Buddy Holly and 1958 Ariel motorcycle

[Rocky]

http://www.visordown.com/snippets/buddy-holly-ariel-cyclone-1958/20483.html

A couple of years ago I wrote a story about Buddy Holly and the Crickets and their motorcycle adventures in 1958. That story is posted here at TT.
The above link is to some rare colour home movie footage of the guys on their bikes and fooling around.

 

[DaveM]

What a great find Rocky I really enjoyed reading that and seeing the video

 

[devo]

What a find
That is way cool.

 

[The Seeker]

Buddy Holly was my hero!

[video=youtube;kVGM86XIilw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVGM86XIilw[/video]

 

[DaveM]

His music was always playing in our house when I grew up so I came to really like it as well.

 

[The Seeker]

His music was always playing in our house when I grew up so I came to really like it as well.

Unfortunately, my Dad played the saxophone and was into the big band era music (music of his generation). That's what he played on our phonograph most of the time. He wasn't much of a fan of rock-n-roll although he did like the Beatles somewhat. But he did like horns so when Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass came out he loved them. It drove me crazy!

 

[DaveM]

I heard it more from my brothers being so much older than I was and I suppose this is why I relate to Rock and Rolls so well. I like this one of his as well

[video=youtube;EWPtsWx_Vnc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWPtsWx_Vnc&feature=related[/video]

 

[The Seeker]

When the Beatles came out, my Uncle (my Dad's brother) was a barber and he gave my brother and I Beatle haircuts....which my Dad was ready to kill his brother for doing!

 

[DaveM]

It was only very much later that I started to like the Beatles long after they broke up I think it was

 

[The Seeker]

I have to give my Dad credit.....when the Beatles made first appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show here in New York City, my Dad recorded the audio with his old reel-to-reel tape recorder. We still have those recordings!

 

[CarlS]

Great find, Rocky! That is a cool film clip.

I was /am an avid Buddy Holly fan.

 

[Rocky]

Great find, Rocky! That is a cool film clip.

I was /am an avid Buddy Holly fan.

I'm a fan too. All the "oldies" radio programming is gone now and they only play what passes for modern music these days so I have my satellite radio tuned to the rock and roll station.

 

[CarlS]

I listen to oldies via my satellite TV.

 

[Rocky]

I listen to oldies via my satellite TV.

Yes, I can and do that too.
BTW, thanks for the reps of late guys

 

[DaveM]

I must admit our local radio station does not play bad music at all, so I am mostly tuned into them when riding around in the car.

 

[Rocky]

My car doesn't have the satellite radio built into it. It was an option. but I thought it was too expensive.
I have a Sirius car/boom box setup. I had an electronics shop wire the car with the wiring and antennae that came with the kit. The control portion of the radio will now work in the car and inside on the boom box as I choose.
If I don't happen to have the sat radio with me, we do have one radio station that plays a variety of music including some oldies R & R so I listen to that.