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By the time CCR struck the first chord
of “Born on the Bayou,” most of the
audience was asleep, it being 3:30 a.m.
“It was sort of like a painting of a
Dante scene, just bodies from hell, all
intertwined and asleep, covered with
mud,” said frontman John Fogerty in
Rolling Stone. “This is the moment I
will never forget as long as I live: A
quarter mile away in the darkness, on
the other edge of this bowl, there was
some guy flicking his Bic [lighter], and
in the night I hear, ‘Don’t worry about
it, John. We’re with you.’ I played the
rest of the show for that guy.”
