Los Ritmos Calientes - The Cal Tjader Forum

[T.D.]

8 hours ago, JSngry said:

I said it backwards, sorry. I meant that he probably had MORE respect for real players like Tjader than he would have had for the likes of  Fogerty.

Thanks for correcting that. I read your original and (having dim memories of the John Fogarty brouhaha) thought I was losing my mind. 🤪

[JSngry]

Yeah, Fogarty had a hot string of radio hits, his band left him, and he had exactly one hit after. I get that he feels like he got screwed, but objectively, he got stuck with the deal he made and he was kinda over before he had leverage to redo terms.

Welcome to the record business. He wasn't the first and he won't be the last.

Besides, CCR...good to hear on the oldies radio, but geez, who still listens to that? Ever?

Take me out coach, I'm not ready to play.

[T.D.]

2 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Yeah, Fogarty had a hot string of radio hits, his band left him, and he had exactly one hit after. I get that he feels like he got screwed, but objectively, he got stuck with the deal he made and he was kinda over before he had leverage to redo terms.

Welcome to the record business. He wasn't the first and he won't be the last.

Besides, CCR...good to hear on the oldies radio, but geez, who still listens to that? Ever?

Take me out coach, I'm not ready to play.

I like CCR when I hear them on the oldies radio. But (like a lot of the stuff that comes off well on radio) one tune at a time is kind of the limit...a whole album or even LP side gets monotonous.

[GA Russell]

I lived in DC in 1970 and 1971.  Cal's Skye records were everywhere.  CCR's records were everywhere.  So it surprises me that I didn't see Cal's Fantasy issues in the stores along with the CCRs.