John Lee Hooker - Interview - 7/6/1976 - Capitol Theatre (Official)

John Lee Hooker - Interview
Recorded Live: 7/6/1976 - Capitol Theatre - Passaic, NJ
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[@AnthonyMonaghan]

It is a pity that nobody made the story of his life while he was still alive. Time for THAT John Lee Hooker documentary.

[@chrismurphyshef]

I could listen to John Lee Hooker talk non-stop for a year and I would not get bored.

[@apocyldoomer]

John Lee Hooker, King of the boogie, love his blues, hard to believe that this was 45 years ago, damn, I’m getting old, I was only 12 years old in 1976!, just turned 57!,

[@tomipaakkunainen3470]

I wasnt even born yet. 1978 I was born .

[@joannietrotter2344]

A legend of the blues and an elegant gentleman to boot.

[@green323turbo]

I wish he talked about Canned Heat .. thats how i learned about JLHooker . Hooker N Heat album

[@boomerang6130]

Love the baritone-bass voice. You can hear the raw power when he speaks. Love the blues and JLH.

[@NorthWriter]

And then you listen to his "That's My Story" album and his voice is so light. It's deep, but light and agile. It's SO affecting. His vibrato is really something, too. It makes me wonder if Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip was a fan.

[@mmmmdani]

Love that Thorogood is interviewing JLH here. I’m sure the admiration was appreciated by JLH- George is a through and through blues devotee. It’s nice to see how they relate to one another here. Very sweet.

[@mattbod]

Old school gent as well as a damn fine musician. They sadly don’t make em like this anymore.

[@mrsimpleesarcastik3494]

theres a few of us around :)

[@bencolan2666]

Life's boring without the blues... King of the boogie baby

[@vinto34]

2 legends in one room. You could see john liked what George was doing with his music.

[@stephenblacks2876]

The "Healer" with a powerful voice!

[@suzy6463]

John Lee misspoke: My dad was John Lee's manager in Detroit from '67 until my dad died in '71. After my dad died, John Lee moved to SF in '72, so in '76 when this was filmed he'd been in SF for 4 years, not 14yrs. Before he died, my dad was able to get John Lee paid all of his back royalties on Boom Boom Boom, and that's what gave him the money to open the Boom Boom Room in San Francisco.

[@712dal]

The date of the video is incorrect.... someone has pointed this is from 1984

[@tedpowers2045]

Thanks for the info. He mentioned in another documentary how he quit recording cause he always got ripped off and was making most of his money playing live. He deserves a statue for his amazing blues style

[@ronaldrose6885]

Yes and Eddie Murphy took over the boom boom room....laughing at you,John is his own entity...thorogood 3:39 nailed it!!! Now I am going upstairs fools and bring down all of my clothes.

[@musicfanhawk4523]

What a nice man, a sweetness to him. Nice to see this interview, a young George Thorogood, I was just a young kid at this time and knew Nothing of either of them. Catching up now on what was missed in my youth.

[@FallGuy-68]

Watching this makes me want to get a gold watch.

[@aaron4ism]

😂😂 I don't know why but same here

[@Texasbluestunes]

I could hear John Lee tell Albert Collins and Lightnin’ stories all week long.

[@arthurblackhistoric]

One of the many things I love about JLH was his way of speaking. Plenty of the old delta Blues guys used to mumble and grumble in a way that was very hard to understand. John Lee Hooker spoke so well he could read the evening news!

[@larryn2682]

People don't monitor comments and then make an easy correction. This video is from 1984.

[@joshdance9959]

I love these two. So coooool

[@sekaisaiko2008]

yeah, blues is feeling, blues is life itself.

[@Jack-ls4fw]

Greatest Bluesman

[@SweetandFitting]

What an OG.

[@YourFreeBeats]

Both of them.

[@freedomcapitalpartnersllp7458]

Good stuff. True legend.

[@G.M.1944]

Loved to hear his thoughts about The Doors doing his Crawling King Snake, and Elvis, who by 1976 was still alive. And about Canned Heat.

[@guitarmanp90]

This is from July 1984.

[@danielgrossman4370]

+guitarmanp90 I figured, this says 1976, but they mentioned 1977

[@DonDeering]

+guitarmanp90 Thank you, makes sense.

