John Fogerty In-Studio on The Patrick Show (10/8/15)

don't adjust your dial that's just John Fogerty practicing is great musicians like to do I think Seaton may have screwed up his a guitar and then John said I need another guitar he did as soon as I put it down he brought in a new a new guitar I don't know if it's tainted and only John's fingers are allowed to touch that guitar are you okay with this John that Seaton was picking up your guitar and is that like no-man's land for you sometimes but there in this case it's okay oh really okay all right let me give a full intro here John Fogerty is memoir fortunates on my life my music available now wherever books are sold you can see John revisit 1969 a year in which CCR Creedence Clearwater Revival one of the first four albums that I bought they released three albums played Woodstock during an eight show Las Vegas residency dub peace love and Fogerty and he'll perform eight gigs at the Venetian starting January 8th that it that's that's the big intro there I met John full disclosure at the Howard Stern birthday party backstage and I thought I was being Punk'd that night when they said hey John Fogerty would like to meet you I went oh okay so I go and eventually find your dressing room and I think your wife answered the door and she looked at me and like what you know who are you and then I said I was told John wanted to meet me and then I thought damn it Howard Stern's guys got me and then I went in you said oh hey I'm a big fan I listen all the time I went wait holy crap and then he said can we get a picture and I went wait I'm supposed to be saying this stuff so thank you for the kind words thank you for the kind words it's funny it is I think at times I can't believe I'm in the real man cave this is awesome yeah you have a man cave don't you you should have everything I don't have a man cave and I don't know that I call it that anyway but you know actually right now our house is under construction so we're all sharing a little TV in the kitchen are you a sports fan very very much so yeah Northern California are you at Niners fan you went to Berkeley didn't you personally No I was actually born in a hospital it's in Berkeley but I was born and raised in El Cerrito which is right next door no time oh you Niner fam absolutely yeah I grew up watching Frankie Albert you know people like that way back when and we didn't have major league baseball teams so we had the San Francisco seals and the Oakland Oaks or acorns my oldest brother was actually the last bat boy for that team the Oakland minor-league team were you an athlete not very good I mean you know I love to play I was you know baseball especially and nowadays I probably play more basketball than anything you know it's hard to find enough people for a baseball game but certainly just grew up loving sports and I still watch and listen all the time sure when did music hit you oh very early to three years old like you knew something was there yeah well before I could before I could really think about it I was already doing it I know there was an old song I knew called shoofly pie Apple Pandowdy make your eyes bug out and you tell me say howdy you know mmm you know I'd get a big big chuckle out of all the grown-ups so that worked when did you know you could play guitar I'm still trying still work at it that one who was your guitar hero Duane Eddy and then after that all of them you know Chet Adkins became like the mountain top to me I couldn't do what he can do James Burton with a big influence because he was real young guy and he was with Ricky Nelson at first but he you know his style was just sort of Rocking you know is just really aggressive I like that but I was watching a Keith Richards documentary and he talked about how Chuck Berry changed so many people's lives playing guitar yeah me too what was it about Chuck Berry though that changed anybody who wanted to pick up the instrument knew that they would pay homage to Chuck Berry well those songs were just so great I guess the first one I knew was Maybelline and it had he was he had this funky sound he was just so cool but I think he sort of invented certainly got is certainly it was real good at singing and then playing a lick singing and then playing a lake you know there was always room for that guitar in between the singing what do people say on the street like here in New York what what do they say to you if they see you give me a wallet after that you know they just say Oh John I like your music that kind of thing it's it's cool or junk and I have a picture that got anything and nowadays you don't have to wait cuz everybody got a phone and it just happens before you even think about it how old were you when you started your first band 13 I believe maybe even 12 in the name of the band the blue Velvets nice what was your go-to song you did come sure absolutely all covered yeah well actually I wrote a couple of little instrumentals but mostly covering things like Rumble if you remember that by Link Wray or rebel rouser by Duane Eddy they were then after that anything by the ventures and Freddie King hideaway and just pickin there were a lot of you know instrumentals in those days that we were an instrumental band and that's what you could do when did you start writing music you know because that's where you can make the money when you're writing music and then somebody records your songs is that fair to - yeah but you know Dan I I really didn't know