Word: diddley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boys chose the name for their group tells much about them. Lead Singer John Fogerty, who writes most of their material, got his musical inspiration from Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley records. He learned chords from a Burl Ives songbook. Doug Clifford didn't even know how to play drums when John invited him to join. He converted a pair of old pool cues into drumsticks on a school lathe, bought a snare drum and began practicing. That was a decade ago, when they were 13 and schoolboys in suburban El Cerrito, Calif. With Stu Cook on piano...
...beautiful slide guitar and sings with a clearness and urgency that can hardly be matched. Shaky Walter along with Sunnyland Slim, and Willie Dixon (who wrote such classic songs as "Hoochie Coochie Man" and "I Just Want To Make Love To You") and Clifton James (who backs Bo Diddley on his recordings with Chess Records) complements Johnny Shines with an understated and beautiful mellow harp that places him in the same category as the late, great blues harpists, Sonny Boy Williamson and Little Walter...
...taken white audiences 20 years to discover them. Until early in 1968, King was locked into a dreary circuit of one-nighters-sometimes more than 300 a year-in big-city ghetto clubs and back-country roadhouses and shacks. Unlike such performers as Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, he was not flamboyant or commercial enough to cash in on the rock-'n'-roll explosion of the 1950s. Unlike such country stylists as Son House and Mississippi John Hurt, he was not primitive enough to be taken up in the folk revival of the early 1960s...
...than their musical output. They were formed in 1964 when Townshend, the son of a dance-band saxophonist in suburban London, met the other three in school. Their early local successes were based on imitations of U.S. blues and rock 'n' roll performers (John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley). Later, they pioneered in pop-art costumes, such as jackets made from Union Jacks. Then they began literally breaking things up-and probably inspired the guitar-burning antics of Singer Jimi Hendrix as well as the Yardbirds' memorable discotheque scene in the film Blow...
...this began to change with such English rock 'n' roll groups as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Animals, who made a point of crediting their sources?not only R & B figures such as Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, but also country and urban bluesmen such as John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker and B. B. King. "Until the Beatles exposed the origins," says Waters, "the white kids didn't know anything about the music. But now they've learned that it was in their backyard all the time...