Bo Diddley (1928-2008), The Originator !!

Ah ben merde encore un...
Bo était souvent un peu oublié par rapport à Jerry Lee Lewis,Chuck Berry, Little Richard...
Enfin bon 80 ans après une vie rock'n roll comme on dit c'est déja pas mal...

Desproges ?

Pour citer un exemple relativement récent, "Desire" de U2 est un pompage éhonté de Bo Diddley (bon, allez, on va dire un hommage ).

Sans parler du nombre incalculable de tubes qui sont devenus des standards universelles , I'm a Man, Before you accuse me, Who do you love, Hey Bo Diddley , Pretty Thing, you can't judge a book...



...et quel jeu de scéne

Un superbe hommage sur "The rock radio":

Many of the biggest names in rock n' roll are paying tribute to Bo Diddley, rock n' roll pioneer, who died Monday (June 2nd) of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida, at age 79.

Diddley was one of rock music's principal architects in the mid-1950s, alongside Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino and Jerry Lee Lewis. The guitarist-singer-songwriter scored major pop hits with "Bo Diddley" and "I'm a Man" in 1955 and 1959's "Say Man" (1959), and made an almost incalculable impact on rock from the '50s onward. His music influenced artists working in such disparate styles as rockabilly, British Invasion pop, surf, psychedelic, hip-hop, and punk rock.

The Rolling Stones were among the many British Invasion bands to cover Diddley's music, and Mick Jagger told bbc.co.uk that Diddley was an "enormous force in music... a wonderful, original musician. He was very generous to us in our early years and we learned a lot from him. We will never see his like again."

Robert Plant was quoted as saying Diddley's "voice and relentless, glorious anthems echo down through my years."

B.B. King, a longtime friend of Diddley's, said that his legacy would "live on forever," and called him "a music pioneer and legend with a unique style. We always had a good time when we played together."

Slash also paid tribute, telling nme.com: "He's a huge hero of mine and the fact that he knew who I was a huge compliment. Bo Diddley created a myth that was uniquely his own. An entire rhythm is owed to just one guy and that's pretty rare."

A funeral service open to the public will be held for Diddley on Saturday (June 7th) in Gainesville, Florida, at 2 p.m. at the Showers of Blessing Harvest Center.

Later that night, from 6 to 9 p.m., a non-religious memorial for Diddley will be held at Gainesville's Martin Luther King, Jr. Multi-Purpose Center, featuring members of his touring band and guest musicians.

Diddley had remained active on the touring circuit up through last May, when he suffered a stroke in Council Bluffs, Iowa, followed by a heart attack in August.

Bo Diddley was born Ellas Otha Bates, December 30th, 1928, in McComb, Mississippi. He was raised by his mother's cousin Gussie McDaniel, with whom he moved to Chicago at the age of seven and whose surname he took, becoming Ellas McDaniel. Sources differ on where the stage name Bo Diddley originated, but McDaniel was using it professionally by 1954, when he recorded "I'm a Man" and his namesake song at Chess Records' studios.

Issued as a single, "Bo Diddley" topped Billboard's R&B Singles chart in 1955 -- its flipside, "I'm a Man," charted for 11 weeks in its own right and was followed by Top-20 hits "Diddley Daddy," "Pretty Thing," "I'm Sorry," "Crackin' Up" and "Say Man."

He cut 11 albums for the Chess label between 1958 and 1963, a number of which are now highly collectable. In 1963 he co-headlined a U.K. tour with the Everly Brothers; opening the bill were the up-and-coming Rolling Stones.

Diddley is most often cited for his signature "Bo Diddley beat," a syncopated 5/4 pattern similar to the West African-derived "hambone" rhythm or "Shave and a haircut two-bits" couplet. Over the years, Diddley variously claimed to have adapted the beat from music he heard in church, from trying to play the Gene Autry song "Jingle Jangle" and from attempting to play his guitar like a drum.

The taut, rumba-like beat has powered literally hundreds of rock and pop records, everything from Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" and the Who's "Magic Bus" to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' "American Girl," George Michael's "Faith" and Bruce Springsteen's "She's The One." A half dozen key Diddley compositions have held down prized spots in the repertoire of thousands of performing artists for decades.

Dion, who covered Diddley's classic "Who Do You Love" on his Grammy-nominated Bronx In Blue album, says Diddley was always generous and hospitable while the two were out on the road together: "Bo has been a friend over the years. He'd be cookin' in his room with his little oven that he brings into the room there. He'd fry up some fish or chicken, you know, whatever he was doing -- and we'd eat in the room, you know?"

Dion went on to recall first catching Diddley's live act: "It had to be about '55? I saw him at the Apollo, with his cousin playin' maracas, and he had a drummer -- no bass player. And, man, they had to rebuild the stage after he left, because the guy was just fantastic."

