this man is criminally underated and overlooked. Give; move it on over, who do you love, I drink alone, and Get a haircut a listen. you wont regret it.
"That was like two different songs." Exactly that. George combined two John Lee Hooker classics, The House Rent Blues and One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer, and combined them into one song.
Yeah........Give the numpties a break they know no better . In time they will learn about ' real music ' if they care too learn. Shit hot performance by shit hot writer...............Drinkin Whisky / Scotch ........Right now 😀
George's "I Drink Alone", "Who Do You Love", "Move It On Over" are next for you!! Thanks to John Lee Hooker (blues artist) for the original House Rent Boogie/One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer. George added a lot of words and instrumentation to both.
"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (originally "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer") is a blues song written by Rudy Toombs and recorded by Amos Milburn in 1953. It is one of several drinking songs recorded by Milburn in the early 1950s that placed in the top ten of the Billboard R&B chart. Other artists released popular recordings of the song, including John Lee Hooker in 1966 and George Thorogood in 1977.
I saw him twice in the 80s. I particularly remember in Brighton (England); after the gig finished and the band had left the stage he just came back and sat on the edge of the stage with a towel round his neck and a long drink and chatted to anybody who came up to him; really good, honest, and down to earth performer!
George Thurogood and the Destroyers are from Dover, Delaware. He's my favorite blues man from the 70's. I've seen him in concert 2 times in my life. And l'm telling you he is fantastic live, he can rip up the stage with his guitar.
I've seen him twice too, within the last 10 years or so. Each time when he came out, I thought "damn he looks old!" But dammit if he didn't age backwards as the show went on!
I've seen George in concert 6 times and he never disappoints. He is an animal on the guitar. Check out Bad to the Bone. One of his more popular songs. You definitely need to check out more of him!
Yeah. I haven’t listened to this in years(decades). We [coworkers] wore this album out to the point where, we aren’t musicians, but we know every note. Lol. We used to complain about radio stations wearing a song out by playing them so often. It’s weird when you do it to yourself. Haha
I’ve seen him twice and he’s 150% better live. All the extra guitar playing he does is legendary. It’s crazy no one brings him up in the top guitarist discussions
George Thorogood does lot of remakes of old black blues artists that were and still are some of the best blues artists to ever play he just brought the songs back out and played them all over again and does a hell of a job
He is a monster live. Sounds better even, than recorded, maybe, certainly as good. Yes, George does a classic Blues shuffle on a lot of songs. He loves the 1-IV-V chord format.
I saw him at a very small venue. Since my sister and I needed wheelchair accessible seating they just pulled a seat and sat us in the front row. At the furthest he George Thorogood was mayvmbe 10 feet away. He came off the stage and actually brushed against us as he walked around. And yes, it was a great show. My advice is, check out wineries snd similar music venues. Sometimes they have really good acts
One of the loudest concerts I ever went to. After the show, my ears were ringing. I went to a party and couldn’t hear anyone. I left and went home. My ears rang for another full day.
I relate to this. My dance partners always had teeth, although I'd never before considered maybe they weren't really theirs. This is one of those songs that filled dance floors and that had everyone shouting the choruses. One of the best bar bands that went big ever.
"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" was written by Rudy Toombs and recorded by Amos Milburn in 1953, John Lee Hooker in 1966, and George Thorogood in 1977. Amos Milburn's version strolls around a piano. John Lee Hooker's version rocks a full combo behind his real folk blues. George Thorogood's version growls all the way through to the end like a triple shot of that stuff!
George explains his style by giving a rundown of his listening habits. He liked certain artists and wondered who influenced them. Once he discovered that he picked out a few he liked most and researched who influenced them also. He kept this up until he arrived at the “front porch blues” (my term, not his) artists that started it all. As you can see from the other comments he took some of those songs and made them his own plus wrote his own. I also think he is underrated. Many years ago I went to the Illinois state fair and he was playing a side outside venue. I walked up, bought a ticket on the spot and stood with my arms on the fence at the front of the stage. There was hardly anyone there. He played through the rain and I stayed for the entire show, in the rain. It was great.
George Thorogood was from Delaware. People just imitate the style of singing they're trying to emulate. Shuffle isn't a genre, it's a rhythm style. Also, he was young when this was recorded. The picture used by the lyrics video maker was him at least 30 years after the song was recorded.
George IS from Delaware. Still has his family here, even raised his kids here. He is another gem from the Diamond State~Delaware..... BTW word has it he was an awesome babysitter... LOL
@@barbaracriss3614 He dated a teacher from Elkton High School I believe. Elkton is n Maryland right next to Newark, DE. George was in Newark often, big party area.
In this episode of Brad & Lex, Brad's signature "side to side sway" becomes tight and more "boppy as the high hats are introduced to this uptempo song as Both Brad & Lex follow the story with intrigue as Lex seems to trade places with Brad while her "frontal bop" becomes a bit of a "side to side sway" until the guitar solo feeds the need for Lex to exude her signature "frontal bop".
