John Fogerty- Interview on Countdown 1985

[@rustyb.1301]

I was at an outdoor John Fogerty concert a few months ago here in 2022 and I was very amazed at how well preserved this fellow is. The show was great, they totally nailed it!

[@zacharybenner8369]

He said it himself; no drugs and no drinking has only done him good! 😮😊 (And his memory is impeccable!)

[@fractalnomics]

I just got to see him in Uppsala. Very important to me. Great to see his family involved.

[@chrisr7143]

Such amazing talent !!

[@kelseymatarese]

Love Fogerty :)

[@andreverhagemusic]

great songwriter!

[@joemarshall4226]

Proud Mary is one of the great songs of the century...no doubt.

[@tinfoilhatter]

@@joemarshall4226 and all-the-other-ones, arguably are-even-better, mate!

[@tinfoilhatter]

i think john's really the one who wrote 'the mighty quinn', but he doesn't need anymore credits-that-way, anyway, man

[@joemarshall4226]

@@tinfoilhatter Nah, Dylan wrote that.

[@joemarshall4226]

@@tinfoilhatter No, Proud Mary is the masterpiece....lots of other good ones, but that song is shear magic....a working man singing about the best job he ever had......

[@hps69]

When you cross Steve Martin with Harrison Ford

[@malinastankova4918]

Aaaannnd Laura Ingles' father on Little House on the Prairie!

[@krudtmusic5695]

My unconscious brain was trying to figure this out, then I saw your comment 😂😂

[@otomatikpilot9010]

You got a great eye bro and add a little bit of Steve Vai

[@markomba]

Will Ferrell`s voice !?

[@gabrielaolverasalinas591]

Harrison ford

[@mariadia1803]

I star to listen his song and since l love it always.

[@larsshaunkvistgaard1088]

John FOGERTY you have doting doing the best for the world. Love you.

[@steveharris4367]

"We were big in Turlock, Modesto and sometimes Marysville..."

[@t4texastomjohnnycat978]

1970 to 2020 - Celebrating 50 years of...... COSMO'S FACTORY🎸- THE GREATEST STUDIO RECORDED ALBUM IN ROCKNROLL HISTORY.

[@kennyhuskisson2684]

I agree! 👍✌

[@tinfoilhatter]

hey! will-find! but how-much-longer-have-we-got, right?

[@rowanparmiter7622]

Well lets just say it was pretty damn good

[@jamescook3297]

Best album no question

[@ashratempel5094]

Rock hero!

[@joakimbjornberg7597]

So damn well spoken. Incredible. What a man. What a beautiful person.

[@Imw101]

I read his autobiography. Those sidemen in CCR won the lottery and screwed over the guy who gave them their ticket.

[@moongazer5073]

But none of his new sidemen can’t get that Creedence sound at all , so I don’t blame the other guys for putting themselves first , every post Creedence album was nowhere near Creedence music

[@pgarcia1994]

@@moongazer5073 You got it Gazer. The same that I have thought, even if he gets more musicians he never gets the CCR sound. Doug, Stu, Tom, and of course John they were Creedence Clearwater Revival. Without them, the sound is different. I love John, but I also love the others. CCR live forever!

[@whitecloud_94]

"We all contribute now. We are not just a side band."

[@wilburythesage2734]

John’s children got the sound right and then some when I saw them this year. His brother and the other CCR members were two faced to backstab him at their height of success out of jealousy.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

October 1967: before "Proud Mary," and even before "Suzie Q", there was "Porterville", the very first Creedence 45.

[@wheninroamful]

Damn! Never heard this song, Porterville; and it hits hard. Got some early psych rock in there, and the confident in John’s singing is palpable. So good, thanks.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@wheninroamful The B-side is "Call It Pretending", which is about THE most R&B sound Creedence ever did!

[@James_Bowie]

This is about the most lucid I've seen JF in an interview at this time of his life.

[@tinfoilhatter]

does he do a lotta these 'at this time of his life' then?

[@donaldfowler7125]

Yeah, he kinda did. He had just released “centerfield” after a long hiatus. So he was doing a lot of interviews during this time period.

