Bo Diddley on Johnny Carson 1991 - performing "Bo Diddley", and interview following

The great Bo Diddley on Johnny Carson performing "Bo Diddley", plus the interview following the performance. Broadcast 4-22-1991. I did not see this posted anywhere yet, and am posting from my private collection for its' historical value. Bo is one of my favorite musicians and all around great performers - see my guitar instrumental tribute to Bo Diddley on my channel (playing the Tami show inspired "Hey Bo Diddley" ( • Bo Diddley - Road Runn... )

[@hollyivins6190]

He was a wonderful neighbor he lived to bake cakes I really miss him ,he was very down to earth and a good man

[@DonaldMerrit]

Bo was your neighbor? Me too. Bo was my next door neighbor when I lived in Fla.

[@Chet_Brinkley]

I would have loved to meet him . I saw him at a rock N' roll revival show hosted by Murray the K at the Kennedy Center in the early 70s with all the living legends, FABULOUS !!

[@pkf81366]

Bo was not only a great talent,but he championed women in his group. . .makes him the best in my book!

[@jetcitysinatra7300]

Bo Diddley was a true original.

[@bluesrocker6l6gc8]

Truly was, I second that!!!

[@tomstiel7576]

@@bluesrocker6l6gc8 still is

[@dermensch2980]

I met him a few times, the nicest man you could ever meet.

[@ChefDuane]

The Bob diddley beat is something you could just listen to all day.

[@freedomcapitalpartnersllp7458]

The Mighty Bo Diddley

[@gordonspence6544]

The man who put the rock into rock n roll .

[@normanklature6014]

No, Bill Haley cut the very first rock & roll tune ever in 1954 called “Rock around the clock”, the 1955 movie “Black Board Jungle” starring Glen Ford & Sidney Poitier put that tune on the map, as the birth of rock & roll music, Your stupid rock & roll hall of fame is lying to you if they do not tell you “Bill Haley “IS” THE FATHER OF ROCK & ROLL, period !

[@bluesrocker6l6gc8]

Thanks for your comment, very much appreciated, but respectfully, have you ever heard Ike Turner's "Rocket 88" recorded in 1951?

[@tomstiel7576]

@@bluesrocker6l6gc8 you got that right,considered the FIRST rock record

[@jackwalker1822]

@@normanklature6014 Wrong. Rock and Roll was first created by Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Ike Turner. Maybe Bill Haley was the first white guy to come out with a rock record.

[@user-ic9mo7bn3z]

Yes yes ❤❤🎉🎉RAa

[@mikependleton5124]

Was so fortunate is see his show in Miami Oklahoma not to long before he passed... so great full to have had that experience...

[@MD-rd7bn]

Makes my day every time

[@joegongora2200]

A wonderful performance on the Johnny Carson show. He certainly gave them quite a performance.

[@eagle41428]

Wow. What a performance. And the guy with the Les Paul was killing it while Bo Diddley put on the show. Thank you for this great video.

[@crisprtalk6963]

This is the year I saw him in a tiny cub in Tallahassee. One of the best shows I ever saw.

[@gceccari]

This is timeless and classic!! Thank you bluesrocker!!!

[@davidjones5165]

"Debby Hastings isn’t just one of the best woman bassists in the business,..... that isn’t the only thing that makes her unique. She is the bassist in a band supporting a male icon and not just his bassist but his music director to boot." She looks as cool as and plays even better!

[@elliegotfredson3712]

Good info., thanks. She looks a lot like Del Shannon's bass player at his last concert, Australia (? 1999?). but her name was Faye something. Its on u tube if you wanna check it out.

[@quietasitskeptakaquake17]

This is The Jim Sattin Band. The dude on the lead guitar is the M.D. His name is Jim.

[@jennifersman7990]

Bo always had the coolest guitars, I saw a photo of one he used in his final years that had a drum machine/sequencer built into it, most radical thing I've ever seen!

[@normanklature6014]

Story goes, ole Bo was so poor as a kid he made a guitar out of a cigar box & put wire strings on it, It gave him the sound that he liked was said to be the basis of his “square” guitars, “to get that African double beat & sound, a style of his own. I am 80, that was the story in the late 50’s complete with” his homie” pics I collected as a kid.

[@pkf81366]

Always loved the rectangular guitar!

[@kelvinhopkins3000]

The was heavy that nite. Hard and fast. My favorites the bass player and the second guitarist was rocking. Following Bo to the heavens.

[@user-nt1cs6gn1p]

One of the founders of rock n roll alone with little Richard and Chuck Berry

[@michaelturner5443]

Saw him with Wilko Johnson at Dingwalls in Camden ......what a night

[@normanklature6014]

“Kids don’t do it”. By Bo Diddley, you got to pull this song up on your smart phone, Bo was way ahead of the curve.

