George Thorogood Live From Red Rocks on AXS TV
Late last summer, iconic blues-rocker George Thorogood wowed the Red Rocks Amphitheatre with a dynamic live show celebrating his 40 years in music. If you missed being there that evening—or if you were there and want to re-live the moment—AXS TV is giving you the chance this 4th-of-July weekend with a special premiere broadcast of George Thorogood and the Destroyers – 40 Years Strong: Live from Red Rocks.
Over his long career, Thorogood has released sixteen studio albums and five live recordings, garnering worldwide fame with hits like “One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer,” “I Drink Alone,” and of course his signature hit “Bad to the Bone,” which has been used in countless film and television placements over the years. George Thorogood and the Destroyers have sold more than 15 million records worldwide, establishing them as icons in the blues world. Last year’s historic Red Rocks show also featured performances from blues legend Buddy Guy, who has won six Grammys over a career spanning five decades. Seeing two icons performing on the same stage on the same night is just part of what made the evening so special.
George Thorogood and the Destroyers – 40 Years Strong: Live from Red Rocks will be broadcast on AXS TV on Sunday, July 6, at 7 p.m. EST, with an encore presentation at 1:00 a.m. the morning of July 7, and again on July 8 at 2:10 p.m. The show is being broadcast as part of the AXS TV concert series, which will include live performances from Guns N’ Roses, Lynyrd Skynrd, Bad Company, John Fogerty, Doobie Brothers, Tom Petty, Sammy Hagar, The Beach Boys, Steve Winwood, Ringo Starr, Greg Allman, and another Red Rocks live concert with Tedeschi Trucks Band, among others.
Don’t miss to chance to re-live a moment in music history. Tune in to AXS TV Sunday night for the rockin’ guitar work of George Thorogood.
George Thorogood and the Destroyers Performing at Hard Rock Live
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By David Kemp
July 1, 2014

George Thorogood and The Destroyers - Premieres Sunday, July 6
LIVE: George Thorogood & the Destroyers @ ESP Convention Hall
Photographs by Stanley Johnson
George Thorogood certainly does know how to bludgeon the blues. Subtle, he ain’t.
But then again, the fans that packed into the Empire State Plaza Convention Hall last week for the final installment of the free Capital Concert Series weren’t looking for subtlety. It was a party, a beer-soaked, two-fisted drinking party, and 64-year-old Thorogood and his band the Destroyers provided the wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am soundtrack from the opening volley of “Born to Be Bad” to the expected show-closing romp through “Bad to the Bone.”
Despite racks of flashy, computerized stage lights and not one, not two, but seven large video screens on stage, Thorogood & the Destroyers are still a bar band at heart – even after 40 years. With the band’s original drummer Jeff Simon still fueling the barroom blues ‘n’ boogie, the Destroyers ripped through selections from the songbags of rock pioneer Bo Diddley (“Who Do You Love?”), blues kingpin Elmore James (the encore of “Madison Blues”), ’60s garage-rockers the Strangeloves (“Night Time”) and country music legend Hank Williams (“Move It On Over”).
During his hour-and-a-half-plus set, Thorogood stepped up for a slide-guitar showcase in the middle of the on-the-road nugget “Gear Jammer.” And not surprisingly, it was the back-to-back pairing of his 80-proof alcohol anthems – “I Drink Alone” and “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” – that drew the loudest cheers of the night.
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