{"id":4153,"date":"2019-12-04T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2019-12-04T20:09:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T02:09:58","slug":"birth-of-rock-roll-music-project-1954-1959-no-18-electric-guitar-ellas-otha-bates-a-k-a-ellas-mcdaniel-a-k-a-bo-diddley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/birth-of-rock-roll-music-project-1954-1959-no-18-electric-guitar-ellas-otha-bates-a-k-a-ellas-mcdaniel-a-k-a-bo-diddley\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth of Rock &#038; Roll Music Project 1954-1959: No. 18: Electric Guitar: Ellas Otha Bates, a\/k\/a Ellas McDaniel, a\/k\/a Bo Diddley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bo Diddley, Checker 814.  This track was recorded at Universal Recording Studio, 46 E. Walton Street, Chicago, Ill., on March 2, 1955.  Big, unique, original Guitar sound, lots of tremolo and reverb, amplifier overdriven, helped by the echo chamber at Universal Studio.  Influenced every Rock &amp; Roll guitarist to this day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ellas Otha Bates, born 12-30-1928, McComb, Mississippi, died at age 79 on 6-2-2008, at his home near Archer, Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inducted:  R&amp;R Hall of Fame (1987); Blues Hall of Fame (2003); Rhythm &amp; Blues Hall of Fame (2017)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recipient of Grammy Lifetime achievement Award and R&amp;B Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award   <br> Rock on!<br> Mike<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Bo-Diddley-Bo-Diddley-Checker-8141955.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Bo Diddley &#8211; Bo Diddley &#8211; Checker 814 (1955)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bo Diddley, Checker 814. This track was recorded at Universal Recording Studio, 46 E. Walton Street, Chicago, Ill., on March 2, 1955. Big, unique, original Guitar sound, lots of tremolo and reverb, amplifier overdriven, helped by the echo chamber at Universal Studio. Influenced every Rock &amp; Roll guitarist to this day. Ellas Otha Bates, born [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newletters","comments-open"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46vzC-14Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4155,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions\/4155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}