🔥🎸 ’Bad To The Bone’ - 40 Years BBBBBAD! Documentary 🎸🔥 

i had the pleasure of seeing GEORGE play at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz California with a couple of buddies of mine. We were on the floor about 6 rows back from the stage. George finished his set and some of the people left after the first encore. what they didn't know is that George played 5 encores that night. By the time it was over i was in the first row on his last and final encore. After he was done he threw his guitar pick into the crowd and i caught it. To this day i have here on display on the wall in my room. GEORGE was great that night and i will never ever forget.

George and the Destroyers are legends. Refreshingly unpretentious, down to earth music, played with passion and for the enjoyment for the audience. Its honest, good, decent, blue coller, working class music. True blues.

I've had the pleasure of touring in a support act with GTD in the late 00's. The entire outfit (band and crew) are a total class act and super down to earth. They treated us like one of their own, with everybody just enjoying being out on the road working hard. George is quite a character and very well spoken. I got to know him a little and eventually felt comfortable chatting casually. I asked him if he ever got tired of Bad to the Bone after all these years, and he lit up like a little kid "absolutely not! I love that song every time because the fans love it so much" It was a genuine answer from a genuine great guy. Nice to see this documentary!

My son would stop crying when, he was a baby, instantly when I cranked bad to the bone. Great taste for a 1 year old!

THE OWNER OF A WELDING BUSINESS I WORKED FOR YEARS AGO.. HIS NAME WAS STEVE.. HE ABSOLUTELY LOVED THE SONGS.. ESPECIALLY I DRINK ALONE.... STEVE PASSED AWAY.. EVERY TIME I HERE GEORGE PLAYB.. REMINDS ME OF GOOD OLE STEVE.. ROCK ON GEORGE 🤘 👌 😎 🔥 💪

Never knew he was that well-spoken, given the party-animal vibe he gives off.

I saw George and the band at a small venue in downtown Minneapolis in the early 80’s. By far the best concert I’ve ever been too, hands down.

I've loved this kind of direct, raw bluesy rock from day one, George and Alvin Lee were always playing where ever I lived. Great rock doc....much appreciated.

I saw his show in 1978 in a nightclub in St.Ann Mo. I was 18 then. The club only sat maybe 150-200 so we went and bought tickets early in the day as we knew it would sell out. At the 8pm showtime the doorman cards me and says I gotta be 21 to get in. I said " TJ said it's OK". He said"who the hells TJ" ? I slapped a a twenty dollar bill in his palm and he smoothly rolled his hand around with his finger pointing to go in. We were 3 ft from the stage. Best concert of my life.

This kind of music is the root of rock and roll, guitars Saxaphone and drums, you never get bored with it.

In the 60"s George had a garage band with my brother who later went to Vietnam ,and George went on to create the Delaware destroyers. I remember going to Pennsville, New jersey to a bar called The Crescendo Lounge and watched them play.

Been listening since I was 13. I’m Now 58. Legends, The whole band!

I absolutely LOVE "Bad To The Bone". Best Blues Riff ever!!! Iconic because it is Bad to the bone!!!

The early 80s at the Greek Amphitheater in L.A., George and the crew owned it from start to finish. Nobody was in their seat; we were on our feet the entire time. Thank you George!

As a fan, I listened to all the albums and, as a bass player, I learned all of their songs, and I still love playing along to their music. They also opened me up to the early era of bluesmen from different parts of the country. Such a great band!

These tunes never get old, George and the guys are the very definition of American Road House music!

Saw them live in 2022. A class act, and a tour de force. Outstanding!

I met George while doing a gig at 10 Beach Drive in St. Pete, back in 1982, and have never forgotten how rude I must have appeared to him because a kink in my sound system had me preoccupied. If I ever meet this fine gentleman again, I determined long ago that I would offer my humblest apology to him.

I’m 50 yrs old George and jammed to your music all my life … thank you ! ❤🍺😎

I grew up as a teenager in the 80's and loved that song. The first time I heard it, Man it was Awesome!! I watched lots of MTV, and it was on there when I saw the video, and I was hooked on that song Bit Time.

Saw George open for ZZ Top at the Madison Square Garden and he blew them away.

A friend who had seen George T &the DDs at the Palomino Club years back raved about the show and how George hopped up on the bar top killing it singing and playing guitar. I saw him a few years back at the Ventura county fair. He and his hasn’t t lost a beat. George still treats his band with huge respect on the scale of things and tears it up. A stand up dude. That’s the blues baby!

