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Elias Otha Bates aka Bo Diddley played an unusual and unique guitar that he had a big hand in designing.

He also had a huge influence in transforming Blues music into Rock music, though he never set out to accomplish anything other than playing his own style of music.

His “shave and a haircut-two bits” also known as “the Hambone” was the driving pattern that caught the eyes and ears of so many British Invasion bands and American bands of the 1960’s and became a part of their style.

Born in Mississippi and raised by his mother’s cousin, Elias Bates took on her surname, “McDaniel” and used that throughout his life.

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The McDaniel family moved to Chicago and young Elias McDaniel was raised in the Ebenezer Baptist Church.

He learned to play the violin and trombone in the church’s orchestra, but he was much more fascinated by the driving music being played at a nearby Pentecostal Ch