The Life & Tragic Death of Creedence Clearwater Revival's TOM FOGERTY
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- Опубліковано 28 бер 2024
- Discover the compelling journey of Tom Fogerty, a founding member of Creedence Clearwater Revival, in this poignant documentary. From his early days as a pioneering musician to the highs and lows of CCR's success, delve into the life of Tom Fogerty, whose musical legacy endures despite his tragic passing.
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John's voice just oozed Rock and Roll.
So strange finding out my favourite Creedence song "walk on the water" was Tom's only song recorded by Tom. Sad.
CCR! A great American Band! Their sound was a captivating break from the British invasion and sugary pop music.
You make a good observation...they found their own niche...and appealed to many more "straight" younger people, as well as to the "heads" of that time frame. Good music is just good music!
Right in the middle of the psychedelic era, Creedence, who were the very opposite of psychedelic, were one of the biggest bands in the US. I remember them well and I loved them and their songs, such as Green River.😅
Creedence and Doors were the biggest US.S. rock bands at the time.
Creedence Clerwater Revival ist seid 50 Jahren meine Lieblingsband. Tom Fogerty war ein sehr guter Rhythmus Gitarrist mit einer sehr schönen Stimme. Ich habe alle 5 CD`s von ihm.
Schade das er bei CCR keine von ihm komponierte Lieder singen durfte,vieleicht hätte die Band dann länger existiert.
RiP Tom 🙏
Grüße aus Deutschland
Another great video!
What a tragic story, quite shocking really. Sibling rivalry is never nice and being in a band would have made it even worse! I’ll take a listen to some of Tom’s solo stuff. Thanks.
Thank you, so glad you enjoyed it 🥰 Yes it is very sad they couldn't call a truce before Toms passing 💔😥
CCR such a fantastic band
This sound and style of voice-over sounds great! Reminds me of my home planet, Voltar.
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Unfortunately, Tom got buried by the sheer talent of his younger brother John, which, we all know, was substantial. John is still recording today, one of the few remaining active superstars of from the golden era of Rock, and by god, CCR could definitely Rock. There was a time after CCR broke up that Tom betrayed John by siding with Saul Zantz on contract royalties which led to a long and emotional trial in which John was able to gain possession of the rights to the songs he wrote while with CCR, which was, pretty much, all of them. In his bitterness toward Zantz, John wrote a song declaring his feelings towards Mr. Zantz called "Zanz Can't Danz" but was threatened by a lawsuit and changed the song to "Vanz Can't Danz' to avoid another lengthy trial. Anyone with the original version of that album should hold onto it. I have one. Don't know if it's worth anything, but I have one.
Wow, didn't know that was Tom singing, Goodbye Media Man. Loved that song. Shame Tom and John didn't get along . Enjoyed !
It's sad as brothers their differences could have been reconciled, as CCR was a creation of both Tom and John. Tom went off to Viet Nam and when he returned the direction of the band went through John. There is no way of telling if any of CCR's legacy would have changed if that "division" of the brothers wouldn't have happened. The years they started charting their hits, from 1968 through my graduation in 73 I was at Charlotte High School in Rochester, NY. I had a R&R band, Fox, in 1971. We covered "Proud Mary," it was one of our favorite songs. I still play it today...Over 50 years ago! RIP Tom. ✝🙏♥
Where were you on the night of Friday July 18 1969 - - ? - - I was at the Fillmore East on 2nd avenue in New York City watching Creedence Clearwater Revival , Joe Nania
😮2 days later.. the " MOON" landing..a day BEFORE my b-day.. was a little high!! My self..lol😅
What a awesome video have a wonderful Easter long weekend ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊
Thank you, you also 🐣🐰
They were a great band
I still have their 8 tracks. 🙏❤
Nice...do you still have a functioning 8 track player?
@@roopan1968 Matter of fact I DO. Only problem is it's from my old truck, so I have to use a converter. It's worth it tho. 🙏❤☺
As do I.
Wow 8 tracks 😂 Wow Even far pre-dating lazer-disc…. Also there were albums 78 speed….
@@richarddelgado2723 Yep, & also single song records called 45s. Most record players required an adapter to play them. Sometimes the flipside grew more popular than the original hit. 🙏❤☺
The CCR song catalogue can only be matched by The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. A tragedy that they coluldn' work together any longer.
Not even close...but they did crank out several fine albums. Nobody listened to them after 1974 or so.
Never knew they were from NorCal like me. Born in Berkeley and lived in El Cerrito. Tom seems genuine. John had the writing skills.
It is strange, but cool, that these NorCal dudes eventually made some of the grittiest, "southern Bayou"-type of music!..I was sure they had been from the Deep South!