[@garygreer3746]

Love me some Bo Diddley.

[@bluesrocker6l6gc8]

Thanks for watching!! Bo was/is the best!!

[@dwaynewladyka577]

This is really cool. I saw Bo Diddley live and got to meet him and his band after the show.

[@bluesrocker6l6gc8]

I saw him live once, but never got to meet him, though.

[@Falwiz]

We were lucky in Ottawa he used to play here quite often. Saw him four or five times and actually get his autograph on one of my albums. It was in a small club probably no more than 75 people. Just drums, bass and Bo on guitar.

[@bluesrocker6l6gc8]

Falwiz Just drums, bass, and Bo - the way it was meant to be!

[@Falwiz]

When he arrived at the small club the airline lost his guitar, he had to use the club owners sons guitar. Halfway through the show his guitar turned up, man the place rocked after that.

[@AltoonaYourPiano]

I think I remember this performance on Johnny Carson. Thanks so much for the nostalgia. My parents enjoyed it too because Bo Diddley was popular when they were teens. It's different from his performance on the Ed Sullivan show, that's for sure. I think it was still called "Toast Of The Town" when he performed there. It's so much fun how it was a little bit modernized but still kept a very similar sound to the original.

[@bluesrocker6l6gc8]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed this one!!

[@vernwallen4246]

I first saw BO in 1956 in Kingsport,TN.

[@bluesrocker6l6gc8]

That must have been awesome to have seen him so early on in his career!!!

[@mdice111]

Saw him at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale in early 1973. It was a three-header concert with Muddy Waters and BB King. Also took a couple of residents of a work release center with me to view the concert.

[@lukelucas68]

Yeah!!

[@mikejohns3104]

I did not know Richard Simmons played keyboard. MIND BLOWN!

[@MikeyBigWheel]

Bo was a Beast !!

[@yragj6556]

Bo Didley was a gunslinger!

[@rebelrocker7494]

Great One ,,Love Bo,Never Seen This ,Awesome for you To Share,,Great Video as Always ,,Stay Safe,See Ya Soon ,Keep Rockin 🤘🖤🙏✌

[@bluesrocker6l6gc8]

Thanks so much Rebel Rocker, always glad to read your awesome comments, I really appreciate it!!!

[@wesleycook7687]

Bo Diddley always played live.

[@stuartstuart321]

The legend

[@Reespeck4all]

There were a lot of Births, but there is only one Birth of the" Cool." Hey Bo Diddley !

[@ThiagodMoraes]

If you The Clash fans want to know where Strummer's influence come from i am sure here 's the anwser,Bo Master !!

[@rodrollingstone2362]

Great upload, thank you, never seen this before! Bo was one of my favourite musicians too, since 1964, when I was buying Chuck and Bo records (EPs) on the Pye International label in UK and still at school. I got to see Chuck Berry in that year in my home town on a UK tour but never managed to see Bo Diddley. He will be remembered as one of the truly great rock and roll pioneers and a hugely influential guitarist. The guy had rhythm in his bones!

[@aaronjschaefer]

Bo Diddley, the grunge era...

[@ruthiemay423]

I want a Diddley shirt!!! ❤

[@christophervaldez8746]

Rue Mcclanahan rocking the bass!

[@johnrico3487]

Wow.... just use 1 cord in a song? And two cord for coda? Super awesome

[@bluesrocker6l6gc8]

Haha, yes, he takes one or two chords and makes a masterpiece out of them!!!

[@slowpenguin1]

ROCK ON, ROCK ON , ROCK FOREVER

[@slowpenguin1]

Love that handle. Probably a lot of people don’t understand 6L6 GC. The hotter it gets, the better it sounds.

[@bluesrocker6l6gc8]

Ha, thanks - not very many people have gotten the reference, so it's nice when someone picks up on it!!! Thanks for stopping by!!

[@marvellaerickson2911]

The real arctic architect of rock and roll

[@miltonpodolskyjr8529]

The BEST!

[@alishahrukh2831]

great comment on marriage by Bo

[@qualityimages4022]

Good stuff!

[@adamryzman]

thanks for uploading :-)

[@bluesrocker6l6gc8]

+adam ryzman Thanks for watching!

[@elephantsmemory3142]

I had a boss once who tended to namedrop people he had met He asked me if i had met anybody famous and I said I shook hands with Bo Diddly The see you next Tuesday had never heard of himm

[@suzannelawson9215]

Geez, how old waa your boss that he had never heard of Bo Diddley?

[@aarondigby9859]

@@suzannelawson9215 his Boss must not had a TV, radio or phone.

