Posted on 02/03/2019 12:43:22 PM PST by CaliforniaCraftBeer
In a way, yeah. But there's an old saying, when you pick people to admire, pick dead ones because they can't blow it. :^) He probably would have had some higher notes, and been washed up by about 1964. And that kind of hurts me to type it. I wish they could have all made a safe trip (IOW, not gotten on that plane) and had the ordinary joys of life, and try not to worry too much about what else might have been.
I've got a CD collection of Valens as well. There's at least one track taken from a show he did at his old high school or something, and he turned a little off-mike to adjust his tuning or put on a capo or something that he forgot to do, and you can just make out his voice saying, "I'm gettin' old." He died at 17.
Buddy Holly had a gun in his luggage. It was reported that the fist person on the scene found it immediately and fired several shots to try and summon help. Those were the only shots fired. That’s where the controversy came from.
I meant first person.
Waylon gave up his seat to Richardson (Big Bopper) because Richardson was a bit ill. Allsup lost a coin flip to Valens.
I didn’t say I was worrying, just wondering...
Three of the bodies were thrown clear, and only one, the pilot, was still in the wreck. It had skidded for 130 yards after initial impact, scattering bits all over a stubbled field.
The Big Bopper was actually tossed over a fence into the next field...
The pilot flew into the ground in low visibility, at cruising speed.
I hope no harm was done up there, it wasn't meant to be. I think BH was working on some kind of long musical stage or screen project of his own. His wife miscarried what would have been their first child at some point after she got the news of his death in the crash.
Thanks HGC.
They were flying to Hector Airport in Fargo, North Dakota
for a performance in the Minnesota National Guard Armory in Moorhead, Minnesota. In 1967 I went to a tri-college dance there.
Consider that the average 22-year-old of today still lives with his parents and flits from part-time job to part-time job.
A friend of mine sat in as the Crickets’ drummer several times.
Bobby Vee and his group “The Shadows” were brought in as a last minute replacement.
I remember “Party Doll” but not the other one.
That really was the golden age of rock and roll.
Come on and be my party doll... that's what I listen to while the air tank is inflating her on date night. /rimshot
It would have been funny if a girl group led by someone named Holly Knox had emerged... ;^) Post-Buddy Holly Crickets:
The Crickets - I Fought The Lawhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hw846vx_uk">
Singers like Gene Vincent, Roy Orbison... yeah.
LOL
The Everly Brothers were big too.
A bunch of Black groups which sang with rhythm and harmony, not that rap crap we hear today.
Everly Brothers, hell, yeah. Along with Little Richard, the Platters, too.
Body parts were scattered all over the field. There’s police coroner pics on Google of them. Pretty nasty.
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