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George Thorogood – 1984.07.05 – Capitol Theater, NJ [SBD]

George Thorogood  is an American musician, singer and songwriter from Wilmington, Delaware.  His “high-energy boogie-blues” sound became a staple of 1980s rock radio, with hits like his original songs “Bad to the Bone” and “I Drink Alone“. He has also helped popularize older songs by American icons, such as “Move It on Over,” “Who Do You Love?” and “House Rent Boogie/One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer“, which became staples of classic rock radio.  Thorogood began his career in the early 1970s as a solo acoustic performer in the style of Robert Johnson and Elmore James after being inspired by a John P. Hammond concert. However, he soon formed a band, the Delaware Destroyers, with a high school friend, drummer Jeff Simon. With additional players they developed their own sound, a mixture of Chicago blues and rock and roll. Their first shows were in the Rathskeller at the University of Delaware and at the Deer Park Tavern. Eventually, they shortened the band’s name to The Destroyers.  George Thorogood‘s demo, Better Than the Rest, was recorded in 1974, but was not released until 1979. His major recording debut came in 1976 with the album George Thorogood & The Destroyers, which was released in 1977. In 1978, Thorogood released his next album with the Destroyers titled Move It on Over, which included a remake of Hank Williams‘ ” Move It on Over“. “Please Set a Date” and their reworking of the Bo Diddley song “Who Do You Love?” both followed in 1979.

 Frank Marino – 1998.01.07 – Confederation Pk., Ottowa, Canada [SBD]

Frank Marino  is an Italian Canadian guitarist, leader of Canadian hard rock band Mahogany Rush. Often compared to Jimi Hendrix, he is acknowledged as one of the best and most underrated guitarists of the 1970s.  Mahogany Rush was moderately popular in the 1970s. Their records charted in Billboard, and they toured extensively, playing such venues as California Jam II (1978). Toward the end of the 1970s, the band began to be billed as “Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush.” Not much later, Mahogany Rush split up and in the early 1980s Marino released two solo albums on CBS. The band reformed and continued to perform throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In 1993, Marino retired from the music industry.  Marino returned in 2001, recording and touring under his own name.  Marino is a devoted Gibson SG player and uses them with the original PAF pickups and two with DiMarzio humbuckers.  He also has an SG with single-coil DiMarzio pickups.

 Cheap Trick – 1981.08.05 – Chicagofest, Chicago, IL [SBD]

Cheap Trick is an American rock band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 1973.  They have often been referred to in the Japanese press as the “American Beatles“.  In October 2007, the Illinois Senate passed a resolution designating April 1 as Cheap Trick Day in the state.  In 1961, Nielsen began playing locally in Rockford, Illinois using an ever-increasing collection of rare and valuable guitars. He formed several local bands with names like The Boyz and The Grim Reapers. Brad Carlson, later known as Bun E. Carlos, played in a rival Rockford band, The Pagans. Finally, Nielsen formed Fuse in 1967 with Tom Peterson, later known as Tom Petersson, who had played in yet another local band called The Bo Weevils.  Randy “Xeno” Hogan was the original lead singer for Cheap Trick. He left the band shortly after its formation and was replaced by Robin Zander.    he name was inspired by the band’s attendance of a Slade concert, where Petersson commented that the band used “every cheap trick in the book” as part of their act.  None of Cheap Trick‘s first three albums made it into the Top 40 in the United States.  In Japan, however, all three albums became gold records. When Cheap Trick went to Japan to tour the country for the first time in April 1978, they were received with a frenzy reminiscent of Beatlemania.  During this tour, Cheap Trick recorded two concerts attended by their loyal Japanese fans at the Nippon Budokan. Ten tracks taken from both shows were compiled and released as a live album titled Cheap Trick at Budokan, which was intended to be exclusive to Japan.   Demand for the import album became so great that Epic Records finally released the album in the United States in February 1979.  This concert soundboard bootleg is on the heels of that success, and catches them back where their roots are.