This was one of the greatest songs in my college days. As fun as it was I think it was even more fun to see Brad smile. We don't get to see that very often. He's so thoughtful
Yes, indeed Lex, it IS two different songs, both of them covers from the great late John Lee Hooker. - House rent Boogie - One Burbon, one scotch and one beer. You guys should react to the originals.
Always need to go back to the original track. These have been done over, but his rendition is spot on for the feel of the songs. He added another layer to the originals.
I'm always a little dismayed how little they know about even the basics of the history of rock. I didn't know this was cover (thx for pointing that out) I'm no expert but even I knew this was a Blues song.
@@petercofrancesco9812 Much of that has to do with the Hip Hop culture itself. Being black, automatically means that it's not done to go anywhere near a guitar, since they associate the instrument with White people's music. And most hip hop these days is about standing up for yourselves and dealing with police brutality, Police who are mostly all of the time white. So the fact that there are black guitarists like: - Prince - Lenny Kravitz - Slash - Vernon Reid - Gary Clark Jr. - HER Is for many people who grew up on Hip Hop a complete mind blower, since for them it simply isn't an instrument that black people play. Until they look back further in time and discover: - Bo Diddley - BB King - Albert Collins - Albert King - John Lee Hooker - Chuck Berry - Bob Marley - Jimi Hendrix
I heard this on a retro station when I was 14 and I knew this was the best combo riffing and storytelling I was ever gonna hear. This particular recording is proof of what a great Actor George is in addition to playing mad riffs
As I sit here enjoying a double Bourbon, I am so encouraged to see the younger generation, Brad & Lex, enjoying the stuff I grew up on, both enjoying and playing.
I believe their biggest hit was " Bad to the Bone", my greatest debt to them is they got me interested in the Blues!!! From them I went to Hooker, B.B. King, Howling Wolf, Sister Rosetta Thorpe, an endless glorious journey!!!
I see that as: You went to a Hooker to B. a King where you met Sister Rosetta Thorpe who had you Howling like a Wolf. I know it's wrong, but it sure goes together so smoothly... 😂
I saw him with the Delaware Destroyers in Paris back in the 1970's, what a show! believe it or not, only one bass and one drum accompanied him on scene.
"Shuffle" is a groove or "feel" with it's roots in Blues and Jazz. There are quick ones like this song or ZZ Top's "La Grange." There are slow, triplet shuffles like, "Loving, Touching, Squeezing" by Journey, or ZZ Top's "Jesus Just Left Chicago" or "Ride On" by AC/DC (one of their only ballads, and a great one). Most of GT and the Delaware Destroyers (a hint where he's from) big hits are blues shuffles.
George Thorogood and The DELAWARE Destroyers. He is from the Wilmington, Delaware area, along with his excellent band. Seen him live, he rocks the house and takes no prisoners.
I had the awesome pleasure of seeing him at a small club in Montreal and for this song he actually played the solo while standing on top of our bar table. It was amazing. He's criminally underrated. Peace and love.
YAAAASSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!! The man the myth, the legend.....Thorogood! This really needs to be heard in a crowd, as the crowd participation is an instrument to the song.
George's older, lesser known songs are also great and not as overplayed. Dixie Fried, Back To Wentsville, Madison Blues, his covers of Nadine, Cocaine Blues, Move It On Over....
Saw George Thorogood and The Destroyers back in, I believe it was 1977, in a small club. They had just released their first album, as a trio (sax added later). Played for *three hours* with one short intermission. Electrifying, stunning, and exhilarating. They seemed as amazed by our out-of-our-minds reaction as we were amazed by their playing.
His version of Johnny Cash's "Cocaine Blues" is pretty good and upbeat. In the 80's, when I was in my 20's, George Thorogood and Stevie Ray Vaughn were my sitting alone go to.
George and the Delaware Destroyers were always a blast. Saw him open up for The Rolling Stones 1981 at JFK in Philly. Journey was the middle band in a trifecta of ROCK! 100,000 strong the crowd was insane!
I've got The Madison Blues " I can remember way back in 1979, some mates of mine on The Northern Beaches of Sydney, playing Thorogood's debut album one day when we'd all been drinking and 'smoking' OMG, I'd never heard anything like it before. Raw, Rockin' Blues, with George's incredible vocals. " Ride on Josephine " George and The Delaware Destroyers made the Blues songs their own. I saw them play at Bryant's Manly Vale in 1982 and what stands out in my mind is George's big white teeth as his broad grin shone out into the crowd. It was a joyous event. The crowd roared with appreciation. It was an awesome display of musicianship by the whole Band.
@@alanstrom2221 theres also the barrelhouse blues, also on piano, more than just boogie and boogie woogie.. I like thoe old crooners like Memphis Slim and Otis Spann myself.
