Posted on 02/03/2018 5:39:11 PM PST by US Navy Vet
The Day the Music Died
I am not sure that is correct. They played in Clear Lake
Iowa and were flying to the Hector Airport in Fargo, North Dakota for a gig at the National Guard Armory in Moorhead,
Minnesota (across the Red River). In the fall of 1967, I went to a tri-college dance there.
I guess everybody can put their own slant on what it means.
I always thought “The Jester” was Mick Jagger. The King was Elvis but not sure who the Queen was. The Sergeants were The Beatles.
Driving “my Chevy to the Levee” was just the typical teenagers going parking. The levee being dry means he was out of luck.
There is a huge amount of religious overtones to the song.
I remember my ex buying me the cheap airline ticket to Boston shortly before dumping me. As the flight went thru some turbulence it hit me, Feb 3, 1999. 40 years the Day The Music Died
Gulp . . .
I was a sophomore at the U. Of Iowa at the time. Hit everybody pretty hard. Lots of silence while it was digested. Still chokes me up.
I was about 2 weeks old when that happened. I barely remember.
Small showrooms and auditoriums!
LOL!!
I know where and when I was when I first heard the song...
I know of no other song that I can say that about.
At the time it struck me, now it is just a song, what does that mean? Hell if I know.
They’re dead, Jim.
Same here.
I guess it was around 1971. I was home for the weekend from college. I had just stopped by a store and gotten a soft drink.
It was raining lightly, the parking lot was wet. I got in the car and had just turned on the radio. The song started just about the same time.
Very odd in that like I said, I knew it was something special immediately.
The Big Bopper was the problem.
“I always thought “The Jester” was Mick Jagger. The King was Elvis but not sure who the Queen was. The Sergeants were The Beatles.”
That’s right, and he pays tribute to Janis Joplin and the Byrds; and he was pissed that JFK was shot, but the bottom line is that a girl in high school rejected him and from there the world wend the crap.
Buddy Holly died in 1959. The song was popular in late sixties, and forward....maybe at different times in different states.
Thankful I enjoyed their music from my parents records before I knew what happened to them.
There’s a good documentary from VH1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvoFBssgHLE
That was a weird tour schedule. It looks like the path on one of those Family Circle comics.
Family Circus, not Family Circle the magazine.
I just looked it up.
The song was released in 1971.
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