In 2005, at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York City, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Rock Hall inductions, two members of the first class were brought on to perform -- Bo Diddley and Jerry Lee Lewis. Robbie Robertson said Diddley's influence has been felt continuously for about 50 years: "Everyone from Buddy Holly to Eric Clapton to the Band to Motown to U2 have all built songs on this famous beat. It's called the Bo Diddley beat, the song is called 'Bo Diddley,' and the man is called a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and one of the founding fathers of rock and roll, ladies and gentlemen, Bo Diddley."

One of Diddley's first hits was the rock ballad "Love Is Strange," recorded by New York duo Mickey & Sylvia in 1957 and featured in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing. Equally as durable are the classics "I'm a Man" and "Who Do You Love." "I'm A Man" has been covered by, among others, Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Yardbirds, Iggy & the Stooges, and British garage-punk icons the Pretty Things, who took their name from another Bo Diddley tune, while "Who Do You Love" has found its way onto albums by the Band, the Doors, Bob Seger, Patti Smith and George Thorogood.

Mojo magazine credited Quicksilver Messenger Service's 1969 album Happy Trails with "defining acid-rock" by "taking two simple Bo Diddley songs -- 'Who Do You Love' and 'Mona' -- and stretching them into every possible permutation."

Diddley's music, particularly hard-driving numbers like "Who Do You Love," "Roadrunner" and "You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover," provided the foundation for the blues wing of the 1964-65 British Invasion. Diddley was frequently cited as a hero by Mick Jagger and others, and his songs were cut by the Rolling Stones, Kinks, Manfred Mann and the Nashville Teens.

Diddley's influence also extended to soul music (his last charting single was the Top-20 R&B hit "Ooh Baby"); 1970s punk-rock (he toured internationally with the Clash in 1979); teen pop (he wrote 1959's "Mama, Can I Go Out Tonight" for Jo-Ann Campbell; and even surf music with tremolo-laden instrumentals like 1961's "Aztec."

His music was on the soundtracks to movies like Boys Don't Cry, The Color Of Money, Dirty Dancing and La Bamba; and on television, in The Cosby Show, Sesame Street, and a 1989 series of Nike ads, in which Diddley appeared with football/baseball star Bo Jackson.

Diddley's last recording was the 1997 Grammy nominated album, A Man Amongst Men.

He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998.

In 1997, Diddley performed at the second inauguration of President Bill Clinton. The following year his "Bo Diddley" was inducted into the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame as a recording of lasting historical significance.

His "Roadrunner" was used in a series of commercials for Chase Bank, and Paul McCartney and Wings' recording of "Love Is Strange" was featured in the 2000 documentary Wingspan. More recently, Diddley joined with ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons in developing the Billy-Bo Jupiter Thunderbird guitar for Gretsch, a model whose form and function Gibbons described as "very nasty pieces of pure rock 'n roll." The guitar, together with his instantly recognizable cigar box shaped square guitar, is featured prominently in the soon to be released video game Rock Band 2.

Throughout his career, Diddley lent his support to a variety of national charities and non-profit organizations, including the Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, as well as numerous local organizations in Florida and Illinois, including the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, for whom he performed an annual fundraiser.

Neil Portnow the President and CEO of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) issued a statement on Diddley's death: "A Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Bo Diddley was one of rock 'n' roll's true pioneers. He inspired legions of musicians with his trademark rhythm and signature custom-built guitar, and his song "Bo Diddley" earned a rightful place in the Grammy Hall Of Fame. He leaves an indelible mark on American music and culture, and our deepest sympathies go out to his family, friends and fans. The 'Bo Diddley beat' surely will continue on."

Keith Richards recently told Rolling Stone, "Watching Bo Diddley was university for me, every set was 20 minutes long. When he came off, if he had two strings left on his guitar it was a... miracle."

Diddley is survived by his brother the Reverend Kenneth Haynes of Biloxi, Mississippi; his children, Evelyn Kelly, Ellas A. McDaniel, Tammi D. McDaniel and Terri Lynn Foster; and 15 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren.

A funeral service open to the public will be held for Diddley on Saturday (June 7th) in Gainesville, Florida, at 2 p.m. at the Showers of Blessing Harvest Center.

Later that night, from 6 to 9 p.m., a non-religious memorial for Diddley will be held at Gainesville's Martin Luther King, Jr. Multi-Purpose Center, featuring members of his touring band and guest musicians.

http://www.therockradio.com/

Ouais ou alors on peut dire qu'on les compte sur les doigts de pied de Guillaume Depardieu (mais sa marche moins bien que pour les mains ).
Alors il reste qui d'autres à part Chuck Berry, Little Richard et Jerry Lee Lewis ? Fats Domino ? (il avait été porté disparu après l'ouragan Katrina). Après il reste quand même ces grands blueman (inutile de tous les citer), mais pour ce qui est du rock n' roll des 50's malheuresement il en reste très peu.
Et puis sa guitare : je l'aime pas trop mais elle restera toujours mythique. Elle est commercialisé sous une Bo Diddley signature ?

