Yer Ol' Uncle D

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 19, 2023

As far back as I can remember, my life has been intertwined with music. In the last few years, so many of my musical heroes have checked out. It's a bummer. It's depressing. It's a slap in the face from mortality. It makes the infinite joy of music feel finite. And that's a total drag.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 18, 2023

Shit - RIP Van Connor.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 16, 2023

"Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out." - Tina Turner

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 13, 2023

"I'm just following the Irish tradition of songwriting, the Irish way of life, the human way of life. Cram as much pleasure into life, and rail against the pain you have to suffer as a result. Or scream and rant with the pain and wait for it to be taken away with beautiful pleasure." - Shane MacGowan

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 12, 2023

“I was in a rock band, I played with a bunch of Brazilians, I played R&B with Parliament-Funkadelic and all of that. I mean, I’ve done jazz with Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderley and played with Frank Zappa. It’s a goulash. It’s a gumbo.” - George Duke, born this day in 1946.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 10, 2023

"For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that." - David Bowie, lost this day in 2016.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 10, 2023

"Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." - David Bowie, lost this day in 2016.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 10, 2023

"One day I realized that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life." - David Bowie, lost this day in 2016.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 10, 2023

"As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?" - David Bowie. lost this day in 2016.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 10, 2023

"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring." - David Bowie, lost this day in 2016.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 10, 2023

"If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive." - David Bowie, lost this day in 2016.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 9, 2023

"My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'." - Jimmy Page, born this day in 1944 and crushing souls who dis The Dan.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 8, 2023

It's dusty. Very, very dusty...

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 6, 2023

"That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way." - Syd Barrett, born this day in 1946.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 2, 2023

"Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them." - Bryan Ferry

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Dec 31, 2022

"The soul of rock 'n' roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock 'n' roll." - Paul Westerberg, born this day in 1960.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Dec 30, 2022

"I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob." - Bo Diddley (Ellas McDaniel), born this day in 1928.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Dec 28, 2022

"The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that? If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction." - Alex Chilton, born this day in 1950.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Dec 23, 2022

"You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody." - Jerry Garcia

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Dec 22, 2022

"Don't forget you're alive. We don't know what the next second will bring and what a fantastic thing this is. This can get easily forgotten in the routine of life, and that's something I'm trying to bring to my attention at all times. Don't forget you're alive. We're not dead, you know. This is the greatest thing." - Joe Strummer, 20 years gone today.