John Fogerty, Randy Jackson, some old fat hippie,a few other guys

[stubhead]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KevO0E_fdYs

I had know Idol's Randy Jackson had played bass with a million people, but I never know he kicked ass like that. Having Steve Jordan on drums makes anybody better, too. It's kind of sloppy, but that's fine. Weir is all over "Bad Moon Rising", Garcia's playing organ parts on "Born on the Bayou"... they were having fun.

I get a kick out of Fogerty anyway - somewhere back in the mists he had signed the wrong piece of paper, and lost the legal right to perform Creedence songs - of which he had written and sang all of 'em. And when he released his solo album, he got sued by his old label because it sounded too much like CCR! They claimed he was ripping them off.

And an awful lot of industry guys blacklisted him, because he was filing lawsuits and agitating for performer's rights to their music, and the other labels - who were busy ripping off their own artists - didn't want him to infect them. And Prince was running around with "Slave" written on his face, Neil Young got real tired of his owners so he turning in a completely bizarre electronic album. Then they threatened to sue HIM, if he didn't turn in something more like a "real" Neil Young record - so he turned in a 39-minute long rockabilly revival album.

Ah, the good old days :cool01:

 

[bbl4ck]

Hey, thanks for sharing.  Some great footage and tunes goin' down there  :icon_thumright:
Yea, just add Fogerty to the long list of musicians that have been dry humped by their publishers. 
Jackson and Jordan are definitely both rockin' the beats on this stage.  Great line-up all around...
:rock-on:

 

[greywolf]

I taped (yes VHS)  that whole concert , it was a Benefit.  Satriani still had hair and played a great set.

 

[Cagey]

Satriani still has hair, but is unwilling to deal with it. He talks about it a bit at the end of an old interview here.

I understand the attitude. I shaved my head once back around that time, but got so much grief over it I let it grow back in. One of these days, I'm going to go back to it. Probably once I'm so obviously old and decrepit that nobody will accuse me of being some kind of hateful racist skinhead.

 

[bagman67]

Well, that's one thing I have in common with Joe - I decided when the hairline started heading north that it was time to cut my losses and just give up.  I just fire up the Wahl clippers every couple weeks and shear it off.  I've probably saved thousands on haircuts over the last 10 years.

 

[Cagey]

That's me. I'm not doing the shaved head thing any more, but me and my Wahl and a #4 comb are pretty well acquainted these days. It's so easy, I wonder if I might not have gone this route even without the receding hairline.

Just for fun, try taking a picture of yourself in a mirror sometime. Not as easy as you might think. But, for those who'd like a face to associate with the guy who tortured their necks/guitars...

One way or another, I'm teachin' those frets a lesson!​

 

[SustainerPlayer]

Oh ... don't you know the feeling when you have a certain perception of a character in a book - and then the book is made into a movie and the actor just don't look like what you imagined?

I always pictured Cagey something like this:

:icon_jokercolor:

 

[stubhead]

I tried the shaved head thing twice - I mean, working in restaurants in Texas and Florida? Working for tightwads who only turned the air-conditioning in the kitchen after all the cooks left, because it was cheaper to air-condition the refrigeration than it was to replace blown compressors - never mind blown cooks, they're a dime-a-dozen... but alas, like so many, I have a lumpy head. There are definitely people who shouldn't do it, just like there are an extremely high percentage of men wearing "muscle-T's" with the sleeves cut off who have big flappy granny-underarms where the "muscles" are supposed to be. Know thy place.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Cagemeister, I pictured you older, skinnier, grayer, and wheel chair confined for some reason. 

My hair comes and goes. When short, I get the Drew Carey comparisons.  When longer, Mikey Tuttle from American Choppers.  At any length, Philip Seymour Hoffman is my doppelganger, not the most flattering considering his look in Capote and Boogie Nights.

 

[stubhead]

Hot diggity! Just in case you find YouTube's sound to be hissy, pissy and fizzy, I just found this same concert on Sugarmegs.org.

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/JohnFogerty1989-05-27OaklandColiseumCA.asx

They also have a whole pile of old CCR and old, new and in between John Fogerty shows -

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/

They have a dozen or so Satriani shows, but not that one. Jeez - nothing to listen to! And just in passing, I see they have about 50 new John McLaughlin shows up. Jeez, there goes the year.... :sad1: