Songs that make you feel great no matter what...

bruceolee 3 months ago wrote:
Imagine having this intro and the following movie would be Raiders of the lost ark, empire strikes back, Gremlins, or Goonies. you knew your night was going to be awesome! I don't have to imagine because i lived it and loved it. forgot Big Trouble in Little China

Mike Watt wrote: Creedence's 'Up Around the Bend' is my favorite song- he didn't know which bend, he just wanted to get around it. He even has a four syllable word in that song! That's why I wear the flannel, because of him (John Fogerty).

But wait, it gets weirder. Another flannel-associated rocker is the longtime punk bassist Mike Watt, who first came to prominence in the 1980s band the Minutemen (and was later in the band Firehose, whose fourth album was called Flyin' the Flannel). Now Watt—a guy who's loudly championed a do-it-yourself, anti-commercial ethos for his entire career—is selling his own branded flannel shirt, just like Fogerty. And how did Watt get into wearing flannel in the first place? According to this video clip, it's because he and Minutemen guitarist D. Boon were—wait for it—big Creedence fans.