John Fogerty
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
How about if we take an old song and I'll just trick it up, like psychedelicize it, because I'll pick a song I already know is good.
It's got good stuff in it.
And that's what I did with Susie Q. I just kind of really arranged it and had all this cool stuff going on.
It wasn't something I wrote.
It kind of relieved me of the pressure of having to do that.
and was able to just, hey, just that blank page turned into a different rainbow full of, nobody can fault me because it's not my song, right?
Did all this great stuff, this cool musical stuff to it.
The whole point was to get that tape on a local underground station that was actually playing unpublished tapes by certain bands.
The most famous one you ever heard about, there was a tape of Janis Joplin singing Hesitation Blues and Jorma's playing guitar.
But in the background, somebody's typing their term paper.
It was done in their kitchen.
And so it was just an amateur, unauthorized thing.
But they played it on this one station.
It became a hit on that station.
There were a couple other bands that had tapes like that.
She's singing Hesitation Blues.