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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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That'll Be the Day
Fifty years ago today was the "day the music died." While it seems clear that rock didn't die with Buddy Holly in 1959, this is as good an excuse as any to celebrate his music. Clearly a precursor to what we'd hear from The Beatles and other bands in the '60s, The Crickets' music paved the way for the rock revolution. They invented the rock band in the classic form that we know it today: guitar, guitar, bass, drums. Holly also popularized the Fender Stratocaster and used multitrack overdubbing like no one before him. He wrote his own music at a time when singer and songwriter were often considered separate jobs. When he died, he was only 22 and his career was all of eighteen months old. The music didn't die on February 3, 1959, but who knows where Buddy Holly would have taken it if he hadn't.
Posted by on 3 February 2009 at 10:21 PM
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