Bo Diddley "Mumblin' Guitar"

[irocktherooster]

A master of his craft. In the league of Hendrix, Clapton, Gallagher, Buddy Guy, SRV, and Johnny Winter.

[blaznfattyz]

the smiths how soon is now riff comes from bo diddley.

[chaotic1820]

This man started and set the way for so much... so many ideas sprung from the talent that is and can only be the one and only Bo Diddley!

[Lambie1971]

Since recently reading the autobiography by Keith Richards, I thought Bo Diddley should be given some research being quoted by Mr Richards as some of inspiration behind the Stones, who I love.

What a treat - the guy is a genius. I've also realised the roots of the sound I love.

Enjoy people.

[ivan89705]

eah it is.

[BBQFanNo1]

I can name 200 other top British Band whose hard rhythm sound and soul can blew the balls right off of the Beatles. The only thing closest to hard and raw the Beatles ever recorded was Helter Skelter.

[eorthen]

This guy basically wrote GNR's Mr Brownstone from beyond the grave. He invented the Bo Diddly beat/Shuffle that is the main construct of the song. Slash loves this guy, U can see it in the way he moves.

[iplaysdrums]

@eorthen bo died in 2008, and "mr brownstone" came out in 1987. i'm totally with you on the influence, though.

[ThePorkified]

THE BADDEST CAT EVER!!!

[KoivuTheHab]

@ThePorkified We heard you the first 3 times...

[odihjiohzd]

how can u not shut when you hear this

[ThePorkified]

I'm 65 and I grew up with this cat.

A white boy from trafford diggin' Bo Diddley.

Ain't BUT 1 Bo Diddley. THE BAddest CAt ever.

[ThePorkified]

where on the planet earth have you people been?

Bo Diddley.

[petelabeat]

What an awesome song! Just recently discovered Bo Diddley (thank you Keith Richards) and so far I love everything I hear by the man. I have to buy some of his music. 

[Soph132008]

Brings back a lot of memories, I'm 65 and I still can't sit down when I hear his music. Have to get up and dance! Those were the days my friends!

Gisèle Mathieu

[Soph132008]

Brings back a lot of memories, I'm 65 and I still can't sit down when I hear his music!! Great time!

[HolyFerdinand]

I wonder what Bo thought of reggae music.

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

Bo Diddley is one of the best ever musicians.

Thanks for posting this.

George Vreeland Hill

[tmudd24]

one person touched the wrong button

[phillippatterson1]

None of the pictures are close to 1960. Maybe 1980?

[altairPWK]

REST IN PEACE AND MAY YOUR MUSIC LIVE ON FOREVER. YOU JUST GOT YOURSELF ONE MORE FAN. KEEP 'EM COMING BO! <3

[UKRod]

Great track! I've been aware of this for many years as a Bo fan since 1963. I am very heartened as I trawl through Bo Diddley song channels to see so many appreciative comments on Bo's music from so many young people, teens who have just discovered his music. I can imagine what the thrill of discovering Bo must be like, just like it was for me so many years ago. I never saw Bo perform live but did see the awesome Chuck Berry - those guys plus the great Little Richard ARE rock and roll!

[maximusspqr]

@UKRod

I just discovered him 5 minutes ago and I love it.

[mikey12093]

@maximusspqr dude me too

[TheDesertman1]

@UKRod Your words on Bo were great! I, too, am so glad many of today's youth have discovered him. I must tell you, as much as you love and appreciate Bo, YOU would have been blown away to see him live! There is or was nobody like him. My wife and I saw him the year before he passed and he blew her away! We saw Little Richard and B.B. King the same year, but Bo was HIS OWN!!!

[Charloelephant]

he is a man! :) hey, bo diddley, I'm a roadrunner too!

R.I.P.

you inspired me as well as hundreds of people!

[ThePorkified]

kurd, rowley, Big, ALL...this is the holy land of rock and roll!!!

Bo Diddley, the baddest and greatest Cat ever..

1958. Recorded in 1958. RIP my man.

[KurdtKobain09]

what the hell happened? Today teenagers listen to pop and shitty techno...when this...THIS...is REAL MUSIC!

[rowley1950]

Pure Genius!

[agnostoatomo]

Rhythm&Blues,Rock'n Roll,Punkrock and electrified Shamanism...all in one Person and his life more than full of it!

this Guy was a major influence in the 20th century for everything,where you can find bluenotes inside...R.I.P.(Rock in Paradise) BO DID IT IN DEED DIDDLEY !

[utubescooby1]

Quality, brilliant, excellent & many thanks. In my opinon one of his best tunes along with 'say man' and 'Memphis' Please Please upload Memphis if anyone has it and let me know! Please please please ....cant get this anywhere. I had it on tape and the tape has broke! Cheers Rich

[mpsicily]

Bo Diddley one of the absolute greatest Rock n Roll pioneers in the USA and beyond. Even the Rolling Stones covered Bo Diddley.......Listen carefully to this song and then immediately go listen to the "Count Five" playing "Psychotic Reaction" and you will see that the Count Five actually covered this song by doing a whacked out rendition of this song in their hit Psychotic Reaction.......Even the drum beat is almost the same....