Love your reactions! Brad your right, it's two songs together. One is the House Rent Blues and the other is One Bourbon One Scotch and One Gin. Both are John Lee Hooker songs. George Thorough Good is from Delaware, he does play up the accent, to make himself sound different. If you listen to Thoroughgood's Bad to the Bone, it's about John Lee Hooker, Hooker had a real bad stutter except when he sang. I knew the guitar tech for George Thoroughgood.
George is a hard playing, honest, bluesy singer/player. Helped me get thru a period in the 80s when there was some incredible crap being played by others.
This is the song that made me learn how to play guitar with a slide. I used to play with the chrome slide like he has on his pinky in the picture...or I'd play with a glass slide...and there for awhile, I was pretty decent at playing with a beer bottle. This song...absolute legend
Lex was like "I want a drink" 😆... as someone who has been sober for 12 years it's still hard when certain songs are playing or the atmosphere is just popping. This is definitely one of those songs that would be hard depending on the crowd n feel
@@michaelherring7210 when I was really drinking... the song Shots by LMFAO was real big and nowadays it comes on and all my group will run over to the bar to do shots and I'm left standing there all by myself like a jackass 😆 I need better friends 🤣
@@JonnyQuest64 my friends are extremely similar, and I always stand there like a jack@ss too when they start doing shots. They're usually pretty cool about it though, so I shouldn't give them a hard time for having fun 😎
@@michaelherring7210 exactly. It's definitely not their problem...just a bummer at times. I just know my nature now and know if one feels good my stupid self will go well 2 should be twice as good 😆 and then another and another 🤣 next thing you know I'm in the county jail and the only story I have was told to me because I didn't remember any of it. Plus alot of this 🤮🤮🤮 lmao
George is a really good Blues artist, he's a great guitarist. He's from Wilmington Delaware. His band are called The Destroyers, used to be The Delaware Destroyers. You must know his song 'Bad To The Bone', it's been used in so many films.
I'm sure others have already mentioned, but George has other great songs about drinking, "I Drink Alone" and "If You Don't Start Drinkin' (I'm Gonna Leave)". Plus "Move it on Over", "Get a Haircut" and "Bad to the Bone"
"Who Do You Love" is a cover of a Bo Diddley song. George's cover will introduce you to the Bo Diddley Beat, which George was particularly fond of. I love his covers of old R&B songs, and his new songs that have that old R&B feel. The man bleeds blues.
"That was a pretty good transition..." "That was strange... that was like two different songs..." "It caught me off guard man in a good way, I thought the whole song was gonna be like that..." You guys totally put to words what we all were thinking when we first heard the song too back in the day. :D
George Thorogood is actually from Wilmington, Delaware, hence “George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers”. But they definitely ROCK THE BLUES like true southerners! 😆
Ahhhhhh, Superfans! I have been listening to George over 40 years, love his music! I love comments very interesting history and I love watching new people "discover" him. Feeling drunk is not the vibe I get though being drunk has occurred more than once while he plays.
I saw this man playing LIVE back in the '80's at Gilley's Tavern, where Urban Cowboy was filmed. And I guarantee you, that had to be the LOUDEST concert i've ever been to!!! George is the kind of performer that really loves what he's doing when he's Rockin' the House Down! Right up there with Joan Jett & Lita Ford... I mean, it don't matter if he's playing for 10 people or 100,000 people, he's gonna give you the best show he's got!!!!
George is the preferred singer for the alcoholic. You have to "drink alone" a lot to come up with these lyrics. that was his first real hit I think back when he came out on the scene. Most of his tunes are really good and under rated. Always a good story.
I don't know if anyone else has mentioned it yet, but this is two different songs that George covered and combined into one. The originals are "House Rent Boogie" and of course "One Bourbon One Scotch and One Beer" by the great John Lee Hooker.
If you ever get the chance, see George in concert. The guy is amazing, easily one of the best concerts I ever went to. He's got several great songs you guys need to react to. BTW, George is from Delaware, he picked up the accent hanging out with all the southern blues guys.
That steady beat and riffs, with him vocally riffing over it, is what he does a lot on stage. This song, represents that style. Heck there are even pauses for the crowd to respond (and they do in concert). It is also the combination of two John Lee Hooker songs, "House Rent Boogie" and "One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer". George then embellishes the lyrics of both for that crowd interaction style.
For as simple as it is, it really is great guitar playing. In fact this is mastery of the particular style he's playing in. "Less is more" applies here for sure...also he tells a story with not only the lyrics, but with his rhythm playing as well.
Saw him three times in concert. He plays for hours! Very underrated blues guitarist & lyricist. Went to see Foreigner and he was opening. Foreigner cancelled and he played for over four hours. Awesome live!
Thorogood is basically a blues influenced rocker. In the early 90's, he had sung so much about drinking that people started to want to cancel him. That's right: cancel culture is not new. ;)
5:28: "That was like two different songs." Actually, they really were two different songs, both originally by the late great John Lee Hooker. The first was "House Rent Blues", and the second the titular "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer". George did tweak the lyrics slightly here and there.
