Yer Ol' Uncle D

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Sep 20, 2022

If you've ever dreamed of getting a free record a month for a year curated by a weird, old curmudgeon, your wish has come true...

Vinyl Me, D - A Free Record Club

So....I'm sitting here in a little euphoric, IPA haze listening to records (I refer to this particular night of the week as "every night") and was thinking about this cool thing @kickerofelves did on the old forum - he created his own record club for 3 subscribers.....all on his dime. No cost...

www.needlesandgrooves.com

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Sep 19, 2022

"Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations." - Jarvis Cocker, born this day in 1963. Truth in context right here. Direct hit.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Sep 18, 2022

"I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant." - Dee Dee Ramone, boen this day in 1952.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Sep 17, 2022

"There ain't nobody I'd rather have alongside me in a fight than my mama with a broken bottle in her hand." - Hank Williams, born this day in 1923.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Sep 16, 2022

"We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors." - B. B. King, born this day in 1925.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Sep 15, 2022

"I feel guilty when people say I'm the greatest on the scene. What's good or bad doesn't matter to me; what does matter is feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name doesn't mean a damn, it's your talents and feelings that matter. You've got to know much more than just the technicalities of notes; you've got to know what goes between the notes." Jimi Hendrix

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Sep 11, 2022

The good news - head over here to possibly win a free record every month for a year. The bad news - I'm picking them...

Vinyl Me, D - A Free Record Club

So....I'm sitting here in a little euphoric, IPA haze listening to records (I refer to this particular night of the week as "every night") and was thinking about this cool thing @kickerofelves did on the old forum - he created his own record club for 3 subscribers.....all on his dime. No cost...

www.needlesandgrooves.com

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Sep 9, 2022

"As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn’t let me go on any more." - Otis Redding, born this day in 1941.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Sep 8, 2022

Anyone interested in a year's worth of free records from some damn weirdo?

Vinyl Me, D - A Free Record Club

So....I'm sitting here in a little euphoric, IPA haze listening to records (I refer to this particular night of the week as "every night") and was thinking about this cool thing @kickerofelves did on the old forum - he created his own record club for 3 subscribers.....all on his dime. No cost...

www.needlesandgrooves.com

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Sep 8, 2022

"We've only been here once before and I don't think we sold so many records. We ain't superstars over in the States. We're just another medium-to-well-known band. We're no Three Dog Night or Creedence. We just consider ourselves general folks." - Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan, born this day in 1945.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Sep 6, 2022

"The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing." - Buddy Guy

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Sep 5, 2022

"Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all the interesting people you're going to meet down there!" - Freddie Mercury, born this day in 1946.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Sep 4, 2022

"Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives, product manufacturers, merchandise distributors, fashion coordinators, and rock imitators, the latter of whom have yet to equal the sincerity, power, and wit of Nirvana." - Kim Thayil, born this day in 1960.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Sep 2, 2022

"I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too." - Billy Preston, born this day in 1946.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 31, 2022

"If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is." - Van Morrison, wacko conspiracy theorist, who's been putting down everyone who believed the COVID pandemic was real, spawned this day in 1945.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 30, 2022

"All I ever wanted to do was hear music that I like and play it to other people" - John Peel, my hero, born this day in 1939.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 29, 2022

"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." - Frank Zappa

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 28, 2022

"If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly." - Mark E. Smith

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 27, 2022

"I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous. I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it. My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people." - Dusty Springfield

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 26, 2022

"If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym." - Shirley Manson, born this day in 1966.