Hi Robert; welcome to the board.
A couple decades ago or so ago, a saw the Nighthawks open for George Thorogood. I'm pretty sure Jimmy Thackery was the guitar player at that time. There was one song where during a rather long and very entertaining slide guitar solo, the singer, Mark Wenner, kept handing Thackery different slides to use, beer bottles, mic stands, etc, and without missing a note Thackery would keep playing this blistering guitar solo with each new slide. Finally Wenner brought out a watermelon. Didn't slow down Thackery a bit; and the crowd of course loved it. Oh, and in my view that night, Thackery and the Nighthawks blew away Thorogood.