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Buddy, Richie, The Big Bopper and Roger.

February 03, 2019 by Tom Stewart

Feb 3rd, 1959.

It had been a miserable tour, riding a bus through the Midwest in the winter. The bus' heater broke down almost as much as the bus itself. Temps were -25 to -40 degrees, the cold bitter and invasive. A drummer lost toes to the winter and frost bite caused by the dying bus heater.

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