Yer Ol' Uncle D

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 23, 2022

"Jerry Garcia was 18, I was 19. Our real musical connection came when he poached my guitar. [Laughs.] Well, it wasn’t my guitar. Then Jerry asked if he could borrow it from me and he never gave it back. I wasn’t altogether pleased with that but, in facility with the thing, there was no question it was in better hands." - Robert Hunter, born this day in 1941.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 22, 2022

"If God's got a favorite songwriter, I think it's John Prine." - Kris Kristofferson, born this day in 1936.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 21, 2022

"If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done. In the end you become part of everything you hate, basically." - Ray Davies, born this day in 1944.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 20, 2022

"I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell." - Brian Wilson, born this day in 1942.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 19, 2022

"I think there's something extraordinarily nice about seeing the dawn up before one goes to bed. There's something uncanny about it." - Nick Drake, the patron saint of night owls like me, born this day in 1948.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 18, 2022

"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird." - Paul McCartney, born this day in 1942.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 16, 2022

""It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words." - David Crosby

Mobilize, my friends.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 13, 2022

"The reason I started with prostitutes was solely to work on my negotiating skills. Once I mastered negotiating with naked women, dealing with Interscope was a piece of cake." - Rivers Cuomo, born this day in 1970.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 12, 2022

"It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind. We're in it together." - Chick Corea, born this day in 1941.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 10, 2022

"The idea of 'Spoonful' was that it doesn't take a large quantity of anything to be good. If you have a little money when you need it, you're right there in the right spot, that'll buy you a whole lot." - Chester Burnett (Howlin' Wolf), born this day in 1910.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 7, 2022

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." - Dean Martin, born this day in 1917.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 5, 2022

A beautiful thread...

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 3, 2022

"It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea." - Ian Hunter, born this day in 1939.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 31, 2022

"Brushes..? Nah. Hit 'em as hard as you can." - John Bonham, born this day in 1948.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 27, 2022

"I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema. Hitchcock was my other early obsession - 'Psycho' and its score. So there was the sense of trying to create an atmosphere: how a sound resonates and makes an effect." -Siouxsie Sioux, born this day in 1957.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 26, 2022

"If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out." - Levon Helm, born this day in 1940.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 23, 2022

Yes, please...

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 20, 2022

"God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?" - Joe Cocker, born this day in 1944. Thanks for everything, Joe. You were much more than that.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 19, 2022

"Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations, acquisitive ideologies of wealth, a deeply rooted class system and policies which serve privilege in the short term and destroy society in the long term." - Pete Townshend, born this day in 1945.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 3, 2022

"Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn . . . The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power." - James Brown, born this day in 1933.