Rig Rundown - John Fogerty Band 

John's original Rickenbacker was not stolen, he gave it away to some kid after CCR crumbled. And it was not a 360, it was 325. He just recently got it back! What a great story and happy ending!

When he played 3 hours in a row in the Luna Park at Buenos Aires, I can't believe I can testify how awesome John Fogerty is.

I would like to see an updated rigdown on John Fogerty's gear one day!!!!❤️🎸🎶😎

Hi John & family, thank you for all the wonderful music over the years...when I came back from Vietnam I bought a home in Great falls, Montana just down from your grandmother's home.....in time she had to go to a care facility and my wife and I bought some things when your mom came up to settle the estate...your art form gave me hope in Vietnam...thank you....Paul Scarpelli

The plaque inscription from John's wife is very moving, I remember feeling so happy when John began playing his CCR songs again, it was like the sun coming out on a damp, cold day, it inspired me. Thanks John.

It's interesting to see Shane with a Rickenbacker that looks so similar to his dad's famous guitar that was still missing at the time. My name can be added to those who are delighted that John got his special guitar back.

In ‘69, John had a Gibson ES-175, which he used on the ‘Bayou Country’ album, stolen out of his car, not a Rickenbacker. From that point is when he found the Black Beauty Les Paul Custom and recorded such classics as Bad Moon Rising, Fortunate Son, Run Through The Jungle, etc. The Rickenbacker is a 325 Rose Morris model(imported 3/4 scale) John’s ‘ACME’ Rickenbacker 325 had a humbucker installed in the bridge position in place of the toaster pickup.

Moe, Larry and Curly. Total freekin class John. I love you for what you do for music. Good vibes all the way. One of the first lp's I had as a kid was Willy and the Poor Boys.The guitar tracks are honed into my very being and still hear them in my dreams. Great tone is never forgotten or ignored. Timeless..

I love how a well used and extreme traveled 1970 Les Paul looks that good at 8:20 but other Les Pauls from the 70's can look like they baked in the sun for decades. Giving a shit about your guitar can go along way. Great vid !!

LOVE THE WAY HE KEEPS REFERRING TO HIS DAD AS FOGERTY. LIKE HE'S JUST SOME GUY IN THE BAND WHO JUST HAPPENS TO HAVE HIS LAST NAME TOO.

Good old Fogerty doesn't controlled his own rig but has enough faith in the guy in this video to do so . This guy knows what he's doin so give him the respect he desurves . love to have his job and that tremolo box .

I love how the tech says the pedal system is "really very simple"

I love how, when talking about rack equipment the tech ALWAYS says, "its much more simple than it looks." 95 percent of the time they say that.

You can really tell this PG guy really loves his job

I like how the tech was like "You're not asking me gear questions; I'm going to ignore you and talk about it"

John´s got one of the best guitar tones ever. It took me alomost 50 yrs to appreciate it 😂

What would have made this more fantastic than it was would have been the playing of the guitars through the electronics so we could hear what each does! I now just enough about the controllers to get shocked so I think it would have been very informative. I always thought John and others just plugged in and started playing and every now and then used a foot controller or two. This stuff is amazing and that guy that is in charge has a dream job!

I think that "68'" Goldtop looks to be like a '72 goldtop because of the embossed Gibson pickup covers.

Read the plaque on the plaid guitar. Yea, it got to me.

That plaque from his wife ❤️😭

Finally a musician who appreciates the P-90. Nowadays every man and his dog wet their pants over PAF pups so much that it seems like they like them because it's cool to be in that club. I have a '56 Goldtop and I love P-90s even with the 60 cycle hum which can easily be addressed by TURNING IT UP or finding that sweet spot on the stage [like we do with indoor TV aerials].

Another great Rig Rundown. Thanks John, you do a fine job.

Seeing Mr Fogerty in 09' doing a free concert at South Street Seaport was VERY cool! Got a gig used autographed drum stick from Kenny Aronoff

9:24 It looks like a '54 or early '55 to me... starting in late '55 and '56, there was no wraptail anymore, if I remember properly :)

The Goldtop is a 1972 made 54 reissue. You can tell by wrap around tailpiece and lack of bridge, along with the Gibson embossed plastic covers on the pickups.