I am pretty sure George remembers playing the Chadd's Ford Tavern in the late 70's. My friends and I would go there every Thursday evening, and usually, the band was there. I must have gone and seen the band 50 times. Big time hooked. I will never forget the vibe, everyone dancing, a small rock club/bar with George playing standing on top of a table, guitar behind his head, and all the early classic songs. As a music fan I knew i was seeing something special.. Example, thanks to WMMR, I saw Springsteen before he even released his first album) (at the Main Point), another special moment. A special band is a special pub, lucky me.

My friends drove to New Orleans in 81-82 to see the stones! When they got home I asked about the concert, we’ll thorogood blew them away!! And the Neville brothers were incredible!! The stones sucked 😮

I first heard it when Christine is rolling of the assembly line….That song and many others they did are stellar, and will be go to songs for party music for ever👍

Bad To The Bone will always be a classic forever thanks fellas

George and his crew stayed for a week at a hotel where i did room service in Halifax NS in about 1982, not sure exactly. I served them breakfast and lunch for a week in their rooms. They were fun and kind the whole time. They performed their show on the last night of their stay and played for 3 1/2 hours. I was alone in his room with George when he was on the phone talking about writing writing his own songs, I came in with an order and he waved me to sit down until he was done on his call seemingly because he didn’t want to be rude.

First saw him on Rock goes to College on an old black and white television that I had got going after a neighbour gave it me not working. Must have been 78/79. Went to the record shop that Saturday and the knowledgeable owner had never heard of him, he made a phone call and told me he would have "Move it on Over" for me the following Saturday. That album opened me up to Blues and so much more, I am ever grateful.

The Theatre Royal Nottingham England was the venue many years ago,Never will I forget one of the best Live rock n roll blue shows ever.

Best blues-rock song ever recorded. Simple, powerful, rough & straight to the ear.

I remember George Thorogood opening for Johnny Winter at a concert I attended. It might have been George with a broken finger up playing guitar. One of them anyways had the finger cast on but played on through. Johnny Winter was excellent and I remember very skinny. His lead breaks went on forever and I was drooling over every note he played!

Went to George Thorogood concert in the 80s in AOTEAROA NZ...was the Best show ever🤩😍🤠👏💪🙌👍👊

Saw them at a fair in Colorado in 1986. It was an outside venue and the fans were not in the least deterred by heavy rain. I loved that line "how am I poda get the rent $ can't find no job"

I must have played the 1st GT & The Destroyers about 1000 times. It never gets old. The opening riff to Ride On Josephine still goosebumps. I'd never heard a guitar sound like that before.

As a bassist since the late 60s, I love these kinds of documentaries. The behind the scenes interviews and everyone involved really makes this worthwhile. George and his band are awesome! Bad to the Bone is my vocalist brother's (and a zillion other people) ring tone. Good stuff, thanks for the vid.

Live in Cincinnati still one off the best albums, first album i bought out of boot camp . TY George !!

I will always remember the first time I saw GT&D as they were the support band on a Rolling Stones tour and I had a ticket to see them at Roundhay Park UK in 1982. When GTD came out on stage George had a white guitar with gold fittings and wore a snakeskin patterned jacket. I thought to myself, "oh brother, here we go...flash yank".........and then he let rip into Bad To The Bone and my jaw just dropped to the floor! When I got back home I phoned around local record shops after George Thorogood albums until I eventually found a shop that had one in stock.....yes literally just one! I told them I was coming over straight away and to put it aside for me. I asked the shop owner if the band had released any other albums so he had a look through his catalogue (still pre-computer back then!) and he found about four, so I asked him to order them in for me. I've since seen George and his band three more times in UK, twice in London and once in Birmingham.

I made a tape in grade 11 recorded from the radio and had an auto reverse ghetto blaster. One Bourbon, One Scotch...played over and over as I hand wrote my homework during all nighters. That song is great live! All of them are. Great performers.

I was at the Oct 9th show at the LA Coliseum and George was on fire. Amazing times I was junior in high school and my second concert great memories ~

I bought a tenor saxophone when I was 18 because of these guys & played in bands for years - I remember the movie Christine by Stephen King & the song bad to the bone came on & it is one of those tunes where you just go "Fuck yes" & his version of no particular place to go by Chuck Berry was another gem, one of only a few artists who could do justice to a cover - the other is SRV with Hendrix's Vodoo Child & Come On

I saw George Throgood and "The Destroyers" at the Salem Oregon state fair decades ago. One of the best nights of my life. George and his band rocks.

