Creedence Clearwater Revival - John Foggarty

I listened to John's latest on an island, on a lake in Northern Maine, on a beautiful day...sipping on some 12 year old Canadian Club with some friends...no suck clause in effect.

Last night, after Susie Q, I had to walk out of my soundroom to wipe Fogarty's spit from my glasses.

It was awesome.

CCR's original stuff was full of meaning for me as in high school I played in rock bands that did a lot of covers of their material. I left college after two years and got sent to Vietnam where the song Better Run Through the Jungle was a big hit for the obvious reason (thank you Un cle Sam for paying for my third and fourth year at Syracuse U.).

Did you know that the song "Run Through The Jungle" was later the subject of controversy when Saul Zaentz, the boss of CCR's record label, Fantasy Records, which owns the distribution and publishing rights to the music of Creedence Clearwater Revival, brought a series of lawsuits against John Fogerty, including a claim that the music from Fogerty's 1984 song "The Old Man Down the Road" was too similar to "Run Through the Jungle."

The judge found that an artist cannot plagiarize himself.

After winning the case, Fogerty sued Zaentz for the cost of defending himself against the copyright infringement claim. In such (copyright) cases, prevailing defendants seeking recompense were bound to show that original suit was frivolous or made in bad faith.

Fogerty v. Fantasy became precedent when the United States Supreme Court (1993) overturned lower court rulings and awarded attorneys' fees to Fogerty, without Fogerty having to show that Zaentz's original suit was frivolous.

During the trial Fogerty sat on the witness stand with his guitar and ran through several of his songs. Basically he told the court "you see, your honor--they ALL sound the same!"