Joe B. Mauldin passes

Started by Dave W, February 08, 2015, 08:01:34 PM

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Dave W

Crickets bass player Joe B. Mauldin, 74, dies

The Crickets with Albert Lee and Brian May, from the 2004 Strat Pack Live concert



With Nanci Griffith on Letterman in 1996.


westen44

I'm sorry to hear that.  He certainly made his mark on early rock music history. 
It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society.  It's those who write the songs.

--Blaise Pascal

Highlander

Buddy's nearly got the band back together... rip...
The random mind of a Silver Surfer...
If research was easy, it wouldn't need doing...
Staring at that event horizon is a dirty job, but someone has to do it; something's going to come back out of it one day...

Dave W

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.

Highlander

Hence the nearly... ;)

Time makes no exceptions for any of us...
The random mind of a Silver Surfer...
If research was easy, it wouldn't need doing...
Staring at that event horizon is a dirty job, but someone has to do it; something's going to come back out of it one day...

godofthunder

R.I.P. Joe. Thanks for all the music.
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