Bo Diddley, RIP
How many musicians have "borrowed" that sound over the years?
Seriously. How many?
How many?
In the words of Eric Burdon:
We were playing at the Club A Gogo in Newcastle, our home town. The doors opened one night and to our surprise walked in the man himself, Bo Diddley. Along with him was Jerome Green, his maraca man, and the Duchess, his gorgeous sister….
I overheard Bo Diddley talkin'. He turned around to Jermone Green an' he said, "Hey, Jerome? What do you think these guys doin' our, our material?"
Jerome said, "Uh, where's the bar, man? Please show me to the bar."
He turned around the Duchess an' he said, "Hey Duch, what do you think of these young guys doin' our material?"
She said, ah, "I don't know. I only came across here to see the changin' of the guards and all that jazz."
Well, Bo Diddley looked up and said to me, with half closed eyes and a smile, he said, "Man," took off his glasses, he said, "Man, that sure is the biggest load of rubbish I ever heard in my life."