[@oneman1812]

Rock on.

[@tee-Long4018]

He really was a very good artist. I like all his stuff.....He looks good up there and I can see my momma's features in him she looked so much like him. My son has his hands and body shape.....LOL

[@RJ1999x]

Are you kin to Bo?

[@tee-Long4018]

@@RJ1999x Yes that really is my grandfather my grandmother is the first lady on the BO Diddley 1965 she was his back of singer for a while. Her auntie was Gussie may scales that took him in Mrs. Gussie wasn't his real aunt. She was my grandmothers real aunt that is how they met one another. I'll show you pictures of my mother and him he spit her out and photos of the lady dancing with him on stage it was three women dancing on stage with him

[@craigbrowning9448]

Audience claps on 1&3.

[@vernwallen4246]

It was rumored that"BO"made his own guitars.

[@normanklature6014]

The rumor I got he made his ist guitar out of a cigar box, & that’s the shape of his new ones, who knows anymore so much disinformation, such a shame too.

[@aarondigby9859]

@@normanklature6014 I saw a documentary with people who were around Bo in his early youth, said he made his first guitar out of a cigar box, they said they made several instruments out of stuff in the yard, wash boards, spoons, original sounds.

[@bowstarchannel]

Checking out cool discovery new old music cool

[@bluesrocker6l6gc8]

Thanks for watching, Bowstar, glad you enjoyed it!!!

[@fredrickbubenheimer]

Grew up on Bo, No Pat Boone for Chicago guys!

[@Beer_viking]

Emmmm why do i feel this is in the 80s

[@DonaldMerrit]

Bo Diddley was my next door neighbor in 1995

[@DonaldMerrit]

He was always riding on a big back-hoe, grading the limestone roads for the neighborhood, as the city did not maintain the roads. Such a nice neighbor.

[@DonaldMerrit]

I lived next door to Bo Diddley for several years, and I am a lifelong musician. The whole time I live directly next door to Bo Diddley I never met him face-to-face. We shared an access road and I spent a lot of time on that access road hoping to run into Bo Diddley but I never did. I never felt comfortable about walking up to his door to meet him. I didn't want to be that geeky neighbor. But now all these years later I wish I had been that geeky neighbor, perhaps I would have gotten to know him.

[@DonaldMerrit]

Bo Diddley's property which was adjacent to mine was like a compound on several Acres. The sign on his property did not say Bo Diddley. The sign had his real name on it (which most people don't know). Out of respect I will not share that information with anyone because he is trying to remain incognito. Hey Bo Diddley!

[@johnbettmann1404]

​@@DonaldMerrit Every true Bo fan knows his real name.

[@juanlauda2300]

Fan-f#cking-tastic.

[@stormyone]

Where are his three chorus girls? Did they retire? They were his piece de resistance.

[@fatbelly27]

Bo was a great interviewee. You do need to give him a bit of time though, and this is very rushed.

[@bi8968]

U2 desire was a strong influence

[@SteveEspinola]

I think you mean U2 was influencED by Bo Diddley.

[@Harry_PP030]

Is that Rusty Cloud on keyboards?

[@kelvinhopkins3000]

Psychedelic cords at it best.

[@cjasz622]

Who is the bass player here?

[@RollingOrmond]

Saw him twice. Albuquerque in '98 and NY at BB King's in '02. The original.

[@vernwallen4246]

Saw"BO" twice,1957-1958.Kingsport,TN.

[@yellofrazido]

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[@turnt-tables]

What an icon. Thanks for posting! I've uploaded a video about the history and legacy of this song to my channel if you want to check it out! ☮♥

[@deormanrobey892]

The guy on the LP doesn't have the right tone set up IMO. I'd rather hear Bo banging the chords.

[@OthO67]

I thought I heard an accordion.

[@anthonyrichard461]

Too much 1980s color was added to his original style

[@johnsamuelson4214]

whts the guitarist thinkin about with that ridiculous tone?someone should have told him,hey...bo diddley,not queen,yes or whoever,,the synth at the end dosn´t help either...bo always grand..

[@bluesrocker6l6gc8]

Yes, you would think that actually being in a band with the great Bo Diddley, that the other guitarist would learn a thing a two from Bo about tone!

[@tooterooterville]

Bass player looks and moves a little like Tina Weymouth. Not her of course!

[@claudelebel49]

Not impressed by the music. The best thing that came out of this was Eric Burdon's biographical take. Never having heard of Bo, there was an added mystery to it which made it all the more enjoyable. For me, The mists of the man ended up being a greater than the actuality 😄

[@jimmedley203]

Terrible screeching guitar over Bo's playing...not a good sound...🎸