George Thorogood--"Delaware Destroyer"
I've never been to Delaware, but I always associate that state with one of my favorite blues/rock performers, George Thorogood and his band, the Delaware Destroyers. He's got "snake skin shoes, baby, put them on your feet, got the goodtime music and the Bo Diddley beat". In fact, I even bought the t-shirt. One of my favorites--the word "Destroyer" like a baseball team logo in red, across a black background. They included the outline of the state of Delaware, too; but it lacks the graphic "umphf" of a state like, say, Texas. They could've left that lame map off.
But George, well, I don't usually think of the New England states as a hotbed of rowdies, but he could be persuading me differently. The state motto--"Live free or die" (oh, that's New Hampshire?, oops--okay). Delaware's is "Liberty and Independence". Well, that works too--not quite as heartfelt, but still worthy.
Ol' George sticks to the 1-4-5 Blues, simple songs that I can play, too! And some of the lyrics are quotable lines from my own life, particularly now that I'm a nautical slumlord: "changed the locks on my front door, and now my key, it won't fit no more..."
Or, from "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer":
"She said that don't concern me,
long as I get my money next Friday.
Now next Friday come. I didn't get the rent,
and out the door I went..."
George Thorogood--"Delaware Destroyer"
I've never been to Delaware, but I always associate that state with one of my favorite blues/rock performers, George Thorogood and his band, the Delaware Destroyers. He's got "snake skin shoes, baby, put them on your feet, got the goodtime music and the Bo Diddley beat". In fact, I even bought the t-shirt. One of my favorites--the word "Destroyer" like a baseball team logo in red, across a black background. They included the outline of the state of Delaware, too; but it lacks the graphic "umphf" of a state like, say, Texas. They could've left that lame map off.
But George, well, I don't usually think of the New England states as a hotbed of rowdies, but he could be persuading me differently. The state motto--"Live free or die" (oh, that's New Hampshire?, oops--okay). Delaware's is "Liberty and Independence". Well, that works too--not quite as heartfelt, but still worthy.
Ol' George sticks to the 1-4-5 Blues, simple songs that I can play, too! And some of the lyrics are quotable lines from my own life, particularly now that I'm a nautical slumlord: "changed the locks on my front door, and now my key, it won't fit no more..."
Or, from "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer":
"She said that don't concern me,
long as I get my money next Friday.
Now next Friday come. I didn't get the rent,
and out the door I went..."