Singer/songwriter Ronny Elliott saw Diddley perform in his prime and toured with him about a decade later:
My mother took me to the armory [on N. Howard Ave.] in Tampa for a show in 1956. When Bo Diddley took the stage I thought his rumble would buckle the walls. I had never experienced anything remotely similar and I haven't since.
When we did a short tour with him a decade and a half later we got to be pals.
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Scribe/bassist Philip Booth recalls backing Diddley on stage about 30 years ago outside Gainesville:
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