John Fogerty & CCR

rickfan63 · Post by **rickfan63** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 4:34 am

If that happens, club bands might not be able to cover anybody anymore before long. Then the whole club scene will be restricted to bands that play only original material. The club scene would suffer greatly. Because most club owners will not want to pay royalities on bands that play cover music. Therefore, they won't hire them to play at all. Bands, like the ones I've played in, would eventually be forced out of business. Not a good thing at all.

jps · Post by **jps** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:03 am

Very sad if it comes to that, those greedy B-S---RDs. Good thing my band does primarily original music.

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harley · Post by **harley** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:34 am

This is ground I'm not REAL certain of, but I believe any club/organization that has live music is required to pay a fee to ASCAP or BMI in the US. The royalties aren't collected based on individual song/artist but some arrangement is made that allows the club to present live music, including covers, without fear of being sued.

My wife, who is the prettiest drummer I've seen this side of that girl in The Donnas, is also involved with a state chapter of the Society for Respiratory Care. She paid for a license from BMI or ASCAP so that they could have live music at their annual convention. At least that's what she SAID happened to the money I asked her to embezzle for my Ric-aholism!

bobcat · Post by **bobcat** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:15 pm

Hmmmm, that seems a little weird . . . oh well, at least they're not requiring royalties per song. No one would ever play covers then, because they'd have to pay money to do so. Not only would that ruin the current "gig" market, but also, it would discourage potential musicians from actually playing as well. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you . . .

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:56 pm

Jo, you've managed to put into the right words ALL the thoughts i had in my head for several years concerning CCR&JF...
However, i've read somewhere in the newsletter of "Blue ridge rangers" fan club that after the breakup, the guys remained good friends and played baseball together. Will try to find the article tomorrow...
Strange as it might seem, i like Tom's solo work much more than his younger brother's...

jojo99 · Post by **jojo99** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:33 pm

`Ah, good...I anticipated that I'd be ripped a new one...LOL.
i remember an article with JF in Guitar Player, circa 1983-84, where he said some stuff about his Rickenbacker.. his brother got it for him while he was stationed in the service (or the other way around)...it was the 3/4 scale Lennon model..he was disappointed when his brother switched to a Gibson, as he felt the Rick didn't mesh or cut through as well in that combination, so he got his Les Paul. He said the Rick pickups "have a great ching-ching sound, great for rhythm, but as a lead guitar, the pickups ain't happening". He went on to describe a guitar he was then playing...he collaborated with some luthier on it, and he really wanted to capture that ideal Rick "ching" sound..he had another Rick that was close, but still a little too tubby, and he felt they nailed that sound on his custom guitar...I seem to recall it was an aftermarket Tele pickup of some sort in the bridge, and I think a humbucker in the neck, and something else in the middle...?

david_schwab · Post by **david_schwab** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:36 am

I also read in an article that JF said after the band got successful, the other guys wanted to start writing songs... but they weren't any good at it... he reasoned he was the sound of CCR, and rightly so! That had a lot to do with them slitting up.

In the same article where he talked about how Rick guitars have an acoustic kind of vibe and are great for rhythm. Might have been the one from GP...

Sometimes you just have to leave things alone! Look how much better the Cars sounded when Ben Orr was doing all the singing.