RIP Bo ...

[metsbats]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/02/diddley.obit/index.html

..Didley.

Remember those Bo Knows commercials in the mid 80s!

RIP Bo Didley.

-David

[G1X]

A very sad day for fans of rock music. My introduction to Bo Diddley was in 1971 when I purchased a copy of Quicksilver Messenger Services' album "Happy Trails". An extended jam version of "Who Do You Love" took up all of Side 1, and a spacey version of "Mona" took up part of the second side. I fell in love with both songs, but I did not recognize the name Ellas McDaniel who was credited on the album with penning both tunes.

A few years later, I was in a movie theatre watching an incredibly bad flick. Just as things couldn't get any worse on the silver screen, the soundtrack pumped out a staccato guitar rhythm awash in tremolo with an other-worldly voice singing something about Bo Diddley. The sound left me completely mesmerized. I suffered through the rest of the movie just to read the credits so I could find out who the genius was behind that song. There it was, "Bo Diddley", written by Ellas McDaniel, performed by Bo Diddley. I would come to learn later that Bo Diddley's real name was Ellas McDaniel, and his originals of "Who Do You Love" and "Mona" were even better than Quicksilver's fine covers.

A lot of folks have copied his style through the years, but few could make it sound so good. Only Bo could do Bo. May God bless him.

Mark Hayne
Gridiron Exchange
gixc@verizon.net

[Vintagedeputy]

A true icon of his craft.........

"Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley, have you heard?"

RIP

[MSpecht]

I had the pleasure of seeing Bo one last time on June 1, 2006...here is 5 minutes of some of the very best music ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBAJXyF1HVc

and the classic Bo Diddley / Bo Jackson commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GPxkpjCvWI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GPxkpjCvWI)

Autograph below courtesy of my wife, from that show.

Mike jackitout7@aol.com

[Vintagedeputy]

great auto'd stub!