Bo Diddley Road Runner (LP, 180g Vinyl)
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Bo Diddley: Road Runner (LP, 180g Vinyl)
Bo Diddley's syncopated 'hambone beat -bump, ba-bomp-bomp, bomp-bomp- has become a cornerstone of rock & roll. He surprised the music world in the mid-1950s when he unleashed a new guitar sound dominated by heavy rhythmic drive and distortion, which was quickly absorbed by other players. 'Unarguably one of the most influential musicians in rock & roll,' noted Doug Pullen in Music Hound Rock, 'Diddley's distinctive 'chunka, chunka' rhythm guitar riff is the stuff of which rock's bedrock was made.' Keith Richards once declared that, 'Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry were close to the straight electric blues. But Bo Diddley was fascinatingly on the edge. There was something African going on in there. His style was outrageous. suggesting that the kind of music we loved didn't just come from Mississippi. It was coming from somewhere else.' This sound formed the core of several hits, including 'Who Do You Love?,' 'Bo Diddley,' and 'Bo's a Lumber Jack,' among others. Dave Marsh wrote in the New Rolling Stone Record Guide, By Diddley was one of the great fathers of rock & roll, ranking with such transitional blues artists as Fats Domino and Chuck Berry in both importance and influence.'
Diddley's guitar style was unusual and innovative and his incorporation of tremolo, reverb. and distortion was highly influential. He called his syncopated groove a 'freight train sound: while others described it as a 'shave-and-a-haircut rhythm.' The beat had been around for centuries, most notably in West African drumming, but Diddley mastered it and augmented it for the rock & roll era. Rhythm is so important in By Diddley's music that harmony is often reduced to a bare simplicity. His songs (for example, Who Do You Love?') often have no chord changes: the musicians play the same chord throughout the piece, so that excitement is created by the rhythm, rather than by harmonic tension and release.
This remastered collector's item includes one of the lesser-kric,, LPs By Diddley recorded for Chess' subsidiary. Checker Record:- Road Runner Most of the material here was rushed out in half finished form, in order to get an album out that cashed in on the Twist' craze of early 1962. This album has also appeared, with different cover art, as Bo Diddley Is a Twister. There may well have been words intended for the opening track, 'Detour', which came out of the 1961 session featuring Peggy 'Lady Bo' Jones that also produced the excellent 'Pills' and the rather perfunctory reading of Willie Dixon's 'My Babe'. In addition, the record contains some lackluster earlier instrumental material, such as 'Shank' and The Twister (both recorded in late 1960 at By Diddley's home studio, in Washington, D.C.). It also includes a smoking reading of 'Here 'Tis', the soulful Bo Diddley original that would serve a young Eric Clapton -during The Yardbirds' era- in very good stead on stage (Diddley's version is far superior to Clapton's), as well as the classics 'Road Runner', 'Hey!, Bo Diddley' and 'Who Do You Love?'. Between hypnotic and rhythmic guitar lines and swaggering vocals, these songs capture a young Bo Diddley at his raw and primal best, while confirming that even at the onset of his career he didn't sound like anyone else in rock & roll. In addition to the original masterpiece, this Vinyl Lovers remastered reissue contains 2 bonus tracks from the same period.
