I am sorry that I am late on posting but my computer was giving me trouble. You deserve to get the interviews ASAP and, I am sorry that I couldn't get them to you yesterday. Well, I will stat with Bad Moon Risin and end with Have You Ever Seen The Rain. I think you will find them very interesting. If you want more just ask and I will be happy to post them! I really do hope you enjoy these interviews! Well, here they are.
John Fogerty:"This song is definetly not about astrology. The imagery came from a 1941 movie, The Devil and Daniel Webster, about a senator who makes a deal with the Devil (played by Walter Huston.) The idea of this film was that the Devil was protecting Daniel Webster because of the deal they had made. There's one great scene where there's a huge strom, and the neighbor's corn crop was completly knocked down. But next door, the Devil and Daniel Webster are standing side - by - side, looking out the barn door. You can see Daniel Webster's corn still standing tall in a straight row, six feet high. his contrast represented a very strong image to me. I took it in a Biblical sense, meaning hurricanes and lightening. "Don't go round tonight/ It's bound to take your life/ There's a bad moon on the rise." Scary, spooky stuff."
John Fogerty:"This happends in the bay area more often than in other places: the sun is shining, yet you have rain falling down, rainbows and raindrops falling, as the wind blows the rain into th Bay though the Golden Gate. "Have You Ever Seen The Rain?" is about the break - up of Creedence Clearwater Revival. "Have you ever seen the rain commin down, sunny day?" Creedence was supposed to be sunny days, the golden time, yet look at the rain falling down on us. The song was off the Pendulum album, which also referred to the break - up, a pendulum swinging one way toward all the wonderful times, now it was swinging back the other way, which was bad. Things were bad, a stuggle. The trick I had been able to pull off was writing and showing everyone what to play, which held them at bay. Our succsess also held them at bay. Then we had a big meeting, A BAND MEETING, in capitol letters, a week before the recording of Pendulum. This meeting didn't effect Pendulum too much, but the idea was that the band wanted to be a democracy instead of an autocracy, or mabey a dictatorship. I was the tyrant, a dictator. After Pendulum was recorded, about six weeks after the THE BIG BAND MEETING, we planned a big comming - out press party, just two and a half years into our career. I call it Night of the Generals, everybody was a now a general, no soldiers to do the work. We heird Rogers and Cowan to proclaim the tyranny was over, Creedence was now a democracy. I went along with it, there wasn't much else that I could do. Yet that's what they wanted, so I took a big swallowed and thought, "Oookay." The guys all talked to Rolling Stone and the rest of the press about how the were going to be singing and writing, making up their own parts instead of following John. As a surprise to me, I even had to get up and say something nice about Saul Zaentz. I swallowed real hard and told the story about how Saul had loaned the band $1200 so we could buy a new Kustom Amp. Soon enough It all fell apart in front of my eyes. After the tyranny, fourteen months later, Mardi Gras came out. But ever since that album came out, the guys have spent the next 27 years proclaiming "It wasn't our idea. John made us do that." Baloney! All you have to do is go back and read the articles. The guys had seized the reins of power. Critics at the time called Mardi Gras "Fogerty's revenge." My only question is revenge for what? God forbid, we had a world class outfit with a name that was revered and honored. Yet here we were, thrashing it ourselves. I don't think the band relized "Have You Ever Seen The Rain?" was about our break - up. But at the time we were recording it, there was a writer named John Hollywell who was writing a book called Inside Creedence, which came out after the group had broken - up. It was a paperback, the only book ever writen about Creedence. He was a sensitive guy. He knew. As we were playing in the studio, he came up to me with tears in his eyes. He'd figured it out." Well ,I hoped you enjoyed them! I thought they were pretty interesting. What about you? I hope you have a nice day and ROCK ON!!!
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