ミックとキースの共通のヒーローはバディー・ホリー。
キースは言う。「ミックは1958年にバディーのライヴを見に行った程だ。ミックは俺と出会う前に、バディー・ホリーのコピーバンドをしていた。バディーはエルヴィスと並ぶ大スターだった。 エルヴィス派は革ジャンを着ていた、そしてバディー派は、ミックみたいな格好をしていた(笑)。」
ミックは言う。「イギリス人にとってバディーは巨大なインスピレーションだった。彼はソングライターでもあった。エルビスはただのシンガーだった。バディーの曲は、ソングライティングのレッスンに使える様な、素晴らしい曲ばかりだった。基本コードに基づいた、美しいメロディー、そして絶妙なテンポチェンジ、全てを学ぶ事ができる。”You could learn from Buddy Holly how to write songs, the way he put them together. He was a beautiful writer.”
Mick’s got Henry Morgan’s treasure, the real shit. Before he started the Stones. he did a dance (band) around there doing Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran.
Mick had seen Buddy Holly play at the Woolwich Granada. It’s one of the reasons I cottoned to him. and because he had far more contact than me, because this man’s got some shit! He was studying at the London School of Economics, meeting a wider range of people, I just used to read the magazines, like New Musical Express:”Eddie Cochran appearing with Buddy Holly.” Wow, when I grow up I’ll get a ticket. Of course they all croaked before then.
In 1980, I paid a visit to the remaining Crickets in Nashville. Went to see Jerry Allison, alias Jivin’ Ivan, the drummer, the one who actually married Peggy Sue (though it didn’t last long), at his place what he calls White Trash Ranch outside of Nashville in Dickson, Tennessee. Don Everly was around on that trip, and to play WITH him, sitting around..these were the cats I was listening to on the goddamn radio twenty years ago.
Country area is that’s been the other side of it to me; there’s been blues and there’s been country music. And let’s face it, those are the two vital ingredients of rock and roll.
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