Talk:Eddie Cochran/Archive 1

Forest Lawn cemetery, Cypress, California
When I click the link on "Forest Lawn" in this article, I see nothing about "Cypress" anywhere in the linked article. Why is "Cypress" mentioned as part of the name of the cemetery in this article and why is Cypress, California mentioned as the cemetery location, as opposed to the location listed in the linked article on that subject? Bebop 13:42, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Birthplace
apparently, Eddie Cochran was born in Minnesota. The Oklahoma City thing was made up by the record company. There is also an Eddie Cochran Comedian that i haven't found on here. Locally known as a top comedian for his local bar, club and party performances in Northern Virginia, Washington D.C, and Maryland.

Deathplace
Chippenham, Wilts. A4. In fact it was along the M4 (built as a parallel for the A4, a Great Western motorway serving the west of England from London), where in 1998 drummer Cozy Powell was killed. Both in the month of April too. Why not end this rotten omen and close down the M4 and A4 before another tragedy! Celtmist
 * Err, no. Construction of the M4 didn't begin until 1961, the year after the accident.--Arwel Parry (talk) 20:15, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Eddie was fatally injured in the Chippenham crash but actually died in Bath, at St Martins Hospital, as it says in the article. There's a tree planted in the hospital grounds by The Eddie Cochran Appreciation Society.

I've re-corrected the place of death. Eddie died in Bath, not in Chippenham! Read the death certificate! Steve.kimberley (talk) 21:59, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Trivia
There is a reference to Eddie Cochran's Gretsch guitar in the 2006 song "Hurricane Ri-ri, Boston Ma-ri" by the Japanese pop group Attack All Around. The guitar arrived in a UFO. RECnet (resource: http://www.recnet.com/saa/eddie.php)

I'm perplexed by the entry in the article under the heading "Influences" that says "Cochran had an innovative technique of aligning the bass and guitar to the same harmonic frequency." The only sense I can make of this is that he tried to get the bass and the guitar in tune with each other: a rarity perhaps in the early days of rock'n'roll but hardly innovative! What exactly does this mean? Steve.kimberley (talk) 21:55, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

I wondered this too. I found several websites online that use this exact phrase "Cochran had an innovative technique of aligning the bass and guitar to the same harmonic frequency", but don't elaborate any further. I play guitar and bass, and know a good bit of music theory, but this doesn't mean anything to me! Bgaskin (talk) 20:08, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Rated article B class
I know there is more info, but I'm not sure how detailed I should make the article. We don't need his whole history for an encyclopedia. Any suggestions? Gohiking 14:53, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

BGI?
Mentioned under "early life" but not defined. --NameThatWorks (talk) 23:14, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Citations & References
See Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the  tags Nhl4hamilton (talk) 04:28, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

References for the article
I suggest we keep this space here for references (for folks like me who don't have the immediate time, but can't bookmark a million things). It is also because, of course, references are not to be piled up on the article in the external links section. This is an excellent piece here: --Leahtwosaints (talk) 08:44, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Great overall bio from Cochran's Hall of Fame induction

Correction re Cochran's death
A correction is required re the way Eddie met his death. Here is a photo of the taxi taken by a newspaper at the time: *. It is clear when viewed close-up that the safety glass windscreen is intact. I suggest that Cochran made his exit through either the back door (there is nothing for the locking mechanism to latch onto) or back window. I doubt that the left-hand-front tyre under load blew either - it doesn't look blown-out to me (despite the photo damage) - I believe the driver simply 'lost it' driving too fast on the cross-ply tyres the car had. Anyway, I have removed the part about the windscreen. --johnr_roberts (talk) 23:05, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

I Want Elvis for Christmas ??
Where is 1956 single I Want Elvis for Christmas — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.31.161.249 (talk) 12:46, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Redundant lists of acts that have covered EC's songs.
This was originally in the introductory paragraphs:

 His songs have been much covered by bands such as The Who, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Move, Dick Dale & his Del-Tones, Blue Cheer, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Humble Pie, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Teenage Head, Tiger Army, T.Rex, UFO, The White Stripes, the Stray Cats, and the Sex Pistols.

The "Style and Influence" section, which I left alone, still includes the following:

Artists such as The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Van Halen, Tom Petty, Rod Stewart, Motörhead, Humble Pie, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, Lemmy Kilmister, The Head Cat, The Damned, UFO (band), T. Rex, Stray Cats, Brian Setzer, Cliff Richard, The Who, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Blue Cheer, Led Zeppelin, The White Stripes, The Sex Pistols, Rush, Buck Owens, Tiger Army, Dion, Simple Minds, Guitar Wolf, Paul McCartney, Alan Jackson, Keith Richards & The X-Pensive Winos, and Jimi Hendrix have covered his songs.

It was because Paul McCartney knew the chords and words to "Twenty Flight Rock" that he became a member of The Beatles. John Lennon was so impressed that he invited Paul to play with his band The Quarrymen. Jimi Hendrix performed "Summertime Blues" early in his career, and Pete Townshend of The Who was heavily influenced by Cochran's guitar style ("Summertime Blues" was a Who live staple at one time and is featured on their Live at Leeds album). Glam rock artist Marc Bolan had his main Les Paul model refinished in a transparent orange to resemble the Gretsch 6120 guitar played by Cochran, who was his music hero. He was also a heavy influence on the nascent rockabilly guitar legend Brian Setzer from Stray Cats, who plays a 6120 almost like Cochran, whom he portrayed in the film La Bamba. Cochran is easily one of the first musicians, alongside Chuck Berry, whom the late Rory Gallagher was always quick to mention as a strong influence on his musical taste and performance.

Of course, I took every name from the first (removed) list that wasn't in the second (remaining) list, and added each one. I put most of those acts as third-to-last before Keith Richards, but I put Joan Jett and the Blackhearts first (ahead of the Rolling Stones, Springsteen, Van Halen, etc.), because I plan to marry the woman.

(Well . . . that, and because Jett is known for doing covers and making them bigger hits than they were originally. "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)", etc.)

--Ben Culture (talk) 01:42, 25 April 2014 (UTC)