He started calling me Irish.” The name stuck. I started playing with George and his friends, and he told me I needed a nickname they could use when I stepped up to the plate. “He was playing baseball four times a week.

When they first met, the aspiring young musician’s passion was baseball. He explains that the real George Thorogood is nothing like the song’s badass, who brags about making rich women beg and good women steal.

He’s got plenty of tales to tell and an Irishman’s gift of gab when it comes to telling them. He doesn’t boast about his career, but if you press him to name some of the legendary musicians he’s met, the list is impressive: Bob Dylan, Janice Joplin, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Joe Cocker, Van Morrison, the Allman Brothers, Steve Miller, and blues artists like B.B King, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker and Eddie Shaw. Surrounded by recording equipment and his guitar collection, Mike Donahue has retreated from road shows and rock arenas and is living a less frenzied, off-the-grid life, playing around with his own recording projects, collecting vintage instruments and, occasionally, traveling. It might surprise some Greenbrier countians to learn that for the past few decades George Thorogood’s manager has been quietly living in the hills outside Alderson in a log cabin he designed and built. Even Alvin and the Chipmunks recorded a version. A sporting-events staple, you’re likely to hear it when a batter steps up to the plate or a wrestler enters the ring. Is there anyone on the planet who hasn’t heard “Bad to the Bone?” Used in countless movies from The Terminator 2 to Problem Child, the 1982 rock anthem by George Thorogood & the Destroyers is just one of those songs that sticks in your head and seems destined to last forever.

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