John Fogerty - 2007-11-29 - Chicago, IL (DVDfull pro-shot)

(DVDfull pro-shot)

John Fogerty 
"PBS Soundstage" 
Grainger Studio 
PBS Studios 
Chicago, Illinois 
November 29, 2007 

(Air dates February 7 & 14, 2008) 

SOURCE: Factory Pressed Unofficial DVD (Purchased at Record Fair) > TMPGEnc 4.0 Express > 
TMGEEnc Authoring Works 4.0 > Video TS 

Purchased Discs were 4x3 Letterboxed. Expanded to 16x9 full Screen for this torrent. 
Audio was low, this has been corrected. 

VIDEO: 16x9, 720x480, NTSC, Mpeg-2, 29.97fps, 4880kbps 
AUDIO: AC3, Stereo, 48000Hz, 224kb/s 

Menu & Track Selection 

John Fogerty - Guitar, Vocals 
Kenny Aronoff - Drums 
Billy Burnette - Guitar, Vocals 
Matt Nolen - Keyboards, Vocals 
Hunter Perrin - Guitar, Vocals 
David Santos - Bass 

01. Good Golly Miss Molly 
02. Bad Moon Rising 
03. Longshot 
04. Born On The Bayou 
05. Ramble Tamble 
06. Commotion 
07. Midnight Special 
08. Summer Of Love 
09. Deja Vu (All Over Again) 
10. Don't You Wish It Was True? 
11. Have You Ever Seen The Rain? 
12. Long Dark Night 
13. I Can't Take It No More 
14. Travelin' Band 
15. Proud Mary 
16. Lookin' Out My Back Door 
17. Gunslinger 
18. Green River 
19. River Is Waiting 
20. Bootleg 
21. Who'll Stop The Rain? 
22. Creedence Song 
23. Keep On Chooglin' 
24. Broken Down Cowboy 
25. Down On The Corner 
26. Centerfield 
27. Up Around The Bend 
28. Old Man Down The Road 
29. Fortunate Son 

MD5 signatures file is included. Sorry, no artwork. 

Comments: PBS filmed their long-running "Soundstage" program in Chicago from 1974 through 1985, and took a lengthy hiatus. After an expensive renovation to their theater within the PBS studios in Chicago, they brought it back in 2003 and began bringing in big-name artists once again. 

I was fortunate to get VIP tickets to a few of these tapings during the 2000's; my favorite was the Fogerty special. The theater is very small (I would guess it holds no more than 250-300 people) and acoustics are fantastic; as a VIP, I was lucky to have a good seat in about the 10th row .. if I had been 10-15 years younger, attractive, and female, I would likely have been about seven rows closer, but beggars can't be choosers. (The PBS staffers hand-selected attractive young women to dance in the front rows, since they are most likely to appear on the broadcast.) 

The performance was great; Fogerty was his usual high-energy self. Filming needed to stop and re-set periodically, but the pace was similar to an actual concert and the crowd was into it. During the breaks, Fogerty had an easy banter with the audience; when the breaks were a bit longer, he came over and visited with his wife and young daughter (she couldn't have been more than 5 or 6 at the time). I remember him doting on her and thinking it was very sweet. 

Anyway, if you are a Fogerty/Creedence fan, this one's a keeper. Sound and picture are both excellent, and the multicamera mix keeps you engaged in the show. Highly recommended. I'm surprised it hasn't been on Dime in years. 

Many thanks to "JTT" (a.k.a. Jacktomthumb) for purchasing this at a record fair and putting the effort into cleaning it up in November 2009 for this mix. 

Tech specs: The following were generated by "KMPPlayer." I took the aspects I thought were relevant; I apologize if some of them are nonsensical. 

General 
Format : MPEG-2 Video 
Video 
Bit rate mode : Variable 
Bit rate : 4 883 Kbps 
Width : 720 pixels 
Height : 480 pixels 
Display aspect ratio : 16:9 
Frame rate : 29.970 fps 
Standard : NTSC 
Color space : YUV 
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 
Bit depth : 8 bits 
Scan type : Interlaced 
Scan order : Top Field First 
Compression mode : Lossy 
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.471 
Color primaries : BT.601 NTSC 
Transfer characteristics : BT.601 
Matrix coefficients : BT.601 
Audio 
Format settings, Endianness : Custom 
Stream size : 8 bits