[Carthsting]

I want a restangular guitar

[THEMOJOMANsince1959]

BO was my friend and I will miss him the rest of my life. Had I been here in Fla, when he passed I would've made that funeral. I booked BO many times in my RADIO DAZE first time was in WELLSVILLE,Ohio in 1958.

[PhuckHue2]

he only played 2 chords, no lead. it was all about the rhythm. the pioneer of it ALL

[APenisWithLegs]

did u know my dad gave the original box shape guitar to bo

[Building529]

@APenisWithLegs  Did your Dad work for Gretche guitar company? Thats who gave him the square guitar.

[mattybock]

@Building529 he's full of mess. it was a used gretch that bo basically gutted and fitted to a few cedar boards he bought himself. bo made his own guitar basically. gretch only came out with a bo commemerative much later on out.

[THEMOJOMANsince1959]

@PhuckHue2 YOU GOT THAT RIGHT. INNOVATOR,,ORIGINATOR,,ROCK&RO­LL GLADIATOR "BO DIDDLEY"

[kunjidee]

this was the coolest dude on the planet...RIP

[LedZepBest]

RIP, father of rock

[BigPharao]

holy shit! i thought i knew rock music. but ... this!!! rock in peace bo diddley

[steveconn]

Saw him in Alb. and BB King's in NY. The one and only Roadrunner.

[porkified]

BO DIDDLEY! The one and only!!! RIP my friend.

[stevemastic]

man talk out loud

[54spiritedwill54]

RIP to a legend!!

[porkified]

tech stuff for sure. This is Bo Diddley. Often imitated but NEVER duplicated.

[Fu345]

Does anybody how how he got his guitar to sound like this? I've been trying to replicate it desperately, but to no avail.

[dankeewolnir4042]

sliding his left hand up and down the neck while stumming, with out really holding down an acutual true fret (except for the response "as in call and response" part he hits chords). then some of it around 1:27 is scrathing his pick up the strings. 1:30 and 2:50 or so he does some hammer like tapping with his left hand. But its all the sound of his set up and his fingers and his soul that makes it Bo Diddley. one of a kind.

[korkythekat]

I am sure he used special tunings so he could use slide. Saw him twice in concert and got to shake his hand. R.I.P to a true original.

[Carthsting]

@Fu345 He has that modified bridge also.

[porkified]

Bo Diddley! Enough said.

[juliashaun]

R.I.P. Bo Diddley

[jt123egypte]

This Oreoguru must be a dumbo. All the great musicians were negroes. Little Richard, Fats Domino, Louis Armstrong do I have to continue? Bo Diddley was FANTASTIC and thankgod he was a negro!Music unifieds people and races!

[miggy221]

He makes the guitar speak. THats his genius.Brilliant Master.Wish i was in the audiance to really experienc it.The passion is raw and real.So cool.

[Supercell2]

One of my favorite Bo songs!!!

[repelghosts]

The music is over...no more nattering..

From all of your loving freinds in Toronto,Canada,

Da Girlz.

We will see you again one day darling Bo.Too many tears, must go..

[lb1863]

ya'll are just missing the point!!! listen to the music this man can make!!! who cares black, white, pink, purple. that drives raceism. music doesn't care what colour you are! love doesn't care what colour you are!

[porkified]

oh my friend, back then color did matter. i agree that the music is what matters. Bo Diddley is Boss. Miss ya Bo!

[newyorkinthe60s1]

Love this song. 1959 i believe.

[porkified]

Bo's black, elvis white. Back then, guess who won the race.

[onejd]

SPAZZOBOXER

Unfortunately, this country hasn't made progress further than a foot since 1955. Racism, prejudice, and discrimination are as prevalent as ever, although admittedly perhaps better masked than before.

[fabiomr2]

Appearing on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1955, Mr. Diddley was asked to play Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Sixteen Tons" Without telling Mr. Sullivan, he played "Bo Diddley" instead. Afterward, in an off-camera confrontation, Mr. Sullivan told him that he would never work in television again. Mr. Diddley did not play again on a network show for 10 years.

[SPAZZOBOXER]

...Sigh...unfortunately,your story is 100% true...often unreported regarding that incident, was that Bo had been booked to play "I'm a Man", which had charted. The Producers requested the change to T.E.Ford's song, saying it was more "appropriate", besides, Bo's deep baritone would be perfect for that song!...not accepting that claptrap, Bo pushed to find out that the Network was nervous about a big,BLACK man on National TV singing "I'm a Man!"...too "Provocative" for 1955 America...disgraceful.

[SPAZZOBOXER]

...further to the incident on "Ed Sullivan"...Bo knew there were limitations, how far could he push/protest the Network's decision without destroying his career? He knew that would likely happen if he dropped the "Bomb" of doing "I'm a Man" live on the Show, besides, they might just cut the broadcast off live during the song, but Bo felt it was undignified to give in and do "16 Tons", a song he had no connection to, Bo had his pride. As a compromise, he did "Bo Diddley" without telling anyone.