While they may have started out together John was a musical force in his own right. Tom even said when John took the stage he owned it. Later you had Doug Clifford & Stu Cook trying to hijack the CCR name.Tom's solo career was not in the same league as John's inspiration. All in all another musical tragedy in three acts.
John left THEM... ...They waited something like 20 years for him to tour with them so they toured without him and he sued them... Yes John was ccr but he's also greedy... the others in the band deserve to at least make a living
@@deanvoss7098No, you’re wrong! John was protecting the music, nothing to do with, money!
John got sued in the 80's over creating songs that sounded created by John Fogerty. Odd is it not? He won the suit.
Yeah...Saul Zantz was a weasel
CCR sold 70 million records 1968/76
They were a band that went against the grain with their Swamp style Rock. Everyone thought they were a band from the South and people couldn’t believe they were a band from California. When they were known as The Golliwogs they
had more of a Garage Rock type sound. When they changed their name to CCR that’s when things started happening for them. It’s sad that Tom felt that way perhaps there was lack of communication among the brothers. Perhaps it had to do with competition because when they were with the Golliwogs John was always the lead singer. There probably was some type of friction between the brothers. When Tom left the band it wouldn’t be long before CCR would disband. There certainly won’t be another band like CCR with their unique sound.
Fogerty;s were first generation Scotch/Irish Okies that migrated West during the Dust Bowl to California. Similar to Merle Haggard and later Buck Owens and scores of others... they played the market driven Rock of their day but basically aren't far removed from country, western. blues and British Isles folk traditions.
@@jamesewanchook2276 Great observation!
Tom Fogerty was a so-so guitar player who was lucky enough to be in a band with one of the great musical artists of the 20th Century......sadly the only thing Tom felt was envy in lieu of gratitude....a self made tragedy....
Poor guy had it all and threw it all away...
I bought Goodbye Media Man as soon as it was released by Tom in Australia distributed by Festival Records in 1971. Festival released all Fantasy Records in Auz. Goodbye Media Man was a double sided single parts one and two.
Grande CCR. Grande Jonh Fogerty ❤
John said in his autobiography that it never occurred to him that his brother would mind John usurping his roles as singer/lead guitarist/composer, and being relegated to rhythm guitar. Such colossal insensitivity could only be explained, I think, by John having Aspberger's. John also admitted his second wife deals with people for him because he cannot. John is a very talented artist but, let's say, a limited success as a human being
To diagnose John Fogerty of having the syndrome of Asperger (AspBerger does not exist...) is a form of shortsightedness at least. Is it an example of egocentric behavior? Absolutely. Like so many (brilliant) artists who did everything to reach a state perfectionism, everything for their creations. After all, he was the better singer, the better guitar player and he wrote those great CCR songs which is an important part of the American rock culture and an inspiration for many artists.
@paulcash8160 You sound like an ignorant idiot. John might have a big ego which made him great, but that's it. Tom Fogerty was simply a jealous asshole. Case Closed.
@@benkeijs😊true..
@@johnmorgan7947 I mean, think about it...Being any serious performing Artist, takes a towering internal belief in ones-self!. How many of us can deal with performing, being creative in the first place?..That is why so many performers are bad choices for being in relationships with--they are, by necessity, narcissistic.
@@curbozerboomer1773 💥💯yep"
I know John Fogerty but didn't know a Tom Fogerty existed. I'll see what his contributions are.
An' I can remember the fourth o' July
Runnin' through the backwood bare
An' I can still hear my ol' hound dog barkin'
Chasin' down a hoodoo there
Chasin' down a hoodoo there
Yup...I was stunned to find out that they were NorCal guys! Their music was dripping with similarity to Dr. John, etc. But CCR was not even from Southern California!..lol.
johns voice had the power and he wrote the songs that made Creedence what it was. It was sad for Tom but rarely is there a group with two lead vocalists in it
The thing is...Tom was the vocalist in their early years. So interesting, that John evolved into the lead singer--he simply did have a much better voice for Rock. But I am somewhat relieved to find out, that Tom did not die from drug abuse!..That was my assumption, all these years! I also have respect for John, for joining the military as a Reservist...that was a wise choice back then, as so many of my generation were being drafted, and being sent to the Viet-Nam slaughter house. The Army Reserve, back then, was increasingly difficult to join, as many guys knew that it was a more "safe" way to go. The Draft screwed so many of us, back then! As I remember, the Army Reserve, at that time, only required a six-month "active duty" requirement, and then you would just attend monthly meetings. Preferable, to serving for at least two years, in the "real" Army! How John was allowed to sport longer hair during his six-year Reserve obligation, is a small mystery to me!
