Buddy Holly - Learning the Game

[RandySF]

[Brother Buzz]

1. Played on his 1942 Gibson J-45 acoustic

Interesting, Buddy was a Gibson boy. That is, until he traded in his other guitar, a s-m-o-o-t-h 1952 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop for a twangy Stratocaster....and the rest was history.



https://www.fretboardjournal.com/features/buddy-hollys-les-paul-guitar-changed-course-music-history-not-played/

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. He was such an incredible talent and force.

And he died so very young.

Even so, he had a profound effect on music. I sometimes wonder what it would have been like had that plane crash not occurred. The Beatles have often noted how he influenced them. Had he lived, would they have been so famous? There's no way to know, of course. But he would have had an even more powerful effect on rock/popular music in the next few years. Were I good at writing alternate history, I'd write one in which Buddy Holly had not died in February, 1959, some 60 years ago now. Think about it. It's not impossible he would still be alive at the age of 82.

[mr_lebowski]

3. He was one of the first truly genius white player/singer/songwriters to emerge on the pop scene ...

I mean there were already a LOT of great bluesman who wrote/played/sang their own stuff, and some of them were starting to hit around the same time, and of course Elvis was breaking around the same time ... but he wasn't much of a songwriter or a player ... But man, Holly could do it all, he could keep up with the Chuck Berrys and Muddy Waters of the world.

His loss was a HUGE tragedy, man. He was a PHENOMENAL talent.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Yes. There is no way to know what we lost when he died,

but it was massive.