
      @jamesredman1263 3 года назад

      @@5thPhoenix - read her first post again. What was bugging her was trying to remember who Lexi reminded her of.

    • @sealdrup
      @sealdrup 3 года назад +1

      I think Lex is both beautiful and intelligent. Nice couple and love their reaction videos.

  • @Cjopa
    @Cjopa 3 года назад +53

    This is definitely the best reaction channel, I’m glad I found y’all. I enjoy listening through everything you guys say. You guys really seem to feel it and go in depth with it and it really shows some passion for it

  • @strangeworldsunlimited712
    @strangeworldsunlimited712 3 года назад +33

    You have to put this song in the context of the Vietnam War. By 1967 the US had been involved in the war for 4 or 5 years, and it was becoming apparent that there was no goal and no end in sight. And the draft was still active, so men were being sent to Vietnam whether they want to go or not. The sentiment that those men were just being sent over to die was a growing concern in 67. (By 68, after the Tet Offensive (look it up) that sentiment was rampant.) There were ways around getting drafted, or at least avoiding going to Vietnam, but you had to be fortunate. If you had money, you could go to college. Politicians and high ranking military officers could get their sons sent to military bases elsewhere.
    Fogarty was poor and didn't have those advantages, so he was drafted and served in 1965. Even that was enough to anger him into writing this song when his term was over and he'd founded CCR.

    • @stueystuey1962
      @stueystuey1962 2 года назад +1

      Involvement in Vietnam goes back to the '50s. By the time we ramped up feet on the ground it was well known that we couldn't win. And still we sent boys over there to die.

  • @carolburnett190
    @carolburnett190 2 года назад +6

    This is one of my favorite protest songs from the era!

  • @metalsquid
    @metalsquid 3 года назад +16

    oh HELLL yeah! This video is all clips from Tour of Duty!! I loved this series growing up used to watch with my dad all the time. It's of course about the Vietnam War and the soundtrack featured lots of CCR, Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones and many more from the era. The music was like another character in the show and really set the vibe and tone of each episode.

    • @amyausen7177
      @amyausen7177 2 года назад

      I also grew up watching it with my dad and he just recently got the show on DVD and has been watching it again.

  • @rg8301
    @rg8301 6 месяцев назад +3

    She has the sweetest smile. So cute.

  • @davidbrock7518
    @davidbrock7518 2 года назад +3

    John Fogerty was in the service in Vietnam and this was after he got out of the service, Thanks for Your Service

  • @peterbailey4222
    @peterbailey4222 3 года назад +33

    Have you tried The Rolling Stones yet? "Gimme Shelter" is one of their best songs IMO. The two songs compliment each other well, being released in the same year and exploring similar themes.

  • @ChrisHendrickson82
    @ChrisHendrickson82 3 года назад +78

    In my time in the military, I've seen every reason for joining that you can imagine. For some people, it's financial, like good insurance, good pay, paying for college (that's me). For some people, they just couldn't figure out what to do after high school and the military seemed like a viable career path. For some people, it's a family tradition going back 3, 4, or 5 generations. Some people grew up in terrible situations and need to escape. And, yes, some people are there for patriotic reasons. They feel that the best way for them to show their love for their country is to serve it.

    • @lindadollar5321
      @lindadollar5321 3 года назад +8

      The Draft Was Imposed When They Made This (and orhers) Song.....

    • @AFmedic
      @AFmedic 3 года назад +7

      That's now! Back then we had NO CHOICE! As @Linda dollar said in her reply - We had the Draft!

    • @Sarah-lb8cs
      @Sarah-lb8cs 3 года назад +1

      ….and I’m so thankful for every single one of you! Much love from Michigan 🥰

    • @weedthepeople2795
      @weedthepeople2795 3 года назад +1

      And dont forget the legions of psychos that sign up just so they can kill brown people and get away with it

    • @vanhattfield8292
      @vanhattfield8292 2 года назад +1

      @@Sarah-lb8cs Hey, a fellow Michigander. I'm on the opposite side of the planet now but Home is in Michigan... Cheers!

  • @krt3718
    @krt3718 3 года назад +46

    You seriously need to check out their version of "I put a spell on you". Amazing

  • @stanleynykaza9042
    @stanleynykaza9042 3 года назад +17

    Need to do more CCR , Down on the Corner , Looking Out my Back Door ,Born on the Bayou, Midnight Special, Sweet Hitch Hiker , Up Around the Bend, Green River, Jambalaya , Centerfield.

