![]() “No, that would be a silly thing,” he says. “I told my wife, ‘I know a beautiful spot and they don’t have hurricanes there,'” Clifford says, with a laugh.Īs beautiful as Scottsdale is, he wouldn’t want to stay year-round. And he and his buddies would often escape the Tahoe winter by spending a week in Scottsdale golfing. When a hurricane destroyed most of the island, just as another hurricane had done a decade earlier, he figured it was time to find another place to spend the winter months. “And as a drummer, I couldn’t ski because if I broke a leg, I couldn’t play.” It was a hurricane that brought him to the Valley. Previously, his winter home was an oceanfront condo on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. (Photo: Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images) And I wish him well.”ĭoug “Cosmo” Clifford says he and John Fogerty are on better terms these days. “But I’m at the point in my life, I’m 75 years old and I’ve got a real great opportunity with ‘Magic Window.’ He’s off playing with his kids now. “I wouldn’t say it’s a warm and fuzzy thing,” he says. He and Fogerty even started a new LLC together to sell merch. Tensions have cooled between the drummer and John Fogerty, who sued his former bandmates in a failed attempt to stop them from using the name Creedence Clearwater Revisited. And if I’m doing business, then I want to play that card.” Look at what Creedence Clearwater Revival did. And that one sounds a lot like CCR, which he assures us was intentional. The first of those releases, “Magic Window,” features Clifford on lead vocals singing songs he either wrote or co-wrote, only one or which sounds anything like CCR. “I probably have a good six or so albums,” he says of the reels he found in his garage. On John Fogerty: ‘We’ve been through a lot together’Ĭreedence Clearwater Revival featured Tom and John Fogerty, Doug “Cosmo” Clifford and Stu Cook. In the course of a 40-minute conversation, the drummer spoke freely about everything from why he moved to Arizona to the evolution of his previously strained relationship with John Fogerty, the man who wrote the hits upon which Clifford built his legacy. “This time we got an extra month with our pandemic,” he says, with a laugh.Ĭlifford spent a good part of that extra time promoting the solo record he assembled from those tapes, which were recorded after CCR had come to an acrimonious conclusion and before he’d started touring again on the music that earned them a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He and his wife have lived there four months of every year since then. Memorial Day sale: Subscriptions start as low as $1 for the first 3 months.Ĭlifford is speaking by phone from his winter home in Scottsdale, built on a plot of land he bought in 1994. MORE THINGS TO DO: For restaurant reviews, travel tips, concert picks and more, subscribe to.
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