John Fogerty

I...

got with a tall building, I call it, and proceeded to start proceedings against this fantasy, our own attorneys and experts, the people that designed this plan, all the rest, right?

But I was the only one in the band that did that.

The rest of the guys kind of just...

went along and weren't making any waves.

I was pretty adamant.

I'm telling you this because at some point later, more than a year had passed, maybe a year and a half, my lawsuit had been rolling along a while and then the other guys asked to join my lawsuit.

because the statute of limitations had run out on them being able to sue anyone because they literally tried to stay in the plan.

I was willing to take the penalty, whatever it was, for being the dumbass that let himself get into some financial thing like this, right?

I felt like Joe Louis.

I thought I was going to need an act of Congress to forgive the debt issue.

These experts in the meeting that I talked about who were trying to dissuade me from making a noise and trying to get out of the plan told me eventually, John, if you receive all the money at once, you will pay more than 110% in taxes of what you have earned.

In other words, I was going to go in the hole for receiving it all at once, right?

That sounds insane.

That's why I felt like Joe Louis.

Well, they were trying to intimidate me.

Of course.

Sure.

When it finally was over, the headline in the San Francisco Chronicle, I mean, you're going to laugh at this.

Rock band Victorious wins $8.1 million.