“The people who come to my shows know they will hear me sing and play the songs I wrote and recorded over the past four decades of my career,” Fogerty said in a statement. “Every night we play live, I’m thrilled to see all of those fans singing along to the songs that have touched them. I am at a wonderful place in my life. I am playing the music that I love and wrote, with full joy and having my son Shane joining along side of me–it doesn’t get much better than that.”
“No lawyers, lawsuits, or angry ex-band members will stop me ever again from singing my songs. I am going to continue to tour and play all my songs every single night I am out on the road.”
Although the lawsuit does not ask the singer to top performing CCR songs live, it does include a variety of claims including trademark infringement for allegedly mis-using the band’s name.
Members of Creedence Clearwater Revisited – original bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug Clifford, as well as wife of Tom Fogerty (the band’s late rhythm guitarist and John’s brother), claim that Fogerty’s comments during a CTV interview in 2011 violated a contractual agreement.
“Using the name is sort of a sacrilege to what we believed when we were young guys in a band together,” Fogerty told the Canadian Press, with regards to Creedence Clearwater Revisited’s use of the name.
This is not the first time the ex-bandmates have not seen eye to eye. Fogerty originally sued his ex-bandmates for use of the name and eventually settled in 2001. Seemingly, it’s the terms of that agreement which CCR members now claim Fogerty has violated.
