<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Correction, Mr. Dredge . . .</div><div><br></div><div><b><i>February 3, 1959</i></b> was the "day the music died".</div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------</div><div><br><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; box-sizing: border-box;">"The Day the Music Died</b>, dubbed so by a lyric in the <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McLean" title="Don McLean" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Don McLean</a>song "<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie_(song)" title="American Pie (song)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">American Pie</a>", is a reference to the deaths of rock and roll musicians <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Holly" title="Buddy Holly" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Buddy Holly</a>, <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritchie_Valens" title="Ritchie Valens" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Ritchie Valens</a>, and <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bopper" title="The Big Bopper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson</a>, in a plane crash near <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Lake,_Iowa" title="Clear Lake, Iowa" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Clear Lake, Iowa</a>, on February 3, 1959. Pilot <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Peterson_(pilot)" title="Roger Peterson (pilot)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Roger Peterson</a> was also killed."</span></div><div><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died</a></div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Monument at the crash site, September 16, 2003</span></div><div><img src="cid:3222B37F-59CB-4034-A25A-2A8D2960DD11" alt="image1.jpeg" id="3222B37F-59CB-4034-A25A-2A8D2960DD11"></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/The_Day_the_Music_Died.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/The_Day_the_Music_Died.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>"American Pie" </b>by Don McLean</div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Don_McLean/American_Pie.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Don_McLean/American_Pie.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A long, long time ago</span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">I can still remember how that music used to make me smile</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">And I knew if I had my chance</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">That I could make those people dance</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">And maybe they'd be happy for a while</div></span><br style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But February made me shiver</span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">With every paper I'd deliver</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Bad news on the doorstep</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">I couldn't take one more step</div></span><br style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I can't remember if I cried</span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">When I read about his widowed bride</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But something touched me deep inside</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">The day the music died</div></span><br style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><i style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">[Chorus]</i></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">So bye-bye, Miss American Pie</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey in Rye</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Singin' "This'll be the day that I die</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">This'll be the day that I die"</div></span><br style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><i style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">[Verse 1]</i></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Did you write the book of love</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">And do you have faith in God above</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">If the Bible tells you so?</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Now do you believe in rock and roll?</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Can music save your mortal soul?</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">And can you teach me how to dance real slow?</div></span><br style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Well, I know that you're in love with him</span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">'Cause I saw you dancin' in the gym</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">You both kicked off your shoes</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Man, I dig those rhythm and blues</div></span><br style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck</span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">With a pink carnation and a pickup truck</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But I knew I was out of luck</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">The day the music died</div></span><br style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><i style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">[Chorus]</i></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">I started singin' bye-bye, Miss American Pie</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey in Rye</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Singin' "This'll be the day that I die</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">This'll be the day that I die"</div></span><br style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><i style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">[Verse 2]</i></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Now for ten years we've been on our own</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">And moss grows fat on a rollin' stone</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But that's not how it used to be</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">When the jester sang for the king and queen</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">In a coat he borrowed from James Dean</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">And a voice that came from you and me</div></span><br style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Oh, and while the king was looking down</span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">The jester stole his thorny crown</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">The courtroom was adjourned</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">No verdict was returned</div></span><br style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And while Lenin read a book on Marx</span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">The quartet practiced in the park</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">And we sang dirges in the dark</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">The day the music died</div></span></span><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">We were singin' bye-bye, Miss American Pie</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey in Rye</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Singin' "This'll be the day that I die</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">This'll be the day that I die"</div></span></span><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Helter skelter in a summer swelter</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">The birds flew off with a fallout shelter</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Eight miles high and falling fast</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">It landed foul on the grass</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">The players tried for a forward pass</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">With the jester on the sidelines in a cast</div></span><br style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Now the halftime air was sweet perfume</span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">While the sergeants played a marching tune</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">We all got up to dance</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Oh, but we never got the chance</div></span><br style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'Cause the players tried to take the field</span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">The marching band refused to yield</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Do you recall what was revealed</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">The day the music died?</div></span></span><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">We started singin' bye-bye, Miss American Pie</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey in Rye</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">And singin' "This'll be the day that I die</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">This'll be the day that I die"</div></span></span><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Oh, and there we were all in one place</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">A generation lost in space</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">With no time left to start again</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">So come on, Jack be nimble, Jack be quick</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Jack Flash sat on a candlestick</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">'Cause fire is the devil's only friend</div></span><br style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Oh, and as I watched him on the stage</span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">My hands were clenched in fists of rage</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">No angel born in Hell</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Could break that Satan's spell</div></span><br style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And as the flames climbed high into the night</span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">To light the sacrificial rite</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">I saw Satan laughing with delight</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">The day the music died</div></span><br style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was singin' bye-bye, Miss American Pie</span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey in Rye</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">And singin' "This'll be the day that I die</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">This'll be the day that I die"</div></span></span><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">I met a girl who sang the blues</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">And I asked her for some happy news</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But she just smiled and turned away</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">I went down to the sacred store</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Where I'd heard the music years before</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But the man there said the music wouldn't play</div></span><br style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And in the streets, the children screamed</span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">The lovers cried and the poets dreamed</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">But not a word was spoken</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">The church bells all were broken</div></span><br style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And the three men I admire most</span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">They caught the last train for the coast</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">The day the music died</div></span><br style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And they were singin' bye-bye, Miss American Pie</span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey in Rye</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Singin' "This'll be the day that I die</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">This'll be the day that I die.</div></span></span><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">They were singin' bye-bye, Miss American Pie</div></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry</div></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;">Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey in Rye</div></span><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: start;">And singin' "This'll be the day that I die."</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-------------------------------------</span></div></span></div><div> </div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><br>On Dec 6, 2014, at 11:25 AM, Scott Dredge <<a href="mailto:scooterd408@hotmail.com">scooterd408@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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Hunter. Completely forgotten, he was the sacrificial lamb on the day that the
music died December 6, 1969 - 45 years ago today - at the infamous
Altamont Free Concert in Tracy California. He would now be 63 years old. RIP.<br><br>"Oh, and as I watched him on the stage,<br>My hands were clenched in fists of rage.<br>No Angel born in Hell,<br>Could break that Satan's spell."<br><br>"And as the flames climbed high into the night,<br>To light that sacrificial rite.<br>I saw Satan laughing with delight.<br>The day the music died.<br>He was singing 'Bye, bye Miss American pie...'"<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxnVY37b0ME" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxnVY37b0ME</a><br><br>Them Good 'Ol Boys singing 'This will be the day that I die'<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVGM86XIilw" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVGM86XIilw</a><br> </div>
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