They didn’t get any replies from a singer, but they got one from another guitar player, Matt Kelly. It started out with two cousins, Chuck Haegele (guitar) and Johnny Brennan (bass), looking for a singer on Craigslist. How did The Dead Pockets form? How did you come up with the name? PW recently caught up with the band to talk about its music and new release. They have gained a small presence on social media with their “Lodi” cover by CCR on YouTube, and from their first live show. They are in the process of writing and recording their first EP, and released their first-ever single, “Sunday Drip” on Oct. The Dead Pockets started in late 2018 and formed through word of mouth, family and Craigslist. Travelin' Band Down on the Corner Creedence Country Keep on Chooglin' The Best of Creedence Clearwater Revival Chronicle, Vol.Take some Rolling Stones, mix in a little Kings of Leon and a dash of the Allman Brothers, and you get Philly band The Dead Pockets.
IT IS NOT ABOUT LODI CALIFORNIA- tho Folgerty had passed through that town in his travels. Lodi is a metaphor of which you never want to be stuck in. this song is not what you think it is, or what i think it is.it is whatever it is. like i pointed out, durring CCR popularity FOLGERTY WAS BEING SUED BY EVERYONE. Folgerty wrote from personal refference, and sometimes with in writting lyrics one needs something to tie everything down to and exact theme, i believe Folgerty- who at the time was being sued by his own brother and his band mates, wrote Lodi from Deja' vu - like damn, here i am again Stuck. yes, perhaps Lodi Cali inspired the song tittle, Art imitating LIFE. he goes on to say, that he had traveled northern california and had came across a town called Lodi.which looked like to him no place he would ever want to be from. this song is about a man being stuck in life, feeing trapped with no real way out.
General CommentJohn Folgerty said himself in and interview - the Lodi is not about anything or anyplace in paticular. When the Lodi experience completed, he drove back to Berkeley and took a final look into the rear view mirror and contemplated his blessings and twists of fate not only for himself but for all of us. Then probably drifted mentally at some point imagining playing music for them on some beer stained make shift stage trying to entertain like a local. My guess is that he spent a few hours in a local bar probably talking to patrons to get a sense of (their) reality.
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( For perspective -throughout the 60’s and into the 70’s SF was a Mecca for exceptional & outrageous creativity in all areas of art and the experiential ground for LSD - it was free love, sex, drugs and rock 'n roll in such extremes as never seen before in the world). Like most genius artists (if my assumptions are correct) he allowed himself to let go and drink in any creative inspirations with this town - good or bad, not with the intent of writing a song necessarily but just to simply experience something vastly different from his life in SF.
However, being an outsider from the culturally rich area of the SF Bay (as a resident during CCR - I don't know where he is from originally) he probably felt like he entered the void as he stopped in that town. I believe that John Fogerty actually passed thru Lodi while driving around in Nor Cal and saw things as they were - dry, desolate and like many central valley towns, not a nice place to visit & certainly not a place to aspire to live in. There is a Lodi in everybody's life - be it a physical location or a state of mind. General CommentA vibrant song about mood, texture and life.
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