
I suppose it became a ticking time bomb – that people were okay with it for a while, but not ultimately.”

I don’t know how happy people were with that. By then I was very much the leader, but that had only just happened, sometime in the summer of 1968. “We were all on the same page, trying to make our band go.

“Band relations were very good during the session,” he insists. Over several days of rehearsals in the shed at the bottom of Clifford’s garden, Bad Moon Rising was enthusiastically worked up before the band hit the recording studio for a session that Fogerty remembers as “the smoothest sailing we ever had”. Rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty, bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug Clifford didn’t share their leader’s misgivings.
