Subject: Re: Remarks of Mr. B. Dylan Before NARAS, 2/25/98 From: Eduardo Monteverdi Ricardo (edu@edlis.org) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 17:17:57 -0800 Re: Remarks of Mr. B. Dylan Before NARAS, 2/25/98 chaden@aol.com (Chaden) wrote that Bob Dylan said: : And I just want to say that when I was sixteen or seventeen years old, I went : to see Buddy Holly play at Duluth National Guard Armory and I was three feet : away from him...and he LOOKED at me. And I just have some sort of feeling that : he was---I don't know how or why---but I know he was with us all the time we : were making this record in some kind of way. Only three days after Dylan had seen him [perform in Duluth], Buddy Holly was dead. Bob and his friends studied details of the tragedy. At one A.M. on February 3, 1959, a Beechcraft Bonanza, chartered in Mason City, Iowa, took off in light snow for Fargo, North Dakota. Trouble developed in minutes, probably because the twenty-one-year-old pilot couldn't cope with the weather and instruments. The left wing hit the ground first. Killed instantly were the pilot and three musicians, Holly, twenty-two; Ritchie Valens, seventeen, a Mexican-American whose biggest hit was "La Bamba"; and J. P. Richardson, twenty-four, who was called the Big Bopper. Bob's friends and family senses a pervasive charge in him. He seemed in a tremendous hurry; all the car and motorcycle accidents indicated that his time was limited. "I was burned with death all around me," Dylan said in 1965. Gretel Whitaker, a friend from the University of Minnesota, said: "We never really expected Bobby to live past twenty-one." By the time Bob was nineteen, he had written a mournful blues, passed on to me by Minneapolis friends: The queen of his diamonds And the jack his knave Won't you dig my grave With a silver spade? And forget my name. I'm twenty years old. That's twenty years gone. Can't you see me crying, Can't you see me dying, I'll never reach twenty-one ... "No Direction Home" by Robert Shelton, 1986 (page 54), recorded on "The St Paul Tape", the apartment of Karen Wallace, St Paul Minnesota - May 1969. Written in May 1960, this is one of Dylan's aerlier compositions. One Eyed Jacks
Subject: Re: Buddy Holly From: Alan Fraser (alan.fraser@mcmail.com) Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 20:24:29 GMT ... Duluth Armory, Jan 31, 1959. From Clinton's Day By Day book. Shelton, page 53: Bob visited Link Wray in 1975 and told him: "Link, I was sitting in the front row when you and Buddy Holly were at Duluth, and you're as great now as you were then." Alan
