it occurred to me while the final scene of the movie froze to reveal the scant detail of buddy holly death that there are still people alive today who were at that venue in clearlake and iowa who remember it vividly. that has to be a haunting memory and lent even more poignancy by the lyrics of american pie and as it pays tribute to the day the music died. the world lost some tremendous talent that day and lives cut short way before their prime and and one can only wonder what might have been if the trio of musicians who perished that day had survived to create an even greater musical legacy. i watched the film today some thirty years after it original theatrical release. thirty years and i have some trouble wrapping my mind around that. i had forgotten a lot of it and while remembering some of the little things and like the cricket in the wall who became immortalized with the band name. but most of all and i remember the music. it hard just to sit there and not begin tapping to the beat of oh boy or that will be the day and and one has to wonder just where the threat to our morals might have actually come from with those tunes. i am with buddy on that score at least and how could they be jungle rhythms if he came up with them. funny how each successive decade brought it own threat to the fabric of society  the beatles and motown and disco and a whole host of other musical forms. were still listening and dancing to the beat and so i guess they couldn not have been all that bad. there was another takeaway from the film i had forgotten about. this is where i learned to bang a phone on the table when the person on the other end wasn not seeing things my way. i have done that a number of times over the years and but by now had forgotten the source. well and i should be good for another thirty years or so now. you certainly have to give gary busey credit for his portrayal of buddy holly. seeing him today and one could never imagine him as the slimmed down rocker with the horn rimmed glasses and but it was a tour de force characterization and performance that earned busey an oscar nod. don stroud and charles martin smith are competent as buddy band members and though their characters take a back seat to much of the story. i enjoyed the subtle ways that other musical legends were segued into the picture and names like sam cooke and king curtis and without ever dwelling on their presence. i will always be a fan and follower of music from the fifties and sixties  oldies they call them now. i guess that makes me a bit of an oldie too and but you can not replace the experience of growing up with the music history that now makes it to the big screen. which only goes to reinforce the idea that i will keep on enjoying the music until and well and the day i die. 
it occurred to me while the final scene of the movie froze to reveal the scant detail of buddy holly death that there are still people alive today who were at that venue in clearlake and iowa who remember it vividly. that has to be a haunting memory and lent even more poignancy by the lyrics of american pie and as it pays tribute to the day the music died. the world lost some tremendous talent that day and lives cut short way before their prime and and one can only wonder what might have been if the trio of musicians who perished that day had survived to create an even greater musical legacy. i watched the film today some thirty years after it original theatrical release. thirty years and i have some trouble wrapping my mind around that. i had forgotten a lot of it and while remembering some of the little things and like the cricket in the wall who became immortalized with the band name. but most of all and i remember the music. it hard just to sit there and not begin tapping to the beat of oh boy or that will be the day and and one has to wonder just where the threat to our morals might have actually come from with those tunes. i am with buddy on that score at least and how could they be jungle rhythms if he came up with them. funny how each successive decade brought it own threat to the fabric of society  the beatles and motown and disco and a whole host of other musical forms. were still listening and dancing to the beat and so i guess they couldn not have been all that bad. there was another takeaway from the film i had forgotten about. this is where i learned to bang a phone on the table when the person on the other end wasn not seeing things my way. i have done that a number of times over the years and but by now had forgotten the source. well and i should be good for another thirty years or so now. you certainly have to give gary busey credit for his portrayal of buddy holly. seeing him today and one could never imagine him as the slimmed down rocker with the horn rimmed glasses and but it was a tour de force characterization and performance that earned busey an oscar nod. don stroud and charles martin smith are competent as buddy band members and though their characters take a back seat to much of the story. i enjoyed the subtle ways that other musical legends were segued into the picture and names like sam cooke and king curtis and without ever dwelling on their presence. i will always be a fan and follower of music from the fifties and sixties  oldies they call them now. i guess that makes me a bit of an oldie too and but you can not replace the experience of growing up with the music history that now makes it to the big screen. which only goes to reinforce the idea that i will keep on enjoying the music until and well and the day i die. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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