Then you got married Thorogood and worked for Du Pont. “Unanimous-that’s pretty heavy, huh?
As it is, anyone who gets closer than ten feet to the stage when he plays “Ride on Josephine” will probably die of leukemia by the age of thirty-five.Back in the dressing room, I tell Rounder’s Irwin he must be inspiring some big fear in the major labels. He even paid the fifty-cents admission to see us.”I asked what George did in high school to get’ voted least likely to succeed.“I think he was just misunderstood,” says Simon.
Bassist Billy Blough joined Thorogood and Simon two and a half years ago and the Destroyers gigged around Philadelphia and New England, taking the door receipts while the club owner got the revenue from the bar.After recording their debut album in the summer of 1977, they took off on their first extended tour, playing a series of benefits for the California Homemakers Association on the West Coast to get their name around.
She gets in the car and throws her arms around you and you go, ‘Woooh, I’m happy just to be here.’ It’s an unexpected bonus.”I tell Thorogood how much I enjoyed the show, and ask if he’s thought about how success might change his life.“You know, when Elvis started, he would never go into a place where they swore or drank, because it might offend his mother,” he says. The album went on to sell well over 100,000 copies-a huge amount in light of Rounder’s independent distribution and the dearth of airplay else-where. “I’d rather learn to hit a curve ball to the opposite field.”“We’re having a lot of trouble figuring out why people think we’re so good,” says Jeff Simon, folding his underwear in a Sleaze District laundromat. The major labels began to salivate and offered to buy the Destroyers and Rounder, but neither was interested. George didn’t do any of that. “Jerry Wexler [head of East Coast A&R at Warner Bros.] was right on. Some people have been trying to say I’m the upstanding young man of rock & roll on some moral crusade-that’s a load of crap. UU. en 1981. Enamored of radical politics in college, Irwin, Marian Leighton and Bill Nowlin (the other two-thirds of the triumvirate) discovered the joys of private enterprise and gradually built their “production collective” into an organization with twenty mostly overeducated employees and a catalog of about 200 LPs by acoustic acts too traditional to attract major labels.Then the impossible happened: in 1977 and 1978, Rounder had two hit albums by “I got a phone call from our manager today, and we got ourselves some bad uniforms: black on black, the Delaware Destroyers,” says Thorogood without waiting for a question. He was just being himself.”“That’s a good question,” says Simon. Just one guy with more moves than a burlap bag full of wolverines; a snarling vintage Gibson; a Fender Princeton with one twelve-inch speaker on a folding chair; and a rhythm section in pursuit of the 1979 Watts-Wyman Perfect Metronome Award. If Thorogood gave off any more energy, the government would lock him in a lead barrel and dump him off the coast of New Jersey. Maybe that’s what killed him.”“You better face it though,” I say.
The thing in high school was to have a car and soup it up and run with a gang. Thorogood walked over and the guy asked, “You want a hit?” Thorogood replied, “No, I was just thinking that’s the smallest spoon I ever saw.”“I’m not trying to come off with some Ricky Nelson image,” he says, slightly irritated, when I ask him about his temperance.
El pasado 7 de Marzo se presentó en el Magic City Casino en Miami junto a su banda The Destroyers, y días antes tuve la oportunidad de conversar con él.Thorogood es considerado uno de los más grandes exponentes de boogie blues. No religious preconceptions to cloud the issue, as with superstar bands.
“How many of the conglomerates can say that? También fue el invitado especial musical en el programa de televisión Saturday Night Live (Temporada 8, Episodio 2) el 2 de octubre del año 1982. Thorogood rises to the occasion during two ninety-minute sets, working the at-first-skeptical audience into a frenzy.
(Photo by Richard McCaffrey/ Michael Ochs Archive/ Getty Images) Minneapolis – In another three centuries, Rounder Records’ first act may have sold as many albums as the Bee Gees now do before lunch in Hackensack. El pasado 7 de Marzo se presentó en el Magic City Casino en Miami junto a su banda The Destroyers, y días antes tuve la oportunidad de conversar con él. Night-two drinks for the price of one. OnMilwaukee.com: Was there anyone in your life who encouraged you to follow your dream instead of taking the easier, safer way? “Can you explain a reaction like that?” he asks me. His disdain for drugs has caused wonderment among the music-business types he has encountered on the road.
As I fumble for words, Thorogood comes up with his own answer. En los años 80 sus canciones invadieron la radio de rock. George Thorogood: Yes, there was.