[@Lookup2Wakeup]

Watching in 2020.....

[@glenbroudy6919]

Ppp⁷

[@phrelancelotmusic]

100%

[@MeJustAimy]

beautifully uncut

[@theherbpuffer]

Coolest mfr in the history of music. Tied with Lightnin Hopkins

[@timmydawes5492]

I love how he mentions the groundhogs. First band he mentions. Awsome collaboration 👌 you tube groundhogs and ol Jonny lee

[@apocyldoomer]

“ I gotta go to Viet Nam”, one of my fav songs from JLH, great blues tune!!!

[@nexusi6867]

"I Don't Wanna Go to Vietnam"!

[@apocyldoomer]

@@nexusi6867 Me Neither..

[@accountingtutor9842]

you can't write feeling on a paper...

[@arthurblackhistoric]

We were watching an old video of a Top of the Pops episode on cable one night. Top of the Pops was British TV show that ran for years. In this particular episode there were many of the British Beat bands on the bill . . and who should be right in the middle of all this, but John Lee Hooker playing Boom Boom!! His song fitted seamlessly into the mix and the white kids in the studio audience were dancing their guts out to his music.

[@dannyburch2122]

Legend

[@currankerman2349]

This fashions of the interviewer screams 80s

[@musicfanhawk4523]

1984

[@YourFreeBeats]

That's George Thoroghghood...he's pretty mean on the mic himself. You have probably heard "Ba-ba-ba-ba bad to the bone"...that's him.

[@jameskennedy721]

ZZ TOP and Canned Heat are John Lee cranked up loud .

[@CP-kb1du]

Whiskey and Women

[@lastnamefirst4035]

G Thorogood is a good guitarist himself

[@mrsimpleesarcastik3494]

one of the greats

[@jonbarr9195]

cool interview

[@bigassscott666]

and I am driving his 1997 Jaguar XK8 coupe with 29000 miles on it

[@nojoke99percent]

he left out Canned Heat," they did a few albums together hooker n Heat" my first live show I ever seen,5 In 1971, I was 16 years old at the Ash Grove in Hollywood, a good friend turned me on to them, put me on the path of the boogie!" I've probably seen John more times than any other band, they mentioned a few, the J.geils Band serve you right to suffer, Savoy Brown, they are tt GHG FD D Federer Boogie, then of course Lonesome George Thorogood and the Delaware destroyers on that Blue Highway"Foghat I just wanna make love to you, Humble Pie I Don't Need No Doctor, send another one of my favorites Johnny Winter" Help me, it's my own fault, mean Town Blues, John Mayall, John Lee Boogie, Buddy Guy, Joe Bonamassa, and of course ZZ Top LaGrange

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Lucky you, Ash Grove

[@takfam07]

This must be in the 1980s, not 1976. Thoroughgood was still unknown in '76. Also, George's hairstyle and clothing is total '80s.

[@michaelherndon9573]

Def not 70s

[@712dal]

This can't be from 1976 when Thorogood is talking about going to a concert in 1977!!!

[@paulroche2265]

Being introduced to Lightning Hopkins by John Lee Hooker :) #lordy

[@YourFreeBeats]

George underrated AF.

[@ninobrown8931]

🤘🏽🕶️🤘🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

[@taylorwilliams4131]

I have his Gibso.

[@shawnmartin4701]

I'd do pretty much anything to own his old guitar. Some people grew up wanting to be Superman, I grew up wanting to be like J.L Hooker

[@phrelancelotmusic]

Absolutely no one flinch when that guy walked in front of the camera with his T-shirt and underwear on 😂🤦🏽‍♂️

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Funny, Dylan & his gf Suz drunk and fighting in the next room

[@BAD_CONSUMER]

I'm curious what interrupted them at 5:10

[@phrelancelotmusic]

Probably that guy in his underwear 🩲 pizza order 🍕 😄

[@royaldigitalmedia]

Cab Calloway did boogie before the blues came around.

[@CP-kb1du]

Cab's Music was a Mimic to please the white faces ..Blues is Legit Human Condition of hardships , wake up ...

[@sleeve8651]

R.I.P. ☮️😎☮️ Johnny Lee Hooker ❤️🥀❤️