SHUT UP!! (standard Jeter article response)

Wouldn't hold out much hope for the tape deck though.

Or the Creedence.

John Fogerty: The hits keep coming from the rock - and baseball - icon


Yeah, every 25 years, like clockwork.

I mean , I love CCR, but Fogerty hasn't had a hit since 1985

When I rule the world, my first act is going to be to make playing "Centerfield" at any ballpark a capital offense. I'd rather listen to a Kate Smith / John Denver duet of "Up With People" with a visual background of the Kentucky election returns.

I love CCR, but Fogerty hasn't had a hit since 1985

Some good music, though. The Blue Moon Swamp album was tremendous.

I like Fogerty's music a lot, but from what I can tell he's pretty hard to get along with and probably kind of a jerk. That's okay. I don't want to meet him, or anything.

SHUT UP!! (standard Jeter article response)

Yup, seeing this in every Jeter-related thread is necessary.
Could you at least accuse him of being dumber than ten dogs?

Fogerty is the ultimate "my way or the highway" guy - there's a reason many of his solo albums were recorded with him playing all the instruments. I'm with Matthew E - I love CCR's records (well, from Bayou Country though Pendulum), but I dislike Fogerty as a person, from everything I've read about him. He pretty much commandeered the band from his brother Tom (who was the original singer and songwriter), and the whole Mardi Gras debacle, which produced maybe the worst album by a major artist this side of Metal Machine Music, was deliberate commercial suicide. And not letting Cook and Clifford play at CCR's Hall-of-Fame induction was unforgivable. But that run from 1969 to 1971 - heck, few bands have ever had a peak that good...

Vortex...that is some major league distortion there....

Sibling rivalries aside John didn't steal the band from Tom, the band became stars only after he became the frontman. And as for his career, and the playing all the instruments, it has much less to do with his ego, and much more to do with Saul Zaentz' lawyers. Anybody who played with him heard from lawyers, anybody who allowed him to perform heard from lawyers. He filmed a legendary concert for MTV in the 80's, Fantasy records sued and stopped it from airing.

Since being free from Zaentz' persecution and reunited with the rights to his music in 2004 his career has been nothing but succesful. He had a hit album "Revival" in 2008 that was nominated for a Grammy, Likewise in 2009 with "The Blue Ridge Rangers Ride Again" which also garnered a Grammy nomination for one of his songs. Not to mention a tons of sold out concerts, where he has finally been able to play his music with no lawsuits.

It is sad about Stu and Doug, but it is Stu and Doug who owe John an apology for being active participants in the efforts to prevent John from making music for 30 years.

Saul Zaentz once sued Fogerty for making a record in which Fogerty had the audacity to sound like John Fogerty. Justice prevailed: John Fogerty was allowed to create his art as he wished and not avoid sounding like himself.

"At one point in the trial, after demonstrating the relatively limited harmonic structure of swamp rock on his guitar, Fogerty said in exasperation, "Yeah, it’s the same interval. What am I supposed to do, get an inoculation?""