Yesterday was Ritchie Valens birthday. On the day he died, he was a 17 year old student at San Fernando High School. We've always felt that he was one of us...
Four days after the plane crash that killed Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holley and the Big Bopper, The Town Hall Party TV show was broadcast from beautiful Compton, California. The broadcast was live and it's quite a time capsule. One year later, the star of the show, Eddie Cochran, would be killed in Great Britain at the age of 21 when his taxi cab crashed on Easter Sunday.
This is Katie McMahon when she was the principal singer in the Riverdance. She later moved to America and lives in Minnesota.
If you love rock 'n roll, it doesn't get better than this: AC/DC at River Plate Stadium in Argentina... ;
Not a big fan of live renditions since most are too "self indulgent", similar to stretching a great 3-minute SNL sketch into a dragging, over-ridiculous 90-minute movie. This is a great jam session though.