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Bo Diddley (December 30, 1928 - June 2, 2008)

Roadrunner/Bring It To Jerome/Mona 1972

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In honor of the late great Bo Diddley—who died yesterday of heart failure at the age of 79—we present this little gem from the Voice archives. The article, first published in June 28, 1973, relates how Bo reacted to a song request made at gunpoint during a performance at the Stardust Room on Boston Road in the Bronx. Rest in peace, Bo. — RS
A Command Performance in the Bronx

By Josh Mills
This was going to be about why a rock star like Bo Diddley was performing in a remote bar in the Bronx last Saturday night. Then, near the end of Bo’s first set at the Stardust Room on Boston Road, a heckler pulled a gun on him.
Bo had asked for a volunteer to come up on stage and sing with him. A blond woman in an orange jump suit with white polka dots jumped up to the mike, let out a yodel, and started shaking it. Bo started shaking it back.

“Watch it,” the heckler yelled, but they couldn’t hear him up on the stage, even though he was in the first row. So he pulled a .38 revolver from his waistband, where it had been tucked beneath his t-shirt, and waved it in the air. (One week before, a man waved a gun in the air at a Harlem bar, and when it was over three men were dead and seven wounded.)
His friends reached for his arm and yelled, “Put it down, Tony.” I think his name was Tony. Instead he leveled it, in the classic Clint Eastwood pose, right at Bo Diddley.

Bo reacted coolly. He backed up a step in mock—at least it looked like mock—horror. Bo, the woman, and Tony froze. The backup band kept playing. The spotlight reflected off Bo’s guitar. No one in the audience was reacting. I felt like I was the only one who saw the gun. I couldn’t make eye contact with anyone else. Then Bo put his right hand into his pants pocket. Oh no, he’s reaching for the derringer he told me he used to carry. Instead he brought out his wallet, with a Nevada sheriff’s badge pinned to the outside, and grinned.

Tony smiled and reached into his pants pocket and flipped his wallet open in Bo’s direction. “FBI,” he said, though I couldn’t see what he was showing. He held the gun steady.
Bo looked at him for a few seconds, then rolled his eyes. “What was the song you wanted to hear?”

Tony, who’d been screaming out requests all night, yelled “Hey Bo Diddley” and Bo swung right into it. The band followed and the tableau broke. The woman got off the stage. Tony tucked his gun back into his waistband and pulled his blue mesh shirt over it. I could see its outline clearly.

I think Tony was just fooling around. But I kept recalling that other bar shooting, and all the bar-shooting stories I’ve written in five years as a newsman. I was sitting behind Tony. It flashed on me that I had a good angle for breaking a chair on him when he pulled the gun. But I was afraid. I thought I might get shot. But what if he had pulled the trigger? I don’t know if I could have done anything.

Bo and the band kept beating out “Bo Diddley.” The woman in the polka-dot suit jumped back on-stage. So did another woman at the table, while her husband looked on grimly. This time Tony jumped up with them and started shaking it too. The audience applauded.

They closed the set that way. Bo headed for the bar, brushing aside offers to drink at several tables, including Tony’s. I came up to him, but Bo didn’t want to talk about the gun incident.

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I couldn't find the exact tune I was looking for (Ray Charles' What I'd Say), but I found some great stuff from Herbie Mann and Duane Allman and younger brother and fellow life destroyer Gregg (who has recently found God, surprise surprise) in the background (and Richard Tee, Jerry Jemmott & Bernard Purdie) Unfortunately it shows pictures of a lot of unrelated shit;

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Great Bo Diddley story, s.o.b. :thumbsu:



Once again, getting back to my obsession with old video games, I can report that I checked out the machine at the Epping Pub tonight.

Played a few games over a some tasty beers, and re-lived a little piece of my childhood.

Moon Cresta - Docked !!.....but generally got my ass kicked.

Frogger - Easy peasy. Like riding a bike. Except you're a frog. Crossing a busy road. And then avoiding crocodiles.

Gyruss (spelling) - Still had my eye in with this. Obviously haven't killed that little pocket of brain cells yet. So...double bonus there.

Scramble - It's amazing how quickly your memory kicks in on these games. Saying that, got my ass kicked.

Phoenix - Got my ass kicked, and then set on fire.

Donkey Kong - Got my ass chainsawed off, Ginsu-ed into little pieces, and then stir-fried with shitake muhrooms, snow peas, red capsicum, in a light, hoisin sauce, and then served back to me on a plate. (They charged me $6 for it, too.)
 
The Motels, best known for their success in the 1980's with a string of hit's. Was surprized to find the band's origin's as far back as 1971. The band still tour and make regular trips to Australia.

This non-complicated timeless ballad from 79 is beautiful with it's cool plod along guitar and singer, showing the best way to get the most out of happy sounding sax.

Motels - Total Control

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Brownsville Station 1973
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Although I think the '80's cover by Motley Crue is better, I really enjoyed this tune nethertheless.


Ian Hunter 1975
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Tough to top as a cover.. although the 80's version by under-rated West Coast Blues-Rockers, Great White, goes well.
 
sherrinorburley said:
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Plastic Letters 77

Detroit 442

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Nice choice chesson.

In The Flesh is a favourite of mine, two different versions here.
Members of Blondie have been very appreciative of Australia's support. Especially Countdown and Molly Meldrum, who mistakenly played the B-side to X-Offender (being the single at the time).

