The rest is silence

[pecunium]

It's been a busy couple of weeks for Death; at least when it comes to claiming celebrities.

Pollack, St. Laurent, Martin.

And, the one which really got my attention.


Elias Otha Bates

Better known to most of us as Bo Diddly. Fast handed, nimble-fingered, and so far as I can tell; from all the stories I've seen coming up; a guy who loved to play, and wanted not much more than the chance to share it with people.

He was the first "name" to hire a woman to play with him (and said she was the only who knew all his moves). He never lost his edge. He played with the new kids, his craft (and art) growing, not getting stale.

He was doing free gigs, and impromptu gigs in parking lots and knew how to poke fun at himself (the Bo Knows commercials were great), he never phoned it in, never quit.

Comments

[sharon-masters.livejournal.com]

The joy of Youtube- they have already removed the vids.
Save to PC light might be an option.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Well shit. I go to the effort to figure out how to embed the damn things, and give them a link, and what do they do...

I wonder who complained.

[sharon-masters.livejournal.com]

Probably the suddenly newly formed "estate of Bo Diddly" who now can hog up fees for such things.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Strange: I can still play them, and find them on YouTube. Are you someplace they might be blocked?

[sharon-masters.livejournal.com]

How WEIRD-- i was on my friends reading list, and when played,they came up no longer available-- and i'm at home, same as always...

obviously, Bo's ghost dislikes me:)

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

So, off-topically, is there a reason you aren't returning phone messages?

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

because i didn't get them.

Which I will get to explain in the morning, but it explains things

sigh.