Back in 1970 I met Bo Diddley. He was playing at an outdoor concert in East Boston, MA. I was 17 years old and I was walking King my Siberian Husky. Bo hadn’t gone on stage yet and when he saw King he was amazed because as he told me, he had never seen a dog with blue eyes before. He patted King and asked me if he could hold him on the leash and I said, please do. It’s a wonderful memory that I’ll never forget.
@@billbossinger321 I...... believe it is...... yessss. I dig Bo. For me, he was the best and most original of the 50s/60s guys. Have you heard Mumblin Guitar by Bo? That's a good one.
Yeah, 'we the people decide', and unfortunately millions and millions of 'the people' have decided to constantly follow those 'influencers and their bs' you mention. Just as they support soulless computer created auto tuned music. The only reason influencers exist is because of the constant 24/7 support they get worldwide.
Dude, you are deluded as all hell, you don’t think this was racy for back then? Context matters and you’re inventing context, and if you want proof, look at the attitudes concerning race relations then if you think I’m pulling stuff out of my ass.
These fuckers are influencers (sex, race, genders, political rights, subliminal messaging, vibrational frequencies catalysing emotions of a certain persuasion and much, much more... ) , you just ain't woken up to the fact yet. Mark Devlin - go watch his presentations, or read his books on musical 'influencers'... it's a very long, slippery, tail...
I saw Bo Diddley in 1969 in Toronto on a bill with Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry and Little Richard. It also featured the Doors and Alice Cooper and Chicago, and surprise guests John Lennon, Eric Clapton and the Plastic One Band. Of all of them I still remember Bo the best.
We were very blessed to have Bo living here in our town in New Mexico. Bo jr. is still living here and we have the privilege of seeing him on open mic nights. Carrying on the Bo D tradition.
In around 2001 I was working in Albuquerque, I was staying in a hotel while I worked & decided to go the casino, they had an outdoor arena & I heard an announcement that Bo Diddley would be playing in 15 min. I went in bought a ticket & got to watch the legend! Awesome show!
Went to an outdoor concert at Lake Amador, CA. "Gold Rush". Billed- Ike and Tina Turner, Santana, Bo Diddly. Got to see Tina up close and personal. Met Bo Diddley.
@@handsomeman-pm9vy Most women are that slender. Someday you may actually meet one, and if you're lucky, she'll talk to you. .. Doubtful, but it could happen.
Don’t have to imagine-I remember my friend Ivan telling me how cool this was. Then he played it for me and I was hooked forever.Long time ago but just like yesterday. 76 years and still rocking.
Stars are just people who are very good at doing something the public want to see. Some let it go to their heads and become A-holes, the rest stay normal and grounded. Working backstage I've met a number of famous people and (with one exception) they've been great. Some have been so down-to-earth they amazed me. The late, great Edwin Starr was probably the nicest man I've ever met, happy to chat with backstage staff and treat them as equals - part of the same team, trying to make a successful show.
I saw him at Swansea Top Rank 1985 😎🎸😎 brill amazing to hear the fresh licks. Also, Rick Nelson was with him Del Shannon, Bobby Vee,Frankie Ford, the Marvelettes all for £7.50 😮 those were the Days before rip off merchants got involved 🙄
@@buckyoung4578 Buddy Holly ripped off this song, made it into "Not Fade Away". The Stones moved it back to the original a long way when they covered Not fade away.
The only band with a Duchess (the rhythm guitar player). Criminally overlooked in rock history. Could write some of the funniest lyrics ever - IStory of Bo Diddley and Say Man still crack me up). And wrote songs which inspired great cover versions, my fave being Mona by the Stones.
I got to see Bo Diddley live at a bar in Chicago and we actually met up in the men's room. I told him I loved his music and he said thank you very much.
Provocative, innovative, and a rock and roll icon. In the late 50s and early 60s I started taking Bo Didley seriously, when my idol, Buddy Holly recorded this song. It rocks as no other song of those days did.
Saw Bo play in a bar in the mid eighties. Got his autograph and we talked for a while. He was a really friendly and cool guy. I love his music by the way.
Saw him live in 1960 Greenville SC . The show was called Biggest Show of Stars. 6 or 8 artists including Lavern Baker, Sammy Turner and Brook Benton. What a time it was and I was a teenager.
