“I spent the next 45 years trying to get someone to replicate that”: John Fogerty on the long-lost amp that was the key to his Creedence Clearwater Revival tone

John Fogerty on the CBS series The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, scheduled to air on the CBS Television Network.

The years following Creedence Clearwater Revival’s disbandment in the early 1970s were difficult for John Fogerty. The breakup hit him so hard that he gave away his prized ACME Rickenbacker and lost the rights to his own music, plunging him into his darkest days.

Half a century later, he’s got both vital pieces of his legacy back. But there was another piece of the puzzle that has gotten less attention in the wake of CCR’s demise – and Fogerty spent 45 years chasing it.