The Day The Music Died

[ODB]

A friend’s family farms not too far from the crash site and I’ve gone and paid my respects.
The dance hall they played their last show is still open.

I'd be lying if I said I hadn't looked at those pics a good long time. My heart breaks thinking about them injured and laying out in the cold like that. But I hope their end was instant. Truly tragic.

 

[Customweld]

When you get down to it, air travel has been pretty dang hard on musicians.

 

[Q child]

The worst part of my birthday…tragic.

Well, happy birthday anyway.

 

[Q child]

What's really interesting is how this music is largely unknown by most people today. However, at the time and in the years following, it directly influenced artists that several years to a couple decades later made music that everyone still listens to today.

It is pretty fascinating how music does that. It's all kind of an amorphous blob of influence. Musicians are inspired by other musicians are inspired by other musicians... Some heavy hitters went down in that plane. Pretty big deal.

 

[IW17]

When you get down to it, air travel has been pretty dang hard on musicians.

Statistically safer to fly than drive, but it's odd how so many musicians die in plane crashes compared to bus crashes. I'm sure it has more to do with the driving practices of professional bus drivers vs the average driver.