What was Buddy Holly like as a person?
“Well, you know, I don’t remember that much about him. I didn’t even know who he was. He was just an ole tall kid with glasses. I didn’t ever realize I’d ever played with him until I got to talking to, let’s see who was that?, High Noon Boys. Well, they mention that he was….High Pockets was one of his managers, and then it kind of clicked, I remembered seeing that kid a lot of times. I didn’t remember him playing, you know, rock and roll so much as he did the other old country stuff, cause he was just a kid too, you know, younger than me, I think, or as young.” Once you learned of Buddy’s death in the plane crash, what did that make you feel like? “Well, of course, I never put two and two together. I didn’t realize that he was part of that High Pockets group. You know I just didn’t, the name didn’t….I was bad about names back then anyway and I couldn’t remember him being any more than just a ole tall kid with glasses.” You jokingly mentioned that Elvis Presley almost put you out of
