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Topic: Buddy Guy / George Thorogood

Had a fun time last night seeing Buddy Guy and George Thorogood at Pier Six in Baltimore. Buddy played first for about 1 hr 20 min. and George played after for about 1 hr 10 min. So kind of equal billing.  Buddy Guy is so amazing. The man is 77 years old and is still wailing on the guitar and having a great time working the crowd. He is so much fun to see. On one song he walked halfway across the amphitheater playing guitar and singing. He also told a story about how 57 years ago he was coming back from Chicago and his car broke down. He went into a Juke joint and told the man he needed a dime to call home and would play him some songs for the money. The man asked if he was famous, and he said not yet, but I can play songs on the guitar. So the man kept picking different songs out of the jukebox, like Cream, Marvin Gaye and others and Buddy played bits of all of them. So the man ended up buying him a drink and he said all he really wanted was a dime and a hamburger, he didn't need a drink. He played different excerpts of these songs as he was telling the story. We bought the new cd he has out. It features a number of different artists on it, one of course being Beth Hart. He played "Meet Me In Chicago" which is a song off the new cd.
The crowd was incredibly loud and talkative and Buddy tried to shush them on a number of occasions. And people were constantly walking back and forth to the bar and bathrooms. I couldn't see at all in my seats, so I eventually moved to just outside the amphitheater and stood at a spot on the fence. Phil moved to the back where there were less people talking. My spot was good until George Thorogood started up and then the drunks increased. What a shock, drunk people at a Thorogood concert.  They kept dancing back and forth in front of me. A guy next to me tried to move them out of my camera's site lines. Eventually they became enough of a disturbance that they were removed by the security guards.
George Thorgood was George Thorogood. You know what you are going to get. 50% of the songs were about drinking and the other 50% sounded like those drinking songs. Just my opinion, but it was entertaining.

"Meet Me In Chicago" http://youtu.be/3_GRN35tFtw
Buddy being the showman playing an excerpt of "Sunshine of Your Love" in all kinds of crazy ways http://youtu.be/xH-OwTkCUJs

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Re: Buddy Guy / George Thorogood

Too bad about the drunks. Yes, Buddy is fab, and George has seen better days. We gotta get you some stilts. lol
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Re: Buddy Guy / George Thorogood

Ha ha Natasha...this is why I preferred Chick Corea this past Friday at Bethesda Jazz and Blues Club.....hopefully you enjoyed enough of the concert though, without them drunks  smile

Anyone on for Grace Potter tomorrow (Wolf Trap) or two days later at Hot August Blues? Me doing sit down show at Wolf Trap. Hopefully there be no mo drunks.......

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Re: Buddy Guy / George Thorogood

Nothing like Jazz clubs where people are much more behaved. Can't wait to see Beth Hart and The Rides at the Iridium. Well, at least these were happy dancing drunks and not mean ones. They were driving the security guy crazy. They just would not stay on their side of the line. Here is "Hoochie Coochie Man". Buddy stops playing in the middle and is talking to the crowd without the microphone so not sure what he was saying. There was a great back and forth with his other guitarist starting at 10:18.

http://youtu.be/bf25PP2yA8Q

  • From: Hartford, CT
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Re: Buddy Guy / George Thorogood

I saw Buddy and George this past saturday at Foxwoods in CT, it was a great show too. Im always amazed at his energy. Ive seen Buddy several times and he never disappoints, Got to meet him one time out in chicago, he was a great person too. He didnt mind talking to me at all and encouraged me to keep up my playing the blues cause we need more young guys playin the blues, he said.
I thought Buddy blew George and the Destroyers out of the water, but they were good too.

Buddy also had Quinn Sullivan sit in with him and he was great, 14 year old kid and he rips, and his voice is starting to get real good too. Also doesn't hurt to have the best of the best mentoring you.

Great show

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  • From: Greater Chicagoland
  • Registered: 2012-04-21
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Re: Buddy Guy / George Thorogood

I see Buddy nearly every chance I get.  (Though I missed him last Saturday at Ravinia.)  Definitely agree that Rhythm & Blues shows that Buddy still has the fire.  Seeing him live is a transcendent experience.  (I was there for his latest January run of shows at Legends.)

I find this NPR review to be a very accurate assessment.

http://www.npr.org/2013/08/06/209532370 … tar-wisdom

EDIT:  That's a phenomenal keyboard player you saw him with, too.  (Marty Sammon)

Play like you've worked at it, and don't worry about sounding like your influences.  You can't cheat on them, or your practice, anyway.  If you've worked hard at your skill, your audience will know it.