February 3, 1959, the day three rock and roll artists including Buddy Holly died in a plane crash has been called the day the music died. However, it didn't kill the music at all, and if anything, music culture developed more in the 60s than in the 50s.

If you had to pick the true "day the music died," which event would deserve to be called so?

>>126881329 (OP)
>If you had to pick the true "day the music died," which event would deserve to be called so?
Mid-2010s when wokebucks started flowing.

prog metal is alive and well and has been for over 3 decades so technically the music never died.

>>126881329 (OP)
i love Buddy but he was really just part of that second wave of rockers who came after Elvis like Eddie Cochran and Jack Scott who copied the big E's voice. while we may not know how Holly or Cochran would have fared over the 60s it's more likely than not that they would have been wiped from the charts by the Beatles like most of their peers. not impossible that they pull a Link Wray and adapt to the times but the odds were greater that their time ends in 1965.

Zero mention of Richie Valens in thread? Yeah I'm Woke

>>126882382
The reason people often cite Buddy Holly death in particular as being so tragic to the music industry is because he literally died just as he was starting to get involved in the proto-hippie Greenwich Village scene in New York, he left the world with way more unanswered questions than most musicians, because a lot of people speculated, and still speculate today, as to whether or not he would've become more experimental post-Crickets going into the 1960s but we were robbed of that timeline.

>>126882382
Assuming the rock law of averages which is that a band has a viable creative lifespan around six years that would almost apply since his first records were out in '57 and the six year mark would have been reached by 1963.

>>126882477
Of course Holly was a couple years older than the Beatles by most definition he was the generation prior to theirs and would have been past 30 by the time the hippie era gets going. So I would say the odds were more against his continued viability in 1964 onward, at least as a rocker despite some people who like to imagine he would have grown his hair out and taken acid. Perhaps he might have transitioned to country (especially given his Texas background) as Jerry Lee Lewis did.

>>126882511
yeah i mean sure Link Wray was much older than Holly in fact he was already 29 when Holly bit the dust and he...but he was really a fluke.

Freddie Cannon was younger, he was the same age as John Lennon even but he also disappeared into oblivion in 64 onward. Other Holly contemporaries like Jack Scott and Duane Eddy also got killed off from the charts. Eddy eventually became a producer though so that could also have been a viable path for Holly.

>>126881329 (OP)
Napster

>>126881329 (OP)
Courtney hired a hitman to suicide Kurt, riding his death wave for her fame
Also OD'd wholesome talented picrel

>>126882830
>Courtney hired a hitman to suicide Kurt
good

>>126883236
>Tell me without telling me you're a gooner

>>126881365
USAID?

>>126882439
And we're still waiting with bated breath.

>>126881329 (OP)
August 1996.
Thank this song for TikTok.