{"id":573,"date":"2007-05-16T22:44:05","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T02:44:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-30T21:51:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T21:51:33","slug":"is-there-a-drummer-in-the-house-bo-diddl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/is-there-a-drummer-in-the-house-bo-diddl\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There a Drummer in the House: Bo Diddley Beat Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever played with a drummer who, try as he may, just can&#8217;t get the <strong>Bo Diddley beat<\/strong>? Yes, I&#8217;m thinking about Bo as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=rock_crimes_and_when_i_die_and_david_cla&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1#c4899\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=rock_crimes_and_when_i_die_and_david_cla&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1#c4899\">news came out today that he suffered a major stroke<\/a>. The Bo Diddley beat without Bo is rarely the same, but a world without Bo altogether will one day be weird.<\/p>\n<p>Getting back to the topic at hand, what&#8217;s the secret to the Bo Diddley beat? How do some do it so well&#8230;<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7e0KMG4c_LI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhile at best, we usually do it no better than this&#8230;<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R9qLxsFa_kU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While too often <em>something&#8217;s not quite right<\/em> and it comes out like this&#8230;<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wzvhFBazWWE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And almost as often, it simply blows?<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YVRtQUTd7Gk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.numbersband.com\/diddley.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.numbersband.com\/diddley.html\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s a story<\/a><\/strong> that seems to be told about too many oldtime stars. Any of you ever have one of these experiences backing up an old warhorse?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever played with a drummer who, try as he may, just can&#8217;t get the Bo Diddley beat? Yes, I&#8217;m thinking about Bo as news came out today that he suffered a major stroke. The Bo Diddley beat without Bo is rarely the same, but a world without Bo altogether will one day be <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/is-there-a-drummer-in-the-house-bo-diddl\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[146,173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}