Conservative coward “5 Deferments Dick” latest role play is that of the rough and tough cowbody http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....02940.html

Why just look at the size of that cowbody hat, it’s much bigger than his Dick. Everybody knows he’d take 5 deferments to avoid a gun fight at the OK Corral then make off with banks loot behind the sherrif’s back. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/f.....A9629C8B63

I hear his rendition of his ‘One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer’ and I am installing transported back to the times I woke up by some gas pumps, on my driveway, in a flowerbed… That’s why my grades weren’t so great.

Lonesome George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers.
Man, this takes me back. Santa Cruz Civic .
The house was Rockin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysXMAOgEIq4
I Drink Alone.

anyone remember the 50-50 tour in 1981? george played 50 states in 50 days, touring in a checker cab.

saw him in albq. that year. the building manager was hell bent on NOT letting a band called “the destroyers” play his facility, but he caved once we demonstrated that george was a class act.

and in fact stevie ray vaughn opened that date. needless to say, that too blew our minds in a big way.

Ecch. I considered him a ripoff then and still do now. Not much of a guitar player. Not near the quality of those whose songs he covered– and made LOTS more money doing.

I was at that Albq show, at Popejoy Hall. Stevie Ray wore a floor length headband, played a set of Hendrix, and blew everyone completely away. Then Thouroughbore came out and sounded foolish.

Pilatunes @ 2:

I hear his rendition of his ‘One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer’ and I am installing transported back to the times I woke up by some gas pumps, on my driveway, in a flowerbed… That’s why my grades weren’t so great.

Heh. My favorite song.

My first use of fake ID was to get into a bar he was playing in…fantastic show! I was even “knighted” by him. Very cool.

I was rooting around through some old boxes last week, looking for the original negatives of the pictures I took of The Police on their Regatta de Blanc tour in 1979, when I came across some equally old color pictures I took of George Thorogood and the Destroyers that same (school) year.

Most of my old concert pictures are on 35mm slide film (they’re the other thing I was looking for), but for that concert, I must have gotten some Kodakchrome 100 or 200 and pushed it to 400. Alas, most of the Thorogood pictures were sub-par, but I got several really nice pictures of the opening act, a journeyman R&B outfit called The All-Stars (not the Junior Walker ones, obviously). Figures — great pictures of the band that not even the internet remembers. Oh well.

Which reminds me — I’ve been meaning to ask Howie if he has any idea why “no camera” policies have become so ubiquitous these days, even as they have become completely unenforceable, given that almost every last person in the audience carries a camera with them at all times in case they have to make a phone call with it. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, I used to just walk into concerts with my 35mm SLR hanging around my neck, and the only thing I was ever told was “no flash” — which is why I have a shoebox full of great slides (somewhere!) of acts from The Pretenders to Yes to Heart to whomever. If I hadn’t left my camera at home for all the shows where I planned to pogo the night away (pogoing with a 35mm SLR around your neck is a great way to break your own nose, of course), I’d have a pretty good collection of early New Wave to go with the Moody Blues and so forth as well.

“Bad To The Bone” was over-exposed like “Stairway To Heaven” was.

So was “Move It On Over”.

I never need to hear them again. Not ever.

Thoroughgood is/was a one-trick pony.

Even Herman’s Hermits had range and variety.

no thorogood on skippy, my mistake…how about some bob seger?

just because I like it

Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....E&NR=1
Lonesome George, If you don’t start drinkin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIHP9o6X6D8
The Joker.
Steve Miller band.

OK, this is for all the Led Zeppelin fans out there.
Kashmere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAzdgU_kpGo
gn all, be well

Dion - Ruby Baby

The Delaware Destroyers should’ve tipped you off. I saw him in Seattle at Bumbershute in like ‘88. Good show but he did a whole corporate riff of Buttwiper ad slogans that went on for 3 minutes. It totally put me off my mushrooms.

mudshark hussein @ 15:

OK, this is for all the Led Zeppelin fans out there.
Kashmere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAzdgU_kpGo
gn all, be well

ok, it’s Kashmir..:~o

Hey ,
Go on with your bad self ! .

I always used to sing.. “I’m baad to baboons!” to that :P

Saw him open for the the Stones in ‘81 in Buffalo, NY…they played an awesome set in the pouring rain and survived not getting electrocuted. Then Journey came out (after the rain stopped) and everybody headed to the bathrooms.

I went to see him at a little bar in Santa Cruz circa 1979 and shot this image of him. He came up to me and asked me “who the fuck do you think you are” taking my picture. I took him a print at a joint in Oakland the following week and he thought he looked like Hound Dog Taylor. I think that was a compliment. Of course, now he lives in Encino…

http://www.peterfigen.com/per_port09.html

I used to know a gal who dated him. he smoked cigars in her car and she hated that.

Nice shot.

Now I’m really not going to bother scanning any of my GT photos. :-)

Howie, shouldn’t that be “trouper”?

I dunno. To me, he always seemed like a formalist, a revivalist, who trivialized what was good about his heroes. True, he was riding the same wave as bands like, I dunno, the Cramps. But where they saw the teeny details in sadly forgotten genres and brought them to the surface of their schtick, Thorogood took all the obvious, generic, trivial things about Diddley-esque blues and revived those. And so what did we get? A world where the rhythmic African percussive originality of Bo Diddley was lost in the note-bending blues bucolic bullshit of casher-inners such as Thorogood.

