Fortunate Son

But then as you get older, and you hear those songs pop on again, and you're like, "Holy shit, yeah, I really...

Now I, now I get it." I heard a cover of, uh, Fortunate Son by Clutch.

Really?

I think it was Clutch.

Right.

Um, they were opening for Shinedown.

Shinedown does a cover of Fortunate Son, I believe, and it's actually not bad.

Um, I'm not, like, the biggest Shinedown fan, but, like, they, they do well with that one, is interesting.

The theme song, okay.

What would the, what would the title be? Um, uh, you know what? I, I d- you know, it's funny 'cause you mentioned song, so I would say Fortunate Son, CCR-

Okay.

Yep, yep, yep

Okay.

What would the title be then?

Fortunate Son.

I, I'd go with-

Um, I remember that was one of the, like, one of the most, like, E3 demos where you walked out and went, "Phwoar," because I just remember they, they played, that, that game's got, it comes back to the GTA discussion, that game's got a hell of a soundtrack because they'd, you know, they, they knew they had this incredible setting of, like, late '60s, uh, uh, of a, you know, a, a New Orleans and all that, you know, late '60s, early '70s rock music, civil rights, Vietnam War, like, post-war vibes, and they had all that music.

And I remember in the E3 demo, it must have been, it must have been, like, "Paint It Black" or "Fortunate Son" or a, a song in that sort of realm, and some sort of car chase or something while that was absolutely blasting and they turned it up so loud that the chairs were shaking, and you walked out of that demo, like, going like, "Fucking hell." Really cool demo.

I think the funny thing is the game doesn't necessarily live quite up to that.

My primary memory of that game is, like, hacking electrical substation boxes.

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Yeah.

And they did Fortunate Son, which we didn't recognize at first 'cause the guitar wasn't properly up in the mix.

I don't know how it was on the live stream, but we just heard the drums doing the, the, the drum shuffle part at the beginning, and we were like, "What song is this?" And then Bruce started singing, and we're like, "Oh, it's Fortunate Son.

Holy crap." And he hadn't done that since '09 with Fogerty at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary show, I don't think.

Oh, really?

But that's also what I mean by maybe they cut songs for time because, like, there were certain songs we were kinda surprised didn't land in the Bruce set.

But, like, other than, I mean, overall it was just incredible.

I mean, Bruce, like I said, couldn't believe how good he sounded on Fortunate Son and Rockin' in the Free World.

It's not their greatest song by any stretch.

Run Through the Jungle? Fortunate Son.

Okay.

You might be able to sell that one to me.

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John Fogerty's Fortunate Son, for example, or excoriated his policies.

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They emphasized their freedom to express themselves by singing Neil Young's Rockin' in the Free World.

And, uh, it was the same shit.

Like I, I heard the song fortunate son 32 times.

Like, are you serious? They play, they have like eight songs that they just played over and Oh, welcome to the jungle.

Like 30 times.