I can't stand Fogerty anymore. He wouldn't even perform with his old band and the R&R Hall Of Fame induction......
Creedence Clearwater Revival was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. John Fogerty refused to perform with his former band mates and fellow inductees Stu Cook and Doug Clifford during the musical portion of the induction ceremony. In place of the surviving members of CCR, Fogerty recruited session musicians on drums and bass
They certainly seem a dysfunctional bunch and I can't say that everything I read about Herr Forgerty endears him to me. This article here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creedence_Clearwater_Revival - though Wikipedia - is the best I have read on the CCR-internal issues in a long time. Seems like John Fogerty was a prat as a young man and the others haven't forgotten that and that they also resented him for plain bad bargaining with Fantasy Records/Saul Zaentz.
Reminds me a bit of the ongoing embitterment of Paul Weller with the other two ex-Jam members though he has Foxton play bass on one track on his recent solo album which might indicate some relaxation in the feud.
Dissolved or separated bands Bands can be as petty as estranged couples: When Steve Morse-era Deep Purple sold T-shirts with the Machine Head sleeve (which shows a blurred reflection of the whole 1971 line-up including Blackmore), Blackmore intervened demanding royalties for the use of his image on an to all intents and purposes already historic album sleeve on a garment. That was petty. As was new Deep Purple's reaction: They brought out the Machine Head T-shirt in a new version with Blackmore's image removed. As if Machine Head had been recorded without him.
I can never bring myself to hate for long anybody I once had a close relationship with (at worst I turn indifferent eventually) and marvel at people who can (there seem to be a lot of them even among my relatives and close friends!). At one point, it is always water down the bridge for me and while I can be nostalgic about the good things in my past, I never dwell much on what went wrong. Probably comes from being a middle child
and always rationalizing that the fact that your older and younger brother see more attention than you is not per se directed against you personally, but that there might be objective reasons for how other people, in this case your parents, act!
