Who doesn’t like CCR? I mean Fortunate Son will never not be relevant, Travelin’ Band rocks even if you aren’t in a band or moving, and Have You Ever Seen The Rain is a sentence never once uttered by a Vancouverite and yet, it hits. If you have no idea who I’m talking about, download the essentials playlist and start with Bad Moon Rising. If you don’t like Bad Moon Rising, you don’t like music. Ok, that’s harsh, but the continuous thumping beat that brings that tasty guitar along, man its awesome. It’s like if The Animals were actually *from* a house in New Orleans.
Anywho, you might be wondering, “Boy that sure was a lot of emphasis on Bad Moon Rising, does he just really like that one or is there a reason for bringing it up?” Or you weren’t thinking that and would rather I get to the point. Well, here it is, a CCR cover band called the Bad Moon Riders is gonna be in Lake Country on the 8th, so get moving if you want to see them!
These guys are playing the hits, and its kind of freaky but you wont believe how much they sound like the original guys. The lead singer, Mike Kelly, sounds more like John Fogerty then he does nowadays. What gets crazy about this, is Mike Kelly was briefly part of BTO! Like, the real one. Bachman-Turner Overdrive. And the lead guitarist Anthony Della Croce, was a fill in guitarist for Headpins!
This band has the make up of real Canadian greats! And for whatever reason they choose to do covers. And thank goodness they did, because they are good. You listen to their stuff and its like you teleported back 54 years to hit CCR in their prime.
They have an unmatched stage presence, well ok, they have a match in the real CCR but hey, for a cover band that’s kinda what you want right?
Well, like I said before, they’re playing at the Creekside Theatre in Lake Country, if you want to pretend you’ve been forced into a conflict in the jungle against your will in order to take down a dictatorship and prop up an American backed dictatorship, then check out the Bad Moon Riders.