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George Thorogood (Gently) Destroys the Grammy Museum: We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again — these Grammy Museum events are superb. The Q&A’s are always informative, the moderators informed and well-prepared, and when there is a short performance afterwards, they’re always a blast.

George Thorogood & the Destroyers were there on Thursday, and it was a predictably entertaining evening. Thorogood himself is an animated talker — a compelling and likable storyteller who takes every opportunity to involve the invested crowd in every twist and turn of his bio snippets.

He wasn’t the only one there; the stage was packed with Destroyers. They didn’t get much of a word in, such is Thorogood’s “Chatty Kathy” personality. But they were on hand to add color when necessary, and it was good to see them in this environment.

So we heard Thorogood talk about the band’s early days, and the fact that to this day he hates the photos on the debut album sleeve. He talked about discovering the blues and country, and the fact that he believes Robert Johnson and Hank Williams to be music’s greatest geniuses. And he talked about the fact that he always wanted to cover blues songs that nobody else (such as the Stones or Savoy Brown) was covering.

Thorogood took questions from the adoring audience, and then it was time for the short set. It started with George playing a couple of blues tunes solo, including John Lee Hooker’s “New Boogie Chillin’,” and then the band joined him (fully plugged in) for renditions of “Ride On Josephine” and of course “Bad to the Bone.”

Much like when we saw Sammy Hagar here, or Lana Del Rey, the gift at these shows is seeing a premier league artist on the most intimate of surroundings.

George Thorogood (Gently) Destroys the Grammy Museum: For more info, visit grammymuseum.org.

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