#2485 - John Fogerty
4/17/20262 hr 46 min
John Fogerty is a Grammy-winning solo musician, former leader of Creedence Clearwater Revival, and an inductee of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. His latest album is “Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years.”
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First 90 secondsJoe Rogan· Host0:02
Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out The Joe Rogan Experience [upbeat rock music] Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night. All day.
John Fogerty· Guest0:09
Think I just step on a floor right here?
Joe Rogan· Host0:14
It doesn't matter, you can leave it on the table. It's fine. There's water there, too, uh- Yeah ... in this metal cup, and then there's coffee.
John Fogerty· Guest0:23
Oh, thanks so much.
Joe Rogan· Host0:23
There's coffee in here- Okay, yeah ... if you'd like some coffee ...
John Fogerty· Guest0:24
he's ready to... I have some notes that I'll probably never look at, but- You got notes? Me?
Joe Rogan· Host0:32
What, what's on the notes?
John Fogerty· Guest0:34
Uh, just stuff, like what I went through with CCR and all that, but tell me something. Did you, did you read up on me or anything, or are you just- I'm a huge fan.
Joe Rogan· Host0:47
I don't have to read up on you.
John Fogerty· Guest0:49
Okay.
Joe Rogan· Host0:49
I read up on you a little bit just to catch up about how you got out of the, the... Well, you did do military service, but you- Mm-hmm ... got out by smoking a lot of weed and not eating. I read that. Is that true?
John Fogerty· Guest1:01
No.
Joe Rogan· Host1:02
[laughs] Is that true? They lied? There was a story about you smoking a lot of weed and, uh- Uh, oh ... getting emaciated so you can get out of the Army.
John Fogerty· Guest1:09
Well, it, it's not quite in that sequence, but those things did happen. [laughs] Yeah. I had, I had determined to lose a lot of weight, right? So I was kinda really s- skinny