what does his music have to do with funk?
Have you ever heard any Bo Diddley? Or any funk?
― Tom D., Monday, 9 June 2008 09:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice one, John Moore.
― Mark G, Monday, 9 June 2008 09:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's really good.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 9 June 2008 10:41 (fifteen years ago) link
i was being a little facetious, but i do think, of all the major black musicians of the 50s and 60s, diddley is not one who seems an obvious progenitor of funk (even if he did try some funky stuff later in his career). the various diddley beats are too frantic... they just don't seem to have many of the essential rhythmic components of funk.
― amateurist, Monday, 9 June 2008 11:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd say he was far and away the most obvious
― Tom D., Monday, 9 June 2008 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link
If you're talking of 1955, for instance
Ned Sublette written tribute/profile in Smithsonian magazine
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/bo-diddley.html?c=y&page=1
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 16 August 2008 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link