John Fogerty on Opportunity

December 16th, 2005

There was a great piece on NPR this morning about John Fogerty, the man behind Creedence Clearwater Revival. I’m a big fan of his stuff (both CCR and solo work), and knew of his struggles with his former record company, which held the rights to the CCR music catalog.

Naturally, I was happy to hear they finally settled the 35-year-old lawsuit, and even more so about the album that’s coming out of that arrangement – The Long Road Home.

There is a fantasic quote in this piece where Forgerty talks about the commercial possibilities of CCR:

I had dreamed my whole life about a career in music, and when the door finally opened, I went running through. I can remember thinking in terms of, “well the Beatles are number one, that’s cool. It doesn’t mean that number two will be all that bad.”

It’s funny how easy it is to forget the successful players who aren’t at the top of the heap. I think of this a lot when I consider the future career possibilities after business school. While it might be nice to start the next Google or Wal*Mart, there’s a lot of money to be made in the Alexa’s and Whole Foods of the world. You just have to go in with some perspective.

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