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Met dank aan de originele posters indien het niet door mij geript is...
Thanks to the original posters if not ripped by myself...

01 - George Thorogood - The Baddest Show On Earth - Who Do You Love (Live In Atlanta, Georgia 1980).flac 
02 - George Thorogood - The Baddest Show On Earth - Move It On Over (Live In Boston, Massachusetts 1982).flac 
03 - George Thorogood - The Baddest Show On Earth - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer (Live In Atlanta, Georgia 1980).flac 
04 - George Thorogood - The Baddest Show On Earth - Ride On Josephine (Live In Roslyn, New York 1978).flac 
05 - George Thorogood - The Baddest Show On Earth - Madison Blues (Live In Boston, Massachusetts 1982).flac 
06 - George Thorogood - The Baddest Show On Earth - Bad To The Bone (Live In Boston, Massachusetts 1982).flac 
07 - George Thorogood - The Baddest Show On Earth - Born To Be Bad (Live In Sarasota, Florida 2024).flac 
08 - George Thorogood - The Baddest Show On Earth - Steppin' Out (Live In Midland, Texas 2022).flac 
09 - George Thorogood - The Baddest Show On Earth - Howlin' For My Baby (Live In Hyannis, Massachusetts 2023).flac 
10 - George Thorogood - The Baddest Show On Earth - Tail Dragger (Live In Kansas City, Missouri 2020).flac 
11 - George Thorogood - The Baddest Show On Earth - Boogie Chillun (Live In Toronto, Canada 1978).flac 


Exystence Review ---------------
George Thorogood – The Baddest Show On Earth: Greatest Hits Live (2026)
Filed Under: blues, live, rock by exy — 1 Comment
June 12, 2026

Looking for a relaxing evening after a rough day? Turn the lights down, sit back in your favorite cushy chair and let the calming, soothing sounds of George Thorogood and his Destroyers,
recorded in concert, waft over you for an hour’s worth of introspective, peaceful, tension-releasing music.
OK… just kidding…. you’ve no doubt guessed, that’s not what we have here.
As the title The Baddest Show on Earth: Greatest Hits Live implies, this eleven song traipse through some of Thorogood’s roughest, toughest, sweatiest,
most heart-palpitating music, recorded live at various venues from 1978 until 2024, is not for those looking to achieve a Zen meditative moment.
The pounding beat of the opening cover of Bo Diddley’s “Who Do You Love,” with Thorogood firing up the frets for five minutes of adrenaline-infused blues rocking,
is just a taste of what’s to come for the next hour.

Most of his hits are accounted for, all captured in their natural habitat, on stage in front of what are surely well lubricated audiences out for a dose of what
Thorogood has always delivered;gutsy meat and potatoes roots rocking with grinding guitar and searing sax (in most songs), surging from one highlight to the next.
Not surprisingly, almost every selection is longer, hotter and more propulsive than its studio version.

An explosive 1980 vintage run-through of John Lee Hooker’s “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” bulges to nearly 11 brain-frying minutes with plenty of ad-libbed,
crowd inciting lyrics about downing the titular alcoholic beverages, adding to the already amped-up excitement and boogie-happy guitar soloing.
It’s only slightly outdone by nearly a quarter hour dedicated to Hooker’s “Boogie Chillun’” with more of the same as Thorogood exclaims “Let’s rock this mother”
while the band chugs behind him like an out-of-control locomotive.

Sax and guitar create a thumping racket on Elmore James’ “Madison Blues” (“rock away your shoes”) making James original seem like a warm-up
as the horn tears into a solo that must have scorched the Boston venue’s ceiling tiles.
Howlin’ Wolf gets covered on a fire-breathing, stop-start, “Tail Dragger” that builds intensity as its clockwork guitar strumming pushes forward.
Wolf’s “Howlin’ for My Baby,” dedicated to “all the women in the house,” churns along with hot pepper concentration.
Diddley’s “Ride On Josephine” encourages Thorogood to growl out the words with a ferocity matching his raw guitar tone.
By the time we get to Memphis Slim’s “Steppin’ Out,” probably best known from Cream’s live performance (which ran over 13 minutes),
Thorogood has the good sense to rein it in under 2 ½ minutes, the shortest selection by a wide margin.

Otherwise there is no break to the near relentless energy spewing like sparks from an electric short as Thorogood does what he does best;
drive each tune to its breaking point, and beyond, egged on by a love of playing and audiences expecting nothing less.

Longtime Thorogood fans realize he has no shortage of existing live recorded documents from his extensive, road-fueled, 50-year career.
And most of these songs are on them, some multiple times.

Since his relentless style has been impervious to change, they all get the job done.
Still, eight of these tracks are previously unreleased, well-recorded performances that cover a sprawling timeline of his half-century burning up stages.
They make a convincing argument for the showman’s people-pleasing talents few others can pull off quite as convincingly.
— rockandbluesmuse.com