EVERY MORNING
JUST BEFORE BREAKFAST
I DON'T WANT
NO COFFEE OR TEA
JUST ME AND
GOOD BUDDY WEISER
THAT'S ALL I EVER NEED
On December 1st, 1973,
a guitarist, a drummer,
and their rhythm guitarist
loaded their gear into
the drummer’s Volkswagen bus
and drove to
Lane Hall
at The University of Delaware.
In a week that saw
new albums by
Wings,
Black Sabbath,
and
Bachman-Turner Overdrive,
the three-piece band
proceeded to play covers
that included ‘
No Particular Place To Go’, ‘
Madison Blues’
and
‘One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer.’
The drummer,
Jeff Simon,
recalls the crowd was
wary at first,
“then it was like
someone flipped a switch.”
By the second set,
the dance floor was packed.
“After the gig,”
the guitarist says with his
now-familiar grin,
“Jeff and I thought,
‘maybe we’re onto something.’”
It was the first-ever
performance by
George Thorogood & The Destroyers.
Five decades,
more than 8,000 live shows,
and
15 million albums later,
George Thorogood
and Jeff Simon
with long-time
Destroyers
Bill Blough,
Jim Suhler
and
Buddy Leach
now announce
their
Bad All Over The World
50 Years of Rock Tour.
“From that very first show,
we’ve stayed true to ourselves
and the music we love,”
says Thorogood.
“We’ve decided to celebrate
our first half-century
by throwing the biggest
and baddest
rock party ever.”
CD 1
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