John Fogerty

And that just really didn't seem fair.

Right.

not just in my own case, but I'm more identified with the people that were protesting the war.

No one had ever really explained why we were having that war.

To my mind, we still don't know.

Somebody's ego decided they wanted to have a war and they had a war.

Most of these things that have cropped up

ever since, have always ended kind of miserably.

And they never were won, they just sort of dissolved.

So there was no marching band and all that stuff to get the, you know, like World War II ended with a decisive victory, anyhow.

that angst and anger within me about that situation was fueling my thoughts about the current times.

This was 1969.

So I started showing the band, all the songs that the band,

learned and played throughout the Creedence career, they literally learned them as instrumentals.

They didn't hear the song.

I didn't show them the song.

So in other words, I would show the bass player his part.

Here's how your part goes.

Here's how the drums will be.

Here's the rhythm guitar part.