Interview with George Thorogood: How "Bad to the Bone" Became a Rock Anthem
Professor of Rock · Gamut Podcast Network
August 30, 202320m 35s
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Show Notes
Coming up an interview with iconic guitar player George Thorogood who’s 1982 laid back full throttle riff of Bad to the Bone has dominated our society for decades and it wasn’t even a hit when it first came out. He wrote it when he got to open for his own rock and roll heroes the Rolling Stones… He tried to emulate Keith Richard’s typical, legendary, can’t get it out of your head riff style… and He NAILED it. Then he offered Bad to the Bone to an old rock legend, who’s management rudely and flat out rejected it. So he recorded it and swung for the fences vocally snarling one of rock’s baddest ass stutters ever with a song every guy claims as his theme and has been tens of millions of American’s phone ringtones… Let’s do this!
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