Sammy Hagar & The Circle Announce “Crazy Times” Summer Tour with Special Guests George Thorogood & The Destroyers Launching June 10 at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater in Bridgeport, CT
Tickets on Sale Friday, January 28 at 10 a.m. Local Time via LiveNation.com
Pre-sale Tickets Available Starting Tuesday, January 25
Presented by Sammy’s Beach Bar Cocktail Co., Santo Tequila and Beach Bar Rum
Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Sammy Hagar today announced the first dates of his “Crazy Times” North American summer amphitheater tour. Hagar will be joined by his best-selling rock supergroup The Circle, featuring fellow Van Halen alum and Rock Hall of Fame inductee, Michael Anthony; Grammy-award winning drummer, Jason Bonham; and Vic Johnson, Hagar’s longtime guitar virtuoso. Special guests George Thorogood & The Destroyers will also join the entire tour, which is produced by Live Nation and presented by Hagar’s portfolio of spirits — Sammy’s Beach Bar Cocktail Co., Santo Tequila and Beach Bar Rum. The “Crazy Times” tour kicks off in Bridgeport, CT on Friday, Jun. 10 at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater and continues through Saturday, Sept. 10 at the FivePoint Amphitheatre in Irvine, California. A full list of dates is below.
Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. local time on Friday, Jan. 28. Redhead Fan Club Members will have access to the first pre-sale tickets beginning Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 10 a.m. local time. For tickets and more information, visit RedRocker.com.
Sammy Hagar said: “A tour this size has been a long time coming and it's definitely going to be worth the wait. The Circle and I are super excited and ready to throw the party of the year with George Thorogood.
We're going to take the music and party to a whole new level— 'Crazy Times' is an understatement."
Sammy Hagar & The Circle have quickly established themselves as one of the most emphatic and exciting live acts on the road today, seamlessly ripping through career-spanning hits from Hagar’s solo years, Montrose, Van Halen, The Circle, and with Bonham on drums a Led Zeppelin track or two. With an ever-changing setlist that draws from more than five decades of iconic rock anthems, fans will experience the excitement of live music with songs including, “I Can’t Drive 55,” “Right Now,” “There's Only One Way To Rock,” “Mas Tequila,” “Why Can’t This Be Love,” “Heavy Metal,” “Your Love is Driving Me Crazy,” and many more.
Special guests George Thorogood and The Destroyers are set to turn up the rock-blues vibes as they celebrate 45 years in music. With a catalog of classic hits that includes "Who Do You Love," "Move It On Over," "Bad To The Bone," "I Drink Alone" and "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer," it’s a pairing for the rock party record books.
Sammy Hagar & The Circle “Crazy Times Tour” Tour Dates:
6/10/22 Bridgeport, CT Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater
6/11/22 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
6/13/22 Mansfield, MA Xfinity Center
6/15/22 Noblesville, IN Ruoff Music Center
6/16/22 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center
8/23/22 Clarkston, MI Pine Knob Music Theatre
8/24/22 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
8/26/22 Maryland Heights, MO Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
8/27/22 Tinley Park, IL Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
8/30/22 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre
9/1/22 Bend, OR Hayden Homes Amphitheater
9/7/22 Phoenix, AZ Ak-Chin Pavilion
9/9/22 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
9/10/22 Irvine, CA FivePoint Amphitheatre
The tour comes on the heels of Hagar’s Las Vegas residency, which is now in its second year of sold-out concerts at The Strat. On January 5, 2022, he was awarded Mexico’s Medal of Honor and named Los Cabos’ first Honorary Ambassador of Tourism by the region’s top dignitaries, in recognition of his longtime investment in their people and economy. Hagar’s tour is presented by his award-winning portfolio of spirits, including Santo Tequila and Mezquila, a partnership with Guy Fieri; his premium Puerto Rico-made Beach Bar Rum, with partner Rick Springfield; and Sammy’s Beach Bar Cocktail Co., his new top-shelf sparkling rum cocktails in a can.