I got to see him in 1992 in a small 3,000 theater with Jeff Healey and they both KILLED IT. It was one of the best performances I have been to (Outside of Clapton and Bob Seger).
George was born and lived in and around Wilmington Delaware. Saw "George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers" in a small bar, way out in the sticks of South Jersey called, "The Village Pub", in Alloway NJ. It was maybe 2 years before he broke onto the national scene. They were fantastic, fun and cool as hell. The band, me and the other 70 people in the bar had an absolute blast. George also had a pretty good baseball team (he played 2nd base) in the Delaware Semi-Pro League, they were named, why of course, "The Destroyers"
this man is criminally underated and overlooked. Give; move it on over, who do you love, I drink alone, and Get a haircut a listen. you wont regret it.
Not by us!
,,,,and get a REAL job. 🤣🤣🤣👍
I'm 10 times richer than my big brother Bob
And he's got a haircut and got a real job
My song is "I drink alone" 🤣
Cocaine Blues….The Sky Is Crying….It Wasn’t Me…..
In my humble opinion, he was a natural legend at the shuffle and slide bar blues
"That was like two different songs." Exactly that. George combined two John Lee Hooker classics, The House Rent Blues and One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer, and combined them into one song.
Huh, I never realized that 👍
Amos Milburn classic, though his original is “One Scotch, one bourbon, one beer.”
Yeah........Give the numpties a break they know no better . In time they will learn about ' real music ' if they care too learn. Shit hot performance by shit hot writer...............Drinkin Whisky / Scotch ........Right now 😀
Hooker is a blues genius. George payed homage to him perfectly. Such a badass song
George is phenomenal live. He’s one of the most overlooked guitar players in the business. No George Thorogood is from Wilmington Delaware.
isn't it Goerge Thoroughgood and the Delaware destroyers
I've seen him live in person in my buddy's dad's garage....hell I've gotten drunk and high with him in that same garage
George's "I Drink Alone", "Who Do You Love", "Move It On Over" are next for you!! Thanks to John Lee Hooker (blues artist) for the original House Rent Boogie/One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer. George added a lot of words and instrumentation to both.
Agree with those selections but live versions! For his best slide guitar, live version of Madison Blues or Delaware Slide.
Check out also Bad to the Bone - part of stutter rock like Elton John's Benny & the Jets and B.T.O. 's You Ain't seen Nothing Yet
Love me some John Lee Hooker! I was lucky to catch him before he passed. So talented.!!!
@@dawnsterzing594 me too! Saw him 7/29/1989 with Buddy Guy.
John Lee Hooker!
"A haw haw haw haw"
"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (originally "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer") is a blues song written by Rudy Toombs and recorded by Amos Milburn in 1953. It is one of several drinking songs recorded by Milburn in the early 1950s that placed in the top ten of the Billboard R&B chart. Other artists released popular recordings of the song, including John Lee Hooker in 1966 and George Thorogood in 1977.
You should hear “Bad to the Bone”, which is one of his more famous songs!
Can't beat this one !
Definitely!
Absolutely!👍🏻
He can make an old woman blush and a young girl squeal!
I saw him twice in the 80s. I particularly remember in Brighton (England); after the gig finished and the band had left the stage he just came back and sat on the edge of the stage with a towel round his neck and a long drink and chatted to anybody who came up to him; really good, honest, and down to earth performer!
"Everybody Funny, Now You Funny Too"....one of my all time favorite lines and it means soo much... Brevity is the soul of wit, and George nailed it...
My wife and I say that to each other all the time, LOL.
Lol I say this at work sometimes...the young ones have no clue😂
Madison Blues...High Top Sneakers....
Fk yeah
@@rlnstn9300 I been saying that for 35 years.
I've seen George in concert. When he flicks the guitar strings, it's all thumb. No pick. Man is legend
George Thurogood and the Destroyers are from Dover, Delaware. He's my favorite blues man from the 70's. I've seen him in concert 2 times in my life. And l'm telling you he is fantastic live, he can rip up the stage with his guitar.
Originally the Delaware destroyers
Saw George mid 80's/one of the best live shows I have ever seen/great times
Behind SRV
I've seen him twice too, within the last 10 years or so. Each time when he came out, I thought "damn he looks old!" But dammit if he didn't age backwards as the show went on!
He was was actually from claymont, which is considered Wilmington by people not from Delaware, not Dover.
Now close your eyes and picture a packed bar and George Jammin! The entire bar rocking and singing along!
Out of control fun back in the day!
I've seen George in concert 6 times and he never disappoints. He is an animal on the guitar. Check out Bad to the Bone. One of his more popular songs. You definitely need to check out more of him!
Seen George 3 times one of this times was with Buddy Guy and another time with Steve Miller. George definitely does not disappoint!