Bo traveled the world,made friends everywhere he went..was always a welcome mat out for him ..interviewers in his later life would constantly ask him about his bad experiences in the music business, ignoring all the joy his gifts brought us .he would oblige them with stories about those days,.but he was not a bitter or angry man...as I said,this world was full of people who were happy to see him come,and sad to see him go..
Watched Bo bring a kid up on stage at an outdoor show re-opening an old bridge up in St. Paul. Kid was a prodigy on the mouth harp. He jammed with the kid for like 20 minutes. Met em both afterwards. Bo was the nicest cat. Down to earth great guy. 2004 maybe I can't remember..
This is so mesmerizing of a song that to me this will always go down as one if not the best song ever by an all black member band, i guess its hard to believe the heavy guitar riff and solid hipnotic drumming since black bands usually were soul, and no disrepect towards anyone that reads this white or black . Just sometthing about the beat of the drum and that chugging guitar i cant get enough of.
@@chairman76 i havent researched that but its my opinion, i know their was little richard and chuck berry and some others t rock like this but i guess im comparing it to the shit rap most blacks make now
@@chairman76well its IRONIC that theirs no one else sounding like this as an all black band from this time or any time since this. everything they do now is garbage (c)rap, i guess thats what i was refering to as the good old rock n roll from this era in time and look how its all changed now.
@@grindfreakmike5754 This is ignorance of the highest order. Don't you know that in the 1940s and 50s Rock & Roll was known as "N1gger music" and Jazz "Jungle" music. Aren't you aware the biggest percentage of Hip-Hop fans are white people and in fact one of the biggest rappers is a blonde, white guy? With your kind, it's all about the hate. You'll hate black people no matter what they do.
For those who keep asking for the original live recording of this footage, it can be found here: ua-cam.com/video/yeZHB3ozglQ/v-deo.html
You just answered my question.
Back in 1970 I met Bo Diddley. He was playing at an outdoor concert in East Boston, MA. I was 17 years old and I was walking King my Siberian Husky. Bo hadn’t gone on stage yet and when he saw King he was amazed because as he told me, he had never seen a dog with blue eyes before. He patted King and asked me if he could hold him on the leash and I said, please do. It’s a wonderful memory that I’ll never forget.
A very cool memory!
That is an awesome story. Did you stay and watch his show?
@@paulandersen9492 yes!
And that makes the story even better,. Very cool.@@Airedale721
thank you for the story of BO
with you
Without Bo Diddley there be no Bo Diddley.
Well said
100% 🎯❕️🤟🐻❄️
@@portrait1001 I see what you did there
Those girls with Bo are killing it.
Love ❤️ the beat and sound
Everyone’s killing it
🤷
Not too shabby, but were that girl really playing the guitar, or just playing the fool?
@@Deontjie That's Norma-Jean Wofford. She played guitar in his band for a few years.
Let's talk about the ladies and the one playing the guitar 🎸 all were fantastic!!
The Duchess or Norma Jean Wofford, a pioneering female guitarist.
There’s only a couple of riffs by a couple of artists that drove 40 years of rock & roll. This is one of them.
Yep. Shave and a haircut....two bits😊
This song never gets old.
So true... check out that badass The Duchess, playing her Gretsch Jupiter Thunderbird. A true pioneer for women in R&R!
@@strictlynorton a drill sergeant will keep you in goose bumps, calling cadence with Bo Didley
Song?….
@@sjefhendrickx2257 "Bo Diddley" by Bo Diddley; i.e. the song being performed in the video I commented on. 🙃
Bo Diddley is one of the foundations of rock and roll. One of a kind.
Yep, there's a reason they call it the Bo Diddley beat.
He, Chuck Berry and Little Richard are the most important musicians of rock and roll, no matter how good and famous their students became.
He could moan the blues a bit, too.
Right man, this really is the Sh!t
@@fideliusconcrete4871 Don't forget Buddy Holly.
This is one of the best things I've ever seen and I'm not kidding
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OMG that is so TRUE!!!!!!❤❤❤
Is this still one of the best things you have ever seen? If so, why? If it isn't, why not?
@@billbossinger321
I...... believe it is...... yessss. I dig Bo. For me, he was the best and most original of the 50s/60s guys. Have you heard Mumblin Guitar by Bo? That's a good one.
