Concert Review - Elvin Bishop, Buddy Guy and George Thorogood

I made another road trip to Tucson last week to hook up with Norene, Rick and Loreen for a concert at one of the casinos down there. (Digression - the have a casino name "Casino del Sol" and another named "Casino of the Sun". I wonder how many bilingual types end up at the wrong one?)

This was another show in my ongoing series of "seeing people before they die" concerts. I saw Thorogood way back in the early 80s but I've never seen Bishop or Guy. The latter are getting up in years so it was a no brainer to catch the show.

I am so glad I went - it was entirely fantastic!

Bishop opened and was highly entertaining. Although he only performed a couple of songs, he was funny and clearly having a good time. I love that in an artist. Nothing annoys me more at a show than the performer acting like he or she is bored to be there.

Next up was Buddy Guy and I would have very happily let him play the entire night. Talk about high energy and having fun! I think if they hadn't been giving him the cut sign, he would have played for hours. It was awesome! I love the Blues and he gave them to us, big time. (Can you tell I really, really liked him?)

Thorogood closed the evening out. He was pretty much what I expected - high energy and rocking. He strutted around the stage, kept us engaged and actually was ,surprisingly, a little needy on the audience affection. But, his stuff was top notch.

Great show with great friends - couldn't have been more fun!

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