Yeah. I haven’t listened to this in years(decades). We [coworkers] wore this album out to the point where, we aren’t musicians, but we know every note. Lol. We used to complain about radio stations wearing a song out by playing them so often. It’s weird when you do it to yourself. Haha
I’ve seen him twice and he’s 150% better live. All the extra guitar playing he does is legendary. It’s crazy no one brings him up in the top guitarist discussions
Check out more of George. He is cool. Like Elvis. Color Blind. 🙂
Seen him once in concert but it became top 3 and I see. Roughly 30-40 concerts in my life. His guitar styling hits differently.
George Thorogood does lot of remakes of old black blues artists that were and still are some of the best blues artists to ever play he just brought the songs back out and played them all over again and does a hell of a job
Delaware is 20-30 percent black depending on the location.
George Thoroughly Good is what we called him, and he's underrated. Bad To The Bone song is must listen.
He is a monster live. Sounds better even, than recorded, maybe, certainly as good. Yes, George does a classic Blues shuffle on a lot of songs. He loves the 1-IV-V chord format.
I saw him at a very small venue. Since my sister and I needed wheelchair accessible seating they just pulled a seat and sat us in the front row. At the furthest he George Thorogood was mayvmbe 10 feet away. He came off the stage and actually brushed against us as he walked around. And yes, it was a great show. My advice is, check out wineries snd similar music venues. Sometimes they have really good acts
Thorogood is an exceptional story teller. Under rated guitarist. Great live show. 🤘🎸🤘
George tells it well for sure but let’s also give credit to John Lee Hooker for writing it
I never under rated George 😀
I've seen KISS a handful of times, love them, "Best Show on Earth".
Unless you've ever seen George and the Destroyers live, lol, period.
One of the loudest concerts I ever went to. After the show, my ears were ringing. I went to a party and couldn’t hear anyone. I left and went home. My ears rang for another full day.
You have to be in a Honkytonk dive, dancing with a toothless woman to truly appreciate this song.
Puts a smile on my face every time I hear it.
I relate to this. My dance partners always had teeth, although I'd never before considered maybe they weren't really theirs. This is one of those songs that filled dance floors and that had everyone shouting the choruses. One of the best bar bands that went big ever.
Yeah but the smile on her face....?
You too?…😂😂🤢🤢
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I love watching people discover this song! It’s so much fun!! ♥️
"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" was written by Rudy Toombs and recorded by Amos Milburn in 1953, John Lee Hooker in 1966, and George Thorogood in 1977. Amos Milburn's version strolls around a piano. John Lee Hooker's version rocks a full combo behind his real folk blues. George Thorogood's version growls all the way through to the end like a triple shot of that stuff!
George explains his style by giving a rundown of his listening habits. He liked certain artists and wondered who influenced them. Once he discovered that he picked out a few he liked most and researched who influenced them also. He kept this up until he arrived at the “front porch blues” (my term, not his) artists that started it all. As you can see from the other comments he took some of those songs and made them his own plus wrote his own. I also think he is underrated. Many years ago I went to the Illinois state fair and he was playing a side outside venue. I walked up, bought a ticket on the spot and stood with my arms on the fence at the front of the stage. There was hardly anyone there. He played through the rain and I stayed for the entire show, in the rain. It was great.
George Thorogood was from Delaware. People just imitate the style of singing they're trying to emulate. Shuffle isn't a genre, it's a rhythm style. Also, he was young when this was recorded. The picture used by the lyrics video maker was him at least 30 years after the song was recorded.
Della where?
@@RealRonSwanson You got it!
George IS from Delaware. Still has his family here, even raised his kids here. He is another gem from the Diamond State~Delaware..... BTW word has it he was an awesome babysitter... LOL
Yep, oyster ettouffee.
@@barbaracriss3614 He dated a teacher from Elkton High School I believe. Elkton is n Maryland right next to Newark, DE. George was in Newark often, big party area.
Man has his own sound. Very black American blues with rock infused. Always spoke to me personally.
In this episode of Brad & Lex, Brad's signature "side to side sway" becomes tight and more "boppy as the high hats are introduced to this uptempo song as Both Brad & Lex follow the story with intrigue as Lex seems to trade places with Brad while her "frontal bop" becomes a bit of a "side to side sway" until the guitar solo feeds the need for Lex to exude her signature "frontal bop".
I love these comments so much
So true!
Frontal bop the follow up to blitzkreig bop
The play by play lol
These 2 are adorable.
This was one of the greatest songs in my college days. As fun as it was I think it was even more fun to see Brad smile. We don't get to see that very often. He's so thoughtful
"BAD TO THE BONE" is a must listen.
Yes, indeed Lex, it IS two different songs, both of them covers from the great late John Lee Hooker.
- House rent Boogie
- One Burbon, one scotch and one beer.
You guys should react to the originals.
I think George would agree.
I agree. I have that argument with a lot of people. Some people don't know their blues
Always need to go back to the original track. These have been done over, but his rendition is spot on for the feel of the songs. He added another layer to the originals.
