Yer Ol' Uncle D

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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

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  Ericj32

• Oct 21, 2021

Happy belated birthday!

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Oct 21, 2021

"We must be among the world’s most unemployable people. If we hadn’t been in The Cramps, I can’t imagine the trouble we’d be in. Rock ‘n’ roll is the greatest way for weirdos like us to find a purpose in life." - Lux Interior, born this day in 1946.

One of the greatest rock 'n' roll songs of all time...

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Oct 19, 2021

"My earthly parents don't know my potential or my divine qualities. They weren't taught how to diagnose or be aware of such things." - Peter Tosh, born this day in 1944.

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  sarcasticfairyprincess

• Oct 19, 2021

happiest of birthdays, uncle d! thanks for being an influence on my music taste over the last half-decade!

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  JonnyH

• Oct 19, 2021

HBD Uncle D! Thanks for all the support and music quotes over the years. I picked this one out special for you today, it's from Chuck Berry, who I once had dinner with, "In a Toyota, the cops don't think about stopping you so much."

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  gaporter

• Oct 19, 2021

Happiest of birthdays to you Uncle D!

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  Selaws

• Oct 19, 2021

Happy birthday! Hope you have a great day!

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  Wicked Dreamer

• Oct 19, 2021

Happy Birthday!