    • @blakenokomis1573
      @blakenokomis1573 3 года назад +1

      I just discovered Someday Never Comes a few years ago, and it quickly became my new favorite

  • @Leah-xu2fd
    @Leah-xu2fd 2 года назад +6

    This song is the very essence of the year it was written.

  • @danw3735
    @danw3735 3 года назад +53

    Lex is so spot on with most of song analysis, Half of CCR's songs were about the Bayou :)

    • @Yvolve
      @Yvolve 3 года назад +5

      The hilarity is that CCR is from California, not the Deep South, yet they sound like they were born and raised there.
      CCR tried to sue Fogerty as well, because his solo music sounded too much like CCR, which he wrote all the songs for...

    • @Christian-vq8rd
      @Christian-vq8rd 3 года назад +5

      @@Yvolve The part of California that they are from (Central California, Lodi), especially back when they were kids, is a different planet from L.A. or San Francisco. It's all farms and blue collar.

    • @Yvolve
      @Yvolve 3 года назад +1

      @@Christian-vq8rd I know, but there's no bayou's there, which makes me smile. They sound like they grew up hunting alligators in a swamp, but are from rural California. Great how they paint such a vivid picture in their songs. Amazing music nonetheless, love CCR!

    • @chuckwilliams6261
      @chuckwilliams6261 3 года назад +2

      @@Yvolve No bayou, but there's thousands of miles of waterway in the Sacramento River Delta.

    • @Yvolve
      @Yvolve 3 года назад

      @@chuckwilliams6261 I believe that, America is massive, but a bayou is a very specific thing. That's what makes me smile when I hear their music, how they can make it sound like it's in their blood.

  • @razzledazzle8631
    @razzledazzle8631 3 года назад +7

    I remember in 11th grade watching several of my friends being drafted for the Vietnam War. I remember watching TV after my high school graduation and seeing what my lottery draft number would be .. it ended up being 56 a low number. I only missed not being drafted by 3 days. But I went.

  • @Hoopers_s
    @Hoopers_s 3 года назад +8

    John Fogerty is a insane singer. Like you said. He just has that grit and dirtyness in his voice.

    • @solitarybee3714
      @solitarybee3714 3 года назад

      Uhhhh like he ate too much sugar????? Pretty sure nature gave him that voice, not his diet.

  • @Luap6685
    @Luap6685 3 года назад +11

    Lex you are always on point, Brad you always bring the stoicism game to the reaction videos!

    • @idemandabetterfuture
      @idemandabetterfuture 3 года назад

      Lex feels the music and so on point so fast. Brad thinks about it and can get close, but yet to to be on point that I've seen.

  • @misterssippi601
    @misterssippi601 2 года назад +1

    Lex has the most beautiful smile I've ever seen.

  • @hellscornalien8286
    @hellscornalien8286 3 года назад +8

    Man, I'm at the point where I don't care what song you're all reacting to, I've just gotta see Lex's expressions! It's fascinating to see and her metaphors are so far out there and unique but still make sense. (At least to me) Peace and love.

  • @MrRoosterx
    @MrRoosterx 3 года назад +6

    CCR is amazingly good. Music that just makes people happy :)

  • @jeffharry9675
    @jeffharry9675 3 года назад +5

    As a 1966 high-school graduate, this was part of a most frequently played list. CCR was big.

  • @DrGN-do7bu
    @DrGN-do7bu 3 года назад +3

    Absolutely love this song! Growing up, me and my dad would jam out to this. Before every soccer game, baseball, paintball, anything we needed to get hyped for. Always good memories!

  • @brianberrier5168
    @brianberrier5168 3 года назад +7

    It would be a lit party if we all played the drinking game every time lex said you know what I mean 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @vickiroman189
    @vickiroman189 3 года назад +6

    John ALWAYS sings from his soul.

  • @andywrong3247
    @andywrong3247 Год назад +1

    Ccr was the sound track of the Vietnam war,I read a comment section a few weeks back somebody wrote back in 67/68 as a 14yr old younger brother not a day went by without him worrying about his older brother who got his call up papers. I believe he made it home safely after all his tours.that just broke my heart.