This is some grade A level deep voodoo caveman shit right here. Corruptin Americas youth at its finest.
Innocence of youth, love of music, what ever happened to that magical world?
Today it’s all about influencers and their bs...WE the people decide...
So agree with you - today's world is so screwed up - love the world that I grew up in
You have got that right on. The Nose
Yeah, 'we the people decide', and unfortunately millions and millions of 'the people' have decided to constantly follow those 'influencers and their bs' you mention. Just as they support soulless computer created auto tuned music. The only reason influencers exist is because of the constant 24/7 support they get worldwide.
Dude, you are deluded as all hell, you don’t think this was racy for back then? Context matters and you’re inventing context, and if you want proof, look at the attitudes concerning race relations then if you think I’m pulling stuff out of my ass.
These fuckers are influencers (sex, race, genders, political rights, subliminal messaging, vibrational frequencies catalysing emotions of a certain persuasion and much, much more... ) , you just ain't woken up to the fact yet. Mark Devlin - go watch his presentations, or read his books on musical 'influencers'... it's a very long, slippery, tail...
I saw Bo Diddley in 1969 in Toronto on a bill with Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry and Little Richard. It also featured the Doors and Alice Cooper and Chicago, and surprise guests John Lennon, Eric Clapton and the Plastic One Band. Of all of them I still remember Bo the best.
Great concert.... Ten times better than Woodstock
@@paulgentile1024 For one thing I was home in half an hour
Wow that sounds like an amazing show
Im certain i have a vinyl album of that show
Good God, what a line up!!🤯
Bo Diddley. There will never be another. 👍
Awesome incredible outstanding
man- those gals got mad moves !
I love watching the girls in the audience. They remind me of the girls from my teenage years.
Wow! His accompanying ladies are so groovy !!
We were very blessed to have Bo living here in our town in New Mexico. Bo jr. is still living here and we have the privilege of seeing him on open mic nights. Carrying on the Bo D tradition.
Na hora que você ver ele.
Manda ele passar lá em casa pra tomar um café .
☕☕☕🍵🍵🍵
He lived here in Okla. City for a few years too.
❤❤❤❤❤❤
In around 2001 I was working in Albuquerque, I was staying in a hotel while I worked & decided to go the casino, they had an outdoor arena & I heard an announcement that Bo Diddley would be playing in 15 min. I went in bought a ticket & got to watch the legend! Awesome show!
That’s awesome way to catch a legend
Went to an outdoor concert at Lake Amador, CA. "Gold Rush".
Billed- Ike and Tina Turner, Santana, Bo Diddly.
Got to see Tina up close and personal. Met Bo Diddley.
OMG! Were black women ever that slender?
@@handsomeman-pm9vy
Most women are that slender. Someday you may actually meet one, and if you're lucky, she'll talk to you. .. Doubtful, but it could happen.
@@daryllect6659
Where have you been for the past 30 years?
Go outside and look around. All you will see
is fat and obesity.
Very original sound, modern, unconventional... a real inspiration for a number of groups
I beg to differ... primal, archaic, lustful, potent, mesmeric... True, Jungle Big Beat!
saw Bo at the Esquire Show Bar....Montreal, Quebec.....great
Appears to be done in about 1965 but is a hit from 1955. Just great! His songs never grew old.
I wonder how many times this can go on repeat before I get enough🤣
This sound gets me every time , can you imagine hearing this when it came out ! Great band as well!
Yeah must have been mind blowing when it was released.
Don’t have to imagine-I remember my friend Ivan telling me how cool this was. Then he played it for me and I was hooked forever.Long time ago but just like yesterday. 76 years and still rocking.
I love how the audience jams , with the song and the band, they are having a blast, love ya go diddley
They paid to for the show.
It's mimed.
@@SpaceTravel1776 you are 100% right
How well behaved and appreciative the crowd were. The girls really into the music.
Dear Mr. DIDDLY, Sir you are a legend forever....
Was für ein irrer Sound. Ein ewiger Favorit in meiner privaten Hitliste! Ich habe dieses Lied kennen gelernt im Film "Fritz the Cat".
Coolest backup chicks ever.
Often imitated, never duplicated !
have a guitar pick that Bo gave me ;)
Infectious ❤
A song to get your bones dancing and those girls... wow!
