Write on (and I do mean WRITE) Gary! Buddy Holly was the beginning baby!! .....well, Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio were there as well! Mark Hershberger ----- Original Message ---- From: "garypig@aol.com" To: audities@smoe.org Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 3:02:36 PM Subject: Learning The Game << From radio interviews when they were Beatles they considered Buddy Holly their *big* influence. >> Hear ! Hear !! The Crickets were obviously the Beatles' (et al!) template, musically, visually even, plus they..... Wrote and arranged their own songs (and recorded them in a studio-as-experimental-playground atmosphere thanks to their very own Gerorge Martin: Norman Petty). I've said it before, but Please let me say it again: The (musical) Sixties began in Clovis, New Mexico circa February 1957. and As for the Beatle with the Holly specs....... www.furious.com/perfect/buddyholly.html ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.