John Fogerty
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Well, I was... Actually, I was given a snare drum.
I think I was about four years old.
It was a really cheap paper one.
Was your family musicians?
Not really, but they were musical.
Both of them, my mom and dad.
Finest and favorite memories is we lived in the Bay Area, the East Bay from San Francisco.
And my parents would go up to this place in Northern California near Winters, California.
That's up like toward Sacramento.
And there was this creek, this body of water called the Pouda Creek.
Eventually, they dammed that up and made Lake Berryessa.
But anyway, back then it was just running water and there was some people could camp there.
At this one place they took me, reputedly was owned by a man named Cody.
and he was a direct descendant of Buffalo Bill Cody.
I actually met him one day when I was about four, and he was probably coming to collect the payment for the cabin and the little space.
Anyway, I remember looking at him and going,
So I was told that story, and he would have been about 75.
He literally could have been a son of Buffalo Bill.