For the last few weeks I keep coming back. This beat is so intoxicating.
It's all about the beat, the dancers and THE DUCHESS!!!
That women on the left her smirk is contagious and the music too just smiling all the way through
Who could say no to this?
some drill sgts in Ft. Ord in 1969 always sang this while we jogged around the base b4 breakfast. Loved the lyrics. I liked running to this rhythm.
Still sounds psychedelic. The out of time tremolo, the droning chords. Still mesmerising and other worldly.
Saw him live in Bath England, spoke with him, just an ordinary human being underneath it all. Just like you and me ! ! !
Stars are just people who are very good at doing something the public want to see. Some let it go to their heads and become A-holes, the rest stay normal and grounded.
Working backstage I've met a number of famous people and (with one exception) they've been great. Some have been so down-to-earth they amazed me. The late, great Edwin Starr was probably the nicest man I've ever met, happy to chat with backstage staff and treat them as equals - part of the same team, trying to make a successful show.
No way!
Met him twice..not a pretentious bone in his body..loved people, and he got it back everywhere he went.
In which year ? I saw him in London in 1965 at the Flamingo
I saw him at Swansea Top Rank 1985 😎🎸😎 brill amazing to hear the fresh licks. Also, Rick Nelson was with him Del Shannon, Bobby Vee,Frankie Ford, the Marvelettes all for £7.50 😮 those were the Days before rip off merchants got involved 🙄
How good is this,foot starts going as soon as you hear it.Mark E Smith was spot on about Bo Diddley
The true godfather of Rock 'n' Roll. 😊
WRONG!!!!! That was Buddy Holly!!!!
@@buckyoung4578 Buddy Holly ripped off this song, made it into "Not Fade Away". The Stones moved it back to the original a long way when they covered Not fade away.
The only band with a Duchess (the rhythm guitar player). Criminally overlooked in rock history. Could write some of the funniest lyrics ever - IStory of Bo Diddley and Say Man still crack me up). And wrote songs which inspired great cover versions, my fave being Mona by the Stones.
As a German, i‘ve got just one word for that: GEIIIIIIL! 🤟🏼👍🏼
Just fantastic!
I got to see Bo Diddley live at a bar in Chicago and we actually met up in the men's room. I told him I loved his music and he said thank you very much.
Do you happen to be Danny Borenstein and had a cat named Sam that was a Russian Blue.
Wish I had been there
I did get to see BB at the Scottish rite cathedral in Harrisburg Pennsylvania before he passed
And he would play at the Forum in Hbg almost every year
And saw Miles Davis at the St Moritz in 1980 across from the capitol building in Hbg Pa
Bo Diddly was a genius!
Look at those Fender Dual showman amplifiers!
What a sound that is ❤
¡Qué mujeres más exquisitas..., y con esa música fenomenal y ese baile candente..., me vuelven loco!...
Way way ahead of its time awesome track
Brings me back to when I was 13 and first heard Bo. Bo and Chuck Berry invented R & R.
Something so simple yet so brilliant
I saw him in New York City at a Alan Freed Christmas concert in the late 50s. I'll never forget that red square guitar he played
Oh man, this song's beat is coarsing throughout my body, and I'm lovin' it!😁👍
Provocative, innovative, and a rock and roll icon. In the late 50s and early 60s I started taking Bo Didley seriously, when my idol, Buddy Holly recorded this song. It rocks as no other song of those days did.
What's that old saying, if you don't know Bo you don't know Diddley 😎
Saw Bo play in a bar in the mid eighties. Got his autograph and we talked for a while. He was a really friendly and cool guy. I love his music by the way.
I got his autograph too in the mid 80s, after a show in Australia. He autographed a tour promo poster. Still got it.
Fantastic groove.
Absolutely Sensational! Original Rock & Roll!
Mr Bo Diddley you were 1 of the best in music history (Sleep Well) 🎶💙🎼
100% badass rocknroll! 🤘
Such a cool song, sounds bloody good to this day.
Superb
one of the greats of all time
The women on this steal the show with how sultry they move to the rhythm. The one playing the guitar is like warm honey melting butter
Thanks for introducing me to this artist! Bo was hard af!!!
