1959 GOD REST YOUR SOULs..... BUDDY, JP AND RICHIE.
THIS IS TRUELY THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED.
IMO HAD BUDDY LIVED WE WOULD HAVE HAD A LOT MORE GREAT MUSIC THAT ALOT MORE BANDS COULD HAVE AND WOULD HAVE USED........
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I'm DAMN SURE GLAD YOU DIDNT GET ON THE PLANE AS LEGEND HAS IT..........
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BUT WAYLON ..... YOU LEFT TO SOON ANYWAY!
GOT  to GO NOW AND SPIN SOME BUDDY ...PEGGY SUE...........RAVE ON.............(LOVE THE GLASSES STILL WEAR MINE TODAY!)
HELLO BABY ........WILL I WHAT.....WILL YOU KNOW WHAT I LIKE......... THE BIG BOPPER's.....CHANTILY LACE..............
AND OF COURSE LA BAMBA.............What a beat dude thak you   
YOU GUYS WERE HEADED TO THE STARS!  
OUT, LET THE BEATING BEGIN.
I CAN'T REMEMBER IF I CRIED........ BUT I SURE REMEMBER ALL My GIRL COUSINS AND NEIGHBORHOOD GIRLS CRYIN......Those were the days

I never got that, the day the music died thing, music will never die, only the men and women who make the music. The music lives on forever!

Bitch wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2012 at 8:49pm:

I never got that, the day the music died thing, music will never die, only the men and women who make the music. The music lives on forever!

Rock and roll certainly lost its impetus and edge for about 3-4 years until The Beatles and later bands like the Stones picked up the slack again.

Holly was dead, Eddie Cochran would follow a year later, Elvis was in the army (and whilst the music he recorded immediately after his release was on a par with anything he'd done to that point, it wasn't as 'wild'), Jerry Lee Lewis was in disgrace, Chuck was about to follow suit and ended up in jail and Little Richard became a minister.

It maybe didnt 'die' but from around 1959-60 it was never quite the same again.

Oh, and to bring it back to a Stones connection, Keith's performance (and Holly dedication) of 'Learning the Game' in Austin in 2006 is my favourite single Stones moment of the last decade.

Yes, music lives on---the universal language. :) But, that was the first big, shocking, earthshattering rock tragedy. Guess we thought rock stars just couldn't possibly die young. :( That event took a huge chunk out of the rock world at that time...

Sad day indeed as original pioneers left so early and could have produced even more great music. To add misery we had to eventually hear that super annoying Don McLean song which I hated from first listen.

gimmekeef wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2012 at 9:33am:

Sad day indeed as original pioneers left so early and could have produced even more great music. To add misery we had to eventually hear that super annoying Don McLean song which I hated from first listen.

I seen him at Massey Hall, Toronto, opening for The James Gang, this was before the song was 'known, I remember him singing a song about American Pie, & someone shouted out "Get The F... Of the stage" people were booing, this was an audience for hard rock fans who came to see the James Gang.

Heart Of Stone wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2012 at 11:46am:

gimmekeef wrote on Feb 3rd, 2012 at 9:33am: Sad dahidy indeed as original pioneers left so early and could have produced even more great music. To add misery we had to eventually hear that super annoying Don McLean song which I hated from first listen. I seen him at Massey Hall, Toronto, opening for The James Gang, this was before the song was 'known, I remember him singing a song about American Pie, & someone shouted out "Get The F... Of the stage" people were booing, this was an audience for hard rock fans who came to see the James Gang.

Yah, for the redneacks.

T

I don't want to meet a reedneck

They make me feek scared