Green Onions

Background

Booker T & the MGs performed "Green Onions" together with John Fogerty, Johnny Cash, Keith Richards, Neil Young, Keith Richards and others. Fogerty played rhythm. 

Collaboration with Booker T and the MGs started in January 1970 when Creedence Clearwater and Booker T and the MGs held a jam session and one day after that performed at Oakland Arena. The bands combined their forces again in summer 1970 when the two groups toured together in the United States. After many years, Booker T. Jones and Donald "Duck" Dunn performed with John Fogerty in the studio concert Showtime Special which was exposed on American television in summer 1985. Booker T. Jones, Duck Dunn and Steve Cropper also backed Fogerty in the nationally televised Rock And Roll Hall of Fame Opening Concert in Cleveland, Ohio, in September 1995. Furthermore, Donald Dunn played bass on "Blueboy" of the Blue Moon Swamp album in 1997.

John Fogerty discussed his relationship to Booker T & the MGs in his autobiography (2015): "For years and years I have said that Booker T. and the MGs were the greatest rock and roll band of all time. Obviously most people are going to say the Beatles, but --- no one ever had it like Booker T. and the MGs. I’m talking about soulfulness, deep feeling, especially in between the beats. How to say a lot with a little: that’s one rule that will always work— in music, on records, on the radio."

Fans' views

"Glorious mess!"

"These things rarely work - but at least you have many legends on stage at the one time."

"One of the coolest things I've ever seen!!!"

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