~ John Fogerty Interview ~

Daniel Levitin: "In many of the Creedence recordings you layered a lot of guitars. As a producer, how do you layer so many guitars without it sounding muddy, without them smearing together? The Creedence records have this quality that you can follow any part through the song and it doesn't get lost in the other parts."

John Fogerty: "That is arranging. That's exactly what that is - knowing the qualities of a Rickenbacker guitar and how it will mix with other guitars. Also, knowing your equipment. Like a Rickenbacker guitar sounds best through two fifteen-inch speakers if you're using it for rhythm. The 10" speaker or 12" is much more focussed, that's why all the lead players like them so much, for playing single note stuff. Then if you're going to have an acoustic rhythm over that - let's take "Green River" for example, and that's me playing pretty much all the acoustic guitars on Creedence. I think the only time Tom ever played acoustic was on 'Bootleg" because we did that live, and then I just overdubbed the same part on acoustic, with me doubling Tom."