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I just watched The Buddy Holly Story. I know that it is wildly inaccurate, and that Gary Busey is pretty damn creepy, but I could still dig it. One thing I liked was that unlike most music biopics, there weren't any scenes that made you hate the main character (eg Ray, Walk the Line). They just portrayed Buddy Holly as this nice Texan kid who wanted to play music, which is something that he was apparently really good at, moreso than I ever really bothered to learn.

In the movie, at least, he was doing all of this production work and writing out these neat arrangements. I hope they didn't make that part up, because that's how I'd like to think of Buddy Holly. Not as one of those arrogant self taught rock 'n roll rebel types, but a dorky kid from Lubbock who took violin lessons and was an all around nice guy.

Either way, it's pretty cool that he was able to have such a huge direct influence on pop music by the time he was 22.

I also just read that the whole story with Waylon Jennings giving up his seat on the plane was true. He was Buddy's bass player at the time, which I never knew. The Big Bopper apparently had the flu, and asked if he could take his spot on the plane so he could rest. As they were leaving, Buddy said "I hope your bus breaks down!" to which Waylon responded "Oh yeah? Well I hope your plane crashes!" It was all in fun, of course, but I bet the guy felt terrible about it until the day he died. I know I would.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is don't ever fuck with Waylon Jennings.