LONG AS I REMEMBER
THE RAIN BEEN COMIN' DOWN
CLOUDS OF MYSTERY POURIN' DOWN
CONFUSION ON THE GROUND
Cosmo's Factory
is the fifth
studio album
by the American
rock band
released by
Fantasy Records on
July 8, 1970.
Six of the album's
eleven tracks
were released
as singles in 1970,
and all of them charted
in the top 5
of the
Billboard Hot 100.
The album spent nine
consecutive weeks
in the
number one position
on the
Billboard 200 chart
and was certified
4x platinum
by the
Recording Industry Association
of America (RIAA)
in 1990.
Rolling Stone
ranked it number 413
on its 2020 list
of the
"500 Greatest Albums of All Time".
Background
With the release of
Cosmo's Factory
in July 1970,
Creedence Clearwater Revival
hit their commercial zenith.
It was their fifth album
in two years and became
an international success,
topping the album charts
in six countries
.The band also toured
Europe in 1970,
playing London's
Royal Albert Hall
among other venues,
and had emerged as
the most popular band
in America
by largely ignoring
the trippy acid rock
that was typical
of the era.
However,
despite the band's blend
of rockabilly,
folk,
and R&B,
some peers and rock critics
dismissed them as
a singles band
with no substance
.In a 2012
cover story,
Uncut observed:
"While San Francisco longhairs across
the bridge scoffed at their
commercialism,
Creedence henceforth made
a point of releasing
double A-sides.
And invariably both songs
would have an uncanny knack
of cutting through
to all sections of
the population."
Singer and lead guitarist
John Fogerty,
who had seemingly
arrived out of nowhere,
but had actually struggled
with his bandmates
throughout most
of the 1960s
as the Blue Velvets
and the Golliwogs,
composed the
group's songs
and generally
steered the band artistically,
although his grip
on the band –
including his dubious role
as manager –
irritated the others,
especially his
older brother
Tom Fogerty,
who left the band
by the end of 1970.
This was the
final album
that featured
John’s Rickenbacker 325
“ACME”
guitar with it only
appearing on
“Who’ll Stop The Rain”
with that was
recorded way earlier
than the rest of album
in September 1969,
it was after this that
John abandoned his
Ric 325
in favor of a
pair Les Paul Customs.
The rest of the album
was recorded with
a pair of 1968
Gibson Les Paul Customs
one stock fo
r Open D Tuning
and the other
heavily modified with
a 3/4 scale
and
Bigsby B5 Vibrato bar
for standard tuning.
These two
Les Pauls were his
main guitars from
September 1969
all the way to band’s
disbandment in 1972.
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