Waylon was playing in Buddy's band on tour, and gave his plane ticket to the Big Bopper, to instead take a bus. Waylon's account has said that just before departing, Buddy said jokingly "I hope the bus breaks down", to which Waylon replied, jokingly, "I hope the plane crashes"...He admittedly struggled for a long time with that.
Waylon was playing in Buddy's band on tour, and gave his plane ticket to the Big Bopper, to instead take a bus. Waylon's account has said that just before departing, Buddy said jokingly "I hope the bus breaks down", to which Waylon replied, jokingly, "I hope the plane crashes"...He admittedly struggled for a long time with that.
There's a cool Buddy Holly medley he did back in the mid 70's. It reflected poorly on this bored that Waylon did not win @Tequilla 's cuntry music tournament.
While we are in the wayback machine, this reminds me of another guy from the period that also went down in a plane crash later ~ my cousin John Felton was the deep base singer of the Doo Wap group the Diamonds ~ here is a cool period piece clip of the Diamonds singing Little Darlin on the then infamous Dick Clark's Saturday Night Beachnut Show... [this is the kind of fun factor excitement that you young guys missed].
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Looking around, over 120 artists have covered it, from country to punk, metal to blues, everything in between...
http://dozin.com/jers/guitar/history.htm
Cassidy - jack not hopalong
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Waylon was playing in Buddy's band on tour, and gave his plane ticket to the Big Bopper, to instead take a bus. Waylon's account has said that just before departing, Buddy said jokingly "I hope the bus breaks down", to which Waylon replied, jokingly, "I hope the plane crashes"...He admittedly struggled for a long time with that.