Um, I agree with prodigalsonnybono, except that I think Thorogood really was looking for an alternative to disco and Fleetwood Macism and came upon the perfect cure with blues revitalism. Sadly, no one at that stage was ready for pre-war blues revitalism (that wouldn’t have made for good club music), so his tunes have more than the mere stink of Sha Na Na about them.

The weakest shit yet…

If one must proclaim in a song that they are bad to the bone, then they are not bad in any sense of the word. It’s like having to say you’re cool. My favorite memory was a local DJ’s announcement after a GT song - “That was George Thorogood doing a song about…[sigh]…drinking“. I almost crashed my car laughing.

I have fond memories of this song involving an antique wedding dress, tequila, and a bullwhip.

Never cared for him, except his cover of Dylan’s “Wanted Man.”

I really liked George until he called me a f*cking f****t in the elevator at the Mondrian Hotel in LA in 1987. How could you like such a homophobe Howie?

Good Mornin Folks.
Here, this will wake ya up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EP-teo6D0w

Whenever I hear George Thorogood’s Bad to the Bone, I feel like boning her:

http://home.datacomm.ch/hintermann/peg3.jpg

mudshark @ 33:

Good Mornin Folks.
Here, this will wake ya up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EP-teo6D0w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Ca_edg6RE

I always thought it be great music for a Batman movie.

Lord Of the Thighs. Aerosmith.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
OK, Have great day folks.
it’s off to work now, see ya all later.

Kevin @ 32:

I really liked George until he called me a f*cking f****t in the elevator at the Mondrian Hotel in LA in 1987. How could you like such a homophobe Howie?

Yes, Howie, how could you not know about some comment made to someone else in an elevator at the Mondrian Hotel in 1987?

How could you?

I’m glad you posted this, George has always been big in Delaware as you can imagine and in the Philly area he and his music are well known. In the ’80s I was heading back to Wilmington, DE from the beach and we pulled up next to George, he was in a real nice coup from the ’40s. We scrambled through our cassetts and found some Thorogood, and before the light changed we were able to blast one of his toons, I think it was “One Burbon, One Scotch, and One Beer”. He slowly turned to look at us and gave a great big smile, then left a smokey burnout for the next hundred yards. My first concert was George Thorogood and Bo Diddly at the Spectrum in Philly.

Love me some George!

Tom @ 29:

If one must proclaim in a song that they are bad to the bone, then they are not bad in any sense of the word. It’s like having to say you’re cool.

You just described every rap song.

To paraphrase Dr. Johnny Fever of WKRP:

“I can take George Thorogood forever!”

(cue “Bad To The Bone” instead of “Purple Haze”…)

marykmusic @ 6:

Ecch. I considered him a ripoff then and still do now. Not much of a guitar player. Not near the quality of those whose songs he covered– and made LOTS more money doing.

Exactly.

I always thought that Jack White sounded like GT.

George was a complete ass to my very good friend of 45 years.My buddy was shuffling him around to interviews on Cleve. radio in the 85 or so. Friend drove dozens of celebs around and said George was an ego maniac and a pushy abusive jerk.

Back around 1980 I and a business partner/friend produced a radio special on Chuck Berry for NBC Radio. We thought it would be cool to talk with people like Bo Diddley and George Thorogood for the piece. No commenters have mentioned Chuck Berry, but George was doing a lot of his stuff in those days. Anyway I drove down from New York to Newark, Del., and spent an afternoon with George and a Nagra. He gave us a lot of good stuff and was very open in his admiration for Chuck. He showed us a picture of himself doing a Berry-style duckwalk on top of a stone marker that stands outside Berry’s home and defunct amusement park in Wentzville, Mo. And he talked a lot about his personal life and love of roots music and baseball. We used some of his comments in the Berry piece and one of his Berry covers. For my musical and personal tastes, George is a great guy and a helluva slide guitar player.

Thorogood is a decent musician, but his most popular songs are someone else’s. Which isn’t a bad thing, per se, except that his versions (by the white guy) got lots of airplay, while the originals, (almost entirely by black artists) mostly got little airplay. So, is it an Elvis effect where the white guy is more “acceptable” and so gets the airplay? I’m not sure, but I do know that his versions are not superior to any of the ones he covered. On a positive note, he introduced this music to a lot of people who otherwise might not have heard it. Personally, I’ve never really gotten too excited about him.

P.S. whenever you listen to Thorogood, you should also pull out some John Lee Hooker, and Howlin’ Wolf as well as, of course, the Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry.
Any others?

Saw GT open for the Stones Tattoo You Tour at Buffalo, NY Rich Stadium back in 1981. Poured rain throughout the most astonishing one man guitar army performance ever witnessed by man or beast. As GT played his encore the sun broke through in brilliant colors and the Stones kicked out back under clear Lake Erie skies.

hopelessly outdone, outclassed by local sydney group “Cyril B Bunter” band on his 19?? aus tour …………………. and apart from lack of 9/11 coverage agreat website C & L

madrone @ 46:

P.S. whenever you listen to Thorogood, you should also pull out some John Lee Hooker, and Howlin’ Wolf as well as, of course, the Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry.
Any others?

The Blasters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF2GF8khe6A