“I started playing the solo in ‘Green River,’ and the hairs stood up on the back of my neck. “I never imagined I’d see it again,” Fogerty told Rolling Stone. It didn’t take him long to plug in the ax for the first time in more than 40 years. “I turned to my wife and said, ‘Am I about to get overwhelmed here?'” It was his long-lost ACME Rick. “I was immediately struck dumb,” Fogerty said. Fogerty removed the shirt and wrapping paper and saw-you guessed it-an old Rickenbacker case. After opening most of the gifts under the tree, Fogerty noticed one more large box that was wrapped in paper but also covered by one of his trademark plaid shirts. Just last year, however, Fogerty casually mentioned to his wife, Julie, that he’d like to get that old ACME guitar back. Without telling him, she poured everything into a search to track it down-a search that led to Gary’s Classic Guitars in Loveland, Ohio.Ĭut to this past Christmas morning. “I just looked at and the guitar, shook my head and said, ‘I’m not doing that’,” Fogerty said. However, the store was asking for a lot of money at the time. cartoons he loved as a kid.Ībout 20 years later, Fogerty stumbled upon the guitar at Norman’s Rare Guitars in Tarzana, California. Some say he was inspired by the fictional corporation in the Warner Bros. Right after Fogerty bought it, he took it to his back yard, grabbed some yellow paint and wrote “ACME” in all caps on the headstock’s name plate. The Fireglo (what most other manufacturers call sunburst) guitar, which he bought at the Rickenbacker showroom in Los Angeles in ’69, had a unique look. It’s the guitar he played at Woodstock and on The Ed Sullivan Show, the guitar that can be heard on “Green River,” “Travelin’ Band,” “Up Around the Bend” and many more. The Rick had been his main CCR guitar for several years he used it for pretty much every standard-tuning song on every Creedence album from 1969’s Bayou Country through 1972’s Mardi Gras. “I think I gave it away to sort of end that chapter of my life.” “I was just detached and numb at that point,” Fogerty told Rolling Stone. The band had recently broken up, and the successful guitarist/songwriter didn’t really know what lay ahead-at least beyond his new album at the time, The Blue Ridge Rangers. Two 12-year-old kids-apparently named Rick and Louie-were hanging out at the rehearsal space, and Fogerty decided to give his 1969 Rickenbacker 325 to Louie. Sometime around 1973 or ’74, John Fogerty was at Creedence Clearwater Revival’s rehearsal space in San Francisco.
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