Word: diddley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appear, do a three- song Bromberg bubble unrelated to anything else and then vanish. Instead he may back up Rush later on slide guitar and improvise a number with the gifted white Bluesman John Hammond. This season's featured guest was the formidable black Rhythm-and-Blues Pioneer Bo Diddley, whose major weapon is a five-speed turbo electric guitar built in a startling rectangular shape...
...kind of music I had never heard before and was not to hear anywhere else for some time. Years before Elvis Presley tumbled America into moral crisis by appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show, that they Boston radio station played Black rock and roll. The real stuff: Bo Diddley, Little Richard, "Earth Angel...
...Sound. "New Orleans music is Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Cuban and Mardi Gras Indian. Combine that with natural street rhythms like Bo Diddley or the hambone little spasm bands that play boxes and garbage-can covers in the streets and you have a piece of the thing. Add parade drums to that and you have a little more. The Mardi Gras Indians incorporated all this rhythmically. On Mardi Gras day the Indians would wear costumes-a lot of feathers-and come out in the morning to greet the sunrise and all move toward the center of the city. As they went...
After a maiden British tour with Bo Diddley, the Stones released their first album in 1964. It countered the early Beatles' cheerful harmonies with a rough-edged interpretation of what Jagger. Richards and Jones imagined America sounded like. Dominated by covers of American hits. The Rolling Stones, prepared critics and fans for the Stones first big single, "Not Fade Away," an aging Buddy Holly rattler which Richards souped up Chicago style...
...collision between the Stones and the States had an impact on the music as well. Convening here with their idols--Berry, Waters, Diddley. Howlin Wolf--they received new encouragement to use the American classics as a foundation as they moved onto orginal work. While Richards honed his barebones, metallic mixture of rock and R & B. Jagger discovered that the old stories about screwing and getting screwed over could be retold--with more of a snarl, if that seemed right, or even a touch of parody, to show that the whole business didn't mean much to the Stones...