I've read that CCR still holds the record for most #2 singles. Is this true? I demand to know! So I reckon somebody better jump on that answer quick or there'll be bloody hell to pay!........... well not really, I just wanted to sound tough.
Wikipedia states CCR had five No. 2 singles and were exceeded only by Madonna (six), Taylor Swift (seven), and Drake (nine) 😁
@@HarmonyHeartsLifestyle-ul5yv Taylor Swift? Taylor Swift?!? Well you know what they say;"A little Taylor Swift Never Hurt Nobody!" However a study in The New England Journal of Medicine shows a direct correlation between too much Taylor Swift and an exponential rise in incidents of cancer and/or diabetes.At least in lab rats. Also post nasal drip and halitosis,although a direct causation has yet to be established.
They hold the record for most #2 singles while never having a #1.
I love" .. the bloody BRITISH!!.. sense of humor..( used to dig" Monty PYTHON)😂
@@johnmorgan7947 And all those who disagree can stand upside down with their head in a bucket of Piranha fish! Conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle,Terry Jones and Michael Palin. Discovered Python in 1974(!) in 8th grade on a 12" B&W tv, 9pm Sunday nights. That half hour always went by too fast. My God I'm getting old, practically a fossil. Pray for me will ya.
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A man needs to know his limitations Dirty Harry
John Fogerty found a musical groove and was milking it for all it was worth, the rest of the band didn't want to go along for the ride.
This is called a Horrible brother.
CCR was all JOHN!! cheers
John wrote the songs............
What did he die from
he's still alive and well
And his brother John was MEAN AGAINST HIM 😡
🤣🤣🤣 why because the tried and succeed fucking him out of his own music?
John wrote and sang and organized mostly all the band - Tom and the other members used lawyers to block John from playing his own music!
Think about it people!
John was and is CCR!
The other members of CCR should have thanked their lucky stars that they had a brilliant songwriter and charisma front man like John. Instead they let their petty grievances ruin a great team.
John gave them a chance with their last album together and it was a bomb. Just to watch John construct a song AND you get to tour the world playing those songs should have been enough. None of them would even be known today without John.
Losers.
Everybody with any knowledge on the matter knows CCR was John Fogerty and three other guys.
Had it not been for John, the other three would have been complete unknowns.
@@lext4374 That’s correct
Wrong.... John wrote the songs and he can play them anytime he wants live in a concert... due to fall out with his record label and other reasons he refused to play the popular CCR hits for a long time nobody was stopping him he just didn't want to
@@deanvoss7098 I was told he didn't want to pay royalty's for his own songs to a former (and of course sleazy) manager who - in that period - owned (most of?) the CCR-songs and therefore John refused to play his own songs live. The same manager sued him for a sort of plagiarism; his voice on the songs of his solo-album(s) sounded too much like... John Fogarty of CCR.
Without John fogerty there would never have been a CCR.
Talk about a jealous backstabbing brother.
John's arrogance and greed caused Tom a lot of grief.
Is that right! Your such an “Einstein” let us know how you knew John Fogerty, personally! Can’t wait!
Everything that made CCR unique and great left with John. If you try to play cards without the aces in the deck, the game Is going to be different. They actually sued John because Old Man Down the Road sounded too much like CCR. That's because he was CCR asshole.
What a fool .. they had one of the best song writers ever and thought they were the heart of the band .. without John there was nothing
You can tell, that perhaps the record label pushed John to be the "leader/front man". Tom should have been featured more than he ever was...but the truth is, John had one of the finest Rock voices of that era...and he arguably was the best-looking of the bunch--that is also important, when presenting a new group to the Public, who usually are judgmental as to how their Rock stars should look. Tom was, in a passive way, a victim. And then he gets AIDS from a blood transfer? Definitely a "Bad Moon Rising" for him. CCR not only had their own style, but their music was very "dance-able", and I can remember going to various clubs, and dancing a lot to their gritty music! They were a better group than given credit for!
Got AIDS from a blood transfusion. Probably had a habit from pain pill for his back issues. Sad😢
WTF ? No pain pill addiction. Stfu
John didn't play with the others on Zephyr National, John played his parts seperately. Tom took a dig at John in the first verse of his song from 1980 called "The Secret". He also did on his song "The Me Song" from 1972.
Tom Fogerty turned out to be a jealous asshole, like the other two guys in the band. CCR would have been NOTHING without John Fogerty. CCR was John Fogerty with 3 side men. The other 3 guys TRIED to write some songs and sing lead on their final album which was horribly weak compared to the past CCR records. The proof is in the pudding, as they say.
Yesterday, please don’t call a “spade a spade” like this!😜