Posted on 02/03/2009 6:44:28 AM PST by DBCJR
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But seriously...50 years on he is still part of rock's iconography with the glasses and the Stratocaster to say nothing of his music which matured and changed an astonishing amount.
Holly's chords-only guitar solo in 'Peggy Sue' is 1,000 times more interesting and appealing to me than any maimed-cat wailing produced by Jimi Hendrix.
22 years old. That in itself is staggering for what he achieved especially when you consider the stovepipe bureaucracy that was the record business at that time....real rock n roll was being viewed as a threat and the Fabians and Paul Ankas were being trotted out as the safe alternative. As a white man Holly didn't face the same hurdles as Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley or Little Richard but Holly had his mischievous and 'real' side also...he was 22!!!
Norman Petty certainly took advantage of Holly at times by changing songwriting credits in order to receive royalties but Petty was willing and able to provide the studio time and energy that might not have been otherwise available to a young buck (similar to Sam Phillips' efforts with Elvis).
A realist will admit that his move to NYC and proximity to that record business already had him changing direction from rockabilly & guitar-based pop to the strings-n-ballads side of the fence but who knows if he would have remained there.
True Love Ways is still AMAZING!! Had he lived, I think he would have gone on to be a true innovator & awesome producer.
Yep, that is a good one. How about romantic denial in “That’ll Be The Day”?
He did bring rythm guitar to the forefront.
Try to find the Re-Mastered version title of his 20 Hits "From the Original Tapes" that was remastered by Steve Hoffman on MCA. TLW is last track and has some studio chatter at the beginning so you get a sense of the studio dynamics. REALLLY AWESOME SOUND on this CD, too!!!
This BH "Hits" complilation was Steve's first commercial remastering in the 80's on MCA and created the entire "Remastering from original tapes" industry.
That sounds great! I’ll check it out. Thanks!
Here is Amazon's link of the album but there are different versions. Be sure to find Steve's for the best sounding CD.
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