February 3, 1959…..
Yeah, I know February 3 was yesterday, but I thought Sunn might post this as he is our official MR Rock Cornier…… February 3, 1959 has come to be known as “the day the music died”, and, someone “drove their Chevy to the Levy” or something like that…..
It was the day Buddy Holly, Richie Vallens, and the Big Bopper died in a small plane crash in Iowa….. Holly is looked upon as one of the founding fathers of Rock and Roll…… He was from Lubbock, Texas and he had just really made the big time….. The irony of the tragic accident is that Buddy wasn’t supposed to be on the plane….. He had a cold and his bass player at that time, Waylon Jennings (someone you may have heard of) gave up his seat on the plane to Buddy….. Country music took a giant leap that day, although, it would be a few years before Waylon hit it big…. Life is strange and weird for the most part……
February 4th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
I read somewhere that the best guitar players are the ones that wear glasses. They take a time out from all those notes to push their glasses back. Can’t forget Buddy’s glasses or his music.
February 4th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
You’re correct, Anon. Sometimes, less is more, when it comes to guitar solos.
MR, thanks for the backup. However, since the Beatles came a few years later, I don’t believe that was the “day the music died”. I digress.
February 5th, 2010 at 9:49 am
Sunn, I didn’t say I agreed with it…… The phrase, which I’m sure you know, came from a song by the same name in the ’70’s, I think….. It referenced, “Them good ole boys were playin’ That’ll be the Day”, and when he got to the Levy – The Levy was dry….. I bet he was pissed, but, it did rhyme with died, which was the point, since I don’t think there are very many Levy’s in Texas or Oklahoma – Buddy Holly and the Crickets stomping grounds…..
If he had lived, I wonder what direction Buddy’s music would have taken when the Beatles came out?….. His music was starting to change just before he died, which, somewhat parallels Hendrix, who was getting more into Jazz and Alternative in the months before his death….. I read somewhere that Jimi jammed with Miles Davis, although, I haven’t heard any recordings to verify it…… How much different would today’s music be if both of them would have lived long and successful lives? Would we still have had to listen to Barry Manalow?…….
February 5th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Ow! MR, you used the name “that shall never be spoken”. Beware the wrath of Sri Chimnoy. You must atone.
February 6th, 2010 at 3:36 am
MR, yes there will always be a demand for the mediocre or even terrible (Lady Ga Ga comes to mind). The same reason we keep voting unfit politicians to office. At least half of this country is to put it politely, ignorant.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:50 am
…And, the other half of the country is unaware, Sunn…… It’s a sad situation, indeed……
Anon, I will do whatever is necessary to atone for the blasphemy of my passing mention of said person (notice I didn’t say “Artist”, “Performer”, “Star”, etc., etc.)….. Even PD Bob said that particular person’s recordings hurt his ears….. Before you ask how PDB was exposed to such punishment, we were watching the Tube and apparently this person is now doing the Casino Circuit, as a commercial came on and caught us unawares – I made a mad dash for the remote, which was firmly locked in PDB’s hand, which was now over his ears….. He was too stunned to take action….. By the time I got the remote, the damage was done…… After throwing water in his face, and, a couple of slaps, he came around….. To no one’s surprise he headed straight for his Harvey WallBanger locker…. He declared that there would be no more TV for the rest of the night and put in a Hendrix DVD to clam his shattered nerves……
February 6th, 2010 at 11:45 am
I like the song but the music didn’t die that day maybe when Lennon was shoot or the passing of Hendrix. But why do I have to lessen to hip hop and rap if I watch TV or movies now and days. Its getting to the point that if you wish to avoid PDB’s sudden trauma one has to mute the TV before channel surfing.
February 6th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
I think the worse (so far) is the rap treatment given to Dylan’s “Forever Young”. I despise it & I have a pretty open mind as it pertains to music. So that speaks volumes.
February 6th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
Don’t know what to tell you MR. My only suggestion is to seek the advice of the oracle and look for the answer in the entrails of a chicken from KFC. Dumpster diving out back of a KFC surely would count as some kind of atonement.
February 7th, 2010 at 10:55 am
I said I would atone, Anon, not subject myself to “Death by Fried Chicken Face”….. Does anyone really know what’s in The Colonel’s secret herbs and spices?….. I’m not going to find out – Thank you very much….. I will eat a cold can of Campbell’s condensed chicken noodle soup – No added water – straight out of the can – That should be enough for complete forgiveness of my transgression …..
Sunn, I also have a fairly open mind concerning music, and, I agree with you 100%….. As I stated before, all they need is one chord (sometimes one repeated note) and a rhyming dick-sun-air-e….. Must have lost their dictionary?…… eh?….
Robo, I definitely agree with you on the soundtrack crap….. Almost all the new movies, especially action flicks, have the most obnoxiously simpleton rap, slap, hip-hop music in them….. Doesn’t matter if the setting is in a desert, Europe, wherever, the soundtrack still hops with the rap….. The main problem is if you have surround sound, they have this “Music” (as they call it) mixed so loud in the surround speakers, you can hardly hear anything that the actors are saying….. Very annoying…….
February 7th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
I have just started watching the Super Bowl Pre-Game. They’re at this very moment playing rap behind a team highlights spot. You just can’t get away from it. Probably the same thing our parents said about our music.
February 13th, 2010 at 12:03 am
Ok MR. I thought you knew music history better than that. 1. Buddy is the one who chartered the plane, of course he was supposed to be on it. The original passengers were supposed to be Buddy, Waylon, and Tommy Allsup.(he went on to play with Bob Wills) keeping to the country theme. 2. Richie Valens had the cold (caught on the bus with no heat) Buddy convinced Waylon to give up his seat on the plane to Richie. and Tommy and The Big Bopper flipped a coin for the last seat. In later years Waylon would never comment about the crash only once commenting before his death that some measure of survivors guilt played a part in his self destructive behavior in the ’70s. Somewhere I have an interview with Tommy Allsup where he goes into detail about that night (mainly to show that the producers of “The Buddy Holly Story” that they misrepresented the order of events. Any way I have been to the crash site. a solemn place I must admit.
February 13th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
Sounds good for reconstructed history…… …..And, I’m not saying you are wrong, but, I was in Band practice at Star-Spencer on that day, and, everything that was broadcast concerning details of the crash on the radio at that time were as I described…… Maybe they had it wrong in the beginning, or maybe certain people’s memories have changed over the years in order to make a better story….. That would include mine…… Who were we talking about?…..