― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
almost every Gories song owes its existence to Bo Diddley, so so classic
I think my favorite is "Crackin Up"
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
greater lyrix have never been written, EVER.
― Neudonym, Monday, 17 March 2003 20:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― TMFTML (TMFTML), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
the square guitar, plaid tux, bo diddley motorscooter... he had it all. not to mention jerome and the duchess.
the chess box set is actually one of the things I still listen to most. and while the 50's/early sixties stuff is the best, "the black gladiator" from a little later has some crazy shit on it. search: "i don't like you."
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 17 March 2003 21:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 17 March 2003 21:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lee G (Lee G), Monday, 17 March 2003 21:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 17 March 2003 21:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 17 March 2003 21:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 March 2003 21:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 17 March 2003 21:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Monday, 17 March 2003 21:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 17 March 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 17 March 2003 22:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
Bo has mojo for days! Bo Diddley is the boss dog of this here boneyard!
― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 17 March 2003 22:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 17 March 2003 22:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jess Hill (jesshill), Monday, 17 March 2003 22:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 17 March 2003 22:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Burr (Burr), Monday, 17 March 2003 23:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― brg30 (brg30), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 00:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― pauls00, Tuesday, 18 March 2003 00:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
Bo Diddley .... Axman
― David Allen, Tuesday, 18 March 2003 18:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 November 2003 00:16 (twenty years ago) link
What's the history of that Mockingbird nursery rhyme/song? Seems like 80% of Bo's song are based on that.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 15:32 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dark Horse, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link
Bo and minstrelsy--I thought minstrelsy pretty much was over by the time Emmett Miller recorded in the late '20s, if not earlier?
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 3 November 2004 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link
has anybody mentioned "You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover"?
― rumple, Wednesday, 3 November 2004 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Just think of Bo manning that movie camera...
― rumple, Wednesday, 3 November 2004 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Muffy, Wednesday, 3 November 2004 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link
yeah, I understood that. I mean minstrelsy was the basis for modern american culture, certainly pop music as we know it. so there were minstrel shows up until the '50s? you mean what, the rabbit foot minstrels or something? big stage shows with cakewalks and white and black folks blacking up their faces? i don't know, i'd like to know what these were. again, my understanding is that minstrelsy was over by the '20s. please enlighten me, i'm interested in this subject having read tosches' "dead voices gather" and the excellent, excellent book by dave wondrich "stomp and swerve."
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 04:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 3 November 2004 08:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― P$, Wednesday, 3 November 2004 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 4 November 2004 08:03 (nineteen years ago) link
I love this story, surprised it's not in the thread:
On November 20, 1955, he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, a popular television variety show, where he infuriated the host. "I did two songs and he got mad," Bo Diddley later recalled. "Ed Sullivan said that I was one of the first colored boys to ever double-cross him. Said that I wouldn't last six months". The show had requested that he sing the Merle Travis-penned Tennessee Ernie Ford hit "Sixteen Tons", but when he appeared on stage, he sang "Bo Diddley" instead. This substitution resulted in his being banned from further appearances.
The request came about because Sullivan's people heard Diddley casually singing "Sixteen Tons" in the dressing room. Diddley's accounts of the event were inconsistent.[21]
Diddley was an excellent story teller whose stories varied from time to time, however, Diddley contended to friends and family that he was not trying to double-cross Sullivan and attributed the "misunderstanding" to the fact that; when he saw "Bo Diddley" on a cue card, he was under the impression he was to perform two songs, "Bo Diddley" and "Sixteen Tons".
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 March 2013 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
I'm really frustyrated that i still haven't managed to find that Raven Tales From The Funk Dimension compi somebody else mentions somewhere above, not seen it in a couple of years.
Other than that I keep being impressed by how some of his tracks must have sounded like the meeting point between futuristic sound and deep ancient African stuff when they were first heard. Keep getting flashes of that when I hear Mona come up on my walkman. Guitars sound like streamlined tailfins or something. I'm also struck by the idea for the timeless minutes you're listening to that track you're not that distant from where QMS took it & the template for their treatment of the track seems to be already there in the track, they just stayed out there in freeflight a bit longer. Freeflight is already present in Bo though. like aerodynamic capturing of light or something else I'm having trouble expressing if that issn't coming across.
― Stevolende, Monday, 25 March 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
I can't find the article, but an RS profile with Bo from a couple of years before his death briefly mentioned the music he was making in his home studio. It was described as mostly synth- and drum machine-based and Bo said something like, "And nobody's ever gonna hear it."
― Darth Magus (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 25 March 2013 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
my little bo project:
https://twitter.com/BoDiddleyBeat
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 25 March 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
whoa, good call on Sound and Vision, never would have thought of that
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 March 2013 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
From The Funk Dimension comp
I don't think the individual albums are that hard to find on vinyl....? here's one of the albums on the comp
they are really fun records
― his girlfriend was all 'ugh and he wears a solar backpack' (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 25 March 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
(xp) thanks! i'm discovering lots of songs i never would've thought of before i started doing this. it's pretty much a bottomless well.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 25 March 2013 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
here's another one
― his girlfriend was all 'ugh and he wears a solar backpack' (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 25 March 2013 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
Life-affirming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFpv1LKrA9s
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 25 March 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
Couple friends met Bo Diddley at a show shortly before his stroke and said he wouldn't shut up about this "synth orchestra" idea. Sorta wanna hear what that sounded like. Surely not good, but I wonder why he was so excited about it.
