Sunday, December 4, 2016

George Thorogood & The Destroyers - The Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, OH 01-22-1979 (FM)

George Thorogood & The Destroyers
The Agora Ballroom
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
January 22, 1979
FM Broadcast Recording
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

01 Baby Please Set A Date
02 Hawaiian Boogie
03 Cocaine Blues
04 It Wasn't Me
05 Who Do You Love?
06 Madison Blues
07 No Particular Place To Go
08 Reelin' And Rockin'
09 House Of Blue Lights
10 Who Do You Love?
11 Move It On Over

tracks 01-10 recorded at The Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio, USA January 22, 1979
tracks 09-11 recorded at an unknown venue, Nashville, Tennessee, USA January 30, 1982


George Thorogood - guitar, vocals
Bill Blough - bass
Jeff Simon - drums
Hank "Hurricane" Carter - sax tracks 09-11

George says that this is the first time that he and the Destroyers worked in Cleveland. Not sure if that's true or not but I do know that this is a bad ass recording of George Thorogood & The Destroyers kicking some Rock & Roll Boogie Woogie Blues booty! George's second album Move It On Over had only been out a couple months but "Move It On Over", "Who Do You Love?", & "It Wasn't Me" were all over the FM Radio dial.


4 comments:

  1. Thanks for the classic Thorogood

    Joe

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    1. You're welcome Joe, this one really takes me back.. I had a 1972 Nova SS with an 8-track player in it and the Move It On Over tape was played a lot while cruising through the neighborhood.

      JustDave

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  2. Wow! Never knew this was out there.

    Playing the Agora after just his second album, looks like Thorogood clicked pretty quick in Cleveland.

    Anyway, thanks for sharing. Very eager to hear it.

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    1. Hope you enjoy it, I remember Move It On Over really clicked with the Michigan, Ohio area he played some nice size venues here in Detroit around that time too.

      JustDave

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