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posted 02-06-2008 16:31
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Man, this is fucked. Who Do You Love, Roadrunner & the early 70s funky shit getting played loud tonight. THAT beat Bo pioneered was one hell of a creation. The Stones. The Monks. The Fall. A whole heap of great music owes alot to Bo. And the first five seconds of 'Roadrunner' is still some of the ugliest noise a rock'n'roll tune ever contained.
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posted 02-06-2008 16:36
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Bo Deadly, surely?
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posted 02-06-2008 16:39
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Damn, this is sad. I was lucky enough to see Bo Diddley in 1996 (maybe it was 1997), and it was hands down the loudest, most brash show I've ever heard. His daughter was playing the drums, and I felt like I was being punched in the chest with the combination of her and his guitar. It was great.
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posted 02-06-2008 16:50
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Absolutely the MAN. If he could have patented that beat he would have been the richest man in the world. I even have a Soft Machine tape where they play around that riff. And, as Inca says, a great live show too.
Rock'n'Roll has lost one of its founding fathers. I bet there is a hell of a jam going on upstairs.
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posted 02-06-2008 16:55
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I'd be slightly miffed if I was turned into jam after I died. Well I wouldn't, I'd be dead, but it's at least as plausible that a collection of dead rock musicians are jamming away in some sort of heaven.
I'll stop now.
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posted 02-06-2008 17:24
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Oh God.
My first Rock 'n' Roll hero. At 15 the leap in consciousness from top twenty pop to Bo was more powerful, more transcendent than than any of the acid/mescalin times to come.
Rock on Killer Diller.
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posted 02-06-2008 17:36
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I saw him play briefly on the Old Main lawn during the Central Pennsyvlania Festival of the Arts when I was a teenager. It was not the right venue. The arts festival crowd is aging hippies, people with kids and students looking to just lie on the grass and veg out in front of some folk-pop or third-rate reggae. I left after a while because I was stuck in the way back and couldn't hear him. The sound system was shit. I think if he'd been playing in a small bar with people who appreciate proper rock n roll, it would have been great.
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posted 02-06-2008 22:40
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Yep, the old gunslinger has met his match.
Often imitatated, never bettered.
RIP.
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posted 02-06-2008 22:43
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He truly rocked -- saw him in small basement club in 1984 - no opening act, played for almost 3 hrs. Wall of noise, crowd went apeshit.
One of a kind - R.I.P.
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posted 03-06-2008 04:32
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Oh fuck.
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posted 03-06-2008 08:14
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QUOTE:
Bo Deadly, surely?
I believe the correct thread title under the circumstances is Diddley's Quit.
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posted 04-06-2008 00:29
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QUOTE:
Absolutely the MAN.
No other words necessary.
Other than;
QUOTE:
I got a brand new house on the roadside,
Made outta rattlesnake hide,
I got a brand new chimney laid on top, made outta a human skull,
Now come on, take a little walk with me Eileen, and tell me Who Do You love?
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posted 04-06-2008 01:24
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He's Bo Diddley not Kevin Rowland and she's Arlene, not Eileen.
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Last Edit: 04-06-2008 01:27 By Amor de Cosmos.
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posted 04-06-2008 01:30
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Nah, he's definitely singing "Eileen" there, isn't he?
Bearing in mind that that and "Irene" were not especially distinct as names in 'ver Deep South.
(see also; Blind Willie McTell was initially buried as "Willie McTier"...)
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