Fogerty is one of the greatest guitarist of all time in music. Rolling Stone Magazine #40 ranking him with Queen's Brian May at #39 under rates them so much.

Good Rig Rundown.

Please do a tame impala rig rundown when you guys have a chance

Both of my Lesters are 12 pounds rock on Fogerty. Love this rig down. Best ever! Great job John B.

Was at the show when john got his plaid guitar, st. Johns nl baby!

Wow, not even the Voodoo Vibe pedal can do simultaneous Vibrato and Tremelo! Thats a sweet pedal

It's crazy John is using the same amps as Tool to get his classic CCR tones !?

Cornford are no more but martin Kidd is now doing victory amps. They are awesome!!!

Loving that Strymon gear, especially the Deco & the Big Sky!

Nice work again JB, dig your interviews.

I never realized Ben Kingsley was also a guitar tech...

John's Own Fortunate Son. LOL I'm sorry dude. I couldn't stop myself. I'm sure you've heard this same quote a million x's

I am waiting for a GIBSON LES PAUL JOHN FOGERTY SIGNATURE

8:30 I supposed this was the first time I saw a Premier guy hold one of the guitars. I thought it was forbidden by Premier, to avoid acidents due to some pricey gears. BTW, I´d love to watch a Radiohead Rig Rundown.

Big love for John................

Love John B. and John F.

They should have called this John & _Shane_ Fogerty Rig Rundown!

"This is his fav goldtop" man he got so many Les Pauls already. I'm happy with my 84 pink tokai strat super edition, but damn he got the good toys.

Bazooka !!!, omg, amazing !!!, i’m back to the 80’ !!!!!🤩

yeah. sure. great. aha. sure, yeah!

A great rundown of the best straight ahead rocker!

I'm a HUGE fan of Fogerty and CCR's music but you can tell he's a neurotic genius. Both his son and the tech guy looked rattled.

57 custom is all mahogany. The 68 custom has a maple top.

Without these guys. The star is just wingin' it.

I think the goldie with the wrap a round is a 72. They reissued the 54's in that year and it has the 'Gibson' emboss on the pickup covers.

0:14 "yeah he did all that fuckin shit".

68 Goldtop P90, wrap, is a Dream. Trade my whole arsenal, for a Her.

Premier Guitar, Can you do a U2 rig rundown, they have just started their new tour, and The Edge has just UPDATED his rig with new guitars and effects, and Adam Clayton has got a few new basses too, and also has a new signature Fender bass out.

I really like bazooka joes rig rundowns. He never asks about picks or strings though. Same with the guy who did the Joan Jett rig rundown. He's great but sometimes forgets to ask about picks and strings.

diggin' that bazooka shirt John

Fogerty is one of the last people I pictured playing a VH4. I know he’s not using channel 3 or 4 but still.

I used a deluxe reverb the entire time I was out playing live. such a versatile little amp that isn't hard to carry. You can get those tubes hot and with just bit of an over drive / distortion pedal depending on what speaker you are using you copy almost any amp out there for a live setting. More importantly with out being tooo loud.

gotta love the Bazooka t-shirt :)

Bro,the coolest tshirt ever,Bazooka...wow

AWESOME INTERVIEW

His first Ricks were 3/4 sized 325s, one of which he put a Gibson pickup in and nothing like a 330/360 etc.

at 0:41 He says that first LP Custom is "a mid to late 90s" but it has a volute. perhaps it was a 90s reissue of a 70s-era Custom? were they even doing that just 20 years after the initial Norlin changes. I see it has the modern (non-milk bottle) larger grovers. but those could've been added after the fact as well. guess we'll never know

Damn, great meal for Fogerty geeks like someone I know.

That baseball guitar is really ingenious. I'm surprised Gibson did a custom plaid top LP. Most of the time they tell the artist that it can't be done and to pound sand. Until the artist goes somewhere else to get it built, becomes iconic and whose knocking at your back door? Yep Gibson.

