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George Thorogood & the Destroyers — Who Do You Love? (Rothrock Remix)
Album: Who Do You Love?
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7.1

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Total ratings: 687









Released: 2004
Length: 3:32
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I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie
A brand new house on the road side, and it's a-made out of rattlesnake hide
Got a brand new chimney put on top, and it's a-made outta human skull
Come on take a little walk with me baby, and tell me who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?

Around the town I use a rattlesnake whip, take it easy baby don't you give me no lip
Who do you love?
Who do you love?

I've got a tombstone hand and a graveyard mind, I'm just twenty-two and I don't mind dying
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?

Now Arlene took a-me by my hand, she said "Lonesome George you don't understand,
who do you love?"
The night were dark and the sky were blue, down the alleyway a house wagon flew
Hit a bump and somebody screamed, you should've heard what I'd seen
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?

Yeah, I've got a tombstone hand in a graveyard mine, just twenty-two baby I don't mind dying
Snake skin shoes baby put them on your feet, got the goodtime music and the Bo Diddley beat
Who do you love?
Who do you love?

I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie
A brand new house on the road side, and it's made out of rattlesnake hide
Got a band new chimney put on top, and it's made out of human skull
Come on take a little walk with me child, tell me who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
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 bam23 wrote:

This is the first time I have heard this on RP and with any luck it will be the last. This dude is does not deserve to be heard here. Can anyone state that this is any way either an improvement or even a meagre simulacrum of anything that is good? I think not.



Yes! I can! I'm enjoying the hard-driving extra drumbeats, does a great job of enhancing the song without overpowering the original performance. 

Also, the average rating from 680-some-odd people is 7.1, so apparently lots of other people can state that as well.
Posted 2 years ago by acolt    [ Reply ]
why this when ya got Bo Diddley?
Posted 2 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
This is the first time I have heard this on RP and with any luck it will be the last. This dude is does not deserve to be heard here. Can anyone state that this is any way either an improvement or even a meagre simulacrum of anything that is good? I think not.
Posted 2 years ago by bam23    [ Reply ]
 EchoTony wrote:

I like the original version better. Doesn't need the extra beats. It's the simplicity of this type of music that makes it good. And what happend to the "Delaware" Destroyers.. Must have moved or something.




Original was better! ...lousy remix!
Posted 3 years ago by eileenomurphy    [ Reply ]
 EchoTony wrote:

I like the original version better. Doesn't need the extra beats. It's the simplicity of this type of music that makes it good. And what happend to the "Delaware" Destroyers.. Must have moved or something.




I AGREE! ...TOTALLY!
Posted 3 years ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
 ChrisInCT wrote:
EchoTony wrote:
I like the original version better. Doesn't need the extra beats. It's the simplicity of this type of music that makes it good. And what happend to the "Delaware" Destroyers.. Must have moved or something.
They sucked so bad that they had to move to Maryland
 
Maybe they were embarrassed. 
Posted 3 years ago by andre4    [ Reply ]
 pinto wrote:

Hey, while we're at it, the Doors' version on Absolutely Live is pretty good too.
 

So is Elise LeGrows' .  Want to hearit without the Bo Diddley Dudley? Try hers.
Posted 4 years ago by KaiT    [ Reply ]
 garyalex wrote:
Bo Diddley Bo Diddley have you heard?
 
Need the Jesus & Mary Chain version!
Posted 4 years ago by SmackDaddy    [ Reply ]
Bo Diddley Bo Diddley have you heard?
Posted 4 years ago by garyalex    [ Reply ]
Seen GT 5 times and the best was the 1st at the Prom Ballroom in St. Paul when he was still building his base. He, Billy B., Jeff Simon and the "new guy" Hurricane Hank rocked the place as the crowd got rowdier and rowdier. After that he still kicked, but still say that performance was the best of the 5.  
Posted 4 years ago by jimlandwehr2582    [ Reply ]
 folkes.tom wrote:
shultzt wrote:
Bo Diddley and Tom Pettys live version of this song is amazing.
 
So is the Quick Silver Messenger Service version.  Although it is very different!! 
 
Hey, while we're at it, the Doors' version on Absolutely Live is pretty good too.
Posted 4 years ago by pinto    [ Reply ]
Need the original!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted 4 years ago by 3Chords    [ Reply ]
The Jesus and Mary Chain's version is a fuzzfest masterpiece of this song.
Posted 4 years ago by SmackDaddy    [ Reply ]
 shultzt wrote:
Bo Diddley and Tom Pettys live version of this song is amazing.
 
So is the Quick Silver Messenger Service version.  Although it is very different!! 
Posted 4 years ago by folkes.tom    [ Reply ]
Bo Diddley and Tom Pettys live version of this song is amazing.
Posted 5 years ago by shultzt    [ Reply ]
Saw him open air 20 years ago. Don't remember nothing but that it was a lot of high powered fun.
Posted 5 years ago by johnrah    [ Reply ]
More George on RP but another vote for the original....
Posted 5 years ago by alain.brault    [ Reply ]
See, it ain't hard to play R&R with a Bo Diddley  beat on a Friday afternoon. 

And that beat has a nice Buddy Holly tie-in.

RIP Buddy. The day the music died., Feb 3 , 1959.   
Posted 5 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
ChrisInCT wrote:
They sucked so bad that they had to move to Maryland
If they were worse, they would have moved to CT.
Posted 17 years ago by LPCity    [ Reply ]
EchoTony wrote:
I like the original version better. Doesn't need the extra beats. It's the simplicity of this type of music that makes it good. And what happend to the "Delaware" Destroyers.. Must have moved or something.
They sucked so bad that they had to move to Maryland
Posted 17 years ago by ChrisInCT    [ Reply ]
I like the "remix" it has a fun kick to it!
Posted 17 years ago by ~Michelle~    [ Reply ]
I like the original version better. Doesn't need the extra beats. It's the simplicity of this type of music that makes it good. And what happend to the "Delaware" Destroyers.. Must have moved or something.
Posted 17 years ago by EchoTony    [ Reply ]
underarmor wrote:
A dance mix of George?
Not dance mix, just a little extra...
Posted 17 years ago by GChevy410    [ Reply ]
Great Song Made Better! Would Be An 8 But The Extra Makes It A 9
Posted 17 years ago by GChevy410    [ Reply ]
If you're not going to add anything original to this classic, apart from the horrible screaming yodelling, why do it? Why play it?
Posted 17 years ago by algrif    [ Reply ]
More George! Lots of good rocking blues on his first two albums.
Posted 17 years ago by aflanigan    [ Reply ]
There are other versions I like better but it's still an 8
Posted 17 years ago by buckskin    [ Reply ]
Awesome! We're rockin' tonight!
Posted 17 years ago by Mari    [ Reply ]
It seems that George can only do a Bo Diddley beat...too monotoneous for me...sorry
Posted 17 years ago by eastcoast    [ Reply ]
A dance mix of George?
Posted 17 years ago by underarmor    [ Reply ]