I saw George in a tiny bar, the Little Bear in Evergreen, this same year. He had apparently just discovered the joy of cordless guitar...after duckwalking across the top of the bar and back a few times, he began hopping from table-top (good, sturdy cable spool tables). He just totally destroyed the joint and everyone in it. One of the peak rock & roll experiences of my life. Rock on George and you bad-ass DDs!

I had his first album, George Thorogood and the Destroyers on 8 track in my AMC Gremlin 😅 then the first live album...I seen him in Glasgow a few years back but I think I prefer his music pre saxaphone, it's just what I grew up listening to.🎉

George Thorogood-Brian Setzer & Jimmie Vaughan ruined me for life made me pick up a Guitar and in almost 35 years I have never looked back!!

I've said it before & I'll gladly say it again. I have NEVER heard a bad song from George. All the way from little old Cymru/Wales!

I'm 36 years old , my mom got me into george and the destroyers when I was a kid had all the cds growing up never heard these live radio broadcasts till now having multiple eargasms!!!

Be it Blues,Country,Rock or Rocky-Blues George can do it all. And do it Best.

As George once said, "What you lack in talent you better make up in showmanship."

Nobody kept the blues flame alive more during this time (late 70's) than George. He doesn't get the credit he deserves. Always paid tribute to the blues heroes before it became fashionable. Yeah... the show cooks also. Never had a bad show.

I have to agree hole heartily will Stormbringer Coming's post from a year ago that Thorogood came along when Rock N Roll was going thru one of it's many changes with the pure rawness of Punk and the catchy dance beats of Disco. Thorogood's love and respect of the Blues heroes is unmatched. Who and the hell opens their show with 3 Elmore James songs in a row, no one! then a big bad Bo Diddley favorite, Cocaine Blues by T.J. "Red" Arnall & Johnny Cash, the great John Lee Hooker song One Bourbon....a rockin' version of Brownie McGhee's So Much Trouble and then ends the show with 3 songs from the master, Chuck Berry. George also throws in another Elmore James favorite Madison Blues. It's Approaching 40 years of Thorogood rockin' out the music he loves........the BLUES!

This George rocks thoroughly goodly. Ok, greatly🎙️

I love Goodbye Bye Baby, as well as all of them. I would have loved to have been there.

Killer set..straight getting it and tight as can be

Man aint never heard George like this,Shucks raw and wicked

Saw this show in Tucson Arizona at a small bar called choo choos in 1978. He absolutely killed it. Amazing showmanship. And yes, no sax thank god.

Saw him a couple of times at Keystone Palo Alto…. Definitely a fun time! 😊☮️

Just saw George in concert in Primm NV...great concert!...he is "Bad to the Bone"

by far the best recording out there of Thorogood. awesome.

Hard to believe its been almost 40 years. Georgie still rocks!!!!

Excellent, love it!!!! You're right about the SAX.

I was on stage at this show..playing maracas..what a fun show. Joel Selvin..set this up ..

I was at this show cost 5 bucks!!!!!!!

Amazing Quality! Ride on George! Thanks for Sharing!

Thanks for sharing..I had the Boot from KSAN 1977 show for years and years..i never knew here was a 1978 show! GREAT!!! ROCKIN!!

I recall reading about this gig in the Pink Section. Those of us from the Bay Area know of what that was. This is one of the new groups that were being raved about. George wasn't punk or new wave but was, along with groups associated with that, like Graham Parker & The Rumour and Mink DeVille, a band bringing back hot live music to the club level, taking old styles and revving them up. I recall reading about a SF gig that got shut down because he was too loud. 1978 is one of my favorite music years.

Just saw him a couple nights ago in Atlanta…..still got it

Thank You for sharing this. I have two recordings of George live on cassette. I really like his playing and his band mates thru the years have been good also. Have a good day!!

I enjoyed the first time I heard George Thorogood i saw everything but the bottom of the sea !! I just love everything i saw all my life..

This cool. I listen to this as part of my daily entertainment when I'm out in my shop working, (no, playing) with my 1940 Buick. Thanks for sharing.

Yeah, thats Rock and roll ❤

Awesome. The BEST .

Saw George around this time at Keystone Palo Alto blew me away and thankfully...before sax.....

Nice, like the first album, great sound , great public.Braiment très bien , je le garde précieusement (I will keep it with care , thanks) de France Merci;

Chicken George was hatched from an egg, love that guitar work, whole band was awesome, same goes for the late Great SRV...

George was a force of nature. Most of the tunes were not original but he played in a very original style - unmistakably his own. And if you ever saw him perform back in the day, you would have seen one of the greatest performers out there. He knew how to put on a rock show among rock shows. I never heard this great recording before - thanks for posting! It's up there with the April 8, 1978 performance at the Bijou Caf'e in Philly - and a largely different set list.

Thanks for sharing

This so gooooood!

Early George Thorogood !! Cool Sound ! Thanks for sharing !

In fact, this show clearly demonstrates why the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is a sham. The Destroyers kept the flame of Rock & Roll burning during the so-called disco inferno.

This is great, but I love the sax to.

Somewhere in Germany back in 1979. I was 19 and listening to the radio. Medium Wave. With a bit of luck one could listen to dutch Radio Stations playing my favorite music all through the night. WTF is this? I hardly speak and understand french! But wait, what is this? Bad to the bone, George Thorogood. Never heard about! The rest is history!

Digging George pre-sax

The BEST.

Very Nice!!!

He hits that Gibson like it owes him money ..

My doctor prescribed a George Thoroughgood concert for my resteless legs condition.

This sounds great. I've got the November show (which we recorded off the air back then...). I didn't know that he did a second broadcast the next year.

Que tipo Grosso!!!!

BBBBBBBBBADTO THEBONE

Lets give george a chance

Guitars are a goddamn thing of beauty

great audio quality, rare for early GT finds....

Nothing like bad ass Rock N Roll but I love the Blues to. There best in small clubs Live N Loud close up. I like playing my few thousand vinyl records to Rock my house and it has to be loud our not at all.

As known 2 oldsters...thouraly good..

Que coisa gostosa de ouvir. Temos que viver do passado mesmo, embora na minha opinião musica boa não tem idadenão é mesmo?

Someone speaking names and character descriptions in Gossip mode has a lot of literature to do.

he Played Boarding House on 11-23-77 and 5-23-78 but this is the 5-23-78 Show

its 5/23/78 looked it up

at the 25:30 mark, the classic " Cocaine Blues "

As one who came of age in the 80s, people often ask me why I hate "popular" 80s music (MTV fodder). I tell them it's because was listening to real music then, like Lonesome George here and SRV.

This is a excellent live recording, setlist is perfect, is this product official or a bootleg, I heard the product of this being is on sale online, I think George Thorogood should reissue this as a official cause I don’t like buying bootlegs cause they are not official product that’s owned by the band

:D

is it in 77 or 78

GOAT