Another one of the greatest, most influential and under rated guitar players of all time is dead at the age of 79.
He was one of those players who everyone has heard of, but never really heard him actually play or realize that your favorite band was playing a tune made by the great one!
I know that I am part of that club and it is so sad that something like this has to happen to make us all wake up and realize the brilliance that, that person had. But isn’t that always the case.
He did catch the ear of everyone from the Rolling Stones all throughout the years to U2, thank heavens someone was paying attention to one of the god fathers of rock guitar!
From his unique approach to guitar (it’s interesting to note what he had to do to enhance his playing technique) all the way down to his own home made cigar box guitar, you can’t help but be amazed at how he started to play and the single handed determination that drove the great one to Rock and Roll immortality!
From his early days to todays music scene, the guy has driven through virgin snow for all of us to follow in his foot prints.
He really wanted to be a drummer? Well thank God for the rest of us that he choose the guitar! Honestly, that’s what he says in the begging of this one so listen carefully! It’s one of those things that make you go huummm, in the middle of the night! He also talks about how he got his name, I just about fell off my chair laughing at it, just ask my wife and dog Midnight.
May you get into heaven an hour before the devil knows your dead Mr Bo Diddley!
Keep on Jammin’ where ever you are Sir!
Under rated? I am not sure I would consider Bo Diddley under rated. He is pretty much a household name, and it’s not because of his chart topping singles.
Great memorial post.
Thanx for the comment on my post about the GREAT BO DIDDLEY David! Please, let me explain about my choice of words sir.
What I meant to convey was that a good portion of the general public is really
unaware of what he actually produced, that is what I should have said.
I work in Toronto Hospital recovery room. While bringing patients and their worry to death family and friends to their rooms, I get a chance to lighten up their mood by laughter, either with me or at me, and I try to make them think of other things to bring their mind off what they went through or are about to go through.
Everyone was aware of who Bo Diddley was but they all were very hard pressed to name more then 2 songs. some even know that he played a cigar box guitar but that was it. It’s sad to say but that is what I have come across in my travels and boy I have traveled a lot!
I hope that I have at some level explained myself here with no disrespect in any which way, shape or form to the great one. God rest his talented soul.
Keep on Jammin’