Today marks the day that Buddy Holly inadvertently killed two other musicians. Not trying to make light of the incident, but Big Popper and Ritchie Valens weren't the original people supposed to fly. Instead, it was Holly (who chartered the plane,) his bassist, Waylon Jennings, and his guitarist, Tommy Allsup. Because he was sick, Jennings gave up his seat to the Big Bopper. To be a cool cat, Allsup flipped a coin with Valens for the remaining seat, and lost. Roger Peterson was the young and inexperienced pilot who may have read one of the instruments wrong, causing the crash.
Their last will and testament is The Day the Music Died by Don McLean; he sucks. I mean, really, name another great song by him. If you said Vincent, you have poor taste in music. Luckily he was able to put out that one, epic song that everyone knows to honor the fallen. I never knew about this incident until I saw the film, La Bamba, and now every time I hear a Valens song, it makes me sad. Ironically, what made me remember today's historic event was Esai Morales (Bob) posting something unrelated on Facebook. Small world.
Before Sons of Anarchy was cool.