  • @ontrack16
    @ontrack16 Год назад +2

    This song always brings tears to my eyes. Yes, his passion and subject matter are so poignant. It's a bittersweet rock. Long live CCR, El Cerrito's finest from The Bay Area! :)

  • @randallwilson5582
    @randallwilson5582 3 года назад +10

    Lovin it.. A couple more great songs by CCR are " Lodi" and ' Susie Q"

  • @kevins.e.georgia5555
    @kevins.e.georgia5555 3 года назад +2

    Love to watch the way you guys react and the way y'all bounce thoughts back and forth, perfect.
    Its so simple, "Right Brain, Left Brain"

  • @donstand2195
    @donstand2195 Месяц назад

    I love how Lex gets into CCR she's absolutely awesome

  • @Orca77713
    @Orca77713 3 года назад +1

    It may help to know that the singer John Fogerty was drafted (and served in the Army Reserve as a supply clerk I think) …. He was borne in California …. In the Vietnam war era their was a draft and the vast majority of soldiers were drafted and had to go wither they wanted to go or not (and most were poor) …. In this day and age soldiers volunteer which is incredible …. Most young people don’t get that …. Either way American soldiers (and the sacrifices they make) deserve a TREMENDOUS amount of our respect …. God bless your family members who served us …. You guys have a great Chanel buy the way !!!!

  • @NefariousKoel
    @NefariousKoel 3 года назад +2

    Dad's favorite band was CCR. My old man served in Vietnam through '68, draftee turned CIB after dropping out of college and being outright threatened by college staff with the draft for not providing them further funding. Trained on mortars, given an M-60 machinegun after in-country. Which he initially and understandably disdained due to worse options for survival, being such a big target. Yet he was more ferocious giving up his M-60 later on after achieving E-5 and squad leader. Easier to pull a big trigger than make regular decisions regarding your peoples' lives, I suppose. Said he was most proud of keeping all his boys alive. Definitely a win in my book.
    I wouldn't be able to post this is he was unsuccessful.

  • @c-noclark8153
    @c-noclark8153 20 дней назад

    I used this song as an outline for a 1st year Liberal Arts/Native Studies Paper. My professor told me it was a great beginning for a Masters Thesis.

  • @theAverageJoe25
    @theAverageJoe25 Год назад +1

    This is the Vietnam movie, and it’s in practically every movie involving Vietnam ever

  • @jimilemons3437
    @jimilemons3437 3 года назад +9

    Think of a ‘Rummage Sale’ as a ‘Yard Sale’, he’s basically saying wealthy people over indulge, don’t pay their taxes and then the IRS seizes and sells all of their property to pay the taxes. He wrote this after being drafted, the night before he was to be inducted.

  • @michaeldaugette802
    @michaeldaugette802 3 года назад +1

    John Fogerty was a Vietnam war vet then formed CCR when he got back with a lot of perspective to put in his music !

  • @fredkrissman6527
    @fredkrissman6527 3 года назад +1

    One of the best of dzns of great anti-war songs to come out during the late 60s through mid-70s (when the USA finally pulled out of, and admitted at last, our defeat in Vietnam)... We're currently -- right now -- facing the same reality in Afghanistan, which eventually surpassed America's previously longest war in Vietnam; yes, when we the people don't learn any lessons from our failures, history will (more or less) repeat itself!

  • @theresamillaway6398
    @theresamillaway6398 2 года назад +2

    I love y'all's friendship?!! U truly respect each other's views and thoughts! You're VERY LUCKY to have that kind of Love 💕😘 live the matching red too!
    He's singing on the Vietnam war....
    It's meant to be a diss to the rich not having to fight on the front lines! Our government overwhelming drafted the poor or less fortunate??

  • @rogerlewis6488
    @rogerlewis6488 2 года назад +2

    This was one of the songs the guys in Vietnam loved.

  • @slavaarestov8632
    @slavaarestov8632 Год назад +1

    Fortunate Son was my first CCR song that I heared, and that was an awesome knowledge with this band.
    P.S. Thanks for a such soulful reaction

  • @LittleVillage24
    @LittleVillage24 2 года назад +1

    Lex's aura is so bright and contagious that it made me subscribe. I'm on my 15th vid binge watching and I'm still going on.

  • @redlettervagrant1159
    @redlettervagrant1159 3 года назад +1

    Lex's way of describing things cracks me up but always has an awesome perspective that I love.

  • @tomaroni6670
    @tomaroni6670 2 года назад

    1967 was Vietnam and this song is about turning 18 being drafted and going to Vietnam for your senior trip...UNLESS you were a fortunate son or fortunate one....(college)

  • @thomascrays4200
    @thomascrays4200 3 года назад +1

    Great band. Saw John Fogerty at Bourbon and Beyond in Louisville 2019. The Old Man stole the show that night. He was my 17 year old son's favorite act.

