GOLDMINE: Describe the arc of CCR’s career. The first album comes out in ’68, you’re playing Woodstock in ’69, and then in 1970 you’re headlining The Royal Albert Hall. Did it feel like the trajectory of CCR’s career was happening at a warp speed?
DOUG CLIFFORD: Well, it felt like the sparklers in the air and usually see a bunch of that stuff during the 4th of July. So yeah, we were at warp speed, but that was the pace that was set, and we were always straight and sober when we worked. We couldn’t have done it otherwise. Not only did we do three albums in ’69, but we also toured behind all three and some other things, too, as you mentioned like playing Woodstock; so, yeah, we were definitely the Enterprise.
GM: Three albums in one year, that doesn’t happen today.
DC: Well, you know, that’s a career there now.
GM: I love the footage in the mini-documentary that precedes the concert film. Tell us about The Factory and what would go down there.
Well, The Factory was on Fifth Street in an industrial area of Berkeley, California, an old wooden structure a couple of stories high. It was a great place to be. We had our music area. That was, of course, what the whole thing was all about. But at the same time we had a basketball hoop at one end of the space and pingpong tables and foosball tables, and
