Creedence clearwater revival - Travelin' band

First performance: 31/07/1984


Coverinfo

Bruce covered the song 23 times as a stand-alone song and 70 times as part of the "Detroit Medley".

2016-06-03 Ricoh Arena, Coventry, England
2013-06-26 Estadio Municipal El Molinón, Gijón, Spain
2009-07-21 Stadio Olimpico, Turin, Italy
 
Vote for change tour
together with John Fogerty

2004-10-13 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford
2004-10-03 Cobo Arena, Detroit

1999-12-20 McLoone's Rum Runner, Sea Bright
During his annual Christmas party at McLoone's Rum Runner in Sea Bright, NJ. Though the date is not certain it seems the party took place on December 20, and Bruce joined Bobby Bandiera's band for well over an hour, performing Beatles and Creedence Clearwater Revival songs among other classics.
 
 
1991-08-04 Cheers, Long Branch
The Outcry

1991-07-12 McLoone's Rum Runner, Sea Bright
Bobby Bandiera

1990-03-01 Forum (The), Inglewood, CA
Tom Petty and Bob Dylan

1989-07-09 Stone Pony (The), Asbury Park
Cat on a Smooth Surface

1989-06-02 Stone Pony (The), Asbury Park
Killer Joe

1985-10-02 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
1985-09-30 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
1985-09-29 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
1985-09-27 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
1985-09-24 Mile High Stadium, Denver
1985-09-23 Mile High Stadium, Denver
1985-09-19 Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland
1985-09-18 Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland
1985-09-14 Cotton Bowl, Dallas
1985-09-13 Cotton Bowl, Dallas
1984-09-02 Stone Pony (The), Asbury Park

1984-08-22 Stone Pony (The), Asbury Park
La Bamba
 
70 times as part of the "Detroit Medley"

1985-09-04 Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, MI
1985-04-22 Osaka-jo Horu, Osaka, Japan
1985-03-27 Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney, Australia
1985-03-21 Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney, Australia
1985-01-23 Providence Civic Center, Providence
1985-01-19 Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro
1985-01-18 Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro
1985-01-16 Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte
1985-01-15 Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte
1985-01-13 Carolina Coliseum, Columbia, SC
1985-01-10 Freedom Hall, Louisville
1985-01-07 Market Square Arena, Indianapolis
1985-01-05 Hampton Roads Coliseum, Hampton
1985-01-04 Hampton Roads Coliseum, Hampton
1984-12-17 Omni (The), Atlanta
1984-12-16 Omni (The), Atlanta
1984-12-14 Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis
1984-12-13 Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis
1984-12-11 Rupp Arena, Lexington
1984-12-09 Murphy Center, Murfreesboro, TN
1984-12-07 Leon County Civic Center, Tallahassee
1984-12-06 Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center Arena, Birmingham, AL
1984-12-02 LSU Assembly Center, Baton Rouge, LA
1984-11-30 Summit (The), Houston
1984-11-29 Summit (The), Houston
1984-11-26 Reunion Arena, Dallas
1984-11-25 Reunion Arena, Dallas
1984-11-23 Frank Erwin Center, Austin,
1984-11-19 Kemper Arena, Kansas City
1984-11-18 Bob Devaney Sports Center, Lincoln, NE
1984-11-16 Hilton Coliseum, Ames, IA
1984-11-15 St. Louis Arena, St. Louis
1984-11-12 McNichols Sports Arena, Denver
1984-11-11 McNichols Sports Arena, Denver
1984-11-08 ASU Activity Center, Tempe, AZ
1984-11-04 Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, LA
1984-11-02 Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, LA
1984-10-31 Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, LA
1984-10-29 Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, LA
1984-10-28 Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, LA
1984-10-26 Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, LA
1984-10-25 Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, LA
1984-10-22 Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena, Oakland
1984-10-21 Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena, Oakland
1984-10-19 Tacoma Dome, Tacoma
1984-10-17 Tacoma Dome, Tacoma
1984-10-15 Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC
1984-09-25 Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo
1984-09-24 Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo
1984-09-22 Civic Arena, Pittsburgh
1984-09-21 Civic Arena, Pittsburgh
1984-09-18 Spectrum, Philadelphia
1984-09-17 Spectrum, Philadelphia
1984-09-15 Spectrum, Philadelphia
1984-09-14 Spectrum, Philadelphia
1984-09-12 Spectrum, Philadelphia
1984-09-11 Spectrum, Philadelphia
1984-09-08 Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT
1984-09-07 Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT
1984-09-05 Centrum In Worcester, Worcester, MA
1984-08-29 Capital Centre, Largo
1984-08-28 Capital Centre, Largo
1984-08-26 Capital Centre, Largo
1984-08-20 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford
1984-08-19 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford
1984-08-17 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford
1984-08-16 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford
1984-08-12 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford
1984-08-05 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford
1984-07-31 Joe Louis Arena, Detroit
 

Songinfo

"Travelin' Band" is a song written by John Fogerty and originally recorded by Creedence Clearwater Revival. It was included on their 1970 album Cosmo's Factory. The song was inspired, both musically and for Fogerty's vocal delivery, by 1950s rock n' roll songs, particularly those by Little Richard. In October 1972, the company that held the publishing rights to Richard’s "Good Golly, Miss Molly" felt that "Travelin' Band" bore enough similarities to warrant a plagiarism lawsuit that was later settled out of court. The lyrics of the song describe what life is like for a musician on the road.
 