I love his Bazooka T-shirt

"When he breaks out that tele it sounds like a tele"

Bohlinger is a really cool guy. I bet he'd be fun to shoot the breeze with.

Glad he has his son playing since all the bad blood with the old CCR group..He did not play for a long time..and when he did come out in 1985 they tried to sue him for sounding like John Fogerty? The Judge told them to get out of his court..I saw CCR 6 times at the Hollywood Bowl in 1968-69 sounds just like the LP only better

Makes you long for the old days when things were simple, like at Woodstock, they sounded awesome.

That Black “Custom” LP is not a “Black Beauty”..which is actually a mid-‘50’s Les Paul.

His wife with the Flannel Guitar She is So Good May john live too 107

He later added a Shemp boost pedal.

13:11 awww!! la dedicatoria de JUlie!

I have a couple of old CCR posters with John playing a Les Paul very similar to the "black beauty" shown by Shane, but the one on the posters has red in between and almost around the pickups. Wonder what happened to THAT guitar?🎸

Martin Kidd from Cornford started Victory Amplifiers. Killer amps.

huh, i've seen that diezel amp all over the place but never really taken note of it. it seems like a very versetile amp considering the players i've seen play them. from john fogerty here, tim pierce in his studio and bill kelliher with mastodon.

Brilliant.

great and sweet guy ...

Strat Bat

THANK YOU PREMIER GUITAR!!! Only 297,000 subs? Jesus F*cking Christ...

I would like to see a Rig Run down for Cody Canada and the Departed

Shane looks almost exactly like late 60s John

Thought I heard John say he donated one of the LS Bat guitars to the Nat'l Baseball Hall of Fame - yes/no?

Rebecca Dirks please.

Great to see you guys started using lavs Production value is much better! Love these vids.

Thank you

Just a thought add a section from and about the sound board, mixing levels, sound checks

So that is not the same black Gibson that Shane uses? The guitar from his wife, is that different in sound verses the other two Gibsons? What is the guitar that he uses for Keep on Chouglin? I know it is blue. Did he also use another one shaped like that for Ramble Tamble which I know is for a burst type of color. What Rickenbacker did he use back in the day through the late 90's? Why does John not use that guitar anymore? He used it for Susie Q and I Put A Spell On You. He also used a cherry sunburst Lespaul for Up around the Bend, Rockin All Over The World and Waling in a Hurricane. Does he still use that? Does he still have that red telecaster for most of his songs. I saw a similar on RU-vid one still played in 2013 but it was kind of different for the song Train of Fools? There was a purple guitar in the 80's and early 90's. What was the brand and where is it now? What about his acoustic guitars? I think he has at least two. Sorry for all of these questions. I just wanted to check in and make sure.

When he's showing John Fogerty's Les Paul Custom I believe he made an error. The customs were known to be all mahogany. No maple cap. Les Paul himself actually preferred that darker, warmer tone hence why he played one. He also mentions the 50s ones were all mahogany without the maple cap. The 50's Les Paul's definitely had maple caps with the exception of Custom models and the lower Junior models. But hey, as a guitar tech he probably has a lot to keep up with and he's most likely exhausted. I'm sure he didn't mean to say what he did. My comment is mostly to keep others from being misinformed on vintage Les Paul specs.

The guy who built the tremolo should go back in business, so it can become the 'Klon' of tremolo's, with people paying $2000 for a pedal.

About time.

...total jangle...yeah..

Also, how on earth does the guitar tech not know that the Rickenbacker he was holding is an 340 made for export?

I hope he uses the bat guitar for Put me in coach

John "It's killer, man" Bohlinger

Are we sure this isn't John Sebastian's son...

Premier Guitar Guys... We need a Kevin Parker / Tame Impala rundown...

I miss my Coronado it was stolen years ago

John's tech looks like the evil uncle in Prince of Persia - Sands of Time.

and what is the thing John clames hi was first with and no other put it on their guitar for over ten years?