Stu Cook's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs

In the record

Stuart Alden Cook (born April 25, 1945) is an American retired bass guitarist, best known for being a member of the rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), for which he is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The birth-card coordinate for April 25 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1993 Performers with Creedence Clearwater Revival induction.

Rock Hall record

• 1993 Performers — inducted member of Creedence Clearwater Revival

The 9 of Clubs coordinate

Stu Cook's birthday maps to the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Stu Cook. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let a used-up framework go and keep the part that still works.

Live 9 of Clubs meaning page

Stu Cook in the public record

Cook, along with Doug Clifford and brothers Tom and John Fogerty, grew up in El Cerrito, California, where all four attended El Cerrito High School. Cook, Clifford and John Fogerty formed a band in high school which eventually became Creedence Clearwater Revival after Tom joined. Additionally, Cook attended San Jose State University alongside Doug Clifford. In the mid-1970s, following the breakup of CCR, Cook and Clifford joined the Don Harrison Band, which released two albums. In 1979, Cook produced 15 songs by Roky Erickson and the Aliens, which were released in 1980 on two LPs with different running orders, The Evil One and I Think of Demons. From 1986 to 1991, Cook was a member of the country band Southern Pacific. With Southern Pacific, Cook covered the Erickson song "It's a Cold Night for Alligators" for the tribute album Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson. Cook was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Stu Cook (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 4 of Clubs

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Stu Cook, and not a forecast of induction.

You put thinking into an order other people can actually use. You organize thoughts into systems. You build frameworks, structures, and processes. Your mind naturally creates order from chaos.

In 1979, Cook produced 15 songs by Roky Erickson and the Aliens, which were released in 1980 on two LPs with different running orders, The Evil One and I Think of Demons.

Paired on shared wording: orders, think. This line comes from the Uranus position of the 9♣'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. Also in 1993, Cook auditioned for the role of the bassist in The Rolling Stones after the departure of Bill Wyman.
2. Cook later reunited with Clifford, forming the band Creedence Clearwater Revisited in 1995.
3. Don Harrison Band The Don Harrison Band (1976) Red Hot (1977) Roky Erickson and the Aliens Roky Erickson and the Aliens (1980) The Evil One (1981) Southern Pacific Killbilly Hill (1986) Zuma (1988) County Line (1990) Greatest Hits (1991) Creedence Clearwater Revisited Recollection (1998) Stu Cook / Keith Knudsen / John McFee Jackdawg (2009; recorded 1990) Other appearances Creedence Clearwater Revisited (Official Site) Stu Cook interviewed on the Pop Chronicles (1970)

Other inductees with this card

• Albert King — 2013 Performers
• Allen Collins — 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Belinda Carlisle — 2021 Performers with The Go-Go's
• Bernie Leadon — 1998 Performers with Eagles
• Björn Ulvaeus — 2010 Performers with ABBA
• Brian May — 2001 Performers with Queen
• Dennis Dunaway — 2011 Performers with Alice Cooper
• Graham Simpson — 2019 Performers with Roxy Music
• Jason Cooper — 2019 Performers with The Cure
• Joey Kramer — 2001 Performers with Aerosmith
• John Lydon — 2006 Performers with Sex Pistols
• Keith Godchaux — 1994 Performers with The Grateful Dead
• 11 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Stu Cook's birth card?

The 9 of Clubs. April 25 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Stu Cook's dates come from?

Birth date 1945-04-25 is the day-precision date on Stu Cook's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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