Crickets bass player Joe B. Mauldin, 74, dies (http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2015/02/07/crickets-joe-mauldin-dies-bass-player/23063853/)
The Crickets with Albert Lee and Brian May, from the 2004 Strat Pack Live concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnU2ZSx-CEM
With Nanci Griffith on Letterman in 1996.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5Dx-CoDFnY
I'm sorry to hear that. He certainly made his mark on early rock music history.
Buddy's nearly got the band back together... rip...
Quote from: Highlander on February 09, 2015, 04:51:00 PM
Buddy's nearly got the band back together... rip...
Jerry Allison is still with us.
And Sonny Curtis (vocalist in the first video). He played with Buddy pre-Crickets and then joined the Crickets after Buddy died. Sonny is more well known for writing I Fought The Law and the Mary Tyler Moore show theme.
Hence the nearly... ;)
Time makes no exceptions for any of us...
R.I.P. Joe. Thanks for all the music.