[SPAZZOBOXER]

...Bo had already done the song; "Bo Diddley" months earlier on the Show, so the subsequent anger at his "insubordination" had nothing to do with the lyrical content/latent sexual rhythms of that selection. What set them off into a rage was the realization that the controversial "I'm a Man" could just as easily been performed "Live". They hadn't informed the Director/Tech.Control Booth

Staff about the goings on. Ed called Bo "Boy" & according to Bo, he never got paid the $1,000 appearance fee.

[fabiomr2]

SPAZZOBOXER thanks for your reply

great value ,i didn't know this part of the history.

[sopaman1234]

@SPAZZOBOXER oh well that old racist irish prick is long gone and the who hell is going remember him

100 years from now anyway BUT!! Bo music and influences will live for ever...

[allaboard70]

Thank you very much for sharing with us.

Go, Bo Diddley!

[ELECTRICSHAMAN13]

This my favorite one by him and i love all his stuff..this is AWESOME

[SPAZZOBOXER]

Jimi Hendrix credited many of the Blues/Rock Pioneers for influencing his style/substance. C.Berry taught him that a black/charismatic solo-oriented/singing guitarist could succeed. L.Richard showed that a flamboyant approach to dress/live performance could entrance a crowd, in fact he competed for stage attention with him when in his band. But Bo Diddley influenced his rhythm technique like no other. He credited this "Talking" Guitar routine of Bo's for inspiring his own six-string histrionics.

[junkieland]

go bo and play on through infinity

[caldonia]

Thanks for posting this mind-blowing historical video. It helps those of us who are mourning him to celebrate his life and his one-of-a-kind creativity!

[chriscook27]

Many thanks to Fredvs for posting this, and other videos of the legend, Bo Diddley, who passed away yesterday. Bo's music has enriched my life for half a century.

[smittycal]

RIP to a legend!!

[porkified]

God finally paid attention and bought a ticket. Do " Hey Bossman". See if He gets it.

Tight, together, on, and driving. Tell me, who is better?

Talking guitar and drum.

Sleep well my friend. Thanks for the music.

Big Al

[shalalalalalala]

Bo was the best and he'll live so long as people have ears. RIP

[pdow52]

R.I.P. man.

[va4505]

Bo may be gone but yo music lives on so strong

[porkified]

e mcdaniel at his best.

[porkified]

goddamn!!!

[porkified]

sit back and take in the wall of sound that is Bo Diddley...ain't none better.

[Ninyae1]

This alone should inspire anyone to learn guitar. Don't muck around with playing it by the rules!

[jimjam4419]

Bo Diddley definitely had a style of his own for banging a guitar that no one will recreate.

[THEORIGINALMOJOMAN]

When I was in RADIO I booked BO many times.HE'S THEORIGINATOR,,INNOVATOR,,CREA­TOR ROCK&ROLL "GLADIATOR".IF YOU "EVER" SAW BO DO THAT "LEAN FORWARD"THING AS HE PLAYED YOU SAW A ROCK&ROLL "ORIGINAL". IT WAS "TOOMUCH"!!

[lmgnandt]

I had an old LP with mostly Bo playing his guitar lent it to a friend haven't seen him or it for 15 years, God this is to hear.

[porkified]

That my friends is Bo Diddley. Long live Bo!

[THEORIGINALMOJOMAN]

I booked him MANY times years ago when I was in Radio AND If you ever saw him do that "LEAN FORWARD THING" AS HE PLAYED "YOU" SAW A ROCK&ROLL ORIGINAL.

[sayyes2bull]

you go bo!

[jt123egypte]

Bo is something else.He is great and I like him since I first heared Road Runner

[joez116]

The guitar sound was ahead of it's time for 1959. Thanks for the video post.

[fredvs]

Most people have never heard Bo play his guitar without singing. He makes sounds that no one else has ever duplicated to this day! Keep in mind that this was recorded almost 50 years ago!!

[Defendor1983]

@fredvs

who was the true contributor of rock and roll, not the king but the one who jump started it chuck berry or bo diddley?

just a thought, any comments fredvs or anyone? just curious, because elvis got so much credit that chuck and bo didnt and then the beatles blew em all away

[BBQFanNo1]

@Defendor1983 What the fuck are you talking about the Beatles blew who away? Get your GD ears and hearing checked you dope. The Beatles are way too mellow and polished to even touch Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry.

[Defendor1983]

@BBQFanNo1 When the british invasion happen it did take a chunck outta good old rock and roll thats all im saying. bo didley, chuck berry, john lee hooker,otis redding, (and the list goes on) did not get the recongnition they deserved, elvis and the beatles got all the credit

[Defendor1983]

@BBQFanNo1

The british invasion and Elvis blew them away in popularity not in their sound, i was just wondering who came first Chuck berry or Bo, because i believe one out of them two was the creator of rock and roll (or a the main contributors i should say) I think the three fathers of rock and roll where Chuck berry, bo didley and Little richard, but i wanted to know what others think. any comments