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
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
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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