  • @bobbyquinting3918
    @bobbyquinting3918 3 месяца назад

    Vietnam was a nightmare for peace loving young in the USA. Almost every band had a protest song. This 1 song was their anthem because of how true it is.🔥🧨🏴‍☠🧯🚿💊🩸⚔✒🪖📯♨🥀💣💥

  • @elaine8013
    @elaine8013 3 года назад +2

    The average age of a Viet Nam soldier was 19. The rich got away with not going because their parents found ways $$$ of getting them out of going. This song is a protest song against the establishment at that time.

  • @isaacbruner65
    @isaacbruner65 Год назад

    John Fogerty actually did serve in the army during the Vietnam war from 1966-1968. He served in the reserves as a supply clerk and apparently in those days the reserves never really got sent overseas, so he got lucky.

  • @wildershoney2439
    @wildershoney2439 2 года назад

    This music PUTS you THERE. I was born in 1978 and I can FEEL the emotions from his music from there era. Its a true gift. 💜🙌🏻

  • @snix3297
    @snix3297 3 года назад +8

    The video are scenes from an 80's Vietnam show (think is was Tour of Duty), but the song was an anti-Vietnam war song. Mostly against how the rich (Senator's sons) could avoid the draft but those unfortunate to be born with a silver spoon were drafted. Since Vietnam we have gotten rid of the draft and gone to an all volunteer military.
    Still a great CCR song, for another check out Proud Marry, Running through the Jungle. Another group from this time period to check, Buffalo Springfield "For What It's Worth".

    • @h4d3z
      @h4d3z 3 года назад +3

      Yeah its "Tour of Duty" wich had the song "paint it black" as an intro

    • @snix3297
      @snix3297 3 года назад +2

      @@h4d3z Paint it Black was a great intro for that show.

    • @h4d3z
      @h4d3z 3 года назад +2

      @@snix3297 It really was. Still have all the seasons haha

  • @jacqueline4514
    @jacqueline4514 3 года назад +1

    Vietnam: my Father and both his brothers were all there at the same time; they were not fortunate sons and they survived thank God

    • @Taryngracia
      @Taryngracia 2 года назад

      Same- thanks to them all.

  • @dougjones9698
    @dougjones9698 3 года назад +1

    John Fogerty was a Vietnam veteran. He wrote songs critical of WHY we were in Vietnam, but he never disparaged the soldiers doing the dirty work.

  • @jillw4983
    @jillw4983 3 года назад +1

    My brother in law was in one of those choppers. 19 years old and drafted into the war

  • @twwtjohns
    @twwtjohns 3 года назад +3

    During Vietnam if you were a "fortunate son" you could get out of serving in the military. A recent President received 5 deferments and eventually got a doctor's note to disqualify him from serving there.

  • @donstand2195
    @donstand2195 Месяц назад

    Brad looks at Lex like she's tripping LOL OMG she's is so funny but she's on top of the music

  • @briankgarland
    @briankgarland 2 года назад +8

    Lex loves CCR, which is proof of her innate musical gift.

  • @thack57
    @thack57 Год назад

    These are at least a yr old but I'm watching because of her smile - it's infectious. She smiles thru the entire song. Ear to Ear grin and she wears it well. Then I realized what drew me in. I do the same thing whenever my favorite songs come on - I have thousands - so I smile a lot...but I do not look pretty like she does.

  • @franklyterrence4860
    @franklyterrence4860 2 года назад

    This Girl (Woman) just exudes joy, reminds me of my Granddaughter who just bubbles over with joy!

  • @Yvolve
    @Yvolve 3 года назад +12

    Please react to Nightwish - Ghost, Love, Score. Given Lex childhood filled with classical music and melodies, she'll love this. It's like a metal opera. The singer, Floor Jansen, has an insane voice. Impossible to explain, but you'll get goosebumps!

    • @paulriddle7818
      @paulriddle7818 3 года назад +1

      you know they could choose the Tarja version if you dont tell them the Wacken or Buenos Aires version right?;-)

    • @Yvolve
      @Yvolve 3 года назад

      @@paulriddle7818 Good point! I didn't think of that, should've added the link. Usually the Wacken version is the top result, given the insane amount of views.

  • @th.burggraf7814
    @th.burggraf7814 Год назад

    ...and when we ask, how much should we give, they only answer more, more, more!
    That line gets me every time.

