Time & Perspective Quote by George Thorogood

Thorogood’s offhand shrug is doing more cultural work than it looks like. He’s not confessing bad taste or chasing contrarian cred; he’s mapping how scenes actually form. “Not a big Allman Brothers fan” reads like a boundary line, a way of protecting his own identity as a blues-rock lifer. But he immediately softens it with “I could relate,” shifting from aesthetics to atmosphere. The point isn’t whether the Allmans were great; it’s that their sound was in the air, unavoidable, a social weather system.

“Flavor of the day” is the key phrase. It’s faintly cynical, yes, but not dismissive. Thorogood is acknowledging how even serious musicians absorb trend cycles the way everyone else does: not as obedient consumers, but as people trying to locate themselves inside a moment. The subtext is a quiet admission that authenticity is never pure. You don’t emerge from a vacuum with a finished “true” sound; you get nudged by what’s on the radio, what’s in clubs, what your friends won’t stop playing.

The repeated hedging - “at that time,” “at least,” “for me” - matters too. It’s not a grand statement about the era; it’s a snapshot of one working musician’s internal compass. That humility is its own flex: Thorogood recognizes influence without surrendering to it, a veteran’s reminder that taste is personal, but culture is communal.