Reply #8: I saw Bo in the late 70's. the late 80's, and the late 90's [View All]

[Wickerman]

and I NEVER liked the Eurythmics. I voted the Eurythmics.

Bo, in two of the three appearances was a complete asshole. Spent most of the time bitching at the crowd about one stupid thing or another. The first time I excused it, the second time it was apparent he took his importance for the decades long repitition of a simple cord progression a tad too serious.

The last time, he did a 20 minute jam in 50 minutes set on his great hit - "Kids, Don't do drugs". A horribly misinformed and acted out D.A.R.E. commercial in pseudo rap. Never mind that we were in a nightclub which didn't have a soul under 30 in it. Most of the rest of the set was a local backing band jamming with him singing, rarely ever playing the box guitar.

The first time I saw him he played a bluesy club in Chicago. He spent most of the time bitching about how the airplane made his voice dry and how he couldn't sing. Seems he couldn't play either, the backing band did most of the work - sometimes he'd bark out Bo Diddley, strum two or three cords, and then nod off.