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Booking George Thorogood & the Destroyers
George Thorogood, Bill Blough, Hank Carter, Jeff Simon
Classic Rock, Slide Guitar Blues, Album Rock,
Boogie Rock, Hard Rock,
Blues-Rock
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How To Book GEORGE THOROGOOD For Your Event!
George Thorogood & The Destroyers
may be available for your next special event!
White
blues guitarist George Thorogood first became interested in
music, notably Chicago blues, when he saw John Paul Hammond performing
in 1970. Three years later he formed the Destroyers in Delaware before
moving them to Boston where they backed visiting blues stars.
 Thorogood played early in his career as an opener for
Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers and was greatly influenced by
them. Other musicians worth mentioning are
John
Lee Hooker (Thorogood has said that he is the best man to play with
Hooker because they both play as "wrong"), Elmore James,
Chuck
Berry, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf.
 The Delaware Destroyers comprised Thorogood (guitar),
Michael Levine (bass), and Jeff Simon (drums). School friend Ron Smith
played guitar on and off to make up the quartet. There was briefly
another bass player, Bill Judefind. According to some sources the
Destroyers played quite often like the Houserockers, without a bass
player. In 1974 they recorded some demos in Boston, which were later
released in 1979 as an MCA rip-off-album called "Better Than The
Rest."
No
record company was really interested in them, so they kept on playing
blues in small clubs. It was not until hot July night in 1975 when
diehard blues fanatic John Forward was looking for some live blues in
Boston area. He decided to go to Joe's Place in Cambridge although he
had never heard of George Thorogood and Delaware Destroyers who
played there. He got extremely excited about them, named himself as Fan
Number 1 and put them in touch with independent folk label Rounder.
They made their first album in 1975, but the album was
not released until 1977 because of many different reasons. Some say that
Thorogood was too "rocking" for folk label Rounder, but
Rounder claims that they had no suitable photos for the album (!!).
During recording sessions bass player Levine was fired or resigned and
was replaced by Bill Blough.
After some good publicity about their first album, Thorogood
& Destroyers released their second album in 1978, "Move
It On Over." That got much more fame and made Thorogood
& Destroyers known even in Finland. The title track, a cover of
Hank Williams' classic, was pulled as a single and received heavy FM
airplay, helping the album to the American Top 40 and go gold.
Smith left in 1980 and was replaced by saxophonist
Hank Carter. Carter, who lived in the same city as Thorogood, was
considered as the toughest player in town (even tougher than Thorogood)
and nobody had the guts to ask him to join The Destroyers until 1980.
Carter accepted their offer immediately and is still playing with them
after almost 20 years.
George Thorogood, a former semi-professional
baseball player, took time away from music that season to play ball,
but by 1981 was back in the fold as the band opened for
The Rolling Stones at several of their American gigs. The venues were unfamiliar
to Thorogood, since normally he shunned large areas for smaller clubs,
even going to extent of playing under false names to prevent the smaller
venues from being overcrowded.
George Thorogood & Destroyers' famous tour
in 1981 was called 50/50. That meant they toured 50 states in 50 days
and played a gig in every one of them. No nights off!
After their third album in 1980, "I'm
Wanted," with Rounder they signed to EMI. Their breakthrough
album, "Bad
To The Bone," was released in 1987. The title track got put to
the movie "Christine" and they made their first music video
from that same song featuring Thorogood and
Bo Diddley playing some
pool. The title track of the album became their first major crossover
hit, thanks to MTV's saturation airplay of the song's video. The album
went gold and spent nearly a full year on the charts.
In 1985 Destroyers released their perhaps best selling
album, "Maverick."
A song from that album, "I Drink Alone," even got to the
"Don't Drink and Drive" campaign. In the same year they
appeared at Live Aid playing with blues legends Albert Collins
and Bo Diddley.
In 1986 EMI noticed how popular George Thorogood
And The Destroyers really were and released a live album called
simply "Live."
Every two years after that, they have continued releasing albums. In the
spring of 1997 they released "Rockin' My Life Away."
Nobody seems to know anything about George
Thorogood's personal life. He doesn't want to talk about it,
claiming that he is a ageless man who enjoys rough life and endless
touring. He is interested only in music, beer, whiskey, women and
baseball. He understands someone writing about
John
Lee Hooker or James Brown – people
who've made an incredible impact on music history. But the Destroyers?
We're like a burger joint, he says. Then again, there's nothing wrong
with selling cheeseburgers as long as they're quality cheeseburgers, he
adds and says that's the way he thinks of the Destroyers.
Because George's philosophy is to provide his legions
of fans with the music they have come to crave – for as long as
they're enjoying themselves – he's ebulliently optimistic about his
immediate and long-term future.
He's always been cutting edge, both a forerunner and
veteran. That's why everyone from
The Rolling Stones and
Little Feat to
the Allman Brothers and
ZZ Top have sought him out for tours. To quote
his favorite comedian, Jackie Gleason, "How sweet it is!"
Hit songs include --
- Move It on Over
- Bad to the Bone
- One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
- Night Time
- House of Blue Lights
- I'm Wanted
- Who Do You Love?
- I Drink Alone
- Willie and the Hand Jive
- Get A Haircut
- If You Don't Start Drinkin' (I'm Gonna Leave)
George Thorogood & The Destroyers may be available for your next special event!
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Genre: Blues
Genre: Rock 1
Styles:
.Classic Rock. / ClassicRock
.Slide Guitar Blues. / SlideGuitarBlues
.Album Rock. / AlbumRock
.Boogie Rock. / BoogieRock
.Hard Rock. / HardRock
.Blues-Rock. / BluesRock
Years active:
x70s, x80s, x90s, x00s, x10s, x20s
Born: ..in Delaware / born nDelaware
Born: ..in Wilmington / born
WilmingtonDE
Born: Dec 24, 1950
Raised: ..in Delaware (northern Delaware)
Based: ..in US
Based: ..in New Jersey / based nNewJersey
Based: ..in Newark / based
NewarkNJ
Based: and
Based: ..in California / based nCalifornia
Based: ..in Los Angeles /
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