Rush, there's hope for our musical compatability yet, we both dig Buddy Holly!
MDT, Holly (along with the Everly Brothers) is often credited with instigating the combination of the dual-guitar based group (sans sax and/or piano) playing pop-derived, melodic rock & roll (as opposed to the more overtly rhythm & blues forms exemplified by Chuck Berry, the New Orleans school and the early Sun artists) that went on to inspire the melodicism of the Beatles and give rise to the whole pop wing of the British Invasion (indeed, the Hollies were named in honor of Buddy). Further listening: Once you've gorged on Holly, check out his great mid-60's inheritor of the West Texas flame, whose life eerily echoed Buddy's in being tragically cut too short, Bobby Fuller. Bobby once said of The Beatles, essentially, they're fantastic, but around these parts we were doing the kind of stuff that's made them world-famous years before they hit US shores. And if you consider that John Lennon credited inspiration for his early harmonica work on tunes like "Love Me Do" and "Please Please Me" to Bruce Channel's ("Hey! Baby") harp-player Delbert McClinton, Fuller might just have been right.
