George Thorogood & The Destroyers

Date
Mar 05, 2025
Event Starts
7:30pm
Doors Open
6:30pm
Availability
Past Event
Location
Blue Gate PAC
760 S Van Buren St
Shipshewana, IN 46565
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(If you are paying with a gift card, you must call to purchase tickets 260.768.4725)

Mar 05, 2025 Wednesday @ 7:30pm

Past Event

Event Details

VIP1: Side Stage + Premium Ticket + Exclusive & Autographed VIP Merchandise - $300.95

One (1) Premium Reserved Seat*
Access To Watch The First 3 Songs Of The Set Sidestage**
One (1), VIP Only, Tour Poster Autographed By George Thorogood***
One (1), VIP Only, Merchandise Gift***
One (1) Commemorative VIP Laminate & Lanyard****
Priority Entry Into Into The Venue
Priority Access To Official Tour Merchandise Shopping
Extremely Limited Availability

VIP2: Premium Ticket + Exclusive & Autographed VIP Merchandise - $180.95-200.95

One (1) Premium Reserved Seat*
One (1), VIP Only, Tour Poster Autographed By George Thorogood***
One (1), VIP Only, Merchandise Gift***
One (1) Commemorative VIP Laminate & Lanyard****
Priority Entry Into Into The Venue
Priority Access To Official Tour Merchandise Shopping
Extremely Limited Availability

VIP3: Premium Ticket + Exclusive VIP Merchandise - $145.95-165.95

One (1) Premium Reserved Seat*
One (1), VIP Only, Tour Poster
One (1), VIP Only, Merchandise Gift***
One (1) Commemorative VIP Laminate & Lanyard****
Priority Entry Into Into The Venue
Priority Access To Official Tour Merchandise Shopping
Extremely Limited Availability

*ticket location provided at the time of purchase **side stage fans will meet at a specific location in the venue before being taken on stage **there will not be a specific area held for VIPs in general admission venues if you decide to go sidestage ***poster + merchandise gift will be shipped directly to purchasers after the show ****laminate & lanyard provided on site at VIP check-in the night of the show

On the evening of December 1st, 1973 at The University of Delaware's Lane Hall, a guitarist, a drummer, and their rhythm guitarist set up on the small bandstand. Though the three-piece band had barely rehearsed, guitarist George Thorogood and drummer Jeff Simon had been bashing out covers of songs they loved - including 'No Particular Place To Go', 'Madison Blues' and 'One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer' - in suburban Wilmington basements since they were teens. The Lane Hall audience was wary at first. "Then it was like somebody flipped a switch," Simon recalls. "Everybody hit the dance floor all at once."

"We had the place rockin'," Thorogood says. "From that very first show, Jeff and I knew we were onto something." Five decades, 15 million albums and more than 8,000 performances later, few bands can still rock the house like George Thorogood & Destroyers. And for Thorogood, Simon, and long-time Destroyers Bill Blough, Jim Suhler and Buddy Leach, their Bad All Over The World - 50 Years of Rock Tour will be a celebration like no other.

But when asked to pick a career highlight, maybe one night over the past half century that changed everything for George Thorogood & The Destroyers, he shakes his head, flashes a huge grin and heads off to soundcheck. "My highlight is when I step on that bandstand," Thorogood says. "The promoters invited us, the fans came to hear us, and we're ready to rock. Every night I play for people can be the biggest night of my life."

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