John Fogerty’s “Travelin’ Band” stone revival is sitting for a spell. Fogerty is backmost astatine Encore Theater astatine Wynn Las Vegas, his 4th twelvemonth astatine the venue. Fogerty’s existent tally continues done Oct. 16.
Expect the hits, and besides familial feel, arsenic Fogerty dips into his Creedence Clearwater Revival catalogue and samples his solo career. Fogerty and his backing set person revived specified classics arsenic “Fortunate Son,” “Proud Mary” and “Suzy Q” from his Creedence days, and “Centerfield” from his solo career. He’s besides performed a rowdy mentation of Little Richard’s “Good Golly Miss Molly.”
As the 76-year-old stone ‘n’ roller says, “I’ve got specified a ample repertoire, I’ll beryllium playing the songs the fans cognize and besides immoderate deeper cuts from albums that were possibly not successful the apical 40.”
Highlights from our telephone chat this week, arsenic Fogerty took a interruption from rehearsals astatine the Wynn:
Johnny Kats: Generally, John, however bash you consciousness and however does it consciousness to beryllium backmost onstage.
John Fogerty: As you tin imagine, aft not doing it for a twelvemonth and a half, determination was a learning curve successful coming backmost that really amazed me.
What has amazed you?
Well, I person been precise cautious, of course. I’m vaccinated. I’m connected that broadside of the fence. If you inquire that question, I’ll reply that. I surely defer to different people’s feelings and however they unrecorded successful the world, but yes, I’m amazed that radical don’t privation to deterioration masks and don’t privation to get vaccinated. It conscionable benignant of boggles my mind. I truly don’t recognize it. It’s I don’t deliberation it’s the aforesaid arsenic a governmental choice, oregon the information that I privation to dye my hairsbreadth greenish oregon thing similar that.
Are you astatine each penning astir this?
Well, I’ll that I’m conscionable hoping that radical volition get connected committee with it. That’s that’s truly each I person to say, due to the fact that astatine immoderate point, the information that determination are a clump of unvaccinated radical around, and that starts to interaction each the remainder of america and that worries me.
But nary protestation opus is successful the works?
I deliberation there’s truthful overmuch there’s truthful overmuch worldly determination to statesman with. I don’t privation to beryllium condescending. Now, you know, if I was the aged John Fogerty, the 1 who wrote “Fortunate Son,” I tin ideate I’d beryllium yelling and screaming and pointing fingers. But I’m older, and I’m different. I’ve go much amenable to knowing different folks, which I accidental mightiness beryllium surprising.
Your sons, Shane and Tyler, are going to beryllium backmost with you successful this show?
Absolutely. Shane of people is onstage each the time, and Tyler overmuch of the time. I get to play respective songs with some of them, and that’s truly a batch of fun. I bash person to notation that Shane conscionable got joined this past weekend. He joined his beauteous fiance, Lacee, successful Scottsdale. We had the wedding ceremonial and dinner, and astatine the after-party aft we had the full household onstage together, with my wife, Julie, and our daughter, Lindsay, and her small daughter, Via. That had ne'er happened before, truthful that was beauteous cool.
And they’re having their honeymoon successful Vegas?
Of people (laughs). Oh wow, yes. They person been unneurotic for years, but for the archetypal clip they are antheral and woman successful Vegas.
You’ve present played respective years connected the Strip. What are your thoughts astir Las Vegas today, compared to erstwhile you started your residency shows?
Well, I deliberation a idiosyncratic from my philharmonic territory playing Vegas is not that large a daze anymore. I’m reasoning backmost to the 1950s, erstwhile Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. were here, and they were the legendary performers who I person a batch of reverence for. They seemed to specify Las Vegas. I person evidently been successful a antithetic philharmonic territory arsenic a stone ‘n’ roller, with benignant of a spot connected my enarthrosis and having an attitude, I conjecture you could say, astir Las Vegas. I don’t consciousness that mode anymore. I don’t person to beryllium thing anymore, with each of the stone ‘n’ rotation radical coming through. Now I’m 1 of the revered acts playing Las Vegas.
It sounds similar you gone from an anti-establishment stone set to portion of the establishment.
I was going to say, I’ve go Sinatra (laughs). I tin lone wish, and I mean that successful each deference.
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