[@allymayful]

He’s the happiest he has been in 15 + yrs. It because Warner is treating him with such respect. BUT his past is about to haunt him again he gets gets sued for sounding like Creedence on Old Man Down The Road. Unbelievable!!!

[@marcuskluyvert9105]

John Fogerty é vida!!!

[@AMBGS7]

JC, I agree with you on Franco Zappa. Noise, like Strawinsky

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

I can tell John is angry, the poor man was given the hardest time by his band mates and crooked record company, they stole 10/15 golden years from this most amazing and very kind and gentleman. I am very happy that those bad times are over for John and his is enjoying his life, his family and his music.

[@tinfoilhatter]

he's one-diamond-shinin'-*on*, like-nobody-can-believe, - like nobody's-ever-*seen*!

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

@@tinfoilhatter thank you for your kind comment

[@tinfoilhatter]

@@jamesbradshaw3389 you-got-it, brad! whatever *it*, is, you've-got-that!

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

@@tinfoilhatter That is very high praise coming from you

[@rowanparmiter7622]

Id be pretty bitter too, but I have to say Doug and Stu were great musicians, but other than that they were Fwits

[@JavierNarvaezjnarvx]

You know I catch the next train, back to where I live, oh Lord! Glad to see this story and John's life moved on.

[@GuadalupeRodriguez-v9r]

❤️❤️❤️amo a este hombre desde q lo escuché cantar ..q voz w música tan bonita y el bello hermoso guapetón 😢😢😢😢John Fogerty 💞💞❤️💞💞💞💞❤️❤️💞💞❤️❤️❤️❤️💞❤️❤️❤️💞❤️❤️❤️❤️💞💞

[@TongueTiedNtwisted]

John, you looked just like Steve Martin here bud lol. Wow. You could both pass for brothers, without a doubt.

[@GuadalupeRodriguez-v9r]

❤hermoso guapo mi ídolo John FOGERTY ❤️❤️❤️💞❤️❤️❤️💞💞

[@BobLoblawbob]

We all know you were the force, talent, man behind the band. And it was magical, unforgettable, genius. You talk a good lick, but never truly forgave those knuckleheads and they own you to this day. Consequently, your music, creativity, writing and heart still suffer, are not the same. Love the one you're with, including what you have and who you are.

[@James_Bowie]

"they own you to this day" ... Nonsense. Watch a recent interview with him.

[@allymayful]

He’s in an awesome place today. He has been since the mid nineties, when he fell in love with someone he adores who manages his career and given him 3 kids who have all performed with him. He draws big crowds to his concerts.

[@markusrose9667]

He seems a lot less bitter here than he was later. He played with Cook and Clifford at reunions in 83 and 88.

[@GuadalupeRodriguez-v9r]

Q hermosooooo bellooooo guapetonnnnnnn.😢😢😢😢😢John Fogerty ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ FOREVER mi grande ídolo

[@wolfhard2420]

So funny. The best rock voice ever saying: I sang little (in the beginning)

[@notvalidcharacters]

Not sure I've ever seen an interview where they let people wander across the shot behind the subject. Somebody was asleep at the switch.

[@maradepieri4932]

John ainda é um homem bonito apesar da sua idade( 2023) imagina qdo era mais novo.Acho ele muito bonito

[@zartamus]

40 aninhos nesta entrevista - pretty good!

[@t-boog2173]

Man, Han Solo was a great frontmam for CCR!

[@tinfoilhatter]

no, wait: he's the captain-of-the-*firefly*~! no, wait, it was *serenity*, 'firefly' was the name of the series!

[@tinfoilhatter]

point is, dude-gets-around! where'll-he-turn-up-next!?

[@t-boog2173]

@@beyond_the_rubicon Wow, you're right!

