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By Michael Corcoran
| Saturday, September 27, 2008, 07:49 PM
You must always have a Plan B at ACL, so when the crowd between me and John Fogerty seemed to be about 40,000 strong Saturday night, I ditched the legend five songs in, realizing that many Creedence grooves sounded alike when I kept crossing out “Run Through the Jungle” and “Suzie Q” in my notebook to write down “Old Man Down the Road” and “Green River.”
Plan B was Nashville hard rock group American Bang, who sounded like Nirvana never happened. Don’t know how this hard rock band got signed to Warner Brothers. In 2008.
So back to Plan A, when I found that the way to get closer was to walk along the fenceline until I got up there, where it sounded great, but I couldn’t see the band. This was a great move on my part: I ended up having a blast, singing along to “Have You Ever Seen the Rain,” rockin’ out to “Fortunate Son” (a two-minute version) and just soaking up all the majesty that was CCR on “Proud Mary.”
Besides being a great singer and songwriter, Fogerty possesses incredible guitar tone. There’s never been more of an all-round talent at ACL.
“I only have an hour, so I can’t talk much,” the lumberjack-shirted frontman said after “Keep On Chooglin’.” Considering he’s the king of inane between-song chatter, that should be a new rule at Fogerty shows. One hour limit.
* Enjoying the set from the front row was former CCR bassist Stu Cook, who has lived in Austin for about two years. Cook was off to see Roky Erickson, who he produced in the early ’80s.
Photo: Erich Schlegel FOR AMERICAN-STATESMAN
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By Steve Bailey
September 28, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this
FOGERTY WAS AMAZING!!!!!! I DIDN’T WANT HIM TO STOP! I AM 23 YEARS OLD AND I DON’T KNOW HOW HE HAS ALL OF THAT ENERGY. WOW!! HE SHOULD HAVE PLAYED AT LEAST 90 MINUTES, WAS TOO SHORT, CROWD LOVED THIS PERFORMANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JOHN FOGERTY SHOWED US WHAT A ROCK STAR IS.
By michael ochoa
September 29, 2008 1:51 AM | Link to this
he is a powerful performer!