WOW - thanks for the link again GUEST!   ANd for the fingering ideas, Ted. It works! :-) ... and with more practice I'll get it fast enough too. One thing's for sure - Fogerty did NOT create those awesome effects using a Seagull acoustic with medium guage strings!

I've always thought that he, and CCR, and that sound are what rock is all about--

Me too! I've loved that sound ever since I first heard it when I was in grade school ... in fact it was CCR ... and then Liona Boyd (if you can believe it, they're so different!) ... who set off a lifelong desire (more like NEED!) to play guitar in the first place.

Too bad the under-30 set doesn't seem to know or idolize CCR as much as, say, Led Zepplin or Pink Floyd or the Beatles. Yet, anyway. Maybe that's due to Fogerty's troubles with recording companies - there just haven't been many (if any!) re-makes of his classics in recent years. A couple have been used in movies (Bad Moon Rising, Fortunate Son) but none in the last few years that I can recall.

So many young'uns want to learn Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" now (Machine Head's the first album I ever bought .... and believe me I've heard it by now enough to last me several lifetimes but I do respect their "needs" and comply!). Or Zep's "Stairway to Heaven", or Amanda McBroom;s "The Rose" on the piano ... just because they heard it some recent movie! Well, now that Fogerty's re-signed with Fantasy Records we may be hearing more and more of his golden oldies too. I do hope so!