We were there as bandmates, and with ideas to try and help him out of this log-jam, but he just got more and more withdrawn, as if we were attacking him. It was very frustrating. But John said people would forget us. I felt that a world tour would keep us in the public eye. When Fogerty threatened to bring in the notorious Allen Klein — who was busy making mincemeat of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones and their labels — the others backed off in horror.
But contract negotiations with Fantasy had come to a standstill. This situation deteriorated. Clifford says Tom threatened to quit several times during , and that he and Cook would go round and talk him out of it. In February , just after the release of their Pendulum album, Tom Fogerty made good his threat. Creedence continued as a trio. They toured Europe again, and Australia and Japan. And within the business people were increasingly aware that all was not well with the band.
The rest of the world found out in May when they released the Mardis Gras album. The songs were divided equally between Fogerty, Clifford and Cook.
For Clifford and Cook it was the first songwriting credits they had had. And it showed. Those accounts then invariably follow that up with an excoriating attack on the album. And Creedence fans are not going to understand this.
Artistically that was a mistake, but we felt we were trying to save the band. In October , five months after the Mardis Gras album which still reached No. Clifford and Cook were released from their contracts with Fantasy the contracts that had never been renegotiated.
Fogerty was not released from his contract. There were no Blue Ridge Rangers — Fogerty sang and played everything on this collection of country covers. But Fogerty claimed that Fantasy did not promote the record properly, and demanded to be released from his contract. Fantasy said no. The contract still had eight albums to run. Fogerty refused to record any more songs, so Fantasy sued him for breach of contract. His self-titled solo album came out in , and was Creedence Clearwater Revival without the band — quite literally.
The critics loved it but the public was less enthusiastic. But it did nothing in Britain. And even Status Quo were in two minds before they recorded it a couple of years later. Fogerty threw himself into another album, but even though he was now free from his Fantasy publishing contract the loss of his Creedence songs gnawed away at him. One week before Hoodoo was due for release, Fogerty withdrew the album. The original lineup included Cars ' guitarist Elliot Easton for the first decade, while John Tristao was frontman until , when Dan McGuinness took over.
The group's lone album release, the live Recollection , was certified platinum in To get a second bite of the apple with such a great catalog was a real blessing for us; We actually, in the course of this work, found that we have more fans now than we ever did, and they're younger than they ever were -- three full generations, working on a fourth.
That certainly makes us feel like it's all been worth it. Cook and Clifford did lock horns periodically with Fogerty -- who famously refused to perform with them during CCR's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction during Revisited's tenure.
Though in Fogerty's legal actions briefly forced them to change the group name to Cosmo's Factory, courts ultimately ruled in the duo's favor and it returned to the Revisited moniker. There were, on my part, several attempts over the years to turn the situation around, but John was never interested. And if John called me, I'd certainly talk to him. I always felt we were cheating ourselves by not at least trying to reunite , but fortunately this CCRevisited project over the last 25 years has put the focus back on the music itself.
Creedence fans around the world have moved on from our internal squabbles and the music reigns supreme. CCRevisited will not be taking part in any of the Woodstock 50th anniversary celebrations; Cook will be vacationing in Honduras at the time. But he and Clifford are looking towards the final shows, which Cook predicts "will be a tough one" but, ultimately, satisfying as a long-term job well done.
Previously, his winter home was an oceanfront condo on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. When a hurricane destroyed most of the island, just as another hurricane had done a decade earlier, he figured it was time to find another place to spend the winter months.
And he and his buddies would often escape the Tahoe winter by spending a week in Scottsdale golfing. One summer, Clifford went to see Tom Fogerty in Scottsdale, where the CCR guitarist lived for several years preceding his death in from tuberculosis. I sat on the seatbelt and I was in shorts. It burnt the crap out of me.
I said, 'I can see why I wouldn't want to be down here in the summertime. As to why the album he's promoting has been sitting on a shelf since , he had been working toward a record deal that fell through around that time. As he was decompressing from that disappointment, Clifford got distracted by more pressing matters in Lake Tahoe.
So I started a program. Working with the University of Nevada biology department, he put together a handbook on how to deal with what was going on. I'm an honorary fire chief still up there. I have a badge.
Since , he was focused on touring with Cook. But Clifford decided it was time to give that up last year for health-related reasons. And I had radiation for my cancer that's had a lingering effect in some areas.
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