  • @yybarra79
    @yybarra79 3 года назад

    Love love love me some CCR…!!! They have so so many hits. His voice was so soulful and emotional. That rabbit hole is definitely worth going down with CCR. Much love from AZ 🌵

  • @baja27100
    @baja27100 2 года назад

    Sad and happy times, Vietnam, our awesome soldiers coming home, hippies, jocks, free love, flower children, bell bottoms, Woodstock. Great rock and roll.

  • @greatwhitewing
    @greatwhitewing 2 года назад +1

    I love your energy Lex. Most of the reason I watch

  • @danareynolds1786
    @danareynolds1786 2 года назад

    John Fogerty served in the National Guard in his El Cerrito, CA hometown pre-CCR during the early 'advisor' days of the Vietnam Conflict.

  • @barrymorgan5104
    @barrymorgan5104 3 года назад +3

    CCR's "Someday never comes" is a masterpiece that no one ever reacts to, check it out.

  • @SilentBob731
    @SilentBob731 2 года назад

    There aren't a lot of CCR songs that I particularly like, but they do a few that are among my Classic Rock Favourites, and this is one of them.

  • @zebjohnson5118
    @zebjohnson5118 3 года назад +1

    CCR's cover of " I put a Spell on You " is a must hear if you want to hear John's most soulful voice,and his guitar solo is insane or " Put a candle in the Window" ✌️♥️

    • @bertbonkers1168
      @bertbonkers1168 3 года назад

      "Long as I can see the light". Just on great song out of so many by CCR. There is a pretty good cover of "Long as I can see the light" by the Rival Sons. Well worth a listen.

  • @robc.8269
    @robc.8269 3 года назад +1

    There was a draft going on in the Vietnam war, so if your dad had money he could probably get you out of going to the war. So, this was a big anthem song during the war. This so g has probably been in every Vietnam movie too.

  • @stevedahlberg8680
    @stevedahlberg8680 Год назад

    Wow, I just came across this again and both of you are so smart and funny but on this one especially in the ending discussion, Lex was just freaking killing it but inside and compassion and understanding and casual acknowledgment of things. But the overall effect was definitely a wonderful conversation. You guys are amazing.

  • @AndrewDunnesq
    @AndrewDunnesq 3 месяца назад

    First of all I’m from Louisiana. I was watching this guy sing on tv and my dad goes “I could never understand what he was saying.”

  • @frankmichaeladams8868
    @frankmichaeladams8868 2 года назад

    Love your show. It's true, young people often think going to war is glamorous, heroic, brave, until fire and shrapnel explode around them and the sound of dying penetrates into their soul never to find it's way out. And not just the war depicted by this great song, but every war,WW2, the Civil war, Revolutionary war, the Spanish American war. Young soldiers patriotically marched away from home to the sound of Waltzing Matilda, naive smiles on there faces and kisses thrown from there sweethearts, only to return, if they return, with war wounds of unending variety, hope obliterated and a mind tormented with endless nightmares. War is not glamorous.

  • @sunrisesunset7
    @sunrisesunset7 2 года назад

    During the year after 9/11, more people enlisted into the military than in any single year since then. In total, 181,510 Americans enlisted into active-duty service that year, and 72,908 joined the reserves, according to the USO. Before the attack, many weren't aware of the threats against the United States

  • @travisfield9769
    @travisfield9769 2 года назад

    best 70s rock band easily

  • @chrismartin9040
    @chrismartin9040 3 года назад +2

    The range of your genres on here is crazy

    • @sutherngirrl7590
      @sutherngirrl7590 3 года назад

      That's why this is the best place to be.😉

  • @mariaportengen2959
    @mariaportengen2959 3 года назад +1

    CCR is such a great band 🎸🎸🎸🎶🎶💕💕

  • @tyraohara156
    @tyraohara156 19 дней назад

    Im 56, raised 3 sons. Any male age 18 has to register. If a war breaks out the middle class and poor young men get sent! Wealthy people get out, story of the world. They are fortunate.

  • @michelerainey4167
    @michelerainey4167 3 года назад +1

    CCR was the soundtrack of the Vietnam War!

  • @boneycrane4889
    @boneycrane4889 3 года назад

    Lex you have a unique at looking at music you hear… ❤️❤️❤️❤️I’m binge watching your channel right now. I went into the military to follow i my fathers footsteps and to serve my country it really wasn’t a choice it was a obligation to make a family legacy, I never pushed my kids to go into the military and never would!!!

