{"id":86944,"date":"2024-02-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86944"},"modified":"2024-02-01T22:10:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T04:10:51","slug":"do-it-yourself-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86944","title":{"rendered":"Do It Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tomorrow is the 65th anniversary of “The Day The Music Died” – the plane crash in Clear Lake IA that killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and Jiles “Big Bopper” Richardson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m a huge music trivia nerd – and even I was unaware of the impact Holly made, not in terms of songs, but in how rock and roll was made. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buddy Holly’s impact on music in his 22 years is scarcely understood even by a lot of serious fans of music, but indeed of Holly himself – myself included. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I learned a lot from this writeup<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In many ways it\u2019s a shame that Buddy spent most of his short career fighting for the things that would help rock and roll music to thrive in the decades to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They told him only producers can produce music, not musicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He proved them wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They told him that a four piece band consisting of two guitars (rhythm and lead), a stand up bass, and drums wasn\u2019t enough instrumentation to create a hit record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He proved them wrong<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They told him that songwriters only wrote songs, and musicians only played music. You can\u2019t do both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He proved them wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They told him he would never become a rock and roll star because you had to be good looking like Elvis Presley. Plus he could never make it by wearing glasses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He proved them wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They told him orchestral arrangements and double tracking vocals in rock music could never work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He proved them wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They told him that no one from a one horse town by the name of Lubbock, Texas could ever become famous. You had to be from a big city like Los Angeles or New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He proved them wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They told him that no musician had the right to question a record label about copyrights, promotion, or ownership of one\u2019s music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He proved them wrong.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Don McLean was a little wrong – the music died when the iPod was invented. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway – here’s celebrating Buddy Holly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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