John Fogerty - Premonition CD Information!
"Premonition" Key Dates in the U.K.:
CD was in stores: June 9, 1998
VHS was in stores: June 9, 1998
DVD was in stores: June 30, 1998
Laserdisc was in stores: June 23, 1998
Broadcast premiere was on VH-1 on
June 9, 1998
(VH-1 will also premiere"Legends" that night, focused on John.)
John Fogerty Premotion-album
Fresh from the Grammy-winning success of Blue Moon Swamp, John Fogerty returned
with Premonition. Recorded on Soundstage 15 of the Warner Bros Studio lot before
a "live" audience in December 12 and 13 of 1997, Premonition features
18 electrifying
renditions of Fogerty's greatest songs-including many of the ones he rote for
and
performed with Creedence Clearwater Revival up to Blue Moon Swamp---and beyond.
An all-new title track written especially for this concert and album, plus songs
from John's earlier post-CCR solo career which he hadn't performed in years.
It was an extraordinary celebration of one of the all-time-greatest Rock & Rollers
at the pinnacle of his powers.
VH1 aired the world premiere of the Premonition concert film in a special 90
minute
version on June 6, 1998. I was immediately preceded by a new VH1 Legends program
focusing
on Fogerty. Premonition was aired extensively (in a 60-minute version) on VH1
over the
next several months. Two videos drawn from the concert "Premonition" and a classic
Fogerty song from his Creedence repertoire began airing on VH1 two weeks before
the
premiere. VH1 also aired promos to set up Premonition, which began one week
prior to
the premiere. PBS broadcasted Premonition in late summer.
"Premonition" is
the album's first single,
hitting radio in mid-May.
John has been in the spotlight since the release of Blue Moon Swamp last year:
he's
made four separate David Letterman appearances, two Jay Leno guestings, taped
critically
acclaimed episodes of VH1's Storytellers and Hard Rock Live, toured extensively
in North
America and Europe and received incredible press notices. With the added luster
of his
recent Grammy win combined with recognition for John as a composer (The National
Association
Of Songwriters 1997 Lifetime Achievement Award), an instrumentalist (The Orville
Gibson
Lifetime Achievement Award) and as an in-concert phenomenon (Performance magazine's
Theater
Tour of the Year), the John Fogerty juggernaut continues with visibility for
the foreseeable
future.
As a run-up to the release of the new album and VH1 premier, John has made two
back-to-back
appearances at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, serving as a prelude
to a massive
U.S. tour that begins in June and runs throughout the summer.
A companion home video of Premonition--including four songs not included on
CD and cassette
versions--is also available. Laser disc and DVD versions will be released one
month later.
Review of the PREMONITION
CD!
Subject: Re: Review
Date: Thursday, 09 July 1998 21:53:04 +0100
From: Peter Greendale
To: Carlsson Anders
Javier Diaz wrote:
My review of PREMONITION (FWIW) [because some may still not own it]
KENNY ARONOFF OR
HOW TO MAR A GREAT RECORD
Premonition is a hallmark John Fogerty recording on many accounts:
First, it shatters the long-standing rejection John Fogerty has harbored
against live albums. Old time fans will remember the first live CCR LP
-as a trio in Europe- was released no sooner than two years after the
group disbanded. And that a better performance [the Oakland concert
featuring all four members] was out only in 1980. Both albums saw the
light of day under strong objections from John Fogerty.
Second, it strays away from John Fogerty's previous distaste for filmed
performances. To this day Creedence must be the only top Rock band with
absolutely NO commercially-available video from any of its classic
shows, not to mention the distinctive one at Woodstock which ought to
make any band proud, but whose inclusion in the recent Woodstock Movie
Anniversary release was opposed by JF on the grounds of being a "poor
performance.".
Third, it's John Fogerty's wink towards commercialism and contemporary
marketing practices: the album features a previously unreleased great
original tune, PREMONITION, first performed at the concerts where the
album was recorded. And in a swift departure from JF previously held
strong objections against CCR music in films, the new song is slated for
inclusion in a WB-produced motion picture thriller this fall.
Fourth and foremost, it's the first chance for general fans all over
the world to own a legit recording of John Fogerty doing his classic
Creedence Hits after all these years, and in Live form to top it all.
Born on the Bayou, Green River, Down on the Corner, Bad Moon Rising -
humorously nicknamed "Bathroom on the Right" by the very author - Who'll
Stop The Rain, all the well-remembered songs are there and a few more
should be added to the projected video release.
Technically, the album is faultless. Owing, no doubt, to extensive
editing and patching -which, if statistics were openly kept about this,
would surely put it on a par with Roger Water's THE WALL Berlin
performance- Premonition sounds just like a recording fresh from the
studio. Some may miss the real environment of a live venue but this was
clearly John Fogerty's idea for his first live album. Hence its sound -
or better said, the perfection of its sound - is on a par with all JF
solo productions, from his one-man-band times of Blue Ridge Rangers
through the manicured presentation of Blue Moon Swamp. Purists are in
for a treat.
Fans who have attended one or more of John Fogerty's 1997 shows will
find all the familiar elements: JF's bowing to his old Kustom Amp, the
song he "loves most" because he wrote it for the Love of His Life, and
some novelties introduced in Europe like the audience singing along the
familiar groove of Proud Mary. John Fogerty has added for this album two
of his supposedly-lesser-known tunes too: "Almost Saturday Night" and
"Rockin' All Over The World," both from his second solo LP dubbed the
"Shep Album", and both finely performed.
PREMONITION would be a delight of a job, were it not for its drummer.
Listening to the CD can turn out to be somewhat of a chore because of
Kenny Aronoff's poor, ill-timed, obtrusive drumming. Aronoff is not an
imaginative drummer. His playing is loud and monotonous. To say he lacks
finesse and refinement would be an understatement. Mr. Aronoff's
excessive, redundant drumming gets in the way of the sheer enjoyment of
John Fogerty's guitar licks and the dimension of his signature singing.
In fact, drummer Kenny Aronoff falls out of sync with the songs and
fails to avoid every young drummer's temptation, namely to fill up the
songs in all kinds of fashions in every one and all of the lead guitar
silences. The drama of the blues-oriented rock and its half- a-second
delay are gone, beaten to death by Mr. Aronoff's restless gloved blows.
It's the amateur drummer's dream to fill and fill and fill that has
gotten satisfied to the hilt in this record, making a needless buzzing
in the process.
Some insiders will prefer the ROSKILDE JF bootleg recording over the
official PREMONITION album and have said so at the Mailing Lists. To
those to whom Mr. Aronoff's lack of discipline, excessive enthusiasm and
redundant drumming have ruined what we regard to be the greatest rock
music in the world, we shall have to wait for the official release of JF
finest live performances yet, the Vietnam Veterans show and the more
recent VH1 "Storytellers" unforgettable unplugged broadcast.
JD
Premonition on the
U.S.Charts in 1998
Week # / Listings. . . .
01/29.....02/29.....03/45.....04/45.....05/49.....06/65.....07/81.....08/94.....09/99.....10/100.....11/90
