A heady, haunting bass line, a riff that tears the silence up and seek for desperate words, as black as the soul of the one who is bad to the bone but who might, some day, find redemption with love, a few simple notes - they're always the best! - which immediately propel us to this beautiful year of 1982 with “Bad to the Bone”, unstoppable blues rock with rough edges, and George Thorogood, its creator, to Music Pantheon. Since then, in the company of the members of his band, The Destroyers, native like him from sweet Delaware state, he has never stopped holding the banner of a music which does not seek extreme complexity but speaks directly to the guts, makes our sensitive strings vibrate with raw sounds and takes one, two or three chords and stretch them to our senses intoxication point. No wonder, then, that this ultra catchy rhythm track, as well as others from the sixteen studio albums of that little band, have become over time an hymn for bikers and other truckers around the world, symbol of a music that smells like hot asphalt, overheated rubber and the incredible feeling of freedom that comes with long-distance riding.
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