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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Dec 23, 2017 4:34:31 GMT -5
BUDDY HOLLY'S 3RD COUSIN AND THE FIRST CRICKET TO LEAVE THE BAND, NIKI SULLIVAN, WHO SHOULD HAD MADE IT BIG TOO....
AND FIRST AND BEST RELEASE... HOW DID THIS ONE NOT FIND AN AUDIENCE???
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Post by lazybone712 on Dec 25, 2017 19:36:34 GMT -5
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Post by lazybone712 on Dec 29, 2017 22:10:53 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Jan 4, 2018 22:12:23 GMT -5
I suppose the reason is limited support by Dot Records and radio hitmakers, as well as the fickleness of the consuming public. Niki preferred a normal work and family life to the crazy world of a touring musician. He got off the rockstar train once, and it didn't stop for him again. There's a tribute to Niki Sullivan on the Buddy Holly Lives website at www.buddyhollylives.info/359362/505962.html Well worth the small trouble to read, for anybody with an interest in the Crickets (in German and English). Site owner Hans wrote: [ Nikki ] was involved in 27 out of 35 [ of the Crickets' ] titles. That says it all, it and makes it even more incomprehensible that he received no mention at all in the movie "The Buddy Holly Story", as if he never existed. He did not deserve that.
Niki remained true to the music after his separation from the Crickets, appearing as a soloist or with colleagues. A happy, lovable person who unfortunately died too early at the age of 66.
Wikipedia says that a version of The Buddy Holly Story for the stage restores Niki Sullivan as an important supporting character. 〜〜〜〜〜 From the eulogy read at Niki's funeral by his friend Bill Griggs: I sat next to Niki during the world premiere of the movie "The Buddy Holly Story". Up came that famous roller rink scene and we noticed that only two Crickets were depicted up there with Buddy, instead of three. Yes, Niki was upset, but he took it in stride.
You see, Niki was left out of a lot of Crickets’ "history". Why? There were several reasons, the primary one being he was left out of the Goldrosen book, the first real biography about Buddy Holly.
There was a good reason why Niki didn’t do an interview with John Goldrosen. His wife, Fran, was in the hospital giving birth to twins and Niki chose to be with her instead of talking to an author.〜〜〜〜〜 Griggs continues with a mini-biography (extracts): Niki toured with the Crickets through all of 1957 and can be seen on film clips of the group performing on the Ed Sullivan Show on December 1, 1957…He was also very important in the recording of the hit song "Peggy Sue"… Each time [ Buddy ] went into the bridge of the song and reached for [ the pickup selector switch on his guitar ], he'd miss a beat and the session would have to stop.
Niki finally set his rhythm guitar down, knelt beside Buddy, and flicked the switch each time Buddy needed him to do it…
Disappointed and completely frustrated with the seemingly endless one-nighters, Niki Sullivan left the group at the end of 1957. It is a tough decision to leave a group when they are about at the top of success but he did it.
Does he regret the decision? "Of course," answers Niki, "but I honestly didn't miss the hustle and bustle of constant travel, but I did miss the guys."
Asked what the hardest part of touring like that was, he replied, "When you wake up in a strange hotel room and don’t even know what city you are in".
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Post by tangerinesun on Jan 5, 2018 1:38:58 GMT -5
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Jan 6, 2018 17:37:51 GMT -5
The late Bill Griggs was the founder of the "BUDDY HOLLY SOCIETY", the official Buddy Holly fan club.
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Post by lazybone712 on Jan 24, 2018 20:05:56 GMT -5
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Post by lazybone712 on Jan 27, 2018 19:51:00 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Jan 28, 2018 0:25:26 GMT -5
Run run, run run run away. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (live)2013 JAN 29 by Rui Carvalheira (05:07) taken from: Talking Heads - Live In Rome DVD MC 2008 Recorded live at Palaeur Arena, Rome, Italy, December 18, 1980Guest freakout by the Big Electric Cat himself, Adrian Belew.
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Post by lazybone712 on Feb 7, 2018 17:18:29 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Feb 7, 2018 18:21:43 GMT -5
▲ ▲ ▲ ▲As a fitness routine, Michelle Kwan on ice over yoga in 100-degree heat any day. I didn't know her sister was a choreographer. I guess that's why she said.
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Post by lazybone712 on Feb 8, 2018 16:20:20 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Feb 12, 2018 22:41:39 GMT -5
Prairie dog bath service
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Post by skswede on Feb 13, 2018 12:37:45 GMT -5
I have no idea what she is trying to say in Swedish but at 0:40 she is saying fuck in Swedish .
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Post by tangerinesun on Feb 13, 2018 19:19:58 GMT -5
What's a Greek girl know about Swedish? And why is her director teaching her to talk dirty? Mikael Håfström, I presume. She only half-remembered the word because it has a harmless US English cognate term, brought over by German immigrants I bet you anything. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/canoodlePretty obvious she never heard the meaning of the word she was groping for!
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