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Great pick Cody, the first mention I have seen of Bo on mog

"Yeah Baby!"

great post.

Who would have thunk that he did funk? Great discovery.

Let no man say Bo knows diddley! Mother-funkin' cool!

Bo Diddley... now he is someone in my top 10 list of the coolest artists ever. I missed his funk side somehow, but it is ok because my buddy Cody is here to blow my mind with his posts every week.

This is an even better summer track than the last one. Thanks again.

Sounds great! I really fear that someday I will hear Odetta's version. I am putting crosses and garlic on my front door now.

If I'd heard this blind and asked to guess the artist, Bo Diddley might have come up at some point during the fourth day. I love the effortlessness of the rhythm section.

... Catchy. That'll take some doing to get it out of my head.

I didnt know Bo did funk either. This is a great one! I love the album cover too.

Ok, am I trippin or is that intro a break I've heard from some hip hop joint?

Jshua-Here's the-breaks.com list. Not too big of list, but Buddy was a monster. De la Soul’s “Buddy” Def Jef’s “Just a Poet (It Feels Mighty Fine)” Kwame’s “Dontmatta” Method Man’s “I Get My Thang in Action” Schoolly D’s “Your Worst Nightmare”

dermahrk - I think you'd be pleasantly suprised with the Odetta version, it is unlike anything I've ever heard from her, which is prolly a good thing for you. Can't find it on CD though.

Cheers to all!

I will never question Bo Diddley's place in rock n' roll. Bo did more for rock n' roll than just about anyone else. But I do have a funny story about seeing him live a couple of years ago.
It was not funky, or even good in any sense of the word. I got free tickets (fortunately) and was given a stack of them that the recipient couldn't give away. I handed the stack to someone when I went in, not wanting to miss the show trying to give them away. My then girlfriend (now wife), another friend, and I sat and watched for like an hour and a half of what looked like a man with dementia attempt to play songs from the Bo Diddley catalog. Well his back up band was a strange mix of musicians, who were not bad in anyway, and in fact carried Mr. Diddley as he went off on musical and non musical tangents. They stayed quiet and let Bo diddle on stage. About two songs in Bo started fiddling with an effects processor he claimed to have bought 20 years ago (so I'm guessing sometime in the 80's) and he said he had recently pulled it out of the closet and dusted it off and decided to play around with it . And so he did. For the whole rest of the concert. Gone was the beautiful sounds of his signature custom square Gretsch guitar. In it's place were the sounds of a really bad 80's effects processor and some wildly liberal interpretations of his back catalog (and not in a good way). The band stayed the course like a ship towards a light house, perhaps ignoring their bosses self indulgent experimentation in front of a (mostly) paying audience. Somewhere in the midst he started to write a song about Osama Bin Laden messing with the U.S. and how he was in for a heck of a surprise. It wasn't long after 9/11, so Bo was just staying relevant. Looking up,he also proceeded to throw in something about Bud Light into the song, too. We turned around and saw a neon Bud Light sign in the back of the theater. We were laughing our asses off. When the concert was over, we left glad we hadn't spent a dime on it, but still wishing we could get that time back. I still hope to this day, Mr. Diddley is well cared for in his old age and can just quietly pass on into the next world, leaving only his legacy behind.

@contra- we've all Mogged before about how some of our heroes of yore who carry on, can be less than perfect when compared to their heyday. I remember one particular comment I got about how Geogre Clinton was not on his best behavior when signing some cd's for fans after a show recently. The comment basically said he should hang it up and that he'd lost his chops, etc. All of this may be true, and I excuse no one for being an asshole, but unfortunately some of these oldsters, especially R and B oldsters, HAVE to tour well into their late 70's and beyond. It is a shame but they need to get paid! It always makes me sad when I see folks like Ko Ko Taylor who have to be on the road, for their pocketbook, on top of the entourages they support. I wish they'd be able to hang it up and relax a bit.

Oh yeah, I saw P.Funk All-Stars once. Never again. It was more the crowd that pissed me off over anything else. I don't know who invites the Frat Boy contingent to these things but nothing sucks more than being surrounded by loud assholes high fiving and doing Rugby chants through out a concert. No thanks, I'll go home and listen to "Maggot Brain" on some headphones thank you. I've heard George is out of his head these days. I don't dwell on these things too much though (no one these days could match the output he had in the 70's), I'm just thankful they released the good music they have.

^those stories are sad, and Cody is correct to bring up the issue, because there are so many artists struggling like that. Give some money to the blues foundations and others trying to support those good people. Thanks for the song Cody, definitely itching for some lemonade. And maybe a baseball game tonight.

Thanks Michelle, play ball!

Nice contra..I hear what you are saying. I'm just glad I had a chance to see the mothership.

a post like this is exactly why i love mog...i can't get enough of the funk - but somehow this has escaped me. off to find it now.

Late to the party, but all the more grateful to you for this track. -- Bo will be missed.