I saw Bo Diddley at the Bamboo Room in Lake Worth, Fl. on this past Wednesday night. He filled the room at $55.00 per ticket and kicked our butts with the Bo Diddley Beat. He'd just had a birthday the week before so the staff made him a cake and brought that out when he got done. He and his band, The Accelerators, played 2 1/2 hours straight through with no breaks. Bo Diddley knows how to entertain. He had to sit in a chair due to losing a couple toes to diabetes, but it didn't matter. Heck, at one point he did a Russian folk song, in what I reckon was actually Russian. He is therefore a folksinger
The Volga Bo-Man.

The crowd swarmed him after the show and the bouncers had their hands full trying to make a path for him to get down from the stage. It was a good night for us all. Bo Diddley has still got it and I don't believe he will ever lose it.

He'd played the Bamboo Room about a year ago and I attended that one too and wrote one of my offbeat Review of that show. If he's anywhere close to any of you, go and check him out.

Tweed