Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member John Fogerty has filed a countersuit alleging that his former bandmates in Creedence Clearwater Revival have breached the contract in which he allowed them to use the name Creedence Clearwater Revisited while touring and playing the music they recorded together four decades ago.
Fogerty’s action, filed in Los Angeles last week, according to the Associated Press, claims that Creedence bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug Clifford have not paid him in more than three years under terms of the agreement they set up more than a decade ago. It does not state how much money he is seeking.
It’s a response to a pre-emptive suit that Cook and Clifford filed in 2014 charging that Fogerty had breached their 2001 agreement over use of the name Creedence Clearwater Revival in his current “Hit Songs from 1969 and More” tour, in which Fogerty is performing songs from a year the band released three hit albums: “Bayou Country,” “Green River” and “Willie and the Poorboys.”
“This action is about the need to defend ourselves and rights,” Cook and Clifford said at that time. “Mr. Fogerty’s failure to perform contractual promises and unlicensed uses of the trademark ‘Creedence Clearwater Revival.’ “