I'm always a little dismayed how little they know about even the basics of the history of rock. I didn't know this was cover (thx for pointing that out) I'm no expert but even I knew this was a Blues song.
@@petercofrancesco9812 Much of that has to do with the Hip Hop culture itself. Being black, automatically means that it's not done to go anywhere near a guitar, since they associate the instrument with White people's music. And most hip hop these days is about standing up for yourselves and dealing with police brutality, Police who are mostly all of the time white.
So the fact that there are black guitarists like:
- Prince
- Lenny Kravitz
- Slash
- Vernon Reid
- Gary Clark Jr.
- HER
Is for many people who grew up on Hip Hop a complete mind blower, since for them it simply isn't an instrument that black people play.
Until they look back further in time and discover:
- Bo Diddley
- BB King
- Albert Collins
- Albert King
- John Lee Hooker
- Chuck Berry
- Bob Marley
- Jimi Hendrix
Saw him about 30 years ago. He is awesome live. Brings the house down.
You have got to play this at every party. This gets the party going.
I heard this on a retro station when I was 14 and I knew this was the best combo riffing and storytelling I was ever gonna hear.
This particular recording is proof of what a great Actor George is in addition to playing mad riffs
I have used the following line in this song more than once, in my life.
" Everybody funny now you funny too"
🤣😂🤣
Haha me too
Saw George three years ago at a local venue. After all these years he still rocks as good as he did forty years ago. Brought the house down.
He’s from Delaware and his band is called the Delaware Destroyer’s
As I sit here enjoying a double Bourbon, I am so encouraged to see the younger generation, Brad & Lex, enjoying the stuff I grew up on, both enjoying and playing.
I believe their biggest hit was " Bad to the Bone", my greatest debt to them is they got me interested in the Blues!!! From them I went to Hooker, B.B. King, Howling Wolf, Sister Rosetta Thorpe, an endless glorious journey!!!
I see that as:
You went to a Hooker to B. a King where you met Sister Rosetta Thorpe who had you Howling like a Wolf.
I know it's wrong, but it sure goes together so smoothly... 😂
I also like I Drink Alone
gee.........how profound
I saw him with the Delaware Destroyers in Paris back in the 1970's, what a show! believe it or not, only one bass and one drum accompanied him on scene.
"Shuffle" is a groove or "feel" with it's roots in Blues and Jazz. There are quick ones like this song or ZZ Top's "La Grange." There are slow, triplet shuffles like, "Loving, Touching, Squeezing" by Journey, or ZZ Top's "Jesus Just Left Chicago" or "Ride On" by AC/DC (one of their only ballads, and a great one). Most of GT and the Delaware Destroyers (a hint where he's from) big hits are blues shuffles.
I saw this guy on TV at the AMAs with the legend Chuck Berry and Stevie Ray Vaughn playing together. I'll never forget that, it was so awesome.
George Thorogood and The DELAWARE Destroyers. He is from the Wilmington, Delaware area, along with his excellent band. Seen him live, he rocks the house and takes no prisoners.
Best drinking song ever! Any song that takes like 4 minutes to get to the title in the song is definitely worth checking out!!!
i love the line "yeah, everybody funny - now you funny too!" I say that all the time!
It don’t matter what genre of music a person prefers…. . Everyone who actually stops to give this a listen, is going to appreciate the pure talent
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I had the awesome pleasure of seeing him at a small club in Montreal and for this song he actually played the solo while standing on top of our bar table. It was amazing. He's criminally underrated. Peace and love.
rock on man!
It's a pretty memorable song...you'll probably never forget the chorus.
YAAAASSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!! The man the myth, the legend.....Thorogood! This really needs to be heard in a crowd, as the crowd participation is an instrument to the song.
I bet it's great live in concert with a crowd, but I still like hearing the studio version by myself while getting drunk.
George's older, lesser known songs are also great and not as overplayed. Dixie Fried, Back To Wentsville, Madison Blues, his covers of Nadine, Cocaine Blues, Move It On Over....
The live version of this with Elvin Bishop joining in on guitar is off the chain
Saw George Thorogood and The Destroyers back in, I believe it was 1977, in a small club. They had just released their first album, as a trio (sax added later). Played for *three hours* with one short intermission. Electrifying, stunning, and exhilarating. They seemed as amazed by our out-of-our-minds reaction as we were amazed by their playing.
Great song to start with! Now it's time to listen to "I drink alone" and "Bad to the Bone"!
Plz do more of him his guitar playing is absolutely nasty and raw, I love it
His version of Johnny Cash's "Cocaine Blues" is pretty good and upbeat. In the 80's, when I was in my 20's, George Thorogood and Stevie Ray Vaughn were my sitting alone go to.
SRV the 🎸🐐
Saw George in concert a few times. That dude can play and he ain't foolin....
