John Fogerty

That's the way it looked to me.

It's like Elvis got all new guys and just kind of – and it was readily apparent –

because I had already seen Elba's comeback special, the part where they sat around in a circle and did the old songs, and he had the old guys, Scotty and Bill, or maybe Bill was gone by then, but J.D.

Fontana, or D. J.D.

Fontana.

And it was just apparent that that was the best thing.

Everybody loved that part of his special.

Most people just forget that anything else was on that thing other than Elvis singing those songs.

And that sort of was in the back of my mind, well, maybe they deserve a shot.

Maybe I should do this.

And so that's kind of why I went forward with it.

It's almost like flipping a coin, like, well, the odds, I think,

My own sense tells me this isn't going to work, but maybe they deserve a chance.

So I kind of went at it blindly that way.

Well, I mean, that's it.

I mean, everyone can hear that.

All of us can.

The album's called Mardi Gras.

And in the press, it was murdered.

Rolling Stone said, this is the worst album ever made by a major group.