Monday, April 18, 2016

What About Bo Diddley?

"Mona" is one of the signature songs of the hippie days of Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco when psychedelia was in full-bloom.  It's the same time as Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and so many others and, except for Joplin, most came from the same place.  (Note:  Janis Joplin started out in Texas but she ended up in San Francisco)


It's raw and it's passionate, vital things which became more rare as time went by, the world because more violent and less caring, the darkness came.  Shredding became important and passion didn't mean anything.  No thanks as we want to feel it, just like it was in Golden Gate Park.

But ...

where did they get the song.



This isn't an attempt to make a point regarding racism as sometimes bands just cover another band's song because they like the fookin' song and the Stones did it all the time.  "Mona" sounds cool either way and for the same reasons:  it's raw and it's passionate.

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