The 80s were the best time to be alive the music movies kids today don’t know what they missed gen X

George and the band are so awesomeA fan since 1978.

I saw George perform in Big Flats N.Y. with Foghat and Molly Hatchet. What a show! Ol George still killed the show in his 70's. Great time to be alive!

seriously underrated player

Make a rich woman beg, a old woman blush, a young girl squeal. Head nurse spoke up, kings and queens step aside! I love the lyrics mote than the gift. Bad ass song, bad to the bone. Man I remember the early to mid eighties as so damn awesome. I was 17 in ‘83 and thought I was bad to the bone….lol. Now I’m 57 and sensible! Thanks GTG and The Destroyers. You along with Led Zeppelin, the doors, Molly Hatchet, Kansas, Aerosmith, Hendrix, AC/DC and so many others and the acres of weed (sinsemilla gold) I smoked will always be in my memories. I left all the drugs behind but have very few regrets. The music takes me back to people, places and I really get a warm feeling for those wonderful times. Glad to see you guys all healthy and sharing your story

Enjoyed this gem. Rock on!

I saw the Destroyers on tour at Candlestick Park in San Francisco as the opener for Stones on their Tattoo You tour in 1981. George really got the crowd fired up as the opener, with J Geils playing right behind him. I already had all his albums at that point and was thrilled to see him play live. That day was filled with badass boogie woogie, brothers and sisters. For six hours. Those were the heydays of the Bill Graham mega-shows in the Bay Area. True story: Van Halen opened for the Stones at their next gig, in Orlando. Two weeks after that, it was ZZ Top.

Got to see George in Canberra Australia in October 2022 ...... fantastic , funny and entertaining . George is the man 😉

Thank you.

I had the opportunity to see George at Trancas in Malibu, I think he was sitting in with the Payne brothers. Awesome show.. Plus at the palladium in Hollywood, the Greek always a kick ass show

Fantastic doc.. Loved every minute of it

George Througood you are so awesome

I seen George and the Destroyers in a theater In Rochester NY in the early 80s, I remember looking back at the balcony and I swear to this day it was bouncing.

Master piece....thanks for the documentary

I remember seeing them at Bourban Street North, Sainte Adele Quebec, and MAN!, were they LOUD and awesome, A real rock and roll band! Loved it

My favorite song!! Bad to the bone 🦴

I think it was back in the winter of 1978, I go over to a buddies house and he's sitting there on the couch, head back, sunglasses on, music blaring listening to something I never heard before and then and there I experienced my first taste of George Thorogood. My buddy the late Lawrence L'hirondelle had this album on called "Moving On Over" and I've been a loyal fan ever since. I've collected every album since, I've been to over 20 + concerts, one time three in one week, he still plays in my Hemi everyday, I even had tickets to two of his shows here in Alberta but Covid-19 came along and phucked that up, but he'll be here in May 2-5, 2023, we're going to be making all three concerts because we's the boogie people, thank you George my favorite bar band. 🎸🎷🎶🥁🎸🤟🤘👍👍🦴🦴

Perhaps the best music video of all time.

Thank you

Thoroughly good.

bad to the bone and terminator 2, is the best combo in all movie history !

We dig it George. We dig it.

What the ? Bo Diddley starring in the original video , and not even mentioned , in the doc?

Saw the Destroyers at the Superdome opening for the Stones in 1981. They dominated that concert. I remember it cost $18.00 to see 4 bands, how times have changed

This was a great piece on a killer song from a top tier band! Only story bit that wasn't included (maybe edited out?) was getting Bo Diddly in the video and how Bo liked the song, etc. Since Bo was one of George's hero's and BTTB song has Bo, Muddy, and JLH as progenitors, would love to know that little bit of behind the scenes as well

I loved the first 1977 LP - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer still my favourite Destroyer's number plated at volume 11!

God Bless You, George!

Excellent! 👏👏👏

Wait, Jay Leno plays piano on the side with the Stones and the Destroyers?!?!!!!???

