Creedence Clearwater Revival : Pendulum (40th Anniversary Edition)

 

SOMEONE TOLD ME

 LONG AGO

THERE'S A CALM

BEFORE THE STORM

Pendulum

 is the sixth

 studio album 

by the American rock band

 Creedence Clearwater Revival 

released by

 Fantasy Records on 

December 9, 1970. 

It was the 

second studio album

 the band released 

that year, 

arriving five months after 

Cosmo's Factory.

Background

The album was

 recorded at 

Wally Heider Studios

 in San Francisco 

and took a month

 to complete,

 an unusually

 long time 

for the band. 

A band meeting

 before the 

sessions saw 

Tom Fogerty, 

Cook and Clifford 

demanding more 

creative input. 

With their backlog

 of material

 already released 

on 

Cosmo's Factory, 

the band entered 

the studio 

planning to jam 

and experiment, 

but no new songs 

materialized 

from this method

John wrote

 "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" 

about the band's

 impending breakup. 

The closing instrumental

 "Rude Awakening #2,"

 a venture into 

avant-garde

 psychedelia

 inspired by

 the Beatles'

 "Revolution 9," 

Pendulum

 is the last album 

the band recorded 

while Tom Fogerty

 was still a member,

 as he left the group

 in early 1971

 to start a solo career; 

and the last of the 

band's albums

 to be produced

 solely by

 John Fogerty.

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