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PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

JUN 02, 2008 10:01 AM

minimalism

minimalism

Garwood, NJ
OLD SKOOL

JUN 02, 2008 10:42 AM

Really, really sad news.

adam_vincent

adam_vincent

San Francisco, CA
November 2002

JUN 02, 2008 10:44 AM

Bummer.

Wheezy_E

Wheezy_E

Boulder City, NV
April 2004

JUN 02, 2008 12:03 PM

Noooooooooooooo.



When you're young you better have your fun cause when you're old your fun is done, let the kids dance.

J24U

J24U

Danvers, MA
February 2006

JUN 02, 2008 12:21 PM

This depresses me greatly. frown

DeceptiviewFilm

DeceptiviewFilm

Parlin, NJ
February 2004

JUN 02, 2008 12:22 PM

Really. Sad.

jonnytrrrash7

jonnytrrrash7

Liechtenstein
February 2004

JUN 02, 2008 12:33 PM

frown

DrNecessitor

DrNecessitor

San Jose, CA
January 2003

JUN 02, 2008 03:33 PM

Now THERE'S a guy who left his mark. Ain't that a man!

Godspeed, Bo.

Bring it to Jerome!!!!

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

JUN 02, 2008 03:41 PM

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

JUN 02, 2008 03:42 PM

SocietysPliers

SocietysPliers

Ocala, FL
October 2004

JUN 02, 2008 03:46 PM

I've dreaded this day for some time, but after he recovered so well from his onstage stroke last year I guess I was in denial.

I guess I should be thankful to have gotten to meet him and spend some time with him on few occasions, but mostly I'm angry.

Angry at him for making me think he'd recovered so well from his stroke last year.

Angry at him for leaving.

Angry at me for not sticking around last time I saw him and thereby missing out on the chance to jam with him.

And kicking myself in the Realization I'll never get the chance now.

The Originator is gone.frown

Well, Bo. You often posed the question "Who Do You Love?"

It's you, Bo.frown

For anybody unfamiliar, we just lost one of the most important Giants of Rock & Roll

SockPuppet

SockPuppet

I'm lost
July 2006

JUN 02, 2008 03:52 PM

^jealous frown

A very sad day.

Cosmo

Cosmo

Lansdale, PA
November 2003

JUN 02, 2008 04:07 PM

frown frown

No! I didn't hear anything about this today. Sad news indeed.

R.I.P.

hk85

hk85

Guerneville, CA
October 2007

JUN 02, 2008 04:43 PM

If anyone comes across a really good essay, or other tribute please post it. So far what I have heard (mostly NPR) or found doesn't really give credit where credit is due.

He had a good jab too, before he made his funky guitar.

RIP Bo.

Cassiel

Cassiel

Aurora, CO
September 2004

JUN 02, 2008 07:38 PM

goddammit. frown

crispy

crispy

NEWSWIRE

Philadelphia, PA

JUN 02, 2008 11:43 PM

I heard this earlier today and it seriously bummed me out.
The man was a true original and a pioneer.


Somewhere, George Thoroughgood is drinking alone tonight.

SocietysPliers

SocietysPliers

Ocala, FL
October 2004

JUN 03, 2008 02:58 AM

Well, hk85, I don't have a good eulogy (I was hoping someone other than me would say something about him but it was really all about the music last night and I just gave a lame little eulogoid speechlet), but . . .

. . . FWIW, here's the setlist from the impromptu Tribute jam we did last night. There were a bunch of people from our local Spiritual Drum Circle (of course a group of percussionists feel the passing of the guy who brought the hambone-based Bo Diddley Beat into Rock & Roll) and some assorted people, one of whom said he used to play sax for Bo but played my keyboards last night. The rest all played various of my guitars and basses (I brought 3 electric guitars, 2 acoustics and a keyboard):

*All songs written by Bo Diddley unless otherwise noted

Electric (With members of the Spiritual Drum Circle and various other guitarists and bassists sitting in on my extra instruments)

Hey Hey My My (Into The Black) (Lyric change to "The Originator is gone but he's not forgotten") ((Neil Young) ->
Jam ->
Hey Bo Diddley ->
(I Need You Baby) Mona ->
Who Do You Love ->
Jam ->
Drumz (Sent out to llama) ->
I'm A Man ->
Jam ->
Who Do You Love ->
Hey Bo Diddley ->
Feedback Jam

Acoustic:
Before You Accuse Me

Hush Your Mouth

You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover

Road Runner

Bo Diddley Is Jesus (Jesus & The Mary Chain) (First Time Played)

A Day In the Life (The Beatles) ->
Ride My Llama (Neil Young) (sent out to llama, who's in ICU) ->
A Day In The Life Part II (The Beatles) ->
Jam ->
My My Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) (Lyric change to "The REAL King is gone but he's not forgotten") (Neil Young)

"Encore" (Electric with assorted musicians and Spiritual Drum Circle):

He Was A Friend Of Mine (Traditional) ->
Ride On Josephine ->
Jam ->
Drumz ->
Jam ->
Ride On Josephine

Here's some stage shots of Bo from 2001:
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ScottrickBurdoit

ScottrickBurdoit

Cheshire, CT
February 2008

JUN 09, 2008 10:22 PM

I found this video recently, totally boss, the guy below summed it up best, "Goddamn...what a badass".

redmess

redmess

Vanuatu
August 2004

JUN 21, 2008 12:50 PM

hoo doo you love, baby


can't believe i'm only finding out now. need to emerge from beneath my rock more often.

gonna cheers one tonight to the one who got a cobra snake for a necktie.

RIP

Innocent_Sid

Innocent_Sid

Providence, RI
June 2007

JUN 21, 2008 12:56 PM

Damn...what rock was I under?

frown frown frown frown

SocietysPliers

SocietysPliers

Ocala, FL
October 2004

JUN 21, 2008 02:01 PM

InnocentSid said:
Damn...what rock was I under?

frown frown frown frown

Such a nice, nice man.

If you want, PM me and I'll send you the article I wrote on the funeral and what all the people whose lives he'd touched in so many ways and for whom he'd made profound life changes. He was ALWAYS looking out for "# 1" - which for him was the underdog. He was just a nice nice man with a heart of the purest gold. If I can figure out how to get the pics I took from my scoot in the middle of the funeral procession onto my computer I'll post some of them. And the flowers. The R&R Hall of Fame sent two huge displays, one on either side of the dais, each in the trademark design of one of his rectangular guitars.smile

But the words that were spoken by so many . . . I am getting goosebumps just from the recollection more than a fortnight after the fact.

Aside from being The Originator, he was a nice nice man.

And his church choir, as we were exiting The Showers Of Blessings Center, where the service was held, to head to the Martin Luther King Center for the reception, began the call and response with hundreds or thousands of exiting mourners (with the most BEAUTIFUL choir sound, I might add):

"HEY! BO DIDDLEY-DEE!"

>HEY! BO DIDDLEY-DEE!<

Fucking goosebumps, Brother.

And, did I mention that he was a genuinely nice, nice man?

frown