I witnessed George and his Destroyers three times in Germany. And they would be real killers! They would rock the roof down. That's real and honest music and pure emotion. You can't stop Rock'n'Roll and you can't stop the Blues. George Thorogood is a great guitar player - no matter what some f***ing critics might say. I remember some real BAD parties with lots of beer and Thorogood records. Some people stated I once had smashed a lemon cake to the wall while dancing to "You talk too much" wearing nothing but shorts with dinosaurs on it. I have no memory. Must have been too much German beer combined with too much Destroyers' music. My favorite songs have always been "Back to Wentzville" and "B-b-b-b-ad to the Bone". Still George and the boys would did so many great songs. There's nothing greater than riding a vintage car on a sunny day playing George's unique style. Long live honest Rock'n'Roll!

If they have the tune on "Married with Children," then it must be good! 🙂Fun band to listen to!

gear jammer is an AWESOME tune

Congrats George on your huge success ,,Love your music,,, Bad to the Bone ,,Yes,,once we were,

First time I saw them they "warmed up" for the stones at red rock.... I was blown away. I think they got the billing backwards...seen them about 20 times since

Killer Music! 🔥

Love the way he plays , raw and sensual!

Dude seems so down to earth. Hard to find.

We met George once, He is a real pleasant gentleman, wonderful to chat with, and as we all know, so talented. One of the Great Legends in modern music.

I grew up with George thorogood and the Delaware destroyers. That live album is what hooked me. Friends older brother had it on in the car and I had to have it. When I was prob 12/13ish. We were at the arcade cause that’s what kids used to do to play video games at the time. And there was some older kid/20 something and he said he worked on the A-team. We said what’s that? He said concert security. So for some reason even then I asked him what’s the craziest concert that you ever had to work? And I figured AC/DC or kiss something like that. But he very quickly answered. “George thorogood” craziest S*^+ he’s ever seen he said. So I said how come and his reply was Budweiser beer and Jack Daniels. I’ll never forget that for some reason. Prob was some sort of pedophile. Anyway thought some fans would find it interesting and I’m 1st COMMENT. BOURBON SCOTCH AND A BEER!!!

I've seen them perform about 10 times (possibly more) and they always showed up and blew the roof off the joint. Some of the best concerts I've ever attended

One of the Air guitar Classics of all time. 🎸🎸🎸

Iconic!!! Nuff said!

A George Thorogood concert is Always fun!!!!

saw their first show in Los Angeles, a friend of mine was opening and the LA TImes critic Robert Hilburn was going to be there so he wanted friends in the audience... no idea who they were and was BLOWN away by the great straight Rock. Took 8 friends to see them a couple nights later at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach... gave them money back guarantees they'd love them and they did! He had a long extension cord on his guitar and would Chuck Berry duck walk out on the tables.. fricking great! He was putting life into Chuck Berry tunes like No Particular Place to Go and just killing it at a time when real music had been pushed down by disco!

J.C. Dobb’s, The Other Side, LIVE AID…shheit, I can’t remember all the clubs where we used to see/ hear The Destroyers. Freakin’ Bourbons, Scotches and Beers( which can get Rough), Thanks to them for all the Good Times!

I guess I took all the lyrics a bit too seriously. Thorogood seems like a thoroughly humble dude- a real gentleman. Makes me appreciate him and the DDs even more.🎸🎸🎸🎸

Was at the ‘81 Stones LA Coliseum gig

Excellent song

Thank you, I enjoyed this content.

The timing with the Video age was a true Perfect timing thing !I was a Bartender in the 80s and man if you guys got paid by how many times that Bad T The Bone played on Juke boxes you guys would not had been capable of counting that money , it’s still a Kick Ass tune People will continue to Dig the songs , let’s face it It’s The Blues and RRock and Roll is just that modified a littlr bit that’s never going away in Music IMO

'Bad to the Bone' was the theme song for my Company in USN bootcamp, Aug - Oct 1991. Company Commanders played it daily... when I hear those first couple of guitar licks, immediate smile comes to my face every time.

It's one of the staples of our show. Thanks George and your Destroyers for the attitude you put into Rock and Roll.

These Rockers are the ones you never want to miss seeing. Don't remember how many times I've seen them. During his younger days, George would dance like you have never seen before.

We live so far from anywhere none of us could figure out if George was black or white so my late Uncle and cousins told me when I had to go to town, 115 miles each way, to ask up there. The receptionist looked at me funny and said, "He's white." It's not a deal. Just that he's got so much soul and riffs.

George seems like a great guy! Cool content

good musik.. love it..

Best show me and wife had great time

Showing props to BO!

I remember as a kid in the 80s watching this video and trying to imitate his stutter. I sent away for the album through that penny deal you used to see in the paper along with other MTV overplayed bands such as Ratt, Twisted Sister and Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil.