Nasty Bastards Of Rock And Roll, John Fogerty: The First In A Long, Long Line
You thought I was gonna choose Van Morrison or maybe even go to jazz with Miles Davis but no. The stories of John Fogerty’s nastiness are legion and I was a witness to one.
Late 90s I went to see Fogerty at Radio City Music Hall and Whiskeytown (Ryan Adams band) were opening. Halfway through the set Adams announced “This is gonna be our last concert opening for John Fogerty. We’ve been kicked off the tour.” Adams stopped, looked unhappily at the audience and shook his head. “You know what sucks?” He said. “It sucks when you find out one of your heroes is just a completely horrible person.”
I heard he wouldn’t let Adams even have a sound check, ignored the band when they came to introduce themselves, and was horrible to everybody from his band to the stage hands.
There is a back story to Fogerty though. He got royally ripped off in Creedence Clearwater Revival -lost his royalties, lost his band name, and got sued for sounding too much like the band he wrote for.
That is enough to piss anybody off but the stories of rudeness to fans, both in and out of the business, can’t all be lies and that night at Radio City it caught up with him.
Of course, Ryan adams has his own problems but that’s for another episode of NASTY BASTARDS OF ROCK
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jesus motherfucking christ
Nah. Ryan Adams was a complete asshole. I was in fact ON that tour. I was maybe 14 years old touring with my family. He was a pretentious dick, and drunk not to mention. Made uncomfortable comments to me . No wonder Mandy Moore divorced his ass.
In my eyes is john fogerty an egoistic,narsistic.sociopat..
I LOVE John Fogerty! He may be kind of temperamental (with good reason after everything he’s been through), but he’s very talented. He’s a legend, and he deserves a little respect.
Fogerty was a great writer, singer, etc. Also, he was a pretentious, narcissistic punk. He ruined a great band. The big reason he got ripped off was because he wanted full control, and didn’t have the expertise to not get ripped off. Respect for talent, but even less respect for being a crap human.