John Fogerty takes ownership of his songs at BeachLife Redondo Beach
by Paul Teetor John Fogerty’s high-intensity musical energy level was on full display late Sunday afternoon at the Beachlife Festival as he mesmerized a standing room-only crowd of several thousand rabid fans gathered at the Low Tide stage. Most of these fans knew every lyric to every song, and were quick to sing along with the short, catchy, hook-heavy rock songs he specializes in, among them “Proud Mary,” “Lodi” and “Bad Moon Rising.” Whether he was doing the Chuck Berry duck walk or Keith Richards-style Jumping-Jack-Flash calisthenics, Fogerty, 77, combined his rough-and-ready sand-paper voice with non-stop guitar changes – he used a different guitar for virtually every song – to prove that he is still every bit the rock’n’roll force he was way back in the day. And yes, he ran through just about every song in his amazing catalog, which he wrote as the creative force behind Creedence Clearwater Revival so many years ago. He even talked about playing at Woodstock 54 summers ago as the leader of CCR. But that was a band already in turmoil, riven by the emerging conflicts that would lead to their break up just three years later after the most prolific four-year run of top ten hits…
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