Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 3, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january pages 1326 entertainment by sue Cummings los Angeles daily news los Angeles John Fogerty and Paul Simon share Little when it comes to Musi Cal but As there not immune to a bit of professional so when Fogerty heard the rough mixes of Simons Graceland album last he Felt hed been he was particularly unsettled when he heard the song Home which Simon recorded with the South african a Cappella vocal group Ladysmith Black i loved How they Fogerty said during a Stop on his current Solo i had always intended to do a record with but i thought i was the Only certainly in the Western who had Ever heard of those its kind of like having a Gold mine in your backyard and nobody i was in Simons apartment real late in the Fogerty and suddenly that track came i looked at and my eyes got real i i wont say exactly what i said be cause its expletive i just if that we rent Simons Graceland also invaded Fogerty Bayou turf for some cajun zydeco though a native califor Fogerty has been associated with Southern music since writing and singing Lead on credence Clearwater revivals string of late60s roots Rock hits like born on the earlier this Fogerty trekked to to record a version of dont mess with my toot toot with cajun accordion player Rockin Only two months later Simon appeared in the same Small town to Cut that was your Mother with Good Rock in Dopsie and the we had a lot of personal anecdotes to Fogerty said of his meeting with he wanted so he got that kind of i feel you can Over school and school the heart and soul right out of but some critics have claimed that Fogerty latest Eye of the suffers from the same sort of overproduced affect synthesizers used nearly from diehard credence to Rock fans who we rent even born during that bands praised Centre his comeback album last but Zombie signalled a de parture from the formula that earned credence Clearwater re Vival its string of nine top10 beginning with proud Mary in 1969 and ending with Sweet hitch hiker just two years they the purists May see Eye of the Zombie that Fogerty but i think its As Gritty and Bluesy As any of one of the greatest differences in his new album u the presence of Plin Kingin the swamp just As Gritty and Bluesy As Fogerty says of new direction on Zombie synthesizers on Many not Only Fogerty played them this was also the Case with on which Fogerty played All the including keyboards and Saxo i had started out the Eye of the Zombie project thinking i was going to hire some studio Fogerty somewhere in the midst of laying out the tracks i began to realize that you could spend months if not if not perhaps forever trying to con vey musical attitudes into the English basement studio you say to the id like it to be red and sound like boulders rolling into the Ocean at then he gives you his Best and you that not quite so Fogerty decided to tackle the synthesizer i spent a lot of time at Warner records playing with the sound Quality figuring out what machinery to use to make a certain effect he set up a studio in a basement room at his record labels Burbank which was dubbed by Warner staffers As the youd go Down the Warner Vic president Bob Merlis and from behind a door you could hear this linking that would be John Fogerty in playing his and youd have to leave messages on the because it was do not disturb while linking is in i had a studio called the Light where we were recording the rhythm tracks from noon to eight in the Fogerty id zip Over to Warner any where from 9 to four in the where id Complete my education in i had to master the understand it in order to get the sounds i All that does is prove to me that sometimes if you want something done you have to do it he the longtime fans negative reaction to Fogerty experimentation is in marked contrast to Cree Dences situation in the late songs like Suzie q attracted a teenybopper following that offended the hipsters of the period who considered credence too Commer in their eyes the group didst take the risks of its san Francisco the grateful dead and the Jefferson it bugged Fogerty told an interviewer in that a certain Section of our probably where we came from were there making it in the top i dont like but Public opinion didst influence him beyond Fogerty also had a mind of his own when it came to politics within his its Well known that he employed his Doit yourself philosophy As Cree Dences chief producer and that domination Drew resent ment from the rest of his when his brother Tom quit the Fogerty encouraged bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug Clif Ford to contribute equally to the album Mardi released in its failure broke up the its known As Fogerty re that same characterization could be levelled at two songs on greed and Zanz Kant which were taken to be reflections of Fogerty Long and bitter dispute with fantasy rec ords owner Saul Legal wrangles this which focused on royalties and ownership of of Gertys contributed to of Gertys self imposed exile from the music business following his self i led Solo album in after years of Legal a settlement in late 1984 gave fantasy rights to All of Cre Dences but Fogerty Legal problems we rent Zaentz is now suing Fogerty for charging he was slandered by the Centre Field particularly Zanz Kant and labelled by Fogerty remarks to the press last As a partial Concession to the com the title was altered to Van Kant and then re moved altogether from subsequent Given his history with its not surprising that Fogerty has sworn not to play any credence songs on his current his first since even reports from some cities say audiences have chanted for those numbers when he blasts Jackson Fogerty is typically deliberate in his move to break with that part of his other such As his political remain in he still takes an old a shined View opposed to corporate sponsorship of Rock n saying its a threat to an artists Freedom of the song soda off Eye of the blasts Michael Jacksons endorsement of anybody that trying to have a free mind for creation is really set Ting himself up for restrictions if he allows himself to be Fogerty because Hes not going to bite the hand that feeds but he was surprised to discover that his band who Are about seven years younger than didst understand his these Guys get serviced by equipment manufacturers through endorsement he its Normal and Fine for but i dont do it because i consider that strings Are they were questioning Why i would do and one of them int that the american