1.  I'm not sure Bo Diddley would agree with you that
"Not Fade Away" is an unprecedented arrangement!

2.  Buddy Holly was a very important figure in '50s
rock and roll, of that there is no doubt.  But power
pop is really a post-Beatles/Beach Boys/Byrds movement
-- maybe Buddy Holly is to power pop what Louis Jordan
is to rock and roll, to make an analogy.

Mike Bennett

--- GaryPig@aol.com wrote:

> 
> << Speaking of Not Lame, go buy the Everyday Things.
>  For some reason I think 
> if Buddy Holly made power pop, it might have sounded
> like this. >>
> 
> 
> ** IF **  Buddy Holly made Power Pop ???!!
> 
> I thought he INVENTED the darn genre, Craig!
> 
> 
> "Think It Over," "Maybe Baby," "Rave On," "Not Fade
> Away," "It's So Easy,"
> (I could go on and on, and then on some more,
> ....maybe I'll just wait til the Shake Some Action
> book tho  ;-)
> 
> These were songs/arrangements/recordings absolutely
> without precedent
> for 1950's American rock and roll,
> and created a most powerful musical stream that
> really didn't get fully 
> picked up upon til those first dozen or so
> Lennon/McCartney compositions half a 
> decade and half a world away.
> 
> Crickets begat Beatles, I always say
> (as Searchers led to Byrds),
> 
> Gary  "was just having this very discussion with
> some good pals at IPO NYC 
> the other night, in fact
> (John B?  I finally introduced David Bash to the
> infamous Popsterman, btw!!)" 
>  Pig 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>    
> 


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