Tuesday, September 30, 2008

JOHN FOGERTY at ACL

I'll start by saying none of us anticipated how good John Fogerty was going to be. We all were excited to be seeing him. We just didn't see this powerful, blistering, rocking set coming! When the band came on stage and we saw Kenny Aronoff, the best rock drummer ever, we almost flipped. It was then we really got wound up. And we were right to!
They kicked into classic CCR, Bad Moon Rising, Green River, Born on the Bayou, and later on also played Down on the Corner, Fortunate Son and Proud Mary. He also did some cuts off a new album he has coming out and they sounded terrific. Vintage sounding Fogerty. He also played some of his previous solo work like The Old Man Down The Road.
John was all over that stage, running from one end to the other. He did some great guitar solos, he was smiling, having a blast! Kenny drove that band like he has every other band he's played with over the last 25 years.
This show was LOUD! But it should have been. When you have a catalog like he has, you need to blast it and he did.

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