George and the Delaware Destroyers were always a blast. Saw him open up for The Rolling Stones 1981 at JFK in Philly. Journey was the middle band in a trifecta of ROCK! 100,000 strong the crowd was insane!
I rocked when this was released.I still rock to it today..And these people are just discovering it.And got to be seen ,,live.
This song is so funny ( the story) Love it. My favorite Is " I drink alone"
I've got The Madison Blues "
I can remember way back in 1979, some mates of mine on The Northern Beaches of Sydney, playing Thorogood's debut album one day when we'd all been drinking and 'smoking'
OMG, I'd never heard anything like it before.
Raw, Rockin' Blues, with George's incredible vocals.
" Ride on Josephine "
George and The Delaware Destroyers made the Blues songs their own.
I saw them play at Bryant's Manly Vale in 1982 and what stands out in my mind is George's big white teeth as his broad grin shone out into the crowd.
It was a joyous event.
The crowd roared with appreciation.
It was an awesome display of musicianship by the whole Band.
George calls this “boogie woogie” but it’s definitely a form of blues. The man is an animal on the guitar. One of my influences.
Combination of old style Mississippi Delta and Chicago style (which evolved from Delta) blues.
John Lee Hooker IS the KING of the BOOGIE and THIS is a TRIBUTE. Boogie and Boogie Woogie are 2 different things.
@@capricorn1971ad Yes, Boogie Woogie is played on Piano.
Boogie n Blues Rock is best played by STATUS QUO!!!!!!!!!!
@@alanstrom2221 theres also the barrelhouse blues, also on piano, more than just boogie and boogie woogie.. I like thoe old crooners like Memphis Slim and Otis Spann myself.
Love watching your reactions to all these songs that I grew up listening to.
Love your reactions! Brad your right, it's two songs together. One is the House Rent Blues and the other is One Bourbon One Scotch and One Gin. Both are John Lee Hooker songs. George Thorough Good is from Delaware, he does play up the accent, to make himself sound different.
If you listen to Thoroughgood's Bad to the Bone, it's about John Lee Hooker, Hooker had a real bad stutter except when he sang. I knew the guitar tech for George Thoroughgood.
George is a hard playing, honest, bluesy singer/player. Helped me get thru a period in the 80s when there was some incredible crap being played by others.
This is the song that made me learn how to play guitar with a slide. I used to play with the chrome slide like he has on his pinky in the picture...or I'd play with a glass slide...and there for awhile, I was pretty decent at playing with a beer bottle. This song...absolute legend
George is a savage player and this is the best cover of this song ever....
Lex was like "I want a drink" 😆... as someone who has been sober for 12 years it's still hard when certain songs are playing or the atmosphere is just popping. This is definitely one of those songs that would be hard depending on the crowd n feel
13 years sober for me, and I have the same problem!
@@michaelherring7210 when I was really drinking... the song Shots by LMFAO was real big and nowadays it comes on and all my group will run over to the bar to do shots and I'm left standing there all by myself like a jackass 😆 I need better friends 🤣
@@JonnyQuest64 my friends are extremely similar, and I always stand there like a jack@ss too when they start doing shots. They're usually pretty cool about it though, so I shouldn't give them a hard time for having fun 😎
@@michaelherring7210 exactly. It's definitely not their problem...just a bummer at times. I just know my nature now and know if one feels good my stupid self will go well 2 should be twice as good 😆 and then another and another 🤣 next thing you know I'm in the county jail and the only story I have was told to me because I didn't remember any of it. Plus alot of this 🤮🤮🤮 lmao
@@JonnyQuest64 right on 👍. You nailed it!
These guys are like the ultimate bar band. I saw them live in Reno at a big biker meet up. They played in a large bar and had the place hoppin’.
George is a really good Blues artist, he's a great guitarist. He's from Wilmington Delaware. His band are called The Destroyers, used to be The Delaware Destroyers. You must know his song 'Bad To The Bone', it's been used in so many films.
Great reaction true and heart felt. Even more so than the song it's self. Love ya'll thanks for sharing these experiences with us.
I'm sure others have already mentioned, but George has other great songs about drinking, "I Drink Alone" and "If You Don't Start Drinkin' (I'm Gonna Leave)". Plus "Move it on Over", "Get a Haircut" and "Bad to the Bone"
The blues is pure soul! Move it on over is my personal favorite by George Thorogood. He's just a beast on the guitar!
"Who Do You Love" is a cover of a Bo Diddley song. George's cover will introduce you to the Bo Diddley Beat, which George was particularly fond of. I love his covers of old R&B songs, and his new songs that have that old R&B feel. The man bleeds blues.
Yes, but his cover was also a mashup of too BO Diddley songs. He used the words to “Who Do You Love?”, but the music was from “Hey Mona!”
@@ZacCostilla Hmm. "Hey Mona!" sounds more like Holly's "Not Fade Away" than it does like Thoroughgood's Who Do You Love. What am I missing?
