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#125e - CONTRA VII, Part 5: The Assassination of CCR by the Coward Burton Kanter / Effigy
🕑 Added 2022-10-03 12:53:04 +0000 UTCIn the final chapter of CONTRA VII, Dimitri and Khalid explore how Creedence Clearwater Revival went from the #1 chooglin’ rock band in the world in 1970 to having their entire fortune stolen by Burt Kanter’s notoriously shady, mafia and CIA-infested Castle Bank and Trust.
SIDE A: THE ASSASSINATION OF CCR BY THE COWARD BURTON KANTER
How CCR’s headlining set at Woodstock got sabotaged by the Grateful Dead, the silk topper inspiration for “Fortunate Son”, not getting respect from the “cool” rock media, providing material support to the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz, renegotiating their contract with Fantasy Records bigwig Saul Zaentz, Saul convincing CCR to put all their earnings offshore in Castle Bank and a grapevine of shell entities, Tom Fogerty’s painful departure in ’71, John’s revenge on Negative Stu and No-Shuffle Doug with “Mardi Gras” in ’72, the end of CCR, Tom’s underrated solo career/chooglin’ with suslord Jerry Garcia, Tom subtweeting John on “Sign of the Devil”, John’s stint with David Geffen and the scrapped lo-fi “Hoodoo” album, realizing that ALL of Creedence’s money has vanished into a “Bahamian abyss”, years of seclusion and lawsuits, getting even with Burt Kanter, Zaentz’s new role as serrrious Hollywood producer of “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus”, John realizing he’s Zaentz’s Pinocchio puppet, his 1985 return with “Zanz Kant Danz” and “Mr. Greed”, Tom’s new “best friend” Saul Zaentz, more lawsuits and fighting, Tom’s tragic death from AIDS in 1990, his dying wish that the other three Creedence guys choogle together one last time, and John’s NOT-on-haqq refusal to play with Stu, Doug, and Tom’s son Jeff at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction in 1993.
SIDE B: EFFIGY
Donald Trump’s purchase of Resorts International in 1987, cocaine trafficking in 1980s Bahamas, Medellin Cocaine Nazi Carlos “Joe” Lehder making Norman’s Cay his castle and garden, US Ambassador to the Bahamas/Slava Ukraini Banderite/WACL suslord Lev Dobriansky telling the CIA station chief to “find another job”, Kanter’s relationships with international oil man Bruce Rappaport and Bill Casey, Indonesian oil schemes in the 1960s, the Bank of New York, the ill-fated Aqaba oil pipeline project in Iraq, looting the Soviet economy, Antiguan training grounds for Contras, IDF machine guns for Colombian drug cartels, BCCI/Rappaport overlaps, “left-leaning wealth advisor” Josh Kanter’s Alliance for a Better Utah and Kanter Family Foundation, Linda Pritzker aka Lama Tsomo’s Namchak Foundation in Montana, Nick Pritzker bankrolling Gavin Newsom’s career, Tom Pritzker running the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Nick and Tom Pritzker’s multiple phone numbers in Epstein’s black book, Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s allegations against Tom Pritzker, the Kanter law firm of Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg’s continuing services to the Pritzker family, and last but not least, some thoughts on how it doesn’t whip ass when left-leaning media influencers try to meme Big Boy JB Pritzker into the White House, especially if one’s uncle happens to have been a Burt Kanter protegé/Pritzker family attorney for the last 50 years.
Comments
tay.lxn
what a tale
toadally
forgiven, not forgotten. a transit chart would actually be the most suitable thing here considering the events in their lives. also worth noting - if you do vedic your sun changes so you could say we all have two sun signs depending on where you are geographically.
Subliminal Jihad
Fair. Tom was a Scorpio Sun/Cancer moon btw https://www.astro-seek.com/birth-chart/tom-fogerty-horoscope
toadally
enough of the gemini slander! vedic or tropical? learn his whole chart or be silent, dive in completely or dont dive at all! only fools focus on the sun signs
Jade Schulz
Excellent story telling. Love the rock n roll history for its own sake. Music cuts and editing are fantastic. And the insights to the banking corruption expose how the world works at a certain level. SJ pats Big Boys on the forehead and sends them to bed.
Andrew
This series of discussions on CCR is amazing. Got me subscribed to Patreon - you guys do epic deep dives on the rock scene. Would love to hear a show on Geffen.
Subliminal Jihad
My parents always played a lot of the Band when I was growing up, haven’t done a deep dive but they might deserve one
Nick
Dimitri, are you much into The Band? Some similarities with CCR - beloved by boomers, early roots rock progenitors (despite only one member being from the South), mythical aura built up around them, internal disputes stemming from one member's alleged megalomania... even a strange parapolitical connection via a run in with Jack Ruby a few months before the JFK assassination. Also like CCR, they really earned their chops grinding for years before their first record, unlike so many of the Laurel Canyon/adjacent bands who seemingly popped up out of nowhere.
ILL Tac
If only CCR had launched a clothing line to help them with their financial woes. I would’ve bought a pair of Choogle Boy Jeans.
Brook Hines
this is heartbreaking…and very well done. the music business is exactly this bad and more.
The Cheerful Comrade
Dropping the ep at 5:53 AM? SJ knows early to rise early to win. Gonna have to read that supplemtal literature later, I'm looking for the end of that long white line.