Concernant "I'm a Man" : c'est elle qui a inspiré le "Mannish Boy" de Muddy Waters ? Elle se ressemblent comme 2 goutes deux (sauf pour les paroles).

Chez Gretsch, tu trouves deux de ses guitares emblématiques: la rectangulaire (en version Electromatic/chinoise et Gretsch/japonaise) et la Jupiter ou "Billy-Bo" (modèle conjoint à Bo Diddley et Billy Gibbons).

La rythmique est toujours moins gratifiante que les riffs, dans l'oreille des gens un Johnny B. Goode ou un Great Balls Of Fire accrochera toujours plus qu'un Hey Bo Diddley... Comme Elvis qui a eu la riche idée de faire tourner Blue Moon Of Kentucky en 4/4 en non plus en 3/4 à la Bluegrass, ça a contribué faire évoluer les choses plus qu'on ne le pense (d'ailleurs ça avait tellement scié Bill Monroe à l'époque qu'il l'a réenregistrée ainsi). Aujourd'hui quelqu'un qui commence la guitare va essayer les Satisfaction, Smoke On The Water ou Come As You Are, beaucoup plus rarement faire tourner un James brown .


Ben ces quatre là, l'ultime carré d'as. D'ailleurs je pense que Fats Domino est encore plus souvent oublié que Bo Diddley, peut-être parce qu'il a beaucoup moins tourné que les trois autres (d'ailleurs tourne-t-il encore ? Parce lui aussi a 80 ans, le pépère).


Ouaip. En général, sur les disques, Mannish Boy est bien créditéé Waters/McDaniel. D'ailleurs, I'm A Man n'était "que" la face B de Bo Diddley, ça fait partie des singles rentrés dans la légende.

Une gratte qui me fait bien envie depuis un paquet de temps cette billy bo...

Bienvenue au club (faut dire, je suis fan de ses deux parrains alors ...)

P'té quel pied je viens de me ré-envoyer un disque de Bo Diddley... Une compile que j'avais topé en 89 ou 90... Bah ça m'a rappelé direct mes 15 piges quand je suis resté bab' devant ce truc...
Dans cette compil' il y a la plupart des hits incontournables mais aussi quelques titres moins hymnesques mais tout aussi puissants dont le phénoménal Dearest Darling... En 58 je crois bien que personne s'arrachait les cordes vocales comme ça en dehors de Little Richard...

Et aussi un titre qui m'a toujours fait tripper... Say Man... Basiquement un échange de vannes foireuses entre Bo et son joueur de Maracas, Jerome Green (le Jerome de Bring It To Jerome), sur le mode ta meuf, ta mère, t'es moche, tu sers à rien...

Say man,
Whats that boy?
I want to tell you bout your girlfriend,
What about my girl?
Well, you dont look strong enough to take the message,
Im strong enough,
I might hurt your feelings,
My feelings are already hurt by being here with you,
Well, I was walking down the street with your girl the other day,
Ah-ha,
And the wind was blowin real hard,
Is that right?
And the wind blew her hair into my face,
Ah-ha,
You know what else happened?
What happened?
The wind blew her hair into her face,
Yeh?
And we went a little further; you wanna hear the rest of it?
I might as well,
The wind blew her hair into the street!
Ok; since you told me about my girl, Im gonna tell you about yours. I was walking down the street with your girl,
Yes?
I took her home, for a drink, you know,
Took her home?
Yeh, jus for a drink,
Oh,
But that chick looked so ugly, she had to sneak up on the glass to get a drink of water!
Youve got the nerve to call somebody ugly; why you so ugly the stork that brought you in the world oughta be arrested!
Thats alright; my momma didnt have to put a sheet on my head so sleep could slip up on me!
Look-a here!
Whats that?
Where are you from?
South america,
Whats that?
South america,
You dont look like no south american to me,
Im still from south america,
What part?
South texas!
Where are your workin boots at?
Ive got em on,
Those arent no boots you got on; those broguettes!
Hey, look-a here!
Whats that?
Ive been tryin to figure out what you is,
I already figured out what you is!
Whats that?
You that thing I throw peanuts at!
Look-a here!
Whats that?
You should be ashamed of yourself,
Why?
Calling people ugly,
I didnt call you ugly,
What you say?
I said you was ruined, thats all!
You know somethin?
What?
You look like youve bin whooped with a ugly-stick!
Hey! I aint got nothin to do with it, but I beat the fellah right...!

Where are you from?
South america,
Whats that?
South america,
You dont look like no south american to me,
Im still from south america,
What part?
South texas!

SHUT UP WOMAN

RIP

c'était tout une guitariste ce type là!

Un p'tit hommage à Bo http://www.dailymotion.com/rea(...)music

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