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Article: Bo Diddley's Bar Mitzvah beat box.(legendary guitarist builds GuitDrum, an electric guitar/drum machine; comments on excessive technology in pop music)(Brief Article)(Interview)
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- Guitar Player
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 New Bay Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Bo Diddley gets into rap and even whips up tropical flavors on his first major-label release in 20 years, A Man Among Men [Code Blue/Atlantic]. But he's still laying down that beat that made him a model rhythm guitarist and a seminal rock and roll force with '50s and '60s hits like "Roadrunner" and "Who Do You Love." He also remains a decidedly non-mainstream luthier. "I still build guitars," Bo says. "I just built a new thing called the GuitDrum. That's a guitar and a drum machine together, for the guy who wants to play a bar mitzvah. He don't need to bug a drummer. He just takes it and does his thing."
Bo still plays his trademark rectangular axes (made these days ...
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