See legendary performers July 31

Join Blues-rock performer George Thorogood and The Destroyers along with multiple Grammy Award-winning special guest Buddy Guy for one rockin’ good time in the Grande Exposition Hall at Silver Legacy Resort Casino on July 31 at 8 p.m.

Tickets
$75, $65 and $55
Available online at www.silverlegacy.com and ticketmaster.com

1-800-MUST-SEE
(775) 325-7401

Box Office located on the main casino floor.

'Bad to the Bone'
In the 1980s and '90s, Thorogood recorded some of his most well-known works and with his band The Destroyers, have held this gig for more than 30 years. They came out of Delaware in the '70s as a jarringly high-energy bunch (also featuring drummer Jeff Simon and bassist Billy Blough) whose raucous, slide guitar-stoked, blues-rock takes on tunes by Chuck Berry, Elmore James, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley and others helped land them a contract with Cambridge’s Rounder Records.

'Move it on over' to Boston
They had moved to Boston and cut their teeth in the city’s blues circuit before their second album for Rounder, Move It On Over, struck big with the title track, an amped-up cover of a Hank Williams tune.

Big break
They added a saxophonist (Hank Carter) and further fame came in the '80s through a signing to EMI Records, which released a series of gold records by the band including 1982's Bad to the Bone (the title track is Thorogood’s best-known composition and its video became a staple on MTV) and 1988s Born To Be Bad, with the swaggering hit You Talk Too Much. The '90s saw more hit making with 1993s Get A Haircut, from the album Haircut.

More albums followed into the new millennium with 2003's Ride ‘Til I Die and a 2004 compilation, Greatest Hits: 30 Years of Rock, which went gold and topped Billboard’s blues chart for 60 weeks, while winning the magazine’s award for Blues Record of the Year.

Latest album
Their newest album Hard Stuff is a keep-the-faith effort with covers of tracks by John Lee Hooker (“Huckle Up,” with its “Boogie Chillun” flavor), Jimmy Reed (“Little Rain Falling”) and Fats Domino (“Hello Josephine,” dedicated to “the undying spirit of the people of New Orleans.”)

Thorogood did more of his own writing this time, hooking up with Nashville roots stalwart Tom Hambridge for the whomping title track, plus the gritty travelogue Anytown USA with references to the rock meccas of Cleveland, Detroit and Boston.

Legendary Blues Man
Buddy Guy, a five time Grammy Award-winning blues and rock guitarist and singer is known as an inspiration to Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and other 1960s blues and rock legends.

Guy’s career began in the late 1950s but didn’t fully take off until the blues revival period of the late 1980s and early 1990s and was sparked by Clapton’s request that Guy be part of the 24 Nights all-star blues guitar lineup at London’s Royal Albert Hall and Guy’s subsequent signing with Silvertone Records.

Style
While Guy’s music is often labeled as Chicago blues, his style is unique and separate. His music can vary from the most traditional, deepest blues to a creative, unpredictable and radical gumbo of the blues, avant rock, soul and free jazz that morphs at each night’s performance.

For almost 50 years Guy performed flamboyant live concerts of energetic blues and blues rock and has been called the bridge between the blues and rock 'n' roll. His path-finding guitar techniques also contributed greatly to rock and roll music. Guy’s guitar playing was loud and aggressive; used pioneering distortion and feedback techniques; employed longer solos; had shifts of volume and texture; and was driven by emotion and impulse.

Hall of Fame
Guy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005 and has also earned 23 W.C. Handy Awards (more than any artist in history) and received Billboard magazine’s The Century Award for “distinguished artistic achievement,” the title of Greatest Living Electric Blues Guitarist and the National Medal of Arts, which is awarded by the President to those who have made extraordinary contributions to the creation, growth and support in the arts in the United States.