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>I'm broken hearted. Bo Diddley has died. If you >don't know Bo, then you don't know Diddley. > >I wasn't even born when he came on the scene, but Bo >was a favorite of my father's from his first release, >and I grew up hearing his music, along with that of a >lot of the other old blues merchants. > >Bo Diddly, pretty much single-handedly, made rock and >roll a guitar-based genre. Yeah, there were other >guitar greats of that era, but they were playing piano >music on their guitars, not something completely >unique to the electric guitar. > >Bo understood and used the power of the electric >guitar like nobody before him, and it's that single >power that has fueled rock since. > >It's pretty simple, but Bo learned that if you turn >your amp up and chunk the strings, you make a powerful >sound. Chunk those strings to a solid rhythm, and you >can make that guitar sound as compelling amd dangerous >as a fast freight headed right at you. > >That was the sound that gave rock a foundation. It >was its own thing, not something else: not like >country or blues or swing played faster. > >Bo Diddley has to be the most copied musician of all >time. Absolutely every rock band, from the Stones to >Steve Miller, to Avril Lavigne uses the Diddley sound >a lot, and he's very often cited as an influence. > >That's as it should be, because Bo gave millions and >millions of hopeful guitar players the nerve to say, >"I don't care what momma don't like. I'm gonna rock >this place all night!" > >My favorite line from a song? > >"You got your radio tuned down too low. TURN IT UP!" > >My kind of guy. > >d

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