Legendary musician and songwriter talks about his love for Bruce Springsteen’s anti-Trump protest and hatred for AI music in an interview
“I knew I had done something extraordinary”it says John Fogerty about your years with the Creedence Clearwater Revival In the new episode of the podcast Rolling Stone Music Now. “In a way, I did what the Beatles did, but I did everything alone. I didn’t have two other guys to compose songs with me.”
For your new album, Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Yearsof August 22, Fogerty rewrote classics (from “Born on the Bayou” the “Have You Ever Seen The Rain”) with his children Shane and Tyler joining the sessions. In our new Podcast interview, Fogerty plunges into Creedence’s roots, makes some compliments to her former bandmakers and much more. To listen to the full episode, go to your choice podcast provider or listen to Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
Some highlights below:
Fogerty is glad her friend Bruce Springsteen has spoken out against Trump and thinks the president made a tactical mistake that even Richard Nixon would have avoided calling him by name.“I am very proud of Bruce for simply defending his values and not being afraid to express them. Even though he is very similar, President Nixon would have realized that he should not advertise the other side recognizing and talking about it. Because you only make it more famous when it does that.”
Fogerty is not very impressed by AI song, even if fake bands like Velvet Sundown try a sound vaguely similar to Creedence’s.“All this is elevator music. All this. That elevator can climb a lot more floors than the Empire State Building, and yet it would be just elevator music. It’s a machine. It is artificially created, falsely, and for the wrong reasons. There is no real anguish. There is no real experience there, so of course I don’t like it.”
The marshy sound of the guitar highlighted in “Born on the Bayou” was the Fogerty version of the Tremolo that the Singers guitarist, Pops Staples, wore.“This was the very unusual sound of Pops. I think the first album I remember was UNCLOUDY DAY [de 1956]. I used vibrato mixed with tremolo [em um amplificador Kustom]and that was the killer effect. ”
Even after decades of disagreements, Fogerty recognizes the unique chemistry of the original CCR formation.“These are the four people who did those records. And that was not repeated in history. So, of course, these four human beings are unique humans. I still give a lot of credit to the feeling of something like something ‘Proud Mary’ or ‘Born on the bayou’. And there is a mystery in this – there is a mysterious aura or ingredient that I will not be here sitting here saying I was in my pocket. ”
Fogerty’s incredible production in 1969 – the year Creedence released three classic albums – came from despair.“I said: Well, basically now I’m an artist of one success [em referência ao sucesso da releitura ‘Suzie Q’. E eu também percebi: ‘Demoramos tanto para chegar aqui. Agora você só tem cinco minutos para dar o próximo passo, porque os holofotes vão se voltar para o Led Zeppelin ou alguém assim. Vai acabar para você se não inventar algo agora’.”
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Source: Rollingstone
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