[@ellaestere]

se ve muy atractivo a sus 40 años, con mentón grande y fuerte. Tiene una voz pausada sin que le gane el higado puede hablar de todo! Me llama la atención lo que dice de Tom. Que iba y venía a la banda y al final fueron un trío de nuevo..... Si eso es verdad, la historia debería reconocerlo y dejar de culpar a John de la ruptura de Creedence. 7:48 ♥

[@robertburke2253]

Pretty much the same way that Mark Knoffler WAS Dire Straights, Brian Wilson WAS the Beach Boys and Tom Petty (more or less) was Tom Petty and the Heartbrakers, John Fogerty ( lead singer, lead guitarist, arranger, producer, manager and -most important -WRITER ...) I mean, talk about THE goose that laid the golden egg...and the dopes around him (including his talent-less brother) will always be remembered as ( as far as THIS Creedence fan is concerned) TOTAL A-HOLES!!! ROCK on, John!

[@pgarcia1994]

Excuse me Burke, but if you are a musician you should know that Tom was a good if not a great rhythm guitarist. I myself being a guitar player know and acknowledge that Tom Fogerty was part of the sound of CCR. Just listen to Mardi Gras and you can notice the absence of Tom's sound. At least that's my opinion. So Tom was not like you said "talent-less", he was good.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

I dunno about Knopfler. Without Illsley's street edge, Knopfler got really schmaltzy and soft.

[@70stunes71]

CCR Definitely one of the greatest that came out of the 1960s

[@JH-qy8no]

If you look down the line, most of the "flower power" bands had no more than 3 hits.

[@Sonny_VAL]

real talk, you're right

[@danielc1978]

Great interviewer.....

[@delanoarts3703]

Listen to his first solo its great sounds awesome its actually really good I don't no why he hates and thinks it's no good I heard it even sold ok wasn't the massive hits of ccr but it did all right I wish he put out another one

[@Dulcimerist]

I enjoyed his first solo album as well. All of those classic country music covers got me interested in country music.

[@charleswinokoor6023]

Fogerty comes across as down to earth, sensible and smart. The interviewer at times sounds as though he was perhaps slightly impaired. Not too swift, and no good follow up questions. I liked John’s recollection of that Frank Zappa show way back when. Very funny.

[@larsshaunkvistgaard1088]

Wow

[@TrippingTheTube]

I like Blue Ridge Ranger

[@tonygunk86]

He looked like Steve Martin back then

[@kishawolson7679]

Lol

[@JH-qy8no]

Fogerty's like "I don't like those dope head bands!"

[@tinfoilhatter]

newsflash: dope isn't-just-for-dopes anymore! it's *cool*~!

[@tinfoilhatter]

true story, sorta-kinda, ha ha~

[@gordenscottfan3107]

John and his band mates made great music together...The band mates still play the songs and people love it, John still, thank the Lord, plays the songs and people love it....anything else other then them playing the music we love is none of our business and their problems....we love your music guys get over yourself s... none of you are invited to our house for dinner......

[@estelaocampo4695]

Mi amor platónico john fogerty

[@williamlavagna1096]

Waiting ages for Carol with the letters.

[@maradepieri4932]

John é mais do que ferfeito .Imagine uma pessoa ser cortada do que mais sabe e gosta de fazer.Eles tinham que ser punidos proibidos de tocar as musicas de john e ainda usar o nome ccr se ate o nome foi john que deu.Continuam fazendo shows(pequenos) com o mesmo nome.A justica de la é como a de ca tambem falha.Tambem concordo de john nao querer saber mais deles .Amo john amo familia fogerty fpolis br.

[@peterschmidt9942]

Great interview from the archives. It's funny that even though John was very pissed off with the rest of the CCR band, you can still see him smiling about playing the simple wedding gigs etc. Shame his band mates turned into arseholes, the record company were arseholes before this. You really see the frustration towards the end of the interview.

[@knk4ever83]

He seriously looks like Dennis Quaid here.

[@tinfoilhatter]

squaid! yes!! thank you! i [only subconsciously] knew it, too...!! it was buggin' me, for years'n'years! remarkable, really~!

[@leob4403]

I'm happy to hear John loathes Frank Zappa too

[@bobbyhamblen2338]

yep.

[@theabsurdveganakadonderric1101]

Frank Zappa possessed musical talent. For that he is to be rightly loathed!

