vkmast, thank you for politely pointing out that this was an old story. The site I saw it on isn't in the habit of posting old news and I neglected to check the date on the news story.

Mike

I knew Bo Diddley quite well when he lived here in Albuquerque. He passed away in June of 2008.

I was Bo's bass player for 4-5 shows in Texas in 1998-1999. Hamilton Loomis was a protege of his and I was Ham's bass player, so we were the backing band. Quite interesting on many levels. Having been screwed over early in his career (like many first-generation rock and blues artists) he was quite bitter and didn't care a whit about playing any of his hits.

There is or used to be a 2-CD retrospective of his career on Chess records. It's amazing what he wrote and recorded in those early days. Most of my contemporaries have no idea what his contributions were.