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Post by jason on Apr 25, 2018 7:01:56 GMT -5
The curse if it exists could have come from anywhere. It didn't have to start with Buddy Holly. Ritchie Valens avoided a previous plane crash in his schoolyard in Pacoima when he went to his father's funeral. Music producer Joe Meeks dabbled in the occult and warned Holly about the date February 3rd and later killed himself. But I think it's a general rock-and-roll curse if you want to call it that in combination with other factors that might not exist to the same extent today with things like new regulations in flying and medical care and rehab. I don't think today's regulations would have prevented the crash because such things still happen. JFK Jr. shouldn't have been flying at night, but that didn't stop him. Small planes are constantly crashing and most of the time, it's due to pilot error. |
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Post by Sam on Feb 4, 2019 19:38:18 GMT -5
I just realized that this plane crash happened 60 years ago today and I haven't heard or seen anything about it in the news.
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Post by steve on Feb 3, 2021 13:16:04 GMT -5
I wondered why a local radio station was playing all these old songs from the 50s and then the announcer said it was "The Day the Music Died."
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Post by snowfairy on Feb 3, 2023 21:15:44 GMT -5
I was just reading the Jack the Ripper articles when I noticed this is the Day the Music Died. I've been to the location where the plane crashed.
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Post by Sam on Feb 4, 2023 19:39:36 GMT -5
I was just reading the Jack the Ripper articles when I noticed this is the Day the Music Died. I've been to the location where the plane crashed. What was it like? |
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Post by snowfairy on Feb 5, 2023 4:44:32 GMT -5
It was years ago. My parents were huge Buddy Holly fans and when my first husband and I were driving from Naval Station Great Lakes in Chicago to our next duty station at Puget Sound, Washington, we decided to go through Iowa so that we could get some pictures of the Surf Ballroom and the site of the crash. It was in October, not long before Halloween, and the day we were there was dark and stormy, like it was going to rain any minute. The ballroom was like stepping back in time to 1959, and although the crash site was just a cornfield that had been harvested recently, it was deathly quiet and spooky. There were no memorials there at that time, just flowers and other things people had left. After we left the crash site, it started raining and we ended up spending the night at a motel in Clear Lake, which is on a huge lake.
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Post by Sam on Feb 5, 2023 5:29:48 GMT -5
It was years ago. My parents were huge Buddy Holly fans and when my first husband and I were driving from Naval Station Great Lakes in Chicago to our next duty station at Puget Sound, Washington, we decided to go through Iowa so that we could get some pictures of the Surf Ballroom and the site of the crash. It was in October, not long before Halloween, and the day we were there was dark and stormy, like it was going to rain any minute. The ballroom was like stepping back in time to 1959, and although the crash site was just a cornfield that had been harvested recently, it was deathly quiet and spooky. There were no memorials there at that time, just flowers and other things people had left. After we left the crash site, it started raining and we ended up spending the night at a motel in Clear Lake, which is on a huge lake. Thanks. I knew there was a lake there, but didn't know it was as big as it is until I just looked at it on the map. A lake that size seems unusual in the middle of flat farm country like that.
It was over 300 miles to their next gig and they had to travel on a bus without heat that kept breaking down. Whoever made up that schedule wasn't thinking of how hard it was going to be on the performers. I've read that one member of Buddy Holly's group quit because of the harsh schedule.
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Post by jane on Feb 5, 2023 15:08:48 GMT -5
It was years ago. My parents were huge Buddy Holly fans and when my first husband and I were driving from Naval Station Great Lakes in Chicago to our next duty station at Puget Sound, Washington, we decided to go through Iowa so that we could get some pictures of the Surf Ballroom and the site of the crash. It was in October, not long before Halloween, and the day we were there was dark and stormy, like it was going to rain any minute. The ballroom was like stepping back in time to 1959, and although the crash site was just a cornfield that had been harvested recently, it was deathly quiet and spooky. There were no memorials there at that time, just flowers and other things people had left. After we left the crash site, it started raining and we ended up spending the night at a motel in Clear Lake, which is on a huge lake.
I've never been there but some friends of mine made a point of including it on their itinerary when they were driving from North Carolina to Montana. It was in the fall and they said the same thing about how quiet it was at the crash site. |
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Post by steve on Feb 2, 2024 21:54:53 GMT -5
Around 4 hours from now will be the 65th anniversary of the crash that killed Buddy Holly and the others.
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