At the Palomino Club in Hollywood, John Fogerty, Bob Dylan and George Harrison were in the audience for a Taj Mahal and the Graffiti Band concert featuring Jesse Ed Davis on guitar. When Taj calls them onstage, they perform Dylan’s “Watching the River Flow” , and other classic rock n roll including “Blue Suede Shoes”, “Peggy Sue”, “Honey Don’t”, “Matchbox”, and “Gone, Gone, Gone”.
Dylan also goaded Fogerty into playing “Proud Mary” by saying that, if he didn’t start performing it again, everyone would think it was a Tina Turner song. Outside of a couple informal dance-hall shows at his “soul getaway” of Troy, Oregon, it’s the first time Fogerty performed a Creedence Clearwater Revival song since 1972, the year that his bitterness and spite towards his old label and band mates made him vow to never again perform any of the songs he recorded with his old band.To his surprise, Fogerty had a great time performing the song and finished by laughingly saying, “Tina, eat your heart out.” It’s not enough to make Fogerty permanently rescind his no-CCR vow, but he did perform “Proud Mary” again, along with other CCR songs, five months later during a Welcome Home show put on for Vietnam Veterans.
in Bob Dylan
February 19, 1987 John Fogerty, Bob Dylan and George Harrison
