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I figured if you want to get to where John Hammond is or Billy Gibbons is or Peter Wolf is, you have to start listening to the same stuff they did, and learn from that, and that's what I did.
George Thorogood
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George Thorogood
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: February 24
Baseball Player
Guitarist
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Wilmington
Delaware
George Lawrence Thorogood
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Pain I keep to myself my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.
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All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.
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I hate categories. Hank Williams is a great artist, period. Bob Dylan is a great artist, so is Marty Robbins. They just classify these people and put them in categories so they can sell the thing easier.
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I love Hank Williams. Who doesn't love Hank Williams? So my choices are not that surprising.
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When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that.
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My father had a couple of Mitch Miller records and a Spike Jones record, and that was it. My older brother had two or three Elvis Presley singles, and that was about it. The rest of it I did on my own.
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I drink alone. Yeah, with nobody else. You know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.
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The [2012 covers album] 2120 [South Michigan Ave.] was different. We covered a lot of classics there. But most of the time when we did it I always prided myself on digging up obscure songs that no one knew of.
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Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started.
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You know when your mouth a-getting dry You're plenty high.
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Most of the time when we do a tune, Bad Blake, it's a tune no one's heard of to begin with.
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I didn't live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles.
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I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan.
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