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It was 64 years ago today (February 3rd, 1959) that Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson died in a plane crash after a performance in Clear Lake, Iowa. The three had been performing along with Dion & The Belmonts as part of the Winter Dance Party Tour, which would cover 24 cities in a short three-week period from January 23rd to February 15th. Holly, who had parted ways with longtime backing group the Crickets the previous year, was backed up by a then-unknown Waylon Jennings on bass, Carl Bunch on drums, and Tommy Allsup on lead guitar. Dion DiMucci says that although the shows were always hot, his favorite moments from the tour were jamming on the near freezing bus on the way to the next town: ["Well, we used to play in the back of the bus Ritchie Valens, myself and Buddy
Like his work or hate it, the central point is that he followed through into the dark corners of a mutually constituting pair: his psyche and our world. Walker felt he had to go beyond what we think of as “music” to do it. Even if a failure, that’s spectacular, a testament to what human beings can accomplish when our needs are met and fame lays far off. If only 30 Century Man had told that story.