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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.
Well, Bo. You often posed the question "Who Do You Love?"
It's you, Bo.
For anybody unfamiliar, we just lost one of the most important Giants of Rock & Roll
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:
JUN 21, 2008 02:01 PM
InnocentSid said:
Damn...what rock was I under?
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.
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?
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PointBlank
New York, NY
November 2004
JUN 02, 2008 10:01 AM