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Guitarist who avoided Buddy Holly plane crash dies at 85 (Tommy Allsup)
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| January 13, 2017
Posted on 01/14/2017 8:34:44 PM PST by lowbridge
Tommy Allsup, a guitarist best known for losing a coin toss that kept him off a plane that later crashed and killed rock `n' roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson, has died. He was 85.
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Tommy Allsup was part of Holly's band when the Lubbock, Texas, singer died in the Feb. 3, 1959, plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
Allsup flipped a coin to see who between him and Valens would get a seat on the plane and who would have to take the bus to the next stop on the tour.
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posted on
01/14/2017 8:34:44 PM PST
by
lowbridge
To: lowbridge
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posted on
01/14/2017 8:37:16 PM PST
by
lowbridge
To: lowbridge
“Austin Allsup, who last year competed in the singing competition television program “The Voice,” said Valens’ sister reached out to him after his father’s death to offer her condolences.
“I told her in my message back, now my dad and Ritchie can finally finish the tour they started 58 years ago,” he said.”
(thumbs up)
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posted on
01/14/2017 8:45:59 PM PST
by
max americana
(For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
To: lowbridge
RIP.
He and Waylon were not on that flight.
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posted on
01/14/2017 9:12:58 PM PST
by
Verbosus
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To: lowbridge
Interesting was another performer involve in the crash, Waylon Jennings. After a show in Clear Lake, Iowa, Holly decided to charter a small plane for his band (consisting of himself, Tommy Allsup (guitar) and Jennings.Ritchie Valens and Tommy Allsup flipped a coin for the last seat, Valens won and took Allsup’s seat. Since the Big Bopper was sick, he asked Jennings if he could take his seat on the plane. Jennings said that as long as Holly was okay with it, he was too. When Holly found out Jennings was not going to be on the plane, he jokingly told him, “I hope your ol’ bus freezes up!” Jennings responded back, “I hope your plane crashes!” Those words would haunt Jennings for decades.
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posted on
01/14/2017 9:27:55 PM PST
by
the_daug
To: lowbridge
Oh man. RIP Tommy. “Heaven’s Got a Hell Of A Band”.
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posted on
01/14/2017 10:39:27 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
To: lowbridge
It was a delayed reaction.
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posted on
01/15/2017 2:15:04 AM PST
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Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: lowbridge
To: lowbridge
I’d previously heard a “coin flip” story from Waylon Jennings.
Seems more likely that the top billed singers would get the plane (done travelling sooner) and the backing bands would get to ride in the coach.
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posted on
01/15/2017 6:27:04 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
To: the_daug
Ok, I see that Holly chartered the plane for his band. Makes sense now.
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posted on
01/15/2017 6:28:16 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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