Bo Diddley quote

I've just read a great email from Scottish rocker Graham Knight talking about Bo Diddley. "I am reminded of Bo Diddley who discarded all the good reviews but kept a scrapbook of bad ones. When I asked him about this he said, "I don't need anyone to tell me I'm good. I know that already. But people saying I am bad - now that is interesting." You gotta love the eccentric nature of our heroes.

One of my favourite quotes if from Jerry Lee (natch-ez), a man well known for his self confidence. "I ain't never wrong. i thought I was wrong once, but I looked it up and I was right".

Art Meripol's concert photos

Art Meripol is a photographer from the southern states of the USA. Whilst looking for a photo of Billy Lee Riley I came across a website chockful of his great photos.

His website has an amazing array of on-stage photos from the 70's to the 90's, featuring a range of artists from Bruce Springsteen to Waylon Jennings. There's some wonderful photos of Jerry lee in a cowboy hat from 1981 and some beauties of BB King. You also get Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Bo Diddley....



If the link below doesn't work, just copy and paste it - you won't regret it.

http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=641943

Rock 'n' Roll Art No. 2

J.D.Sipe was born in 1951 in the small farming community of New London, Wisconsin but has lived most of his life in New Mexico. He is an award winning self-taught artist who specialises in painting blues singers and general musicians that he's a fan of. He paints on pine boards, and embellishes his paintings with bits of recycled aluminium can. See Lightnin' Hopkins' tie and handkerchief as an example.

Among our heroes to look out for, Snipes has painted Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker, Hank Williams, BB King and Stevie Ray Vaughan.


Away from art he is the bass player for the blues band the HooDoos, performing in saloons, dancehalls, honky-tonks, roadhouse and nightclubs throughout the Southwest. He has been a professional musician for more than thirty years, and has performed with such bluesmen as Homesick James, Joe Huston, Buddy Ace and Wild Child Butler. He loves to tell the story about the night that Steve Winwood sat in with his band at the Chicago Bar in Tucson.

Bo Diddley on youTube

What better way to remember the great man than by checking him out on youTube. He was a very visual artist with his dancing, his prototype guitars and with Duchess grooving away alongside.

Bo Diddley
In glaring technicolour from late 60's I'd guess.

Road Runner
Great 1960 tv black and white clip, great black and white band. Buperb picture quality as well.

Hey Bo Diddley
With a band as big as his flairs, this clip comes from 1985. Just like Bo there's horn a plenty.

Who Do You Love? (with Ron Wood)
Live from Tokyo, 1988. Those Stones boys worshipped the Chess guys as is obvious by the genuine smile on Wood's face.

I'm a Man
Powerful, menacing performance from Rennes, France, 1989. Forget the yera, this is vintage.

Let The Kids Dance
Wow. Fabulous 1965 clip from Hollywood a Go Go, complete with neat intro from show host KHJ Radio's "Boss Jock" Sam Riddle. There's the bonus of plenty of Bo dancing.

You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover
Just watch it! Nuff said.

Bo Diddley is Crazy
1996 promotional video for the single from the great A Man AMongst Men album.

Dueling Guitars (with Chuck Berry) Battle of the guitar from Let the Good Times Roll, 1973. I love the part where Bo pretends to run away from Chuck's duckwalk.

The Blues and Elvis - LAST INTERVIEW
You can't look at Bo without letting him remind us that he invented everything. Taken from Electrified: The Story of the Maxwell St Urban Blues.