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| From | rob@splitsville.com |
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| Date | Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:25:19 -0400 |
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That drummer should've been shot on site
>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: :audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Sent: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:31:52
>
>Hey All,
>
>So strange. Monday night I was watching the newly
>released dvd called "All
>You Need Is Love" by Tony Palmer from the 70's. It
>is amazingly brilliant.
>Have any of you heard about it? Well, the last
>thing I watched before
>turning in for the night was the "Rhythm & Blues"
>segment and Bo Diddley was being
>interviewed and was talking about how badly he and
>other artists of the time
>got ripped off royally by the music industry. The
>next day I hear the sad
>news that he had died. One of the pioneers for
>sure.
>
>A quick story to add:
>
>Back in around 1988 I dj'd at a club in Naugatuck,
>Ct. called The Night
>Shift. This club featured many old rock and roll
>and blues guys and bands like
>Sonic Youth, Nirvana(no more than 50 people in the
>audience), Smashing
>Pumpkins (ditto). It was booked by a guy named
>Fernando Pinto was quite a visionary
>for the time. Anyway, Bo Diddley played there one
>night with this God awful
>pick up band. He just showed up with his guitar
>case and plugged in etc.
>So, I was behind him in the dj booth when they were
> playing "Hey Bo Diddley"
>with THAT famous drum beat. The drummer was
>clueless though. So Bo goes
>"Does anybody here know the beat to this song?"
>and I yelled "YEEEEAAAAHHH". So
>I came down from the dj booth and played drums
>with Bo Diddley. He kept
>looking back at me, sweating profusely, with this
>big smile on his face, his
>sherrif badge on his hat and his red, square
>guitar! How cool is that?!
>
>MB
>
>Keep Your Eye To The Sky
>
>
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