they're really loud guitars. [ mid-tempo music plays ] >> hi, i'm john pickering of the picks, buddy holly'sistake, even if it was the last note, you had to start over. >> the schedule for a band performing at south by southwest can be hectic, as we saw when we followed "beta records'" favorite, carney. they played show after show. some were public and some were industry only, and they did this even before they had a record to promote. >> ♪ i will testify ♪ i just want to listen to your heart beat ♪ ♪ tell your people that you're still alive ♪ ♪ there ain't nothing sweeter than your mercy ♪ ♪ i will testify ♪ it's all... ♪ for yo-o-o-u [ slow tempo music plays ] >> whoo! >> whoo! [ slow tempo music continues ] >> after making the rounds at south by southwest, carney returned to los angeles, and britt caught up with them at the el rey where they were having a release party for their first album, "mr. green." >> brittany: so, tell me. what does it feel like getting ready to play a show, especially one that you get to play all your new material for the first time? >> we try to, like, bookend th

unnertake a comprehensive tax reform effor one that i designed tt reform and simplify our existing buddy holly era tax ce that occupies tens of thnds of pages now but has ever read. tracy: iis one big book of favors. others on the line for so many americans in particar alternative minimum tax ttat could affect 33 million taxpayers. we have not heard a word about that. ooher discussion of that or any other extendersike the r&d credit, those are all on the table seto expire. speaker yes. those ancountless other tax issues on the table set to expire, those are ings that are going to hurt hard-working american we have to stay focused on t fact this is not about worrying about the rich. this is about protecng hard-working americans who stand to face job losses and diminished wag if the tax increasetake effect. tracy: the problem r a lot of people at home, th is wh we seem to be really good at, we can kick the can down the road likeele. we are good at this, but the fiscal cliff conversation coming up in ju and a year from now if we do exnd, we will be having this coersation all over again. when does

. >> buddy holly. >> so many. it is odd. >> apparently the wreckage is so bad, even the wreckage isn't identifiable according to mexican transportation minister. >> that's right. she was on board with her makeup artist, her lawyer, two pilots as well. tragedy all around. >> yep. >>> let's move on to this one, australian deejays behind the royal prank phone call that went horribly wrong. they are breaking their silence, interviews set to go later today australian tv. they will address the death threats and backlash from the phony phone call they made to a british hospital pretend to be queen elizabeth and prince charles asking to speak to kate middleton. the nurse who took the call, later committed suicide. the pairs' radio boss says they are completely shattered and have been undergoing intensive psychological counseling. yes, i know, i can tell, what you are going to say? >> i don't know how i feel about this. in the sense, they're shock jocks, what they do. i listen to steve harvey morning show, a lot of prank c

kind of town where if you roll down your car windows and turned the radio out loud, you could hear buddy holly singing peggy sue from one end of main street to the other. now we know of his favorite song was. just down the road, my great grandfather and great grandmother lived in an apartment above the bakery across the street from the drugstore. they shared their small apartment with two grown sons, wounded vets of world war ii, who got by on disability pension. eventually, huck and tom would leave that nebraska town and find themselves in the jungles of vietnam, serving side by side, there were both severely wounded by the viet cong in a land mine explosion. able to survive through the night. of that experience, he wrote, from that day on, i was a changed person. i remember a strong resolve coming over me as i were chopper climbed over the canopy of the jungle and i watched the steam rise above that in the morning light. i made myself a promise that if i ever got out of this place, was ever in a position to do something about it, i would make sure that war so horrible, so and riddled with su