For newer players - Bad to the Bone Music Video - Greater than "Color of Money"?

Cleveland_Rocks

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I don't use social media, and I just ran across this video for the first time:


How better can pool be promoted than this video? Thank you George Thorogood.

So what does more for pool? "The Color of Money" or the "Bad to the Bone" video?

Note that Mosconi is in the video, the man in the grey suit, for those of you that have not seen it.
 
Cleveland_Rocks said:
I don't use social media, and I just ran across this video for the first time:


How better can pool be promoted than this video? Thank you George Thorogood.

So what does more for pool? "The Color of Money" or the "Bad to the Bone" video?

Note that Mosconi is in the video, the man in the grey suit, for those of you that have not seen it.
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Seriously?? The movie did light-years more for pool than this video. I love GT, seen him live a few times.
 
garczar said:
Seriously?? The movie did light-years more for pool than this video. I love GT, seen him live a few times.
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I think that this music video is competitive, it is certainly more impactful than any 5 minute segment of The Color of Money movie. The fact that it shows the neighborhood kids interested in the game gives it extra credence. I find it hilarious and more entertaining than any 5 minute segment of "The Color of Money".
 
Cleveland_Rocks said:
I think that this music video is competitive, it is certainly more impactful than any 5 minute segment of The Color of Money movie. The fact that it shows the neighborhood kids interested in the game gives it extra credence. I find it hilarious and more entertaining than any 5 minute segment of "The Color of Money".
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Agreed. The gym attached to the pool hall, with the Willie Mosconi cameo to bet on Bo Didley, and the Destroyers playing in the background? It's old-school cool.
 
George Thorogood and The Destroyers were a last-minute addition to the Live Aid lineup. After a high-energy performance featuring blues icons Bo Diddley and Albert Collins, Thorogood was approached backstage by Hollywood superstar Jack Nicholson, who had been serving as an onstage host for the event.

As Thorogood recalls:

"I went, 'Jack Nicholson? You know who I am?' He says, 'Yeah, Georgie, I always follow the rough boys.'"
 
Korsakoff said:
George Thorogood and The Destroyers were a last-minute addition to the Live Aid lineup. After a high-energy performance featuring blues icons Bo Diddley and Albert Collins, Thorogood was approached backstage by Hollywood superstar Jack Nicholson, who had been serving as an onstage host for the event.

As Thorogood recalls:

"I went, 'Jack Nicholson? You know who I am?' He says, 'Yeah, Georgie, I always follow the rough boys.'"
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Righteous and kickass!

This is the one right here:

 
Cleveland_Rocks said:
I don't use social media, and I just ran across this video for the first time:

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I love that they have the score beads on the wire.

The thing I really get a kick out of is:
Mosconi comes in to back Bo and then George turns it on.

He separates Bo Diddley from his cue so he can walk in between them in a “fat lady has sung moment.”

Bo sits down next to Mosconi, they share a look, and then Bo pulls his hat down over his face in shame.

Good find from the way back machine.

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It’s still no Gearjammer.
 
Never seen that video before. Any GT video, in fact, despite hearing some of his songs seemingly a million times. He looks quite different from how I pictured. Or maybe I'm just old now, so he looks like a kid.

The best part of that video was Willie. He can give a convincing tough-guy look for someone who was probably in his 80s at that point. I believed him.

As for "promoting" pool, maybe in some nostalgic retro sense. But I think pool needs to shed its tough-guy, low-life image to gain mainstream traction. Only then, with comfortable distance, can its rought-and-tumble past and roots be celebrated.
 
And this little diddy with Merle Haggard always grabs my attention. My biological mother used to sing this song all the time, but it's the several cameos of Willie Nelson shooting pool in the background that gives me a thrill. His grandparents owned a pool room in Texas, and Willie's got game.

 
skor said:
how does associating pool with being bad is good promotion?
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Not bad meaning bad., but bad meaning good.
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