dream dont think this Means he believes younger people Are Disi Llu after appearing at a no vember Benefit concert in for paralysed Vietnam he was impressed with the dedication of its 22year old Craig i was leery that it might be an amateurish but that turned out not to be the Case at they raised a lot of where a lot of these benefits Are going in the i heard that the ant crack Benefit in new York lost this cause was very near and dear to my he i was trying to find every Way i could to make it As a Rocker in his Fogerty is finding he has difficulty relating to another change that has come Over the younger generation of particularly his oldest who is i used to Tell him from the time he was a Little its not natural that we both like the same kind of youre sup posed to like stuff i dont that just the Way it is in Rock n1 and he would like the Fogerty finally rap came he would play it for i youve finally found what Ive been saying All i could listen for an hour or but after a while my head screams for something with a has Fogerty heard the new Beattie boys where a track called time to get 111 lifts the proud Mary Melody right off the record he but the Beas tie boys can expect to be sued by fantasy any you can count on Enterprise officer a space activist newspapers trek Les know her As communications officer of the Sta ship Nasa knows her As Michelle in space activist extra Ordin its handpicked candidate for recruitment of women and minorities into the manned space in eight months into nasal recruitment the Agency had received apply than 100 from women and scarcely 35 from minority with barely four months before the cutoff John then head of nasal manned space met a visible and out advocate of space sex persuaded by Yardley and his Nichols accepted a contract to conduct what she de scribes As an outreach As a result of Nicholss efforts Over four the space administration received applications from women and nearly from among those applicants were Sally the first american woman in and Guy Blu americas first Black Astro As Well As challenger Astro nauts Ronald Ellison Onizuka and Judith it was a very enriching and rewarding recalled Nichols by phone from her Home in los the former Singer and dancer is catching her breath from the astounding Suc Cess of her latest Star trek in the voyage for someone who used to think that the Only civilian Bene fits of the space program were Teflon and its funny that i became a Nasa Nichols said with a despite my role in Star it was Way after the show was cancelled that i thought that i had a role in the space program at Warp Speed it was at a Star trek convention in her Home town of Chi Cago that the Impact of the space program hit Nichols at Warp indirectly i got involved with Nasa at the 1975 the first convention that Nasa had sent a representative he talked to the audience about the Long Range plans of the space program and the space this scientist named Jesco von she the moment i heard him i was he gave a Slid talk illustrating the advances Nasa scientists were inventions that were re shaping our life on i realized that there was More to Nasa than von putt Kamer convinced me that once we had stepped on the we be earthbound for the first i realized the reality and not the trekkie fantasy of whole new worlds where Man had never gone if i be there i still wanted to be part of White males despite her initial said who is some thing gave her a where Are my people i and where Are the women it seemed to me that the manned space program represented americas and so far Nasa had projected a future where there were Only White male flybys massaging their i might so i asked von where Are the women and Minori ties Nasa answered by inviting Nichols to its Washington head Quad i saw Browns and yellows working in every level of the from maintenance to except for Nichols on her she took a crash course in the space i travel a lot making personal a and every time i was near a Nasa i called Headquarters to ask if i could and whether it was in dal or san the Nasa people always Laid out the red she translated her Layman enthusiasm for the space program into articles for Ebony Magazine and for the National space Institute then i noticed during person Al appearances that i would talk less and less about Star trek and increasingly about our responsibilities to the future and to Nichols Nasa was thrilled to see someone responsible was doing for my i was thrilled to be aligning Star trek fantasy with real life i communicated my passion for space As the last started program in Nichols started a pro Gram called women in As she describes it an aerospace education i addressed students and women not As but As Nichelle i successfully conveyed my belief that Nasa was the architect of the and it there we rent women in that fun it was incumbent upon us to make sure there i produced space techno dramatizing space re the following year the first in which Nasa recruited for the space shuttle program was looking for scientists and not Only those who had Pilot Nasa wanted women and but after the first eight months of it want satisfied by the comparatively Small number of applications they had Nichols that when John Yardley head of the manned space pro Gram called me in to consult about Why they we rent getting response from women and min i replied that women and minorities didst really believe Nasa wanted i suggested that they hire someone with visibility and someone to do to stress that Nasa was looking for a few Good and i nominated Bill John Denver and Coretta King As personalities who had a look and Quality about opportunism and then and then John Yardley looked me in the eyes and How about Juhura Nichols was at first reluctant to accept the i thought people might think it was an act of career she sex but Yardley quite no one who listens to you can doubt your How could i say no Nicholss recruitment methods the number of applications from women from minorities i devoted myself to nothing else for those four i went to universities which had physical science and engineering pro i scoured the country from Fisk University in Nash to Florida in Talla up to Cornell in Itha Down to the University of Pennsylvania in to Colorado at of Nebraska at the list is Nichols i also talked to every newspaper and to show that would have spreading the word to those who we rent in school but who might be of the Media was Only interested in but they ended up liking and responding to i was thrilled because i was making real the Star trek Nichols recruits women and minorities for ;