From left to right: Creedence Clearwater Revival, which disbanded in 1972, were progressive and anachronistic at the same time.
Cook switched from piano to bass guitar and Tom Fogerty from lead vocals to rhythm guitar; John became the band's lead vocalist and primary songwriter. Indeed, Fantasy built a new headquarters building in 1971 at 2600 Tenth Street in John, seeing that Zaentz was no longer involved with the company, also signed a new contract with Concord/Fantasy. His next album, the following year, was called Fogerty’s hit pedigree was bound to attract other record companies, and eventually David Geffen’s Asylum label secured the North American rights to Fogerty’s next album for $1million dollars, leaving Fantasy with the rest of the world. Bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug ‘Cosmo’ Clifford were in attendance (guitarist and brother Tom Fogerty had died in 1990), but John Fogerty refused to let them play. And Creedence fans are not going to understand this.’ And he said: ‘If we don’t do it this way, then I’m going to quit right now.’ He knew we couldn’t do anything without him, and in retrospect we should have finished then, but at the time we didn’t want the band to break up.
And within the business people were increasingly aware that all was not well with the band. The hippies’ heaven in Haight Ashbury was as alien to them as it was to their parents. Please refresh the page and try again.Louder is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Once upon a time, there was a band called the Creedence Clearwater Revival. If I was walking down the street and those rattlesnakes were walking towards me, I would give them a wide berth.
And with a couple of exceptions he refused to play Creedence songs on stage.In 1993 Creedence Clearwater Revival were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.
Next year, Fantasy will release a live DVD, recorded during a show Mr. Fogerty and his band performed at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles in September. He didn’t even play guitar on them.“I said: ‘That’s not what we want. Creedence Clearwater Revival took "Proud Mary" to No. What do you play?’ I said: ‘Drums. Fogerty's ongoing disagreements with Tom Fogerty soon joined the band, and in 1964 they signed with Bandmembers' roles and the instruments they played changed during this period. That put a tremendous amount of pressure on John, but he was able to do it.”Musically John Fogerty was going from strength to strength. 2 in 1969, then saw Ike and Tina Turner put their own spin on the song, which rose to No. “We played four nights and got 16 encores,” recalls Cook proudly.
I hope that it goes that way. A: If you are using a pre-recorded song or another pre-recorded piece of music in your film, there are two rights you need to clear; that is to say, you need to get two different licenses to use the music. Synchronization License: This is the right to synchronize a song or … Battles between artists and record labels are as old as the history of recorded music, but rarely has the tension between art and commerce grown as personal as in John Fogerty's epic struggle with Fantasy Records and its longtime owner, Saul Zaentz, over the lucrative catalog of songs that Mr. Fogerty wrote for Creedence Clearwater Revival in the late 60's. While clashes between artists and record labels aren’t rare, the situation Swift finds herself in is. They did quite alright for themselves, for a while anyways. "You work at it. "I still view them in the same light. They did quite alright for themselves, for a while anyways. When he performed instead with a band that included Bruce Springsteen and Robbie Robertson, Clifford and Cook got up and walked out.It was a sour Revival revival, and according to Doug Clifford just one more example of Fogerty “cutting off his nose to spite his face. "The way I view Saul Zaentz and his henchmen, shall I say -- well, that probably gives it away," Mr. Fogerty said. Astonishingly, they never had a No.1 hit in America although they had plenty around the rest of the world, including the UK with John Fogerty broke up Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1972. "They were very generous in that regard," Mr. Fogerty said of Concord's management. But all of that seemed to be behind him after the former "I don’t own them, still," Fogerty tells UCR. They’d never even been out of their native California.Creedence were not fashionable but they were hugely popular. We rehearsed every day in a shed in Doug’s garden.” The shed was nicknamed Cosmo’s Factory.They launched the band by re-releasing The Golliwogs’ last single, The group eventually got their break with an edited version of Dale Hawkins’s But to Creedence – living in California’s answer to Woking – it was a world away. Currently Fogerty still does not have full ownership to the publishing rights of the songs he penned as a member of CCR under the Fantasy Records label that was in the control of the pus-bag Saul Zaentz. That was why I stopped. The same guy that wrote 'Proud Mary' is hoping to dare the fates and the gods and come up with another one, but he realizes that’s a pretty tough assignment. My attitude was: ‘Let’s see if Tom can contribute something. A slew of acclaimed albums and hit singles, non-stop tours, a ruinous record deal and a singer who couldn't let go. Adam Sweeting talks to the Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman about 12 years of bitter legal battles ©
Cook—who held a degree in business—claimed that because of poor judgment on Fogerty's part, CCR had to abide by the worst record deal of any major U.S. recording artist. John Cameron Fogerty is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. Any time anybody there had a spare half hour they’d compile another Creedence collection. "He had let the other members of Creedence out of their contract, but he didn’t let me out of that same contract," Fogerty explains.