Yer Ol' Uncle D

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Nov 13, 2021

"“Some people are so worried that there is not enough pie to go around, and that lifting up others limits their own opportunity. The need to feel better than someone in order to feel good about oneself is an age old insecurity." - Erika Wennerstrom.

That one's for you, @GritNGlitter

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Nov 12, 2021

"Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement." - Neil Young, born this day in 1945.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Nov 11, 2021

"We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee." - Andy Partridge, born this day in 1953.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Nov 10, 2021

"The world's worst is when you find yourself going like Mother Hubbard and cupping your hand behind your ear. I was a major glutton for volume: 'Gotta feel it, gotta hear it.' Sooner or later you're going to pay the reaper." - Mick Fleetwood. Wear those earplugs, kids.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Nov 7, 2021

"I don't really understand that process called reincarnation, but if there is such a thing, I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog." - Leonard Cohen, 5 years gone today.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Nov 6, 2021

"I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now." - Willie Nelson

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Nov 5, 2021

"I think pure country music includes rock and roll...I've never been able to get into the further label of country-rock...how can you define something like that ? I just say this: It's music. Either it's good or it's bad; either you like it or you don't." - Gram Parsons, born this day in 1946.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Nov 4, 2021

"It's strangely energizing to have people who don't make music themselves take potshots at you from the Internet." - James Murphy

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Nov 3, 2021

"Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work. People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me." - Adam Ant

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Nov 2, 2021

"I'm proud that I was one of the first ones out, singing loud and proud." - k. d. lang, born this day in 1961.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Nov 1, 2021

"I've never been ready to do a single thing I've ever done in my life. I haven't been prepared enough, haven't studied enough, haven't known enough. You can never be ready. There's just so much to know." - Lyle Lovett, born this day in 1957.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Oct 31, 2021

"People say to me, 'Do you dye your hair?' and I say, 'Well, does fucking Siouxsie Sioux? Does Bowie?'. Of course. I'm going to have a decent haircut. It's one of the first things I learnt to do - get a few songs together and get your hairstyle right." - Johnny Marr, born this day in 1963.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Oct 30, 2021

"Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing." - Grace Slick, born this day in 1939. So prophetic.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Oct 29, 2021

"Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to share his music with anyone is a beautiful thing." - Duane Allman, lost this day in 1971.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Oct 27, 2021

"If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock 'n' roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel." - Buddy Holly

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Oct 26, 2021

"Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources. If you fake the funk, your nose will grow." - Bootsy Collins, born this day in 1951.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Oct 25, 2021

"Some of the albums I like best in the whole world are considered psychedelic albums. A psychedelic album is an album that when you put it on, if you listen to both sides, when it's over, your perceptions have been changed and I think that our record can do that." - Richard Lloyd of Television, born this day in 1951.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Oct 23, 2021

First show in 595 days tonight - Black Midi & Orange Tree Boys (also Black Midi). Looking forward to being the old geezer of the crowd.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Oct 23, 2021

"Great music is in the ear of the beholder." - Noel Gallagher

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Oct 22, 2021

"You read interviews with Siouxsie and you were scared of her: this cold, austere ice queen. Siouxsie, Poly Styrene, Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, the Slits, these women were not pushovers. They were songwriters, it was their band. Women weren’t given more power, they demanded more power." - Bobby Gillispie