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Yeah, love that performance. Makes me miss Holly even more, or rather what he would've been like had he been around longer.
My dad had the 20 Golden Greats LP, the one with the "Buddy Holly Lives" cover, and I used to play the hell out of it as a kid. I always felt the overdubbed stuff (which I like) fit in perfectly.
That's still a great LP. It's been superseded by better-sounding and more extensive collections, but it still holds up as a really great 20-track overview.
― birdistheword, Monday, 2 August 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
one year passes...
Jerry Allison has died per the official social media accounts of the Buddy Holly estate. He was the last surviving member of the Crickets.
("Peggy Sue" was named after his future wife - she passed away in 2018.)
― birdistheword, Monday, 22 August 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
https://scottkfish.com/2015/12/29/jerry-allison-keep-everything-relatively-simple/
excerpts from interview with Jerry Allison.
Jerry Allison: Well, I started playing drums in the school band in the fifth gradde. I started studying music and the rudiments an the regular drumming deal, going through, like, band and high school band and all that.
The kind of music I liked was like Little Richard and Fats Domino. So that about wraps it up, I guess. (laughs)
No. Really, I took drum lessons and learned to read music and all that sort of thing. Couldn’t get much rock ‘n roll around Lubbock, Texas. But when it started happening I really enjoyed it and tried to play like Little Richard’s drummer, Earl Palmer. I think I played a lot of that stuff. He’s a good friend of mine. We play together a lot in L.A. when I use to live out there. I use to do a lot of sessions with him out there.
SKF: I was noticing [on Little Richard and Fats Domino records] the bass drum work he [Earl Palmer] did on those records.
JA: Yeah. He did great.
SKF: Little Richard and Earl Palmer were only a few years ahead of you guys. Almost contemporaries.
JA: Yeah.
SKF: They were about three or four years ahead of you?
JA: Maybe not even that much. Maybe just a couple. When we first went on the road we were doing shows with Little Richard. And Earl Palmer wasn’t on the road with him at that time. There was a guy named Cornelius Coleman that played on the road with Fats Domino. We were on the road with them the first tour we dd. Fats Domino’s band. I liked the way he played real well.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 August 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link