I could watch this a million times and still get the same buzz from it - sheer class at every level 😎
The great Bo Diddley and his guitarist wow
I love that 'come hither' dance style they have ❤
Basically Bo only plays that one beat every song, and I still can’t hear enough of it.
To quote the Beastie Boys here. THE LADIES, THE LADIES!!
My king of rock and roll Mr bo diddley
This song goes with ANYTHING.
LOVE BO DIDLEY ❤
Saw him live in 1960 Greenville SC . The show was called Biggest Show of Stars. 6 or 8 artists including Lavern Baker, Sammy Turner and Brook Benton. What a time it was and I was a teenager.
Bo traveled the world,made friends everywhere he went..was always a welcome mat out for him ..interviewers in his later life would constantly ask him about his bad experiences in the music business, ignoring all the joy his gifts brought us .he would oblige them with stories about those days,.but he was not a bitter or angry man...as I said,this world was full of people who were happy to see him come,and sad to see him go..
Excellent and touching comment stay blessed.
Love the understated moves of the dancers. Perfect for the bo diddley beat.
So if i were listening to this in 1955 really had to headbang😅
Saw him in London with Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis late fifties.
Que privilégio conhecer esta turma!
Wow just Wow! What a line up.
😉💥Not to forget yo including the queen of a rock n Roll Rosetta Tharpe! 😖💥💃🎸💥😮💨
You are so a Lucky guy
That would have been a legendary show in more ways than one…!
One of great blues songs 🎵
I Love Bo, I can't sit still when I hear his music.
Impossible to sit out one of his songs . Rocknroll!
great music BUT those ladies awoke feelings in me i forgotten i had lol
Was born in 52 and 1st heard this at a very young age. Compared to the Wonder Bread pop of the day, this ruled.
He's too cool. Great group.
Love this song, so beautiful fabulous namazing fa
The two OG Gretsch Jupiter Thunderbird guitars would be priceless today.
Origins of Rock n roll.
すごい貴重な映像ありがとうございます！ボ・ディドリーの動いてる姿始めてみたかも。ギターを弾いてる女性がかっこいいです。
Watched Bo bring a kid up on stage at an outdoor show re-opening an old bridge up in St. Paul. Kid was a prodigy on the mouth harp. He jammed with the kid for like 20 minutes. Met em both afterwards. Bo was the nicest cat. Down to earth great guy. 2004 maybe I can't remember..
Guys like him were right on the corner of Blues Road turning into Rock N Roll Ave.
Seen him Brisbane Australia.... hadn't lost his touch...🇦🇺👍
Yeah? My late father in law saw him on the Gold Coast and said he was so drunk his band unplugged him.
He is the essesnce of cool.
Love these good old days - when ppl were real and normal!
I always loved his guitar ❤
I'm fascinated by the rhythm guitar player
This is so mesmerizing of a song that to me this will always go down as one if not the best song ever by an all black member band, i guess its hard to believe the heavy guitar riff and solid hipnotic drumming since black bands usually were soul, and no disrepect towards anyone that reads this white or black . Just sometthing about the beat of the drum and that chugging guitar i cant get enough of.
Ironic, since all American music is birthed from African American Blues.
@@chairman76 i havent researched that but its my opinion, i know their was little richard and chuck berry and some others t rock like this but i guess im comparing it to the shit rap most blacks make now
@@chairman76well its IRONIC that theirs no one else sounding like this as an all black band from this time or any time since this. everything they do now is garbage (c)rap, i guess thats what i was refering to as the good old rock n roll from this era in time and look how its all changed now.
@@grindfreakmike5754 This is ignorance of the highest order. Don't you know that in the 1940s and 50s Rock & Roll was known as "N1gger music" and Jazz "Jungle" music. Aren't you aware the biggest percentage of Hip-Hop fans are white people and in fact one of the biggest rappers is a blonde, white guy? With your kind, it's all about the hate. You'll hate black people no matter what they do.
@@grindfreakmike5754rap means shit
Love those guitars!
This song is a force of nature.
When rock and roll was influenced by African American R&B and was truly excellent!
Yup rock music has been dead or bastardized since they got away from the genre.
Dude even country music was born from african music. The banjo is from northern africa.
It was still good, in the 80's & 90's when. I was going up.. just different
When people actually played musical instruments.. unlike today
Ain't that a great tooon.❤
So Fresh!