CENTERSTAGE
As night fell over this outdoor amphitheater only a few miles from the leafy glade of Prince Bruce, himself one of the legion of loyal keepers of the flame through the long years of legal banishment, the crowd buzzed with their individual and collective expectations of John Fogerty.
CENTERSTAGE
Jeff Nesin
by
POP FLIES
JOHN FOGERTY
Garden State Arts Center Holmdel, N J
September 13, 1986
As night fell over this outdoor amphitheater only a few miles from the leafy glade of Prince Bruce, himself one of the legion of loyal keepers of the flame through the long years of legal banishment, the crowd buzzed with their individual and collective expectations of John Fogerty. Even with the stage still black, before the first note pr word, the large and varied audience rose in the darkness and cheered Fogerty, or their memory—or imagined memory—of him, come tike the true King Richard to reclaim his kingdom from the banal, less perfectly distilled usurpers who had prospered during his exile.