Hey! Bo Diddley "The Originator" (1928 - 2008)
"Bo Diddley" was born on a cotton farm near McComb, Mississippi, on December 30, 1928, being named Ellas Bates. With 6 years was adopted by a cousin of his mother, taking his last name and renamed Ellas McDaniel happening. Coinciding with the "Great Migration African American" (from the poor areas of the southern industrial cities of northern USA) moved to Chicago where he studied violin, until her sister Lucille gave him an acoustic guitar. In this city lived the changes that had the blues, including electric instruments, drums, harmonica, and sometimes saxophones. Would be pledged to the sound of the electric guitar, formed different groups with which he played in spare time to let the various offices with which he earned a salary. A first recording for Chess Records label in 1955 (with Bo Diddley songs and I'ma man), the success that he smiled and critical to a band sound so special, especially to Jerome Green maracas and voices, and their sister "The Duchess" to accompany the electric guitar, not forgetting of course the wild African rhythms and drums. Partner and frequent changes of address. Multiple collaborations with groups and artists from the first row, his style and influence of music over the decades (from Buddy Holly to the Rolling Stones, the Who to Bruce Springsteen, the Sex Pistols to Jesus & Mary Chain), hundreds of versions their subjects (who do you love the one of the subjects with fewer chords and more different versions in the history of music), and recognition as the most important prizes in popular music, have marked his career until 2 June 2008 when heart problems forced him to move out of district, this time for good.
With a very personal style, percussive rhythms, repetitive, rasposos, tribal and distorted, became the father of rhythm & blues, a key part in the evolution of rock & roll and the "creator" of the sound itself, the Bo Diddley sound, something very few have been able to achieve. While it is based on African rhythms, no one had made the sound and vibration syncopated guitar and his compositions down. Without boasting or technical virtuosity in the left for posterity riffs and rhythms that have become classics such as, engraved in the consciousness of many people who know but do not know the name of its author. In the interpretation of his songs, full of humor and enthusiasm, and showed a contagious primitive melting sound and movement, with the exact dose of restraint and energy. I have not had the chance to attend a live concert of his, but I think it would certainly be one of the most shocking. So you can travel back in time we will have to view video content with singing and guitar playing its distinctive square Gretsh "square-bodied," but this time I preferred to choose their first two videos from time to design before the guitar.
"Bo Diddley - Road Runner"
"Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley, 1955 (in the controversial Ed Sullivan Show)
Surely the angels are celebrating with dances and convulsive maracas in his hands, the arrival of French black and fast pace. bee bee bam bam bam bam bam bee ...
