BO DIDDLEY'S Beach Party ORIGINAL PYE UK PRESSING-A BLISTERING LIVE ALBUM

A G LP ON PYE INTERNATIONAL NPL 28032

AN UNDATED U.K. PRESSING OS HIS SEMINAL 1963 CHECKER LP

RECORDED LIVE AT THE BEACH CLUB IN MYRTLE BEACH, SOUTH CAROLINA ON JULY 5 & 6, 1963

TRACKS AS SHOWN ON THE LABEL PHOTOS

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A blistering live album, especially in mono, cut by Bo Diddley and company in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on July 5 and 6, 1963. This album contains 30-plus minutes of the best live rock & roll ever issuedd on record. Diddley and company are "on" from the get-go with a killer instrumental erroneously credited as Chuck Berry's "Memphis" (which it isn't), that's a showcase for Diddley's attack on his instrument and a crunching assault by the rest of the band (all in that shave-and-a-haircut-two-bits beat), cymbals on top of an overloaded bass, and what sounds like every rhythm guitar in the world grinding away. And even that instrumental seems to "talk" to the audience, telling a story. Once Diddley's voice comes in on "Gunslinger," the picture is complete, and perfection is achieved on the frantic, gyrating "Hey, Bo Diddley." The crowd is driven into an audible frenzy as the thundering band crunches in time to Diddley's sometimes shrieking punctuation around his rhymes. Some repertory here may elude modern listeners; this was a dance, and any tune that could be turned into one was fair game, even "On Top of Old Smokey" as a slow number, which leads into the frenetic "Bo Diddley's Dog." Diddley does even better adapting the Larry Verne novelty tune "Mr. Custer," making it his own, and has some fun on "Bo Waltz" before switching gears to the softer, ballad-like "What's Buggin' You," all of which leads to the roaring finale on "Road Runner." Diddley and the band show off most of their bag of tricks amid the man's joyous, buoyant laughter. Apparently, the shows weren't entirely a laughing matter: the police threatened to arrest the band when Jerome Green leaped into the audience with his maracas waving and the female members surrounded him; this all happening in the still-segregated south of 1963. Mishaps, provocations, and non-musical spontaneity aside, this is some of the loudest, raunchiest guitar-based rock & roll ever preserved for public consumption, and it captures some priceless moments. "I'm All Right" was lifted wholesale by the Rolling Stones for their live sets, from 1964 until as late as the end of 1966. The whole approach to music-making here lay at the core of practically every note of music that the Stones recorded or performed for the first three years of their history; indeed, no Stones collection is truly complete without this record attached to it.

THE THIN EURO COVER STOCK WITH RUB AND RING WEAR AND AGE DISCOLORATION. CORNERS WITH SMALL ROUGH SPOTS AND OUTER LAYER LOSSES ON POINT. FRONT SLEEVE EDGE WITH CREASE LINES. NOTWITHSTANDING, A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, SO PLEASE DO LOOK AT THE COVER PHOTOS TO ASCERTAIN COVER CONDITION.

SPINDLE HOLE WITH RUB MARKS. THE HIGH LUSTER VINYL BLANK WITH ASSORTED SURFACE RUB SCUFF MARKS AND PLAY LINES UNDER BRIGHT ANGLED LIGHT AND ASSIDUOUS EXAMINATION. WE'VE TEST PLAYED THIS LP BY SAMPLING EACH TRACK 2-3 TIMES ON A VPI TURNTABLE WITH A GRADO REFERENCE ONE WOOD CARTRIDGE WITHOUT NOTICE OF THE ABOVE ITEMS. BEAR IN MIND THIS WAS AN OUTDOOR LIVE PERFORMANCE AND THE RECORDING IS NOT STUDIO QUALITY BY ANY MEANS.

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