Author Topic: The Day the Music Died... (Read 992 times)

sluggish · « **Reply #15 on:** February 04, 2007, 10:31:32 AM »

In an interview Shooter Jennings said that the last conversation his dad had had with Buddy Holly haunted him for the rest of his life. Apparently Holly had joked with Waylon about his six hour bus trip in a bus with no heater and how he would be thinking of him when he was in his warm hotel room and Jennings answered that he hoped that the plane would crash.

He never got over the fact that he was supposed to be on that plane.

"American Pie" is less about Buddy Holly dying than about what happened to rock and roll after he died. MacClean obviously didn't like the British invasion and the flower power vibe of the sixties. While I don't agree with the message of the song it's thinly vieled metaphors about the fall of Elvis and it's swipes at the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were brillianly written and it is one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) pop songs that actually says something ever written.

squealer · « **Reply #16 on:** February 04, 2007, 10:32:32 AM »

The closest it came for me was when Layne Staley died, the best singer i've ever heard, what a voice. But music will never die and you are a fool to think it ever will...

R.I.P Layne

storch · « **Reply #17 on:** February 04, 2007, 10:36:40 AM »

wasn't the accident in 1955?

Yeager · « **Reply #18 on:** February 04, 2007, 12:13:31 PM »

it is one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) pop songs that actually says something ever written.
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Thats purely a matter of opinion. It is a well written song but very long in the tooth and its sentiment is not shared by everyone. Had Holly survived I doubt the Beatles or Stones would have failed to occur. And also, I don't find Holly's music to be such that, had he lived, it would have markedly improved beyond the basic three chord progression he stylized. His lyrical writing was so very very basic. I seriously doubt the guy would have amounted to much more than he already was. But who knows.....he died young.

RIP Buddy Holly

storch · « **Reply #19 on:** February 04, 2007, 12:17:01 PM »

oops brain fart james dean died in 1955.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #20 on:** February 04, 2007, 04:59:11 PM »

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Originally posted by Masherbrum
Buddy Holly's Strat from that night

I awlays thought he took his guitar along with him, inventing a signature Jimmy Hendrix move ...

Black Sheep · « **Reply #21 on:** February 04, 2007, 07:58:42 PM »

I've played the Surf Ballroom twice. The first time I was there it was very ominous. But at the same time, very cheap. The only reason they are still open today is from the publicity and a few momentos. They still have the wooden phone booth roped off where Holly made his last call. Maybe his last bowel movement is in bronze somewhere too.

The coolest thing about that place are the sigs in the green room of all the artists that have played there. Almost everyone is on that wall from the last 45 years. We spent at least 90 minutes before a show just reading it.

AWMac · « **Reply #22 on:** February 10, 2007, 01:42:32 AM »

Enjoy

Pfffft Green Day? lasersailor you have alotta growing up to do.

Mac

Mustaine · « **Reply #23 on:** February 10, 2007, 04:26:19 AM »

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Originally posted by AWMac
Enjoy

Pfffft Green Day? lasersailor you have alotta growing up to do.

Mac

people like that and squealer scare me about the knowledge of the future some times

DiabloTX · « **Reply #24 on:** February 10, 2007, 04:30:33 AM »

"Not Fade Away"

One of the best pop songs. Ever.

Another great Texas musical great gone too early.

Ya hear that Mac? He was a Texan.

Thank god for the red river? Ya sure 'bout that?

DiabloTX · « **Reply #25 on:** February 10, 2007, 04:38:06 AM »

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Originally posted by Masherbrum
Buddy Holly's Strat from that night

The third from last picture is spine tingling. The Strat rode in the bus with Jennings and Co.

Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochrane, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper were a tragic loss.

The 2 most famous Strat's from Texas players were sunbursts. A '58....droooooooooooool!!!!!

bj229r · « **Reply #26 on:** February 10, 2007, 07:59:42 AM »

Stevie Ray comes a distant second--- I still thank him for leading us out of the 80's techno-crap and back to blues-based rock-n-roll, if only for a while. What passes for such today has no tie to blues, which is where rock-n-roll came from:cry

(I remember, in the 6th grade when that song came out, our music teacher spent like 2 weeks discussing it--the guy spent like YEARS writing it)

Guppy35 · « **Reply #27 on:** February 10, 2007, 12:19:37 PM »

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Originally posted by Masherbrum
Buddy Holly's Strat from that night

The third from last picture is spine tingling. The Strat rode in the bus with Jennings and Co.

Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochrane, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper were a tragic loss.

Late to the thread. Thanks for that link. Talk about a piece of history. My late son's Tele is a sunburst. I kinda feel the same way when I hold it as the Fender guy does with Buddy's

Put me in the loves "American Pie" category. It's a great brief history of rock and roll in that song. All kinds of references to folks in it.

Masherbrum · « **Reply #28 on:** February 10, 2007, 03:42:07 PM »

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Originally posted by Guppy35
Late to the thread. Thanks for that link. Talk about a piece of history. My late son's Tele is a sunburst. I kinda feel the same way when I hold it as the Fender guy does with Buddy's

Put me in the loves "American Pie" category. It's a great brief history of rock and roll in that song. All kinds of references to folks in it.

your welcome bro!

Karaya

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