about that when I was a kid and I actually didn't think about that very much that's probably why I had so much trouble later and it's all in the book by the way yeah I wasn't about being famous or rich or any of that I just loved music and so if I heard something that I really wanted that intrigued me I just had to know how to do it you know it was it was just where my curious brain went I know that you know when that the blue Velvets got we all had gone to this little junior high and else reto called portal a junior-high then we moved on to high school but my music teacher at portal law said you can come back and play at this soft hop sock hopper heaven right and so we got our few songs ready and in the car on the way over to it that day I heard a brand new song on a radio called Bulldog by the fireballs I'm listening to it and really turned me on so when I got to the sock hop I said let's play that song I just heard and what how's it going it's a 12 bar blues we're in a just do that I mean it's so unusual now that I realize I sprung a brand new song on my band in front of people without rehearsing you know I would never do that now of course but I was so curious about anything that was cool on guitar I just had to know he's John Fogerty the book is fortunate son my life and my music joining us in the man cave did you get drafted yeah I didn't a Vietnam it was 1966 it was kind of before it really went way up there actually I managed to get into an Army Reserve unit did it help her hurt your career well in some weird ways it helped your songs you do write about Vietnam yeah and absolutely not I was actually thinking about you know I've been writing songs since I was probably eight years old by the time I was drafted it had actually already made a few records singles that you know didn't go anywhere of course and while I was in the Army on active duty you know happened to be summertime and they you know this is we're in its wartime and they've drafted millions of people millions of guys mostly all the same age and they don't know what to do with all these people I was at Fort Bragg Fort Knox and Fort Lee and perhaps at the last place for Italy I remembered that I mean they had a mile square asphalt what they called parade field it was just a huge parking lot and you'd march around and you know in full army gear with your rifle boots and all that and they would you would March for hours right right buddy turn laugh or however they gave the command you know and I'd be marching in this heat it's like 110 degrees but off of that asphalt it's like more like 130 March my and I started to go delirious you know one of the things in the military's you're always spit-shining the toe of those boots right so I I'd see it my it's just in my head I'm being delirious I'd see a thumbprint on that that otherwise glassy toe and so in my mind I'd go to polish the thumbprint but it would go this way to over here right and it was the weirdest thing but after that that kind of delirious episode I started working on a story it's a song that ended up being called Porterville but it was my first you might say story song and I mean that happened in the army so in some weird way the army helped me in music but did proud Mary come right after that not quite but when I got back to civilian life I was still in the reserves and trying to somehow terminate my duty with the Army Reserve because it was really conflicting with a rock-and-roll career especially the long hair thing ya know so I was working on trying to get out of the army and one day I received my honorable discharge he was just laying on the steps of my building I opened up that envelope I went oh wow oh and so I actually turned a little cartwheel right on the little bit of grass in front of the apartment building and I ran in the house and picked up my guitar and started fooling around and there was proud Mary as a matter of fact I'll show you something here yeah I mean I started fooling with the guitar I was so happy you know left a good job in the city yeah man that's where that came from working for the man there you go and anyhow and in the middle of that song I realized I'm writing about the Mississippians some kind of riverboat or something what's going on so I went to my little song book that I had started keeping and on the very first page the very first entry is proud Mary so this is this is the notebook that you had yeah so you've got the lyrics here not the lyrics the title titles yeah bad moon rising there you're talking about the very first page yeah that was on the very first page yes sir how cool is this John it's unbelievable that this book is almost were you were given that to me that's okay you can have your shirt for the mankind yeah sure all right so I know you get asked to sing a lot of different songs but I think center field would be interesting because I did talk to you at the Howard Stern Show about center field and who you wrote that about I thought was interesting because I think people have a misconception of who you were writing centerfield about so when we come back do you have the guitar to be able to play AB centerfield sure that'd be awesome

Channel: Dan Patrick Show

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Keywords: Dan Patrick, The Dan Patrick Show, Danettes, Sports, John Fogerty (Musical Artist)

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Length: 12min 18sec (738 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 08 2015