My dad has this attachment to 50s rock and roll and he rightly believes everything in pop music was invented in the 50s and possibly the 60s.

I remember most of these songs (the british ones) coming out and me being fascinated by what could be done differently to what was then the mainstream. However pop quickly devolved through the 80s and I found myself meandering back in time, from late to early Talking Heads, from late to early Genesis and Floyd and Yes and Jethro Tull and Mike Oldfield and Fleetwood Mac, discovering the Beatles and the Beach Boys were actually good at some point, finding out Frank Zappa was a thing and discovering that yes, the guy who made late 20th century pop music up in his garage, with his searches for new sounds and writing his own music and lyrics was indeed one Buddy Holly in the 50s.

Anyway I found myself listening to a rather childish track by Basement Jaxx years later and could not quite put my finger on what made that one track work for me. All these bands that only have one really good track... Anyway what was going on was a Gary Numan sample.

So I went back and listened to some of this old stuff and I was really surpised that some of it still works.

But back in 1980 if you heard Numan, early Midge Ure Ultravox minus the ubiquitous title track of the album, Visage, or a couple of years later the Eurythmics you would hear a sound that was strikingly new and different.

Thinking back Peter Gabriels 3rd solo album (although itself very electronic) took me out of the electronic pop bandcamp and more into alternative rock. That and lucking into a friend who had an older brother who had all the old Genesis records also as sheet music including lyrics. That or David Byrne.

The main point is the music you like is the music you liked when you were 13.

NO! NO! NOT BUDDY HOLLY!!

Was that actually Buddy Holly at 2:12 or someone else.

@Fantomas
Don't forget Meatloaf! And Gary Busey could reprise his Buddy Holly. Celebrity Apprentice winners [because Trump LIKES winners] Trace Adkins and John Rich might consider it for old times sake.

I did see a news item that they were having difficulty finding performers [even LYING ... shocker ... about who they've lined up]: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/arts/music/no-elton-john-will-not-perform-at-the-trump-inauguration.html?_r=0

Something happened to Gary Busey sometime between "The Buddy Holly Story" and now.

Reminds a little bit of Buddy Holly's song Everyday

200 people playing Buddy Holly would be even more awesome

and is that Stef from the deftones in the black t-shirt?

Yes I did. You can switch your embed for the one I used- much cleaner video.

In reply to this comment by dbot2006:
you duped my sift of http://videosift.com/video/Buddy-Holly-Live-in-New-York-1958

with

http://videosift.com/video/Buddy-Holly-Live-on-the-Arthur-Murray-Dance-Studio

but yours looks and sounds better. what to do?

This video has been declared a duplicate by the original submitter; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by therealblankman.

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Buddy-Holly-Live-in-New-York-1958

Tags for this video have been changed from 'buddy, holly, peggy, sue' to 'buddy holly, peggy sue, the crickets, arthur murray, dance party' - edited by therealblankman

you duped my sift of http://videosift.com/video/Buddy-Holly-Live-in-New-York-1958

with

http://videosift.com/video/Buddy-Holly-Live-on-the-Arthur-Murray-Dance-Studio

but yours looks and sounds better. what to do?

He meant to say, "Taylor, I know you won, but Weezer's 'Buddy Holly' was one of the greatest videos of all time!"

This is the movie that sold me on Buddy Holly - and I've been a fan ever since!!! - Thanks for memory!!!!

>> ^Goofball_Jones:
Wow, he's pretty good.
Whatever happened to this guy? Anyone know?


>> ^burdturgler:
dead


burdturgler answered that for ya.