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Died On This Day (April 2, 2006) Buddy Blue / Beat Farmers

Posted by themusicsover on April 2, 2010

Buddy Blue (Born Bernard Seigel)
December 30, 1957 – April 2, 2006

buddyBuddy Blue was best known as a founding member of San Diego’s favorite sons, the Beat Farmers.  He was also a music critic with reviews featured in the San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Reader, Los Angeles Times, Orange County Weekly among others.  In 1983, Blue helped form the Beat Farmers with Rolle Love, Jerry Raney and the legendary Country Dick Montana.  The Beat Farmers quickly built a solid fan base in and around San Diego, Southern California and beyond thanks in part to their raucous live shows that usually ended with the front few rows being doused in beer.  In 1984, the band released the perfect Tales Of The New West album, recorded for a mere $4000.  Blue left the Beat Farmers in 1986 but continued to perform either as part of his band, the Jacks or solo.  Buddy Blue died of a heart attack at the age of 48.

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Died On This Date (November 8, 1995) Country Dick Montana / The Beat Farmers

Posted by themusicsover on November 8, 2009

Country Dick Montana (Born Daniel McLain)
May 17, 1955 – November 8, 1995

contry-dick-montanaThe bigger-than-life Country Dick Montana was the founding drummer, co-lead vocalist, and heart and soul of the great San Diego roots rock band, the Beat Farmers.  Formed by Montana, Jerry Raney, Buddy Blue and Rolle Love in 1983, the band quickly became an institution in and around the college communities of San Diego County.  The band’s musical talent and songwriting abilities were undisputed, while their live shows were nothing short of greatness.  particularly if you were lucky enough to be close to the stage for one of Montana’s beer dousings.  The Beat Farmers’ first album, Tales of the New West, was released in 1985 and is considered by many to be the blueprint for the Americana movement to come some twenty years later.  Two of it’s songs, “Happy Boy” and “California Kid,” both sung with Montana’s deep and iconic voice, generally became the most raucous moments of the Beat Farmers’ energetic live shows.  The band continued to release fan-pleasing albums over the next decade, helping them build a base outside the comforts of Southern California.  On November 8, 1995, while the Beat Farmers were on stage at a Whistler, Canada club, Country Dick Montana suffered a fatal heart attack while performing “The Girl I Almost Married.”  He died as he should have, with his boots on.  That following year, Devil Lied to Me, his only solo album which had been working on before his death, was released.

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