Plane Crashes!

[plaidseason]

Waylon Jennings was indeed in Buddy Holly's backing band for the ill-fated "Winter Dance Party," but the band was not called the Crickets. The Crickets were Jerry Allison, Joe B. Mauldin and (earlier on) Niki Sullivan and they split with Buddy when he moved to NYC.

Little Richard is more "rock n' roll" than almost anyone alive.

-Chris

 

[hideglue]

Not a musician, per se, but I think we would be a bit lax in our duty here at LTG to not include Al Dronge on the list. Private plane on May 3rd, 1972

 

[HoboKen]

You guys just had to go there......brings back real sad moments for me.
And even a deeper sadness to one of my friends when you talk about the loss of J.D. ("John Dutch")

John's new plane was a an experimental aircraft home built B. Ratan designed "Long EZ." (Long Easy) My one friend was going to sell John his Long EZ with the fuel tank switch in the conventional location in front of the pilot like the design plans call for. At the last minute he decided not to sell the plane. John found another one that had the fuel switch up and behind the pilot......hard to get to when you don't know the aircraft real well yet. What can I say. My friend still can't talk about it. It just hurts too much to try for him.

I still remember with great joy, a Saturday morning flight with John up out of Phoenix through Oak Creek Canyon to Flagstaff & back in a small two-seater plane. We both were fairly new pilots at the time and he would say "Far Out!" To which I'd reply "Farm-Out? Just so we don't buy that farm on these barrel-rolls!" Oh if I'd only have known.

We still lift a glass to John at our Sept. annual reunion of old folkies as we sit around the fire at the old camp-site in PA just a stone's throw from W.Va. For us as it was for John......"almost haven." ......and no one can speak or sing or play for at least 5 to 10 minutes after that. We gave up trying a few years ago. We just sit there for awhile and reflect for awhile.

HoboKen

 

[Russell Letson]

more Buddy Holly trivia

When Holly died, his gig in Moorhead, MN was picked up by a player from Fargo (just across the river)--Bobby Velline, who played under the name Bobby Vee. It was the start of his career. (He also made an album with the Crickets in 1962.) Bobby now lives outside St. Cloud, MN and is reportedly a really nice guy. I've run into his sons a couple times--very good musicians and also nice guys.

 

[capnjuan]

May have overlooked Sonny Curtis - I Fought The Law and The Law Won - was also a on-again, off-again Cricket during some of the Buddy Holly years:
http://www.westexmusichof.com/artistspa ... urtis.html and
http://www.thecrickets.com/gallery.html

"...I needed money, 'cause I ... had none..."

This is almost always why people need money but made famous anyway by the Bobby Fuller Four with that killer driving beat...listener is exhausted when it's over...

 

[Steelpickin']

Jim Reves, Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, Marcil Dadi.........

 

[Jeff]

Ricky Nelson, Although he crashed a bit after his popularity peaked.

I guess I'm one of the 5 Ricky Nelson fans in the country.

 

[dreadnut]

I believe my dad had just about every Jim Reeves album ever produced

 

[West R Lee]

Mr. Dronge, how could we forget. Anybody know how old he was when he died? Ever wonder where Guild would have ended up if his influence had remained?

West

 

[sfIII]

I have to add the Reba McIntire band. I knew one of those guys.. Cris Austin. He lived next door to me in Boone, NC when I was a student. I had a fiddle and could play a few tunes on one string or another. He was nine. He picks it up, tuned it in 30 seconds, says "guess it is sort of like a mandolin" and begins to play. At 9 and the first time he ever picked up a fiddle he was way way better than me.. I never picked it up again. As a teen he got work with Ricky Scaggs and died in his early twenties with the rest of Reba's band.

I will be listening to Blues at Merlefest in a few weeks at the Cris Austin stage.

 

[Scratch]

Fellas, didn't payne Stewart play the kazoo?

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

GZ,

I think Rosie O'Donnell was created by preservatives to make liberiles look bad.

GM,

Peter, Paul, and Maury?

 

[Bobby]

Seven members of the Reba McEntire band were among ten people killed when their Hawker-Siddeley plane failed to clear a mountain top and crashed near San Diego, California - can you imagine? A year later Reba's plane crash landed in Nashville and she escaped unharmed!!
Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto, famous for his hit song “Sukiyaki,” was killed in the crash of a Japan Airlines Boeing 747 into a mountain in Japan. It was the worst single aviation accident ever, killing 520 of the 524 people aboard the plane. The crash was caused by a failed bulkhead which had been improperly repaired seven years earlier!
Rock 'n roll singer Otis Redding (26) and four members of his Bar-Kays band were killed when their Beechcraft H18 plane crashed in icy Lake Mendota inside Madison, Wisconsin, on a foggy night. Redding is best known for his hit, “Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay,” which was released after his death. Redding had recorded the song just three days earlier!!

Ok I'm done now . . .

 

[West R Lee]

Good stuff Bobby, thanks.

West

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

Ricky Nelson, Although he crashed a bit after his popularity peaked.

I guess I'm one of the 5 Ricky Nelson fans in the country.

There were at least six... 8)