That drummer should've been shot on site

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>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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