I hate that Bo Diddley is dead.

[Heidi]

:'(

[Carlie]

whos bo?

[Dave]

Ugh, kids today. [Shakes head ruefully.]

[Carlie]

31 is not a kid

[Dave]

For some reason I thought you were 22. Well, then you have no excuse for not knowing Diddley.

[Tesse]

I haven't read the news or watched television all weekend.

I felt like I had been socked in the gut when I read the title of your post, KD.

RIP Bo Diddley.

I am going to play my copy of Super Super Blues Band for my neighbors tonight.

[Carlie]

22 isnt a kid either. It was a legitimate question. name sounds famliar. thats the only reason i asked. If it didnt, I wouldnt bother to comment. But since you are determined to be unhelpful, ill ask wiki.
AND, not everyone of a certain age knows the same people. Bet you dont know who Charles Aznavour nor Kassav is but I'm not gonna say you have no excuse.

[Heidi]

I know who Aznavour is - I've used his "La Boheme" on my profile page on occasion - and Kassav (Zouk la!!)... and Bo Diddley, too (Have you ever seen Back to the Future? If you have, there's a reference to him in that movie when Marty's on the stage... and Bo's cousin calls to get him on the phone to listen to Marty playing Johnny B. Goode).

[Dave]

Heidi, the Back to the Future reference is to Chuck Berry, not Bo. His cousin Marvin Berry calls him on the phone.

[Heidi]

I'm sure you've heard his music, you just don't know it by name - you can listen to a few samples of his music here .

[Carlie]

did bo sing johny b goode? The wiki entry wasnt helpful. I dont recognize any of the songs attributed to him. I may know them but not know the name. My first ten years of life I only spoke French so I didn't know any american artists even if I knew their songs.

[Heidi]

Ahh... you're right. Crap. You called me on that one, Dave. But I do know Bo Diddley. I obviously just don't know my Back to the Future.

*turns and walks away with tail between legs*

[Carlie]

thanks heidi. I've heard of diddley daddy but only the Chris Isaak version.

[Carlie]

And I'm glad you know Kassav, so many americans are missing out on that great music.

[Heidi]

Thanks King! That's an excellent biography post. Man, I was sad when I heard that he died... I'd forgotten that George Thorogood covered his "Who Do You Love."

[Carlie]

I'm jammin to down on the corner right now.
So yes, I do know Bo's music.

[Carlie]

Hey did Bo steal the beat for I said shut up woman from someone else or did someone use it in another song and what popular song is it in. I can't think of it. Oh yeah....bad to the bone. SO who came first, shut up woman or bad to the bone?

[April]

Bad to the Bone = 1982.
I Said Shut Up Woman = 1971? Sometime earlier, anyway. Didn't I read somewhere that Bad to the Bone was a remake of I'm A Man?

[Carlie]

whats a riff?
oh I know i wont get an answer so ill just go look it up when I really want to know.

[[deleted user]]

I hate that Bo Diddley never truly got the recognition he deserved. He should have been a household name, like Elvis and Bob Dylan, but the Man conspired against another brother...damn, I hate the Man!

Us music lovers will always recognize Bo Diddley's contributions.

[Carlie]

thanks for being gracious and not ripping on me.

[[deleted user]]

The opening chords to (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction is a riff. Hell, anything that comes out of Keith Richards' guitar is a riff.

[Carlie]

so it's just a repeated sequence of guitar sounds.
I only say that cause I didn't know what a chord was until a year ago when I started taking piano. And I'm sure some other hater might not know what it means either.

[Heidi]

"A memorable, can't-get-it-out-of-your-head, will-always-be identified-with- that -song-no-matter-how-many-people-sample-it progression of guitar chords" should be the official definition of a riff...

Bo Diddley had plenty of those.

[Tesse]

Previous to this thread I thought Bo Diddley was a household name.

[Carlie]

I do remember that commercial.....I also remember having no clue wtf they were talking about. I was only a kid.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I thought Bo Diddley was famous for a beat, not a riff.

I'm not helping, I know...