Bo is actually in GT's Bad to the bone video, it's fantastic.
@@karlmay1949 That's crazy cool. Thanks for the info drop!
George is an excellent performer…. One of the best
"That was a pretty good transition..." "That was strange... that was like two different songs..." "It caught me off guard man in a good way, I thought the whole song was gonna be like that..."
You guys totally put to words what we all were thinking when we first heard the song too back in the day. :D
Y'all's killing it! Keep it up and don't stop.
George Thorogood is actually from Wilmington, Delaware, hence “George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers”. But they definitely ROCK THE BLUES like true southerners! 😆
Ahhhhhh, Superfans! I have been listening to George over 40 years, love his music! I love comments very interesting history and I love watching new people "discover" him. Feeling drunk is not the vibe I get though being drunk has occurred more than once while he plays.
The way he sings "she ain't gonna get none of it" always makes me laugh.
I'm always amazed that he can play with that level of gain and it never sounds muddy.
I saw Brad smile, Lawd have mercy! Love your reactions. You need to check out the live version. Rock on!
I saw this man playing LIVE back in the '80's at Gilley's Tavern, where Urban Cowboy was filmed. And I guarantee you, that had to be the LOUDEST concert i've ever been to!!! George is the kind of performer that really loves what he's doing when he's Rockin' the House Down! Right up there with Joan Jett & Lita Ford... I mean, it don't matter if he's playing for 10 people or 100,000 people, he's gonna give you the best show he's got!!!!
George is the preferred singer for the alcoholic. You have to "drink alone" a lot to come up with these lyrics. that was his first real hit I think back when he came out on the scene. Most of his tunes are really good and under rated. Always a good story.
Thank you for another great video. Love you both.
I don't know if anyone else has mentioned it yet, but this is two different songs that George covered and combined into one. The originals are "House Rent Boogie" and of course "One Bourbon One Scotch and One Beer" by the great John Lee Hooker.
Two great songs written by the legendary John Lee Hooker put together brilliantly.
If you ever get the chance, see George in concert. The guy is amazing, easily one of the best concerts I ever went to. He's got several great songs you guys need to react to.
BTW, George is from Delaware, he picked up the accent hanging out with all the southern blues guys.
yep, saw him at the Capitol Theater in NJ in 84.
That steady beat and riffs, with him vocally riffing over it, is what he does a lot on stage. This song, represents that style. Heck there are even pauses for the crowd to respond (and they do in concert). It is also the combination of two John Lee Hooker songs, "House Rent Boogie" and "One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer". George then embellishes the lyrics of both for that crowd interaction style.
This is actually great guitar playing. So much fun live!! Try “Bad to the bone”.✌️✌️✌️
For as simple as it is, it really is great guitar playing. In fact this is mastery of the particular style he's playing in. "Less is more" applies here for sure...also he tells a story with not only the lyrics, but with his rhythm playing as well.
Saw him three times in concert. He plays for hours! Very underrated blues guitarist & lyricist. Went to see Foreigner and he was opening. Foreigner cancelled and he played for over four hours. Awesome live!
George thorogood's version is a combination of two Johnny Lee Hooker songs. House rent boogie and One Bourbon, One Scotch and one beer.
I was with a lead guitar player for many years. Having this much fun with their instrument is almost indecent.
Thorogood is basically a blues influenced rocker. In the early 90's, he had sung so much about drinking that people started to want to cancel him. That's right: cancel culture is not new. ;)
He was and still is the working man’s Rocker 👍🇺🇸
5:28: "That was like two different songs."
Actually, they really were two different songs, both originally by the late great John Lee Hooker. The first was "House Rent Blues", and the second the titular "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer". George did tweak the lyrics slightly here and there.
Like changing it from “one scotch, one bourbon, one beer,” to “one bourbon, one scotch, one beer” as in the original by Amos Milburn. :-)
But it was written by Rudy Toombs!
Good healthy song. No matter bad life gets, there is always beer. RIP Norm
Best reaction channel. These guys are great!
Great review, love how Lex just soaks it up to and watch her reaction.
Thorogood is a beast, especially live. He does a great cover of The Sky Is Crying (Elmore James)
I got to see him in 1992 in a small 3,000 theater with Jeff Healey and they both KILLED IT. It was one of the best performances I have been to (Outside of Clapton and Bob Seger).
George and his Strat.... Blues Rock....if you ever get a chance to see him Live!!!
George was born and lived in and around Wilmington Delaware.
Saw "George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers" in a small bar, way out in the sticks of South Jersey called, "The Village Pub", in Alloway NJ.
It was maybe 2 years before he broke onto the national scene.
They were fantastic, fun and cool as hell.
The band, me and the other 70 people in the bar had an absolute blast.
George also had a pretty good baseball team (he played 2nd base) in the Delaware Semi-Pro League, they were named, why of course, "The Destroyers"
You got to watch the live version of this! Insane.