The Day the Music Died - 65 years ago today
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Wagerallsports
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She never stopped with the disrespect to that son lol
Wagerallsports
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Most of the music now is electronically generated
True artists continuously on the decline
Despite continued reporting - music is NOT on a decline.
Radio and the companies that push music they want us to hear are in decline. Have been since around 1980 - coincidentally that’s when you started seeing ClearChannel/iHeart buying up station license and ditching local DJs for machines and people programming 1000s of miles away.
Remember when you could drive between 2 major cities and not hear the same KISS FM nonsense playing the same 8 artist? Remember when you’d go to a city and they would not only play people you never heard of - but play 2-3 cuts from the same band in a row or even a full side of an album while the DJ ran out of the booth - took a piss and then had a smoke?
Music is still good - you just have to look for it. On the positive - it’s easier to find than ever - but with so much crap out there you got to search and you have to be willing to search.
Bands are still out there - local music scenes are still alive - but the days of AFFORDABLE concerts seems to be fading. 2 of my clients run charters for bands - business is going well for them. Of course they don’t do TS or the huge stadium shows - but still have no problems keeping buses booked with artist touring. Another runs production for those mega stadium shows like TS and Beyoncé - again doing well. The money the drivers/crews make is amazing - not uncommon for a guy to make double (or more) salary at end of a successful tour in a “tip” (and these guys make good to start - average driver takes home something like 100k every 6-7 month deployment from March-September. The days of minimum wage roadies are dead.
But yea - it’s sad how close music came to dying that day in ‘57 - gotta think we were just 4 years post Hank Williams untimely passing - and just as Elvis arrived to save RnR - he got drafted into the army. Literally seemed to recover from one near death experience only to see another between HW to Clearlake to Elvis and the Army to Beatles and Lennons remark about being bigger than Christ to the end of Flower Power and the start of the “27 club”. Every time people thought music would die - never did - not even Disco could kill it.
Radio and the companies that push music they want us to hear are in decline. Have been since around 1980 - coincidentally that’s when you started seeing ClearChannel/iHeart buying up station license and ditching local DJs for machines and people programming 1000s of miles away.
Remember when you could drive between 2 major cities and not hear the same KISS FM nonsense playing the same 8 artist? Remember when you’d go to a city and they would not only play people you never heard of - but play 2-3 cuts from the same band in a row or even a full side of an album while the DJ ran out of the booth - took a piss and then had a smoke?
Music is still good - you just have to look for it. On the positive - it’s easier to find than ever - but with so much crap out there you got to search and you have to be willing to search.
Bands are still out there - local music scenes are still alive - but the days of AFFORDABLE concerts seems to be fading. 2 of my clients run charters for bands - business is going well for them. Of course they don’t do TS or the huge stadium shows - but still have no problems keeping buses booked with artist touring. Another runs production for those mega stadium shows like TS and Beyoncé - again doing well. The money the drivers/crews make is amazing - not uncommon for a guy to make double (or more) salary at end of a successful tour in a “tip” (and these guys make good to start - average driver takes home something like 100k every 6-7 month deployment from March-September. The days of minimum wage roadies are dead.
But yea - it’s sad how close music came to dying that day in ‘57 - gotta think we were just 4 years post Hank Williams untimely passing - and just as Elvis arrived to save RnR - he got drafted into the army. Literally seemed to recover from one near death experience only to see another between HW to Clearlake to Elvis and the Army to Beatles and Lennons remark about being bigger than Christ to the end of Flower Power and the start of the “27 club”. Every time people thought music would die - never did - not even Disco could kill it.
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How many guys allegedly gave up their seat in that plane ?
Waylon Jennings was one who claimed it many times (bass player for Buddy Holly). Others have said the same thing.
A lot of what might have been - Buddy was the star - would have have continued to make hits or fade to obscurity. Valens had potential - but not able to write his own material yet. Finally The BB was mostly a novelty act - can’t say he would have changed the landscape - but who knows.
3 things rock stars should avoid - small planes heroin and motorcycles. How many have died as a result of those 3.
Waylon Jennings was one who claimed it many times (bass player for Buddy Holly). Others have said the same thing.
A lot of what might have been - Buddy was the star - would have have continued to make hits or fade to obscurity. Valens had potential - but not able to write his own material yet. Finally The BB was mostly a novelty act - can’t say he would have changed the landscape - but who knows.
3 things rock stars should avoid - small planes heroin and motorcycles. How many have died as a result of those 3.
a lot
How can you say that? If you don't think " Move get out the way fool" and " My neck my back lick my pussy and my crack" isn't absolute musical and lyrical art I don't know what to say.
charliebrown
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I remember my dad always playing that song in his camero
I got into his music pretty young as a result of the Buddy Holly Story movie
Many that followed were influenced by his music.
So much innovation for his day in his short 22 years
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