John Fogerty recently featured on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to discuss some of the key mods he made to his legendary Acme Rickenbacker electric guitar – and revealed the most important one was inspired by a trio of British guitar greats.
“This is the guitar I purchased right at the beginning of 1969,” he tells Colbert proudly. It's the instrument with which he made his name, using it to write a score of hits with Creedence Clearwater Revival at a highly politicised era of American history. Famously, he gave it to a 12-year-old kid when CCR disbanded as he mourned the loss of the band that had changed his life.
