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This is the day to celebrate the memory of a great talent who were lost to the music world way to early. Buddy Holly would have turned 88 today. He wrote and performed several songs that have become staples in the history of rock, and he inspired among many others The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Steve Marriot, Don McLean, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton and Elton John.
Sadly Buddy Holly’s life was cut short on February the 3. in 1959, also known as “The day that music died”. It was the day he died in a tragic plane crash, together with Richie Valens (La Bamba), The Big Bopper ( Chantilly Lace) and the pilot Roger Peterson. Buddy was 22, Richie only 17 and the Bopper 28.
Here is That’ll Be the Day, which got to number 1 both in the US and UK in 1957. To Buddy Holly’s memory. What could have been! 
Buddy Holly - That’ll Be the Day
Damn, Buddy Holly was good. So here’s one more, while we’re at it 
Buddy Holly - Rave On
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What could have been! My post above got me thinking of another one in this category, although with a story different from Buddy Holly’s. I’m thinking of Jackson C. Frank (1943-1999), an American singer and songwriter who unfortunately was in the wrong place at the wrong time too many times for his own good. He is almost completely forgotten today, which is a shame, as he was an immensly gifted songwriter.
For once in 1965, Jackson C. Frank was not in the wrong place. It was then his one and only album was recorded in London, produced by a young Paul Simon, who was also staying there at the time. The album is a very good folk album, and I’ll post two songs from it to give you an impression of a huge talent that simply vanished due to tragic circumstances.
Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run the Game
Jackson C. Frank - My Name Is Carnival
For anyone still interested, here’s a short bio of Jackson C. Frank’s life.
"“He was damn good.”
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I stayed a little with Jackson C. Frank tonight, and came upon this home recording from the 1990’s. After everything he’s been through, what could have been.
Jackson C. Frank - Tumble in the Wind
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Patsy Cline - She’s Got You
Seems I’m on a “What could have been”-theme this weekend. Today one of the greatest female singers of them all would have turned 92. Sadly Patsy Cline got her career cut short, when she died in a plane crash in 1963. She was 30 years old.
Patsy Cline is still rememberd as one of the greats. But what could have been! Here’s to the memory of Patsy Cline 
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Well, there’s a “What could have been” for the third day in a row. And once more a plane crash to go with it. Strange days indeed.
Today it’s 83 years since Otis Redding was born. After his debut in 1960, his reputation was growing bigger as we were getting to the mid-60’s. Although he had several minor hits, this was mainly due to his powerful live performances. Unfortunately his career was cut short, when he died in a plane crash on December 10. 1967, just three days after putting the finishing touch on his best known song, (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay.
When the song was released about a month after the fatal plane crash, it became Otis’ first song to hit number 1 in the US charts. The song also got to number 3 in th UK and to number 4 in both Holland and Belgium. Sadly he did not live to see it. What could have been.
Still, the man is remembered as a legendary singer today. So here’s to the memory of the man sometimes dubbed as “The King of Soul”. To Otis Redding!
Otis Redding - (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay
Otis Redding, with Booker T. & The MG’s - Try A Little Tenderness (live in Oslo, 1967)
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Linkin Park is back!
7 years after the tragic suicide of theur frontman Chester Bennington they found a new singer in Emily Armstrong
this is their first single, the album will come out in november
The Emptiness Machine - Linkin Park
and to prove that the lady has a good throat to sing…
Numb - Linkin Park
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Brilliant choice to continue with her.
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The Wailers - Stir It Up
It’s a little bit of music history in here. This is one of the very few times Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer are captured together on video as The Wailers. To top it off, to me this is still one of Marley’s finest songs.
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It’s time to pay respect to the memory of American guitarist Ed King (1949-2018), who was born 75 years ago today. He co-founded the band Strawberry Alarm Clock, who had a number 1 hit in the US with Inscense and Peppermints in 1967.
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints
However, Ed King is arguably best known for his time in Lynyrd Skynyrd (72-75), were he co-wrote several songs, among them what may be the band’s signature song, Sweet Home Alabama. It was Ed who came up with the iconic guitar riff of the song. I know I posted this song when Garry Rossington passed last year. But Ed was not in it. So here’s another version, with Ed counting in “One, Two, three” and doing most of the soloing. Cheers to Ed King’s memory
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
In an interview I once saw with Ed King, he told how the song came to be. Some of the guys were in Skynyrd’s rehearsal space, and Ed was messing around on the guitar when he stumbled upon a riff that sounded good. When he kept repeating it, singer Ronnie van Zant got up from the couch and came over. He whispered something in Ed’s ear, and told him to keep working on it. What Ronnie whispered was the opening lines to what was to become Sweet Home Alabama. In this simple manner a classic song was born.
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Here is another “What could have been”. English guitar player Paul Kossoff would have turned 74 today. He’s best known from Free, who got quite big for a short while around 1970. After Free broke up, he formed Back Street Crawlers, and did some work with among others Ken Hensley and John Martyn.
Paul Kossoff was a very talented guitarist, but unfortunately he had problems. He struggled with drug addiction from his early teens, and March 1976 his problems finally got the best of him. He was only 25 years old. What could have been. I raise my glass to the memory of Paul Kossoff
Free - Mr. Big (live 1970)
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Patti Smith & Fred “Sonic” Smith - People Have the Power
American guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith of MC5, would have turned 75 or 76 today (the Mighty Internet is a little ambivalent here). Anyways, he is also known as Patti Smith’s husband. He inspired the song Frederick from her Wave album.
Patti also once told that the line from her best known song that goes “Have I doubt when I’m alone, Love is a ring, the telephone” is inspired from when she was sitting in New York waiting for Fred to call from Detroit. Phones was another thing back then than it is today 
Fred Smith passed away in 1994 at the age of 46. Here’s to his memory
I mentioned the song Frederick above. It’s such a fine song, so while we’re at it.
Patti Smith Group - Frederick (for Fred “Sonic” Smith)
Bear with me, I got on a bit of a guitarist extravaganza today. Lots of memories here. Good memories it is 
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I used to hear the old funky music
Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music
recently ran into a live-version performed by PRINCE
here’s the tune with some additionals.
Prince Live - Play that funky Music - Hollywood Swinging - Fantastic Voyage 4/28/11
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The Dubliners - Seven ■■■■■■■ Nights
It’s the weekend soon, might as well get a head start
Here’s one to the singer Ronnie Drew (1934-2008) who would have turned 90 today
PS: Now this censoring system is getting really weird. I can write words like kill, maim, torture, mutilation, ______ and so on, but God forbid ■■■■■■■ 
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we can try to manipulate that with bypassing those words
for example
7 dwunken nights
just curious if that works
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Yeah, I guess we can, but seriously… 
Although in this case, dwunken may actually be fitting. I guess that’s how the word may sound like even before the seventh night
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