'He played really simple things but with incredible authority' Iggy Pop
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Interpret: Bo Diddley
Album titlle: Road Runner (LP, 180g Vinyl)
Label VINYL LOVERS
Genre Rock
- Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
- Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
- Record Grading Mint (M)
- Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
- Vinyl weight 180g Vinyl
Artikelart LP
EAN: 8436544170688
- weight in Kg 0.3
| Diddley, Bo - Road Runner (LP, 180g Vinyl) LP 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Detour | Bo Diddley | ||
| 02 | She's Alright | Bo Diddley | ||
| 03 | Doin' The Jaguar | Bo Diddley | ||
| 04 | Who Do You Love | Bo Diddley | ||
| 05 | Shank | Bo Diddley | ||
| 06 | Road Runner | Bo Diddley | ||
| 07 | My Babe | Bo Diddley | ||
| 08 | Oh Yeah (aka Oh Yes) | Bo Diddley | ||
| 09 | The Twister | Bo Diddley | ||
| 10 | Hey, Bo Diddley | Bo Diddley | ||
| 11 | Hush Your Mouth | Bo Diddley | ||
| 12 | Bo Diddley | Bo Diddley | ||
| 13 | I'm Looking For A Woman | Bo Diddley | ||
| 14 | Here 'Tis | Bo Diddley | ||
| 15 | I Know | Bo Diddley | ||
| 16 | All Together | Bo Diddley | ||
Bo Diddley
Jeder, der bei Chess Records Blues spielte, wandte sich an den mächtigen Willie Dixon, wenn frisches, hitverdächtiges Material gebraucht wurde. Obwohl er selbst ebenfalls ein produktiver Songschreiber war, machte es Bo Diddley nicht anders. Er nahm sich Big Willies You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover und ritt damit im Sommer 1962 auf #21 R&B. Es war Bos erster Vorstoß in die Hitparade nach mehr als zwei Jahren; sein letzter Charterfolg davor war 1960 Road Runner gewesen.
Bo arbeitete wieder im Chess-eigenen Studio (berühmte Adresse: 2120 South Michigan Avenue), nachdem er eine Weile die meisten seiner Aufnahmen bei sich zu Hause in Washington, D.C., eingespielt hatte. Die Aufnahmesession vom 27. Juni 1962 war besonders ergiebig; am selben Tag wurde die ebenso stürmische Single-Rückseite I Can Tell eingespielt. Wie gewöhnlich verwendete der Gitarrist mit der Hornbrille seine eigene zuverlässige Combo: Jerome Green schüttelte immer noch die Maracas, entweder Jesse James Johnson oder Chester Lindsey waren am E-Bass, Billy Downing oder Ezell Robertson saßen am Schlagzeug.
Statt seines afrikanisch anmutenden Markenzeichen-'Shave-and-a-haircut'-Rhythmus entschied sich Bo bei You Can't Judge A Book für einen geraden, wie eine Dampflok abgehenden Rock-'n'-Roll-Groove. Im letzten Break verspielt er sich, aber der akzentuierte 4/4-Beat seiner Gitarre ist so kraftvoll, dass es wahrscheinlich nur wenigen aufgefallen ist.
Seit wir Bo auf CD 2 von Teil 2 mit Who Do You Love zuletzt begegnet sind, hatte er für sich selbst ein 'Bigger-and-badder-than-life'-Image aufgebaut: Auf einer Platte präsentierte er sich selbstbewusst als 'Lover', auf einer anderen als 'Gunslinger'; später informierte er seine Zuhörer, er sei Holzfäller. Diddleys rechteckige E-Gitarre war genauso einzigartig wie die spacigen Effekte, die er aus ihr rausholte. Checker Records probierte alle möglichen Stilrichtungen bei seinen Alben aus: 1962 gab es eine Twist-LP von ihm, ein Jahr später kam 'Surfin' With Bo Diddley' (auf der er zum größten Teil gar nicht dabei war) sowie das Livealbum 'Bo Diddley's Beach Party'.
Fast alle Beatbands der 'British Invasion' verehrten Bo, doch sein immenser Einfluss spiegelte sich nur selten adäquat in Charterfolgen wider. Nach You Can't Judge A Book schaffte es nur noch seine soulige 67er-Single Ooh Baby knapp in die US-Hitparade. Bo blieb bis 1973 bei Chess, bevor er weiterzog. Sein unerschütterlicher Status als einer der wichtigsten elektrischen Gitarristen des Rock 'n' Roll ist in den Annalen der Musikgeschichte festgeschrieben, und Bo wurde natürlich auch in die Rock and Roll Hall of Fame aufgenommen; er starb am 2. Juni 2008 in seinem Haus in Archer, Florida, an Herzversagen.
"Er hatte seinen eigenen Stil",sagt Billy Boy Arnold, Bos erster Harpspieler."Er hatte unablässig diesen Beat am Laufen."
Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois
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