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Bo Diddley, on top of the stroke he recently suffered, has now been struck with a heart attack. He's recovering and in "stable condition," though it's been noted that to apply that last phrase to Bo may be akin to an insult.

There's a fine account from Idolator HERE, with my favorite headline on the matter.

I saw Bo here in Portland, ME, ten years ago at a great little place to see music called Raoul's, now gone, unfortunately (I also saw good shows from Jonathan Richman and John Hammond Jr. there). He may have been 68 then, but he put on one hell of a show. He's the only one of the rock 'n' roll "originators" I've ever seen live - my friend Johnny Dresden (your favorite crash-course guitar hero) has seen Bo as well as Chuck Berry and Little Richard, and says that Bo was the only one who didn't seem to be going through the motions, and was interested in giving a real show to THIS audience RIGHT NOW.

Idolator also posted a video of Bo on The TNT Show from 1964. DAMN! I've also included it below, with two other videos of the man from the early 60s (all also featuring "The Duchess," Norma-Jean Wofford). Enjoy, damn you, enjoy:

Hilly Krystal, founder of CBGB and OMFUG, has left this world, going down, if not with the ship, then soon thereafter.

A band he felt strongly about enough to actually manage as well as put on the CBGB stage was The Dead Boys. Here they are at CBGB doing their classic "Sonic Reducer:"

And hey, kids, do you want instruction in how to actually play "Sonic Reducer?"

Well, here's Cheetah Chrome to show you how!