The boys from Creedence were East Bay, coming from El Cerrito CA. They were semi-Beatle copycats to start wearing matching suits, high heeled boots and called themselves the Blue Velvets. Every summer I lived in the East Bay (Albany), the El Cerrito Mall held a battle of the bands. Usually 10 or 15 garage rock groups gave their all to be number one. First year my band played we came in fifth. Next year we were Number 2. Both years the number one band was the Golliwogs, who used to be the Blue Velvets. They stopped the matching suits and went more Rolling Stones in appearance.
The third year my band came in first place, because the Golliwogs moved on to bigger and better things as Creedence Clearwater Revival. Doug "Cosmo" Clifford and Stu Cook were really nice guys. Tom Fogerty was more a clown but nice. John was all business. I'll never forget those days. Yeah, Doug needs to be in the Drummerworld list of drummers.