  • @edwardpate6128
    @edwardpate6128 5 месяцев назад

    The Rummage Sale and the Tax man statement refers to places where they had personal property tax and folks would have home that looked like shit on the outside to try and reduce the amount they had to pay.

  • @USMC-Goforth
    @USMC-Goforth 3 года назад +1

    The verse you were questioning around 5 minute mark is referencing the draft and how some were able to get around it.

  • @Roy_Gaber
    @Roy_Gaber Год назад

    They are our brothers in those choppers. Thanks y'all, you have an awesome channel.

  • @ricktilden2075
    @ricktilden2075 3 года назад +1

    If you only knew how many times this song was played in outposts in Afghanistan

  • @donnsnoke9109
    @donnsnoke9109 2 года назад

    I had my 19th birthday on a combat patrol in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam in 1972....Delta Co. 1st Bn. 12th Cavalry 1st Air Cavalry....

  • @thomasharris4942
    @thomasharris4942 3 года назад +2

    I was legit LOLing all by myself here like a mental patient at Lex just not giving up on the Halloween candy thing. I've never noticed that effect either. Maybe I've not eaten enough candy in one sitting, or my voice isn't good enough to begin with for me to notice a difference if it gets "rough."
    Also, the way most rock singers roughened up their voices is the old fashioned way: whiskey and cigarettes--Lemmy, for example.

  • @hmichaelr1
    @hmichaelr1 3 года назад

    Right after 9/11, there were more volunteers for military service than the services could absorb. It was born from a deep emotion of patriotism.

  • @tylerdavis9957
    @tylerdavis9957 3 года назад

    Everytime I hear this song the movie Forrest gump pops in my head lol

  • @jerryjones8479
    @jerryjones8479 3 года назад

    There's some episode of the voice somewhere where someone has to sing this song and when they're practicing it the week before he is there to coach them. It's really cool because he talks about the emotion that he had to put in the song but how he didn't have to try because this was happening back then it's not like he's singing about the past. That's why it's soulful and sounds like it's flowing right out of his emotions.

  • @kasiaseubert
    @kasiaseubert 2 года назад

    idk if it's still there but you guys would really enjoy the Woodstock documentary that was on Netflix a couple years ago. It would give you so much context to what was going on at the time.

  • @Jg-gb3gp
    @Jg-gb3gp 2 года назад

    Everytime I look up a reaction to a good song I’m so glad to see y’all pop up. Mfs actually listen to the lyrics and break the song down instead of trying hard to be funny and talking over the whole song not paying attention

  • @jimilemons3437
    @jimilemons3437 3 года назад +1

    Inheriting star spangled eyes in this song actually refers to people sending other people to war via the draft.

  • @richardzinno4909
    @richardzinno4909 2 года назад

    The line about “the house looks like a rummage sale” refers to people trying to cheat on their state property taxes. In some states, the property tax wasn’t restricted to real estate holdings, but also included your personal property. Every year, the tax collector would visit your home and make a quick assessment of the total value of your household possessions. Then you’d have to pay a tax, again and again, each and every year, that was a percentage of that personal property value assessment.
    The song criticizes people who show off their wealth; but then hide their most valuable possessions, when the tax assessor makes his visit (replacing their valuables with valueless junk, for that one day).
    Babyboomers from the Midwest would be very familiar with that form of state taxation, and would also recall the contempt felt for hypocritical, rich, tax cheats. Neighbors would slander neighbors, with vicious gossip, accusing each other of being tax cheats; even if the accused were honest taxpayers. It could get ugly.
    I don’t know of anywhere, anymore, where taxes are assessed on household property. However, it used to be common; but was so resented that states discontinued that form of taxation.
    My wife’s state had that personal property tax system, and she remembers the tax collector’s visits. My state had already stopped taxing that way, by the 1940’s; but, before CCR wrote that song, I had heard about those taxes and the tax cheats (from my parents, who still hated the tax collectors and the gossips). That lyric was understood by everyone, when the song first came out, as being a brutal insult, directed at a lot of people.
    The personal property tax was different from state to state; just like today’s taxation of automobiles. Some states levy a big tax based on the current value of all your vehicles; but most states only levy a small, flat rate, road use, tax (and don’t charge anything for vehicles in storage).

  • @kenyonsgirl415
    @kenyonsgirl415 3 года назад +3

    John Fogerty is a BEAST

  • @brianwhite2960
    @brianwhite2960 3 года назад

    John Fogerty "The Old Man is Down the Road" has always been one of my favorites.