― kaleb h. (Everything You Like Sucks), Monday, 25 March 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
― his girlfriend was all 'ugh and he wears a solar backpack' (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, March 25, 2013 9:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
POint is, I bought it when it came out and should have it somewhere in this flat. I spent a week or so going through most of my cds a few months ago specifically looking for it and still couldn't turn it up. Hence the frustration. Wondering in fact if I should grab another copy.
― Stevolende, Monday, 25 March 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
his guitar tone in that youtube clip is soooo raw. love it. what is that from? feel like I've seen it before...
― tylerw, Monday, 25 March 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
This is my favourite, just the sounds he gets from his guitar. "What you say, quit mumblin and talk out loud"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEfz9VfFOKQ
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 25 March 2013 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
I have super super vague memories of hearing a late 80s or early 90s Bo album on Triple X Records that was basically guitar and drum machine, and I think the lyrics were pretty Jesus-y. No more detailed memories of it, though. Anybody else heard the record I'm thinking of?
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 25 March 2013 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
Here it is; it's called Breakin' Through the B.S..
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 25 March 2013 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
my little bo project:https://twitter.com/BoDiddleyBeat― fact checking cuz, Monday, March 25, 2013 4:59 PM (2 hours ago)
I went downstairs and checked an old file folder of all the songlists for mix-tapes I once made for friends; was hoping to find one from the mid-'80s that had Bo-Diddley-beat songs on one side ("Not Fade Away" the most obvious example) and "Louie, Louie"-riff songs on the other. I thought I'd saved them all, but I guess a few got away.
― clemenza, Monday, 25 March 2013 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
It's from a 1973 concert movie called Let the Good Times Roll
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I love that clip. I like the way the band does a kind of early 70s boogie take on the diddley beat too
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
an RS profile with Bo from a couple of years before his death briefly mentioned the music he was making in his home studio. It was described as mostly synth- and drum machine-based and Bo said something like, "And nobody's ever gonna hear it."
https://soundcloud.com/comeme/bo-jack-vocal-version
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
at what point does bo diddley get bad?
― the late great, Monday, 29 June 2015 00:09 (eight years ago) link
or to rephrase the question, so far i've made my way through the 1957-1962 recordings and it has been like 100% great ... where next?
― the late great, Monday, 29 June 2015 00:10 (eight years ago) link
Imo he's great up through the 70s funk stuff
― Οὖτις, Monday, 29 June 2015 00:11 (eight years ago) link
so far my favorite has been "have guitar will travel" (the one where he's on the scooter on the cover)
― the late great, Monday, 29 June 2015 00:12 (eight years ago) link
"I'm High Again" is great, and that's 1967
― Josefa, Monday, 29 June 2015 04:18 (eight years ago) link
bo diddley is the best music
― the late great, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
I picked up "The Definitive Collection" this year and it's so much fun! So primal, it just cuts so deeply.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 01:01 (eight years ago) link
One of my three or four favourite live clips ever. The women are incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeZHB3ozglQ
― clemenza, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 01:16 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, wow, that rules!
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link
yup
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 15:41 (eight years ago) link
The great grand-pappy was a busy manCooked his grub in a fryin' panPicked his teeth with a huntin' knifeHe wore the same suit all-a his lifeOh-oh, ooo-oh-ooo, ooo-oooA-ay-oh
― Heez, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 17:46 (eight years ago) link
http://sheshredsmag.com/lady-bo-mother-of-rock-n-roll-dead-at-76-years-old/Peggy Jones aka Lady Bo, played guitar with Bo from 1957 to 1962
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 20 September 2015 18:24 (eight years ago) link
Never made it down to Ponderosa Stomp the year (or years?) she performed
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 September 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link
Is that her in the clip just above?
― clemenza, Monday, 21 September 2015 23:17 (eight years ago) link
no
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 September 2015 23:18 (eight years ago) link
I believe that's the Duchess
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 September 2015 23:20 (eight years ago) link
THIS is lady bo
http://www.ladybo.com/gallery/Lady_Bo_-_white_afro.GIF
RIP
― chaki (kurt schwitterz), Monday, 21 September 2015 23:23 (eight years ago) link
I haven't watched this yet, but I'm sure it's great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGa7Qs291VM&pbjreload=10
― clemenza, Monday, 25 May 2020 12:06 (four years ago) link
Give me a second, I'll figure this out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGa7Qs291VM
― clemenza, Monday, 25 May 2020 12:08 (four years ago) link
Nicehttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l_hdhuAseKuf518cr4z3Wc7pDP9Xiv-50
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Saturday, 21 May 2022 04:01 (two years ago) link
"Look at Grandma what you tryin to do"
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 May 2022 16:21 (two years ago) link
is this the best thing he did after his 50s-60s heyday? I like this one a whole lot all the way through, but some of the other stuff I’ve heard from the 70s didn’t quite match up.
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Monday, 23 May 2022 16:34 (two years ago) link
THe turn of the 70s funk stuff is quite good in places. The Raven set of that stuff was pretty solid not 100% sure about all of the individual lps.
― Stevolende, Monday, 23 May 2022 16:39 (two years ago) link
that weird guitar break in "hey jerome" is one of the funkiest things ever
― Heez, Monday, 23 May 2022 17:15 (two years ago) link
yeah I love that sort of metallic percussive thing he’s doing throughout.
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Monday, 23 May 2022 17:38 (two years ago) link