FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009

PRESS RELEASE


WEDNESDAY, MAY 12TH, 2010
SAVE ON FOODS MEMORIAL CENTRE – VICTORIA, BC
DOORS 6:30 PM
SHOW 7:30 PM

George Thorogood has a theory. “In any field, especially the arts, there are always two things—‘genius’ and ‘very clever.’ There’s no in-between. You’re either a genius or very clever. I’m going to throw out two names at you. John Lennon--genius, right? And Mick Jagger? Very clever. See what I’m saying? I’ll give you another example. Einstein--genius. And George Thorogood--very clever.”

Yet what about the people who think Thorogood is a genius in his own way? “OK, I’m a genius at being very clever,’’ he says with a hearty laugh. Thorogood loves quips almost as much as he loves the blues, so here’s another: “Let’s put it this way. Dylan has a Rolls-Royce dealership. I have a used Chevy dealership. But I’m in the business. You got it? That’s all I wanted from this thing. A gig, man. And I got a gig.’’ Thorogood and his band the Destroyers have held that gig for more than 30 years “It’s like a championship fight,” he says. “You’ve got two guys in the ring--one guy who’s the contender and wants to get the title and you’ve got the guy who’s got the title and it took him 15 years to get the title and he’s held onto it for five years. Who’s going to be the tougher opponent? It’s going to be the guy with the title who worked hard to get it. You’re going to have to kill him to get it away from him. And that’s all that I’m doing up there. I’m trying to hold my gig.’”

The Destroyers fought their way to the top. They came out of Delaware in the ‘70s as a jarringly high-energy bunch (also featuring drummer Jeff Simon and bassist Billy Blough) whose raucous, slide guitar-stoked, blues-rock takes on tunes by Chuck Berry, Elmore James, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley and others helped land them a contract with Cambridge’s Rounder Records. They had moved to Boston and cut their teeth in the city’s blues circuit before their second album for Rounder, Move It On Over, struck big with the title track, an amped-up cover of a Hank Williams tune. They added a saxophonist (Hank Carter) and further fame came in the ‘80s through a signing to EMI Records, which released a series of gold records by the band. These included 1982’s Bad to the Bone (the title track is Thorogood’s best-known composition and its video became a staple on MTV) and 1988’s Born to Be Bad, with the swaggering hit, “You Talk Too Much.’’ The ‘90s saw more hit-making with 1993’s “Get a Haircut,’’ from the album Haircut. And albums followed into the new millennium with 2003’s Ride ‘Til I Die--and 2006’s Hard Stuff--on Eagle Records, and a 2004 Capitol compilation, Greatest Hits: 30 Years of Rock, which went gold and was #1 on Billboard’s blues chart for a noteworthy 60 weeks, while winning the magazine’s award for blues record of the year.

Don’t miss George Thorogood and The Destroyers with special guests Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre on May 12th, 2010.

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