He is still popular now with the kids now a days, isn't he?
Posted on 04/08/2011 12:18:05 PM PDT by Reaganite Republican
He is still popular now with the kids now a days, isn't he?
You’re blessed, JPG
I never saw ‘em...
A guy who is a DJ told me never to purchase one of their albums because they were ripped off by record industry suits and they got almost nothing from the profits.
Are you being sarcastic about “still popular with the kids”, or is he up to something these days...?
I forgot all about poor Bobby lol
LOLOLOL
One of mine. “Long as I can see the light” is another. As well as “Who’ll stop the rain”.
Yep, Saul Zaenz. Fogerty even wrote a song about him on the Centerfield album called “Zanz Can’t Dance”
The record company forced Fogerty to change the title to “Vanz Can’t Dance.”
That reminds me about 25 years ago when CCR music was making a comeback, the band wanted to start touring again, cashing in. John Fogerty sued the band because he said that all the songs were his and they couldn’t play them. It got real ugly. I got the impression back then that Fogerty was a real greedy guy.
What I read was when they broke up before the end of the contract (and 8 albums shy!), John Fogerty -who sang/played guitar/and did most of the writing- had to give up rights to his own songs to get out of the contract.
So when he did his new solo song “Old Man Down the Road”, the label said the music was identical to Creedence’s “run through the Jungle”... which it pretty much was.
So Fogerty was basically charged with plagerizing his own earlier work... yeah, it sounds like he didn’t get a very clean deal. But Fogerty’s the one who broke the contract... so not so cut and dry imo
They don’t come more to the left than Fogerty.
Favorite CCR Tunes:
1) Born on a Bayou
2) Effigy
3) Bad Moon Rising
4) Fortunate Son
5) Lodi
I think part of that is he had a self imposed ban on playing CCR songs on principle, so he sure didn’t want residual band members doing it.
The story goes Dylan almost forced him to at an LA show where they played onstage together... he told him to “Play Proud Mary or the world will always think it’s Tina Turner’s song”- or words to that effect, so Fogerty broke his self ban
He had troubled getting out of the CCR contract, David Geffen bought him out of it... but the old label were tough about keeping the rights he forked over to get out
That looks like Bobby Jindal...
I totally and completely separate politics from favored musicians... or I would have almost nothing left to listen to. Actually, as a fan of Clapton, Richards, and Joplin it seems most of my faves are not only unabashed Leftists, but junkies too lol
The exception might be the really obnoxious anti-Bush musicians of 2004... whom Alice Cooper called “treasonous morons”... I found what they were saying pretty close to that
Half Jindal, half Martian if you ask me
Odd looking little guy
Oh yeah, I saw a bunch of youths in the Mosh Pit, moshing to 'Watching Scotty Grow.'
Goldsboro was his stage name in the 60’s and 70’s.
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