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
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― 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
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 4 November 2004 09:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 4 November 2004 09:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Another ace song: Doing the Crawdaddy. The best parts are his comments to the kids, like "you lookin' good - you been eatin' regular?"
― Vampire Submarine (VampireSubmarine), Thursday, 4 November 2004 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 4 November 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 11:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
"She Wasn't Raped"????
Does anyone have any info on this? Google and s1sk don't. I'd like to hear it, but would be happy just to read the lyrics.
― O-Keigh, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 04:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mestema (davidcorp), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 10:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lloyd Bonecutter (Lloyd Bonecutter), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tom Ant Chairs, Friday, 21 April 2006 02:18 (eighteen years ago) link
Although I love most of his stuff, my favorite song performed by Bo is "Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover". Great lyrics (written by Willie Dixon) delivered with Bo's style.
― shorty (shorty), Friday, 21 April 2006 08:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link
that just needs to be repeated.
― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― shorty (shorty), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 22 April 2006 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sahin, Saturday, 22 April 2006 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link
the robert palmer notes to the box set are great but that thing's a beast...hasn't been repackaged to a more manageable size since it arrived 15 years ago.
― amateurist0, Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Everything anyone ever needs to know is in "Pretty Thing"!
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Sunday, 23 April 2006 00:34 (eighteen years ago) link
I would not be so sure. My brother saw him many years back and said Bo just coasted through a show (and I think he, as Chuck Berry does, just used a local pickup band).
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 23 April 2006 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
To Huk-L: Yes, see him! I've seen him twice in the last few years. He's lost a few toes to diabetes and can't dance anymore, but it was still really great to see him. And yeah, he doesn't have his own band and the hired hands just do a really basic Bo Beat the whole time, but he's Bo fuckin' Diddley fer pete's sake. If Jesus were playing my local casino, I wouldn't expect him to do all the fish-multiplication and water to wine business, I'd just be stoked to see JC in real life. Ditto Bo.
And the best part of the last Bo show I saw: Apropos of nothing (I think he was in the middle of a twenty minute rap detailing his plans to steal my girlfriend) he goes "I'm a Rock'n'Roll Vampire! Nyyeeep! Nyyyyeeep!"
― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Sunday, 23 April 2006 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Bo, no doubt.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 23 April 2006 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 2 October 2006 03:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Monday, 2 October 2006 03:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 2 October 2006 05:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Fuck Chuck Berry; Bo Diddley is not only the father of all that's wonderful in rock-n-roll hence, but every worthy pop posture is traceable directly back to the man in a lineage that cannot but shame his generations-removed students.
― libcrypt, Saturday, 31 May 2008 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
TS: Chuck Berry's "Maybelline" vs. Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love"
― PappaWheelie V, Saturday, 31 May 2008 03:47 (fifteen years ago) link
according to Etta James, Bo filmed 8mm pornographic movies of his fellow R n B stars "in action."
somehow i doubt this was mentioned at the funeral.
hey -- i started this thread! more than five years ago!
― amateurist, Sunday, 8 June 2008 12:31 (fifteen years ago) link
BRING IT ON HOME BRING IT TO JEROME
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 8 June 2008 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
The Bo Diddley compilation Tales From the Funk Dimension 1970-73 that is on Raven is a good listen. I heard some tracks off of Bo's record "Black Gladiator" from 1970 on Youtube and thought they sounded really cool. None of those early 70s records have really been issued on CD much, but this comp was out there. It's a solid compilation all the way through, real funky and the early stuff is really unhinged. I'd love to have saw him live back then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbRaBxSGIoc
― earlnash, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
Our old pal Timi Yuro was otm
― Cowsill Communication (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 01:15 (twelve 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
Nicehttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l_hdhuAseKuf518cr4z3Wc7pDP9Xiv-50
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Saturday, 21 May 2022 04:01 (one year ago) link
"Look at Grandma what you tryin to do"
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 May 2022 16:21 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
that weird guitar break in "hey jerome" is one of the funkiest things ever
― Heez, Monday, 23 May 2022 17:15 (one year 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 (one year ago) link