Here's a followup, for Curtis and Willytex, of Bo playing later in life. I looked up his age, and it turns out that he was probably in his 70s when I saw him perform in New Mexico, although he claimed onstage to be in his 80s. Still, he never stopped rockin'...
BO DIDDLEY never before seen footage!! Diddley Daddy BO DIDDLEY never before seen footage!! Diddley Daddy View on www.youtube.com Preview by Yahoo From: TurquoiseBee <turquoi...@yahoo.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 7:23 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Now Playing When I lived in Santa Fe, I used to see Bo Diddley all the time. He lived in a suburb of nearby Albuquerque, where he had once actually been Honorary Sheriff (Bo Diddley's A Gunslinger) and would play gigs at local clubs and casinos from time to time. He was in his 80s, and still put on one of the best stage shows I've ever seen. He was a FIERCE guitarist, still able to play up a storm, and in pretty much any style you can imagine. One of the best things about watching Bo perform was him interacting with each new band. That's right...he didn't have a band. What he'd do when someone hired him for a gig is call around that town and find out the name of the best young garage band in town. Then he'd call them up and say, "Hey, it's Bo Diddley. No, really. I've got a gig in your town on Saturday. Want to be my backup band?" He'd meet with them before the gig, expecting them to have learned his songs, and they'd jam for an hour or two just to make sure it was a good fit, and then they'd go onstage together. It was magic. You could tell that these kids were having the time of their lives playing behind one of the true legends of rock 'n roll, and you could tell that Bo was having fun, too. Onstage he was funny, he was charming, and for an 80+ year-old-man he was damned sexy, too. A true legend, and to the end. ________________________________ From: "curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com" <curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 5:55 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Now Playing Excellent post. I just started studying him seriously this year when I was getting into Afro-carribian rhythms. I got his Chess recordings box set and dug in. Rhythm king. Now I include one of his songs in my sets and just lean on the rhythm using the guitar as a percussion instrument. Every verse is more hypnotic it is so much fun to sing. Who Do You Love I walk 47 miles of barbed wire, I use a cobra-snake for a necktie, I got a brand new house on the roadside, Made from rattlesnake hide, I got a brand new chimney made on top, Made out of a human skull, Now come on take a walk with me, arlene, And tell me, who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love? Tombstone hand and a graveyard mine, Just 22 and I don't mind dying. Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love? I rode around the town, use a rattlesnake whip, Take it easy arlene, don't give me no lip, Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love? Night was dark, but the sky was blue, Down the alley, the ice-wagon flew, Heard a bump, and somebody screamed, You should have heard just what I seen. Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love? Arlene took me by my hand, And she said oh bo, you know I understand. Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote : Bo Diddley "If you ask me I'd say that there is nothing, just absolutely nothing, that you can do in your whole entire lifetime that will top the level of cool that Bo Diddley hit in this performance back in 1965." - Jason McHenry Bo Diddley- Live Performance http://youtu.be/IMZjAOoX6nw Bo Diddley - 1955 45 RPM recording http://youtu.be/8XxGUIbYjmY You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover http://youtu.be/Lch0o4wwGyw One of the founders, if not the founder of rock 'n roll, Bo Diddley invented the rock signature beat, a simple five-accent clave driving rhythm. Hard edge electric guitar - one of the corner stones of rock. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him No. 20 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Diddley
