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Buddy Blue
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Bernard "Buddy Blue" Seigal (December 30, 1957 - April 2, 2006) was a San Diego musician, music critic and writer who performed and often wrote under his stage name Buddy Blue. He was a founding member of The Beat Farmers, a Southern California rock band that blended country roots music and rock 'n' roll. As a music critic, he was known for his straight-forward style of critique that often used colorful language and original metaphors to either lambaste or praise musicians whom Seigal liked or disliked. Born in Syracuse, New York, Seigal moved to San Diego in 1973 and played in several unknown bands while working as a clerk at a record store and attending community college. In 1979, he joined the Grossmont College student newspaper as a writer and was later promoted to editor. In 1981, Seigal, a singer and guitarist, formed the rockabilly band, the Rockin' Roulettes. In 1983, he quit the Roulettes when he was invited to join the Beat Farmers with Jerry Raney and Country Dick Montana. He took musician Rolle Love with him.[1] The Beat Farmers eventually signed with Rhino records and became know regionally and nationally with their performances of songs such as Happy Boy, Riverside and Gun Sale at the Church. Seigal left the Beat Farmers in 1986 to start a new band, The Jacks. A year later, he was hired as a music critic for the San Diego Reader. He would later be fired from the paper when his editors suggested he write bad reviews on local San Diego musicians whom Seigal fel
