The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #110981   Message #2355696
Posted By: meself
02-Jun-08 - 08:00 PM
Thread Name: Peggy Seeger's Cockney Leadbelly??
Subject: RE: Peggy Seeger's Cockney Leadbelly??
"If, for example, Bo Diddley sang a Mozart aria, y'all might be on the floor too."

Obviously it was just bad luck that Bo Diddley would have come up here in a hypothetical example of dubious performance just a couple of days before his death, but reading an article linked in the obit. thread, I came across this:


"He [Bo Diddly] then patches his instrument into a guitar synthesizer and begins playing Bach on the strings, ... "


Maybe the idea of Bo Diddley doing the Mozart aria is not so far-fetched ...