Earlier this week we launched Future Days Recordings–our newest imprint–with the release of Bo Diddley’s blues-psych-funk classic, The Black Gladiator. Bootlegs of questionable source (both on the audio and legal end) have been floating around for years but with this CD-only reissue, The Black Gladiator is finally in print with in-depth liner notes (by Scott Schneider) and newly remastered audio (from original tapes, transferred at 24bit/96kHz). So for this week’s Free Basin’ Fridays, we’re giving away a copy of the CD to one lucky winner.
For your chance to win, leave us a comment below with your name and email address (kept private). Tell us your favorite Bo Diddley song, album, lyric, etc…show Bo some love! Winner picked at random and announced next Friday, 3/23 at 12PM PST. See you next week!
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Ride on Josephine!
Bo’s Bounce
Gotta be “Hey Bo Diddley”. His use of third person reference was a direct influence on Rickey Henderson.
a couple of things come to mind when i think of bo, but two things in particular really stick out (aside from his legacy). the first is that bo choose to spend a good part of his later years not far away from where i grew up in florida. the second is a video cassete a friend left at my house of a 1970′s hell’s angels boat party, that left from somewhere in new york i believe, in which the jerry garcia band and bo each give great performances to a hoot and hollerin’ crowd.
…wind blew her hair into the street!
Gotta be “Bad Trip”, the guitar in that song is so funkin nasty!
Since the Black Gladiator album is a funky gem, I will have to go with “Funky Fly”, great guitar and organ riffing off one another a definite funk classic!
I’m the greatest lover in the world.. I think it was just on a single.. You have to be freakin’ charmful to pull it off with a title like that.. and Bo did it like the real playboy that he was. The billy childish version is pretty good as well.
A great hommage is Bo Didley is a Haadhunter by Roky Erickson.
But regarding Bo, I’d go with Bo Diddley Is a Lover. Great album!
“You Can’t Judge A Book By The Cover”. Go Bo Go!
who do you love …
‘Road Runner’ is a gem jam. I like ‘Diddy Wah Diddy’ too…a much-covered and coveted track. Bo knew way more than Diddley!
“Go For Broke” from ‘Another Dimension’. Classic break!
The coolest thing about Bo has got to be his signature “cigar box” Gretch guitar guitar.
Hello all,
Bo’s guitars have always been a fascination of mine.
Any dude that names a song after himself is the definition of bad assery! So I go for the song Bo Diddley!
Who Do You Love of course. Cobra snake for a necktie!
Bo Diddley is a god! Not Eric Clapton. I wish ” Diddley Daddy” could be a song long enough to fill the side of a long playing record.
So the Checker Label LP MSM-37188 I have is a debatable re-issue? It states on the bottom “Originally released as Checker LPS-3013″ If your talking sound issues, im not one to complain. Considering favorite Bo Diddley side, too many, but I could slap ‘The Clock Strikes Twelve’ Checker 7″ on & get anybody to move on that one, goosebumps everytime!
Obscure favorite for me: “Moon Baby” from 1991′s Rare & Well Done compilation.
My extensive Bo CD collection definitely needs this reissue, even though I already have all the songs. Can’t wait to hear the new remastering!
Hi Billy,
No debating the sound quality original pressings at all. There are a few European LP bootlegs of this that suffer from poor (or no) remastering.
Thanks,
LITA
Nice liner notes by Scott Schinder by the way…
An obvious choice but these 4 lines
I walk 47 miles of barbed wire
I use a cobra snake for a necktie
I got a brand new house on the roadside
Made from rattlesnake hide
just sum up the brilliance of Bo
So glad you guys are re-releasing this awesome album. Favorite song, I Don’t Like You!
I admire what you get completed right here. I love the part where you say you are generally doing this kind of to give back but I would assume by all the comments that is working for you as well. Do you get any much more data on this kind of?