What is Johns view about the breakup of CCR?
A John: “For me Creedence was like sitting on a time bomb. We’d had decent successes with our cover of Suzie Q and with the first album, when we went into the studio to cut Proud Mary. It was the first time we were in a real Hollywood studio, RCA’s Los Angeles studio, and the problems started immediately. The other guys in the band insisted on writing songs for the new album, they had opinions on the arrangements, they wanted to sing. They went as far as adding background vocals to Proud Mary, and it sounded awful. They used tambourines, and it sounded no better. That’s when I understood I had a choice to make. At that point in time we were just a one hit wonder, and Suzie Q hadn’t really been that big a hit. Either this (the new album) would be a success, something really big, or we might as well start working at the car wash again. There was a big row. We went to an Italian restaurant and I remember that I very clearly told the others that I for one didn’t want to go back to the car