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GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS RETURN TO TORONTO'S LEGENDARY EL MOCAMBO AFTER MORE THAN 40 YEARS; THREE BACK-TO-BACK DATES SCHEDULED IN MAY
Courtesy BraveWords.com
Today, the legendary El Mocambo announces the return of George Thorogood & The Destroyers with three back-to-back shows kicking off May 20, 2022.
Today’s announcement marks Thorogood & The Destroyers first dates back at the legendary venue since they last hit the stage over 40 years ago in 1978, playing under the newly reimagined Neon Palms following the completion of the El Mocambo’s multimillion dollar restoration in 2020.
Tickets are on sale at 10 AM, ET on December 16 with both General Admission and VIP options, and can be purchased at elmocambo.com. A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales will benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada.
“The El Mocambo is where we played our first Canadian show back in 1978 and we’ve been dying to get back there ever since,” says Thorogood. “I am extremely excited about these shows. We’re going to have a blast!”
George Thorogood & The Destroyers Live From The El Mocambo:
May 20 (presented by Q107)
May 21 (presented by 94.9 The Rock)
May 22 (presented by BOOM 97.3)
Road warrior George Thorogood brings show to Albany
By Carlton Fletcher/ Albany Herald
There’s a simple reason George Thorogood is still playing, 45 years into his career, the music that brought him his share of rock and roll fame.
“What else am I going to do?” the guitarist/vocalist said as he prepared to head South to the Albany Municipal Auditorium for his show Sunday evening. “There was little chance that I was going to do anything else. Even my parents encouraged me to play music ... with two pretty much juvenile delinquent brothers, they could at least keep up with where I was.
“Besides, some people were born to make music. Can you imagine Keith Richards as an actor? Tom Petty working on a telephone pole? The fact is, I just wasn’t very good at working. It was music for me all the way.”
Thorogood and his touring band, who are in the midst of their “Good to Be Bad” tour, will bring their bag of blues-based rock and roll classics — “Move It on Over,” “One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer,” “Who Do You Love?,” “I Drink Alone” and, of course, “Bad to the Bone,” to name a few — to the Albany venue Sunday evening at 7 p.m.
Touring behind the music that he and his band, the Delaware Destroyers, have been playing now for decades also is not a stretch for Thorogood.
“I don’t think that playing a 45th anniversary tour is that big a deal for me because it’s what I’ve been doing since I started,” he said. “I’ve pretty much been on the road since I got into this business. I believe in doing the work.
“People talk about The Beatles and their success, but they were one of those ‘overnight successes 10 years in the making.’ I’d hear some musicians complain, ‘Man, it took three months for us to get a record deal.’ Yeah, I’m really going to cry for you. We had the fans at our shows, but we couldn’t get the attention of record companies. I had to keep working to refrain from violence, because I reached the point where I was going to throw someone (in the music industry) off a building or I was going to jump myself.”
Indeed, Thorogood is known as much for his road work as he is the songs that “Classic Rock Radio” discovered in the ’90s, elevating him to superstar status. He and his band have played more than 8,000 shows (and counting), and they were lauded for their “50 Dates/50 States” tour.
“It wasn’t until the Classic Rock format hit radio big in the ’90s that people started discovering us,” Thorogood said. “All of a sudden, DJs were playing our songs alongside Led Zeppelin, the Who, the Steve Miller Band, folks like that. All these songs that had fallen on deaf ears for so long were finally being exposed.
“It renewed our faith in these songs we’d been playing over and over and over on the road.”
Now fans are hungry to hear classics like “Bad to the Bone,” which may have been played in more movies, sporting events and TV projects than any other song.
“Obviously, it feels great to get a positive reaction from audiences when we play these songs,” Thorogood said. “For the most part, we’ve been encouraged by the reaction from audiences on this tour. I don’t think about a lot of things once we get on the stage other than pleasing the audience. They’re the ones who have supported us all these years, and they’re the ones we focus on.”
As for his first show in Albany, Thorogood said he’s ready to connect with southwest Georgia music fans.
“I’ll bring my guitar, a bass player, a drummer ... and we’ll see where that takes us,” he said. “It’s what we do every time we get on a stage. We keep in mind: Rock and roll never sleeps; it just carries on.”