 
 

Other cover versions

Bruce on the artist

1993-01-12 - CENTURY PLAZA HOTEL, LOS ANGELES
 
Bruce´s speech inducting Creedence Clearwater Revival into the Rock´n´Roll Hall of Fame:
 
"In 1970 suburban New Jersey was still filled with the kind of sixties spirit Easy Rider made us all so fond of. I'm referring to the scene where Dennis Hopper gets blown off his motorcycle by some red-neck with a shotgun! A weekend outing at the time was still filled with the drama of possibly getting your ass kicked by a total stranger, who disagreed with your fashion sense. Me and my band worked on Route 35 outside of Asbury Park, at a club called the Pandemonium. They'd recently lowered the drinking age to eighteen with the logic that if you were old enough to die you were old enough to drink! And so it was five 50 minute sets a night and rarely a night without a fight. The crowd was eclectic; rough kids just out of high school who hadn't been snatched up by the draft yet; Truck drivers heading home south to the Jersey pines who weren't gonna make it (not that night at least), and a mixture of college and working girls, women with bouffant hair-dos, and a small, but steady hippy contingent. Tough crowd to please all at once! We played behind a U-shaped bar that was just three feet and spitting distance from many of the patrons who came to just drink and stare and hassle the band. Into New Jersey came the music of John and Tom Fogerty, Doug Clifford and Stu Cook - Creedence Clearwater Revival; and for three minutes and seven seconds of Proud Mary a very strained brotherhood would actually fill the room. It was simply a great song that everybody liked and it literally saved our asses on many occasions! Creedence started off in the long jamming tradition of other San Francisco bands, realised it wasn't their road, quit cold, and went on to great things· Green River. Bad Moon Rising, Down On The Corner, Lodi. Fortunate Son, Who'll Stop The Rain, Born On The Bayou, it wasn't only great music, it was great dance music, it was great bar band music. I remember in the late seventies I'd be out in a club and I'd watch some band struggle through one of my songs ond then just sort of glide effortlessly through a Creedence Clearwater tune. It used to really piss me off!. Anyway I stand here tonight, still envious of that music's power and its simplicity. And they were hits, and hitsville was reality and poetry and a sense of the darkness of events and of history. Of an American tradition shot through with pride, fear. paranoia and they rocked hard. Now you can' t talk about Creedence without talking about John Fogerty. On the fashion front, all of Seattle should bow! John was the father of the flannel shirt! And as a songwriter only few did as much in three minutes. He was an old testament, shaggy haired prophet, a fatalist; funny too. As Clint Eastwood said "A man's got to know his limitations". But I can say I've never met anyone who took'em so seriously! He was severe, he was precise, he said what he had to say and got out of there. He was lyrically spare and beautiful. He created a world of childhood memory and of men and women with their backs to the wall. A landscape of swamps, bayous, endless rivers, gypsy women, back porches, hand dogs chasing ghosts, devils, bad moon's rising. straight out of the blues tradition. He turned it into a vision that was all his own and in Doug, Stu and Tom he had the band that could back it up. What makes a great rock band is a funny thing - its not always the obvious things. You can't ever really know what makes a great band tick. Its not about what the players are exactly like. All I know is he had Tom Fogerty's relentless rhythm guitar and Doug and Stu's great rhythm section and John's songwriting and singing. All I know is they played great together. I bumped into John one day on Mulholland Drive and we laughed about how far he was from the bayou and I was from the New Jersey turnpike! Creedence made music for all the waylaid Tom Sawyer's and Huck Finn's, for a world that would never again be able to take them up on their most simple and eloquent invitation which is "If you get lost, come on home to Green River". So let me end by saying that in their day Creedence never got the respect they deserved. Who would have thought that in sixty-nine, before the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, Strawberry Alarm Clock or Electric Prunes, Creedence would be inducted into a Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame, if there was ever gonna be one. They committed the sin of being too popular when hipness was all. They played no frills American music for the people. In the late sixties and early seventies they weren't the hippest band in the world - just the best. And anyway so let me finish by saying "Congratulations men for a job well done" and to all the nay sayers "Ha, ha, ha they told you so!" So Doug Clifford, Stu Cook, Jeff Fogerty (accepting for his dad, John Fogerty) congratulations, glad to induct you into the Hall Of Fame. " 
 
source : brucebase
 
 
 

Lyrics

Seven Thirty Seven coming out of the sky
Oh won't you take me down to Memphis on a midnight ride
I wanna move
Playing in a traveling band, yeah
Well I'm flying across the land trying to get a hand
Playing in a traveling band

Take me to the hotel, baggage gone, oh well
Come on, come on, won't you get me to my room
I wanna move
Playing in a traveling band, yeah
Well I'm flying across the land trying to get a hand
Playing in a traveling band

Listen to the radio talking about the last show
Someone got excited, had to call the state militia
I wanna move
Playing in a traveling band, yeah
Well I'm flying across the land trying to get a hand
Playing in a traveling band
Whoa!

Here we come again on a Saturday night
Oh with your fussing and your fighting won't you get me to the rhyme
I wanna move
Playing in a traveling band, yeah
Well I'm flying across the land trying to get a hand
Playing in a traveling band
Whoa!

Oh I'm playing in a traveling band
Playing in a traveling band
Won't you get me, take my hand
Well I'm playing in a traveling band
Well I'm flying across the land trying to get a hand
Playing in a traveling band
Whoa!