Influences: Buddy Holly

When Jimigator and I first started performing together our goal was to get as much sound as possible out of just drums and guitar. The way an instrument is used can affect this. I'm not talking about volume, it's more subtle than that. The audience would often hear a bass line when there was no bass player.

Buddy Holly tried to do the same thing with just guitar, bass, and drums. There was no mistaking his sound. He insisted on producing his own records, which was unheard of in the late fifties, used multi-tracking, and pioneered stereo.

Here is one of the few videos of Buddy Holly performing. Notice how no one is dancing at this "Dance Party" and I like how she calls them "Rock & Roll Specialists"--I think there's an online course for that now.

In a career that lasted a year and a half he gave so much to the future of popular music. The style, sound and image of Vladimir's Universe owes much to Buddy Holly.