RIP: Bo Diddley

[thewayne]

He was quite the working man's musician, built his own guitar even. I never got to see him play, which I bet would have been a lot of fun. I did get to see B.B. King in a small blues venue in Phoenix, that was a great show.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080602/ap_en_mu/obit_diddley

Comments

[silveradept]

Man. You know that everyone has to go, but I'm already beginning to mark the passage of time by how many greats have died already...

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Sadly, the greats die constantly. It takes years to build up a great career, so appreciate them when you can and while they're here. But the sobering thing is when you start attending funerals for your friends, that's when you really see the passage of time. My first was a couple of months after my high school 10th reunion, my best friend in HS, who was unable to attend, died in a motorcycle accident. He was a cop, and a woman backed into traffic without looking. Over a period of less than a year, three members of my film club died. Last year, a friend of some 25 years died unexpectedly.

And that's not counting relatives, both immediate and not-so. I can't count the number of funerals that I've attended, at one time it seemed like I was going to three or four a year.

Mortality sucks. I'd say that it would be easier to go through life without making friends, but that would definitely be worse.

[silveradept]

Mortality does indeed suck. And the worst part about is is that more funerals start happening, the closer you get to your own funeral.