[@robbicarboski6185]

@@bobbyhamblen2338 Bob

[@opticnerve3]

I also walked out of Frank Zappa in Sydney circa 1974 - arrogant + boring,

[@tylerthompson1842]

John’s a class act those guys were dead to him and he doesn’t sound spiteful towards them

[@donaldfowler7125]

If Steve Martin, Harrison Ford & Michael Landon had a baby somehow….

[@emergencylowmaneuvering7350]

It was mainly Stu Cook and his jelous brother that sold out to the pig manager or Fantazy Records, not the drummer at all.

[@AmericasChoice]

Stu Cook's dad was a crooked lawyer...

[@moongazer5073]

Same trail ?

[@BJJandBS]

And no one ever heard him play CCR songs ever again! lol

[@johnnyneverletmedown53]

Hmmnn. Interesting. Not at the point of trash talking his old bandmates here, that came later. John is an interesting fellow to be sure.

[@anshuldinger1425]

Yeah I notice that. Still friendly and respectful in 1985. But alot of shit was about to happen in the coming years, as noted in his book

[@davidkirkham6497]

Both of these commentators have know idea what their talking about! You don’t know what came about later & the ramifications that developed!

[@anshuldinger1425]

@@davidkirkham6497 I read his book. I know about what came about later. Hence, the interest in an interview before those things came about

[@johnnyneverletmedown53]

@@davidkirkham6497 Mate, I know more about the situation than you know about watching the sun rise. Period. You are just a blind fan boy who has swallowed the Fogerty Kool aid. You do it everywhere. No excuses, no grovelling much from the cool aid crew.

[@_cloudiiskxy_158]

Johnny never let me down Calm down

[@KeizerHedorah]

"Why didn't creedence play any psychedelic music?" - Interviewer "Have you listened to their albums? Ramble Tamble, Gloomy, Rude Awakening etc..." -Me "I didn't like it, it was boring especially frank zappa, he made me mad" - John Fogerty

[@rickyhipps8016]

He must like flannel shirts.

[@tenniscollector]

I tell ya the dutched pinched the name COUNTDOWN from the aussie TV series that ran 1974 - 1987. Fact !

[@taelabaho]

if stockton was a singer

[@dannybinghammusic]

I thought he was Steve Martin for a sec

[@tonyferguson5276]

The interviewer is terrible

[@RastaSaiyaman]

The one doing the interview is a pre-MTV Adam Curry.

[@guylatour3612]

Beaucoup de médisance et de méconnaissance de votre part dans vos écrits disséminés çà et là au sujet de JC. Même son frère est plus objectif que vous dans l' interview qu'il a pu accorder : kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYWtZ51rr7WWlas kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJ_MmZl8otF1n9k Votre mauvaise foi en devient pathétique !

[@James_Bowie]

Curry (Born in 1964) was a kid when CCR was in its heyday and clearly he didn't do his research very well. JF treated him with kid gloves.

[@normcousineau]

Seems like an ungracious jerk. What a contrast to JF.

[@gregoryhenderson2640]

He was terrible.

[@bovverboy5145]

kinda looks like David Lee Roth

[@smsmoof8128]

Luv this dude, so talented but acts like it has to be perfect ... Petty like.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Imperfect songs do not get heard.

[@tinfoilhatter]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver not much, anyway, except, maybe-for-guys-like-*donovan*, (yeah! there's only ever-been-one!)

[@tommeredith7462]

Yeah the Rhythm section couldn’t sing there way out of a wet paper bag and their song writing was crap. If not for John Fogerty no one would have a clue who there were. And they scorch John behind his back selling music rights to Saul, record label owner and Johns number one enemy.

[@beatleman69]

John got sued for plagiarizing his own song stating The Old Man Down the Road sounded like Run Through the Jungle. But it was thrown out of court.

[@beatleman69]

@Rob Castelli George said he wrote it unconsciously to He So Fine . George bought the rights to He So Fine in 1976. My Sweet Lord was based on the gospel track OH Happy Day.

[@tinfoilhatter]

i'm totally stealin'-back that kickass'd-drum-track! i wrote the crap, after all, jack!

[@gregoryhenderson2640]

The interviewer was lame. 🤦‍♂️