‘Bad to the Bone’ rocker returns to Happy Valley
Courtesy Centre Daily Times
Legendary rocker George Thorogood will return to Happy Valley on July 26 to play to a sold-out crowd at The State Theatre. Thorogood will bring along his longtime backing band, The Destroyers.
The slick slide guitarist discovered music early.
“I heard (music) on the radio just like everyone else,” Thorogood said. “I couldn’t sing like Roger Daltrey or Robert Plant. And, I certainly knew I wasn’t going to write ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ or ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash.’ I knew that wasn’t going to happen.”
Thorogood said he didn’t realize his potential on the six string until he heard it from his friends.
“I had other people come to me — friends of mine, accomplished guitarists — and they heard me fooling around doing John Lee Hooker-type stuff or Robert Johnson-type stuff or Jimmie Reed, and they said, ‘you know, you can really do that,’ ” Thorogood said.
George Thorogood and the Destroyers bad to the bone Quebec City rock and roll party
Courtesy LifeinQuebec.com
A capacity crowd at the Parc de la Francophonie witnessed George Thorogood and the Destroyers absolutely nail it on the Scène Loto-Québec stage.
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s now time for the main event, the undisputed, undefeated heavyweight rock and roll champion of the world – George Thorogood and the Destroyers.
‘How sweet this is. Let’s have a rock party tonight’, said George. So we did.
George Thorogood and the Destroyers came for a party – a full on, mega rock party. And that’s exactly what everyone got.
On top form, the boys from south of the border delivered. Big time.
They came out swinging right from the off with Rock Party and didn’t stop until the 12-strong set was done.
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George Thorogood and the Destroyers at this Year’s Hammond Festival of the Lakes
On July 22nd, George Thorogood and The Destroyers bring their raucous brand of Blues and Rock’n’Roll to the Region at this year’s Festival of the Lakes in Hammond.
“Indiana - that’s gotta be the heart of it all right there,” Thorogood said. “You’re right there in, as Huey Lewis would put it, ‘the Heart of Rock’n’Roll. It’s rich with blue collar, rock tradition.”
In returning to the Chicagoland region, Thorogood comes back to, in his mind, the birthplace of Rock’n’Roll.
“That’s where Rock’n’Roll was created,” Thorogood said of the Chicagoland region and, more specifically, Chess Records. “It disappointed me when I first visited there in ‘81. At the time it was boarded up and there were pawn shops all around. Now it’s been made into a museum but I was shocked that everybody I met had never heard of Chess Records and they didn’t know that ‘Roll Over Beethoven’ and ‘Johnny B. Goode’ was recorded right in that city.”
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