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Subject: Re: [OM] CCR/Fogerty
From: Bob Sull <w8imo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 17:22:46 -0500
LARS BUNDESEN wrote:
> 
> It seems like I'm not the only CCR/Fogerty fan on this list.
> 
> John Fogerty is still active - thank God - and released in 1997 the
> Grammy-winning Blue Moon Swamp album, one of his best ever, and in 1998 a
> live album, Premonition, including many of the CCR classics.
> 
> John spent a good part of the 80s and early 90s with legal feuds with Saul
> Zaentz and Fantasy Records.
> He was sued because of the songs Zanz Kant Danz and Mister Greed from the
> Centerfield album from 1985, both songs more or less aimed at mr. Zaentz,
> and he was sued for self-plagiarism for The Old Man Down the Road, which
> Fantasy claimed was a copy of the old CCR song Run Through the Jungle.
> (This is like saying that Chuck Berry only wrote one song and plagiarized
> himself ever after). John won the plagiarizm case, I'm not sure about the
> others.
> 
> Around 1980, John Fogerty gave Fantasy Records all his future artist
> royalties to get off the label and swore never to play the old songs again.
> He changed his mind in 1987, performing some of the CCR hits at a Vietnam
> Veterans benefit concert, and the concerts after his last comeback have all
> featured a large portion of the old songs, even songs that were not
> performed live in the old days.
> 
> The latest rumour (still unconfirmed) is that Fogerty is going to be a
> guest star or opening act for Tina Turner on her European summer tour.
> Seeing her and John singing Proud Mary would be great. I'd better get a
> ticket for her Copenhagen concert.
> 
> Olympus content: I've taken quite a few good concert  pictures of John
> Fogerty using my old XA (smuggled in, as cameras were not allowed)
> 
> Kepp on chooglin'
> 
> Lars
> 

In 1998 I saw John on NBC TV in the morning and decided to buy his CD. 
Before I got to the store, I was working at the CART Cleveland Grand
Prix.  Ay the dinner/party for the Volunteers I won his CD.  Made me
happy.....

Bob
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