Friday night is crash night

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craigwend

craigwend

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The Eastern Dark -The band was formed in 1984 when then Celibate Rifles bassist James Darroch decided to leave and form his own band. Darroch switched from bass to guitar and enlisted drummer Geoff Milne and former Lime Spiders backing vocalist Bill Gibson on bass. After some rehearsals the three became The Eastern Dark, named after a place in The Phantom comics.The three piece began playing live in May 1984, quickly garnering local support and earning notoriety for their habit of opening each set with a different Ramones cover, working their way chronologically through the Ramones' discography. Their first single, "Julie Is A Junkie/Johnny And Dee Dee," was released on Waterfront Records in July 1985. On March 4, 1986, days after finishing the EP, and en route to a week-long series of shows in Melbourne, the band's van went off the road; Darroch was killed, and Milne and Gibson were hospitalised.
 
threebikesmcginty

threebikesmcginty

Corn Fed Hick...
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Don Rich, chief twanger and backing vocals with Buck Owens, died in a motorbike crash, it virtually finished Buck Owen's career, the creative side at least.

 
AndyRM

AndyRM

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Woods of Ypres - Buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery



David Gold, the main guy with the excellent beard died in a car crash at 31. Listening to the album (Roots V) he recorded shortly before that is like reading a suicide note.
 
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threebikesmcginty

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Fnaar said:
The Big Bopper, Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens

On February 3, 1959, The Big Bopper died in a plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa, along with music stars Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens and pilot Roger Peterson.[2] The accident was famously eulogized as "The Day the Music Died" in Don McLean's 1971 song "American Pie".[3]





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Waylon Jennings had a seat on that plane, the story goes like this...

Waylon Jennings was hired by Holly to play bass for him on the Winter Dance Party Tour, which began January 23rd, 1959, in Milwaukee. Jennings, 21 at the time, had been in New York City recording sessions produced by Holly, and after taking a train to Chicago, met up with the rest of Holly's band. Problems first arose when the tour buses hired to transport the group began breaking down. After a show in Clear Lake, Iowa, on February 2nd, Holly decided to charter a plane for himself, guitarist Tommy Allsup and Jennings so they could fly to Fargo, North Dakota, instead of taking the long, frozen bus trip. Richardson, who was suffering from the flu, asked Jennings for his seat on the plane, and Valens asked the same of Allsup. When Jennings told Holly that he was going to take the bus, Holly jokingly told him he hoped the bus broke down, to which Jennings replied, "I hope your ol' plane crashes."
 
classic33

classic33

Leg End Member
Deportees - Paddy Reilly

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JAjJB6Tt_M

"Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" is a protest song with lyrics by Woody Guthrie detailing the January 28, 1948 crash of a plane near Los Gatos Canyon, 20 miles (32 km) west of Coalinga in Fresno County, California, United States. The crash occurred in Los Gatos Canyon and not in the town of Los Gatos itself, which is in Santa Clara County, approximately 150 miles away. The crash resulted in the deaths of 32 people, 4 Americans and 28 migrant farm workers who were being deported from California back to Mexico.
 
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