Blondie - In The Flesh - Live 78

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Blondie - "In The Flesh" 76

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Heard this one on the radio a couple of days ago and knew it had to get on this thread. Just another reason to love 1977.

Flash & the Pan - Hey, St Peter.

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Gee, those Young brothers were (are) Gods of Oz rock!

Though George is pretty bad at lip-synching.
 

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Great choice Teflon.

Here's one for Twinkletoes..

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(whole tune not available unfortunately :()

Ain't she a beauty? The driver ain't bad either. :)
 
The Teflon Dean said:
66 convertible?
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Well picked up TTD...
But the Mustang tradition streamed throughout the 70's with such craftmanship
of a timeless design that the 70's embraced. :thumbsu:

Besides the singer, Liv Marit Wedvik, was born in 1970.
 
Woodson said:
Well picked up TTD...
But the Mustang tradition streamed throughout the 70's with such craftmanship
of a timeless design that the 70's embraced. :thumbsu:
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I used to get around with a mate in a 71 fast back.:thumbsu:

Another mate of mine just sold his 66 convertible with a 289 in it for 40 large.

They seem to have held their price well.:p
 

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Cancer info your government isn't sharing


Article Launched: 06/15/2008 09:08:45 AM PDT




The Time-Herald's editorial cartoon of Monday, May 26 illustrates the grim reality facing Senator Ted Kennedy, and the approximately 10,000 Americans like him diagnosed with gliomas (brain cancer) every year.

Despite even the most optimistic prognosis, the sad reality facing glioma and glioblastoma patients is that even with radiation and chemotherapy treatment, the disease will claim the lives of 50 percent of its victims within one year and virtually all within three years.


But what if there were an alternative treatment for gliomas that could selectively target the cancer while leaving healthy cells intact? And what if federal bureaucrats were aware of this treatment, but deliberately withheld this information from the public?

Sadly, the questions posed above are not entirely hypothetical.

In 2007, I reviewed more than 150 published pre-clinical and clinical studies assessing the therapeutic potential of marijuana and several of its active compounds, known as cannabinoids.

I summarized these numerous studies in a book, now in its third edition, entitled "Emerging Clinical Applications for Cannabis and Cannabinoids; A Review of the Scientific Literature." (NORML Foundation, 2008) One chapter in this book, which summarized the findings of more than 30 separate clinical trials and literature reviews, was dedicated to the use of cannabinoids as potential anti-cancer agents, particularly in the treatment of gliomas.
Not familiar with this scientific research? Your government is.


In fact, the first experiment documenting pot's potent anti-cancer effects took place in 1974 at the Medical College of Virginia at the behest federal bureaucrats.

The results of that study, reported in an Aug. 18, 1974, Washington Post newspaper feature, were that marijuana's primary psychoactive component, THC, "slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent."

Despite these favorable preliminary findings (eventually published the following year in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute), U.S. government officials refused to authorize any follow-up research until conducting a similar - though secret - clinical trial in the mid-1990s.

That study, conducted by the U.S. National Toxicology Program to the tune of $2 million, concluded that mice and rats administered high doses of THC over long periods had greater protection against malignant tumors than untreated controls.

However, rather than publicize their findings, government researchers shelved the results, which only became public after a draft copy of its findings were leaked to the medical journal AIDS Treatment News, which in turn forwarded the story to the national media.

In the years since the completion of the National Toxicology trial, the U.S. government has yet to authorize a single additional study examining the drug's potential anti-cancer properties. (Federal permission is necessary in order to conduct clinical research on marijuana because of its illegal status as a schedule I controlled substance.)

Fortunately, in the past 10 years scientists overseas have generously picked up where U.S. researchers so abruptly left off, reporting that cannabinoids can halt the spread of numerous cancer cells - including prostate cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, and in one human clinical trial, brain cancer. (An excellent paper summarizing much of this research, "Cannabinoids for Cancer Treatment: Progress and Promise," appears in the January 2008 edition of the journal Cancer Research.)

A 2006 patient trial published in the British Journal of Cancer even reported that the intracranial administration of THC was associated with reduced tumor cell proliferation in humans with advanced glioblastoma.

Writing earlier this year in the journal Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, Italian researchers reiterated, "(C)annabinoids have displayed a great potency in reducing glioma tumor growth. (They) appear to be selective anti-tumoral agents as they kill glioma cells without affecting the viability of nontransformed counterparts." Not one mainstream media outlet reported their findings. Perhaps now they'll pay better attention.

What possible advancements in the treatment of cancer may have been achieved over the past 34 years had U.S. government officials chosen to advance - rather than suppress - clinical research into the anti-cancer effects of cannabis? It's a shame we have to speculate; it's even more tragic that the families of Senator Kennedy and thousands of others must suffer while we do.

Author's note: A recent interview with the author discussing the medical properties of cannabinoids is available online at:
[youtube]VHWuD8a3INs. [/youtube]Paul Armentano, Vallejo
 
Ah to maintain the status quo

A quartet of chugg-along blues cruiser's from the bands best decade

Down The Dustpipe

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In My Chair

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Spinning Wheel Blues

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April Spring Summer & Wednesdays

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lovin the work guys will have to go through the thread again to watch the clips.

unfortunately i owned a light purple safari suit which was worn to my confirmation:o

how do i post the youtube links? do i use the embed link?
 

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