Today's the day the music died

[Table 5]

Speaking of Metallica, they also had their own tragedy preceded by a bet (you may recall the Ritchie Valens gained the right to go on the plane after he "won" a coin flip).

On September 27, 1986, during the European leg of Metallica's Damage Inc. tour, members drew cards to see which bunk of the tour bus they would sleep in. Burton won and chose to sleep in Hammett's bunk. Around dawn near Dörarp, Sweden, the bus driver lost control and skidded, which caused the bus to flip several times. Ulrich, Hammett, and Hetfield sustained no serious injuries; however, bassist Burton was pinned under the bus and was killed. Hetfield recalls, "I saw the bus lying right on him. I saw his legs sticking out. I freaked. The bus driver, I recall, was trying to yank the blanket out from under him to use for other people. I just went, 'Don't ing do that!' I already wanted to kill the guy."

[Frequitude]

I had no idea that's how all these guys died...and always wondered what American Pie was about.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by Frequitude

I had no idea that's how all these guys died...and always wondered what American Pie was about.

actually, i never knew there was a connection between American Pie and this incident. Or that Waylon Jennings was in the band!

[Stranger]

Originally Posted by Table 5

actually, i never knew there was a connection between American Pie and this incident. Or that Waylon Jennings was in the band!

Waylon was never really a "Cricket". He was a good friend of Holly's and when the 3 other Crickets left the band in 58', Holly replaced them temporarily with two studio musicians (can't remember their names) and Waylon on bass. They went on a winter tour with Valens and The Big Bopper and the rest is history.

[RougeUnderoos]

The 30th anniversary of Sid Vicious's death was on the 2nd of February.

Those two seem about a million years apart.

I know, I know, they aren't even comparable (so save it) but 20 years is not a long time.

[3 Justin 3]

March 19, 1982
December 8, 2004

To me these dates are huge. (Randy Rhodes, and Dimebag Darryl)

Good post on the Black album of Metallica. It is the truth however.

[pepper24]

I was fortunate when I was in Iowa on business last year to have some free time in Clear Lake, IA. I got to see the Surf Ballroom where the trios last concert was performed, the airport that the plane left in nearby Mason City, IA and a customer went with me to the field where the plane crashed. The plane crashed in the middle of family farm about 10 miles north of Clear Lake and I guess the family didn't notice anything until the next morning and all were dead at the scene. There is a tribute at the exact crash site but we weren't able to access the field as it was harvest season and the family aren't big on trespassers.

[habernac]

On 19 February 1980, Bon Scott, 33 at the time, passed out after a night of heavy drinking in a London club called MusicMachine (hosted at the Camden Palace, currently known as the KOKO). He was left to sleep in a car owned by an acquaintance named Alistair Kinnear, at 67 Overhill Road in East Dulwich, South London[13]. The following afternoon, Kinnear found Scott lifeless, and alerted the authorities. Scott was rushed to King's College Hospital in Camberwell, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

[pepper24]

^ Didn't Keith Moon from 'The Who' die a similar way?

[pepper24]

Moon was Paul McCartney's guest at a film preview of The Buddy Holly Story on the evening of 6 September 1978. After dining with Paul and Linda McCartney, Moon and his girlfriend, Annette Walter-Lax, returned to a flat on loan from Harry Nilsson in Curzon Place, London (near Shepherd Market), where Moon died of an overdose of Clomethiazole (Heminevrin). The medication was a sedative he had been prescribed to alleviate his alcohol withdrawal symptoms as he tried to go dry on his own at home; he was desperate to get clean, but was terrified of another stay in the psychiatric hospital for in-patient detoxification. However, Clomethiazole is specifically contraindicated for unsupervised home detox due to its addictiveness, tendency to rapidly induce drug tolerance, and dangerously high risk of death when mixed with alcohol.[29] The pills were also prescribed by a new doctor, Dr. Geoffrey Dymond, who was unaware of Moon's recklessly impulsive nature and long history of prescription sedative abuse. He had given Moon a full bottle of 100 pills, and instructed him to take one whenever he felt a craving for alcohol (but not more than 3 per day). The police determined there were 32 pills in his system, with the digestion of 6 being sufficient to cause his death, and the other 26 of which were still undissolved when he died.[30] Moon died in the room in which Cass Elliot of The Mamas & the Papas had died four years earlier.

Ironic that they had just finished watching the Buddy Holly Story.

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by pepper24

^ Didn't Keith Moon from 'The Who' die a similar way?

You may be thinking of John Bonham:

On September 25, 1980, John Bonham was picked up by Led Zeppelin assistant Rex King to attend rehearsals at Bray Studios for the upcoming tour of the United States, the band's first since 1977. During the journey Bonham had asked to stop for breakfast, where he downed four quadruple vodkas (roughly sixteen shots, amounting to about 1/2 of an imperial quart or 473 ml). He then continued to drink heavily when he arrived at the rehearsals. A halt was called to the rehearsals late in the evening and the band retired to Page's house, The Old Mill House in Clewer, Windsor. After midnight, Bonham had fallen asleep and was taken to bed and placed on his side. Benji LeFevre (who had replaced Richard Cole as Led Zeppelin's tour manager) and John Paul Jones found him dead the next afternoon.[9] Bonham was 32 years old.

Weeks later at the coroner's inquest, it emerged that in the 24 hours before he died, John Bonham had drunk forty measures of vodka which resulted in pulmonary edema: waterlogging of the lungs caused by inhalation of vomit. A verdict of accidental death was returned at an inquest held on October 27.[9] An autopsy had found no other drugs in Bonham's body.[10] The alcoholism that had plagued the drummer since his earliest days with the band ultimately led to his death. John Bonham was cremated and on October 12, 1980 interred at Rushock Parish Church, Worcestershire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_bonham

[pepper24]

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