Bo Diddley-RIP

[jimsumner]

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

[EarlJam]

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

Damn. Just damn.

Korman, now Bo.

I repeat.......damn.

-EJ

[colchar]

Damn. That really stinks.

[2535Miles]

Ugh. This really blows. I need a break from all of this death.

[billybreen]

Bo Jackson, you don't know Diddley (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GPxkpjCvWI).

[OZZIE4DUKE]

Bo Jackson, you don't know Diddley (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GPxkpjCvWI).

Great ad. Thanks for the link. Too bad Bo's hip died on him. He was certainly fun to watch, both on the baseball diamond and football field. Anyone remember him climbing a wall to catch that long fly ball?

[dkbaseball]

Great ad. Thanks for the link. Too bad Bo's hip died on him. He was certainly fun to watch, both on the baseball diamond and football field. Anyone remember him climbing a wall to catch that long fly ball?

Two weeks after going to a Bo Diddley show in St. Louis in 1986 I was in Kansas City to see Bo Jackson's first major league home run. It looked to me like he hit it off the handle, didn't really get much of it. It's still, I believe, the longest ball ever hit in the Kansas City stadium. If he'd ever gotten one on the screws it would have gone 650 feet. The guy was a monster, and in the mid '80s, before lifting (and supplements) had really caught on in baseball, he looked like Superman out there compared to the other players. One story earlier that year, when he was still at Auburn, claimed that though he never lifted regularly, he could walk in the weight room any time and bench 400 lbs just on natural strength. Combine that with sprinter's speed, and decent coordination, and you have maybe the most gifted athlete I've ever seen, if not the most accomplished. That ball he climbed the wall for, is that the play where he threw it from the left field fence to home plate on the fly? Freakish.

[Jim3k]

I can't recall the year, but think it was in the spring of 1961. Bo Diddley gave a concert on an extremely hot Saturday (I think) out on the football practice field. It was my first exposure to him and he blew us all away. He was in the shade of some of the trees. We were on the grass. (It may have been a Joe College Weekend.)

I can't forget that Insult thing he did -- "You is so ugly, someone must've hit you with a ugly stick" type stuff. A lot of people were familiar with it, but I wasn't. Combined with his Bo Diddley beat, it was both funny and mesmerizing at the same time. The rawness of the guitar was powerful and touched something primitive in all of us. I remember "Say, Man", "Who do you Love?", "I'm a Man" and, of course, "Bo Diddley."

[dukemomLA]

If you're not familiar with the genius of Bo D -- or his influence on many of the singers, musicians, groups to follow, shame on you!

I mourn the death of one of the 'originals.'

There are others, of course............ but that's for another thread. (Perhaps I'll start one).

But Bo D. As said RIP. You helped change the direction of rock, blues, rhythm forever.