Yer Ol' Uncle D

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 9, 2024

"Paint pictures with sound. Find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down. You'll be able to express any emotion on the guitar." - Les Paul, born this day in 1915

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 7, 2024

"When you sit down to write something, there should be no guidelines. The main idea is not supposed to be, 'How many different ways can we sell it?' That's so far away from the true spirit of what music is." - Prince Rogers Nelson, born this day in 1958.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 29, 2024

"It's not about being upset about the things you might have said or done yesterday, which is quite appropriate at the moment. It's about looking forward rather than looking back. I hate people who look back on the past or talk about what might have been. You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is." - Noel Gallagher, born this day in 1967.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 24, 2024

"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent." - Bob Dylan, born this day in 1941.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 23, 2024

"I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer. One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music." - Robert Moog, born this day in 1934.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 17, 2024

“Music is like the soul of the planet. My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.” - Taj Mahal, born this day in 1942.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 10, 2024

Pretty crazy seeing vivid northern lights way down here in NC.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 9, 2024

"Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything." - Steve Albini, thanks for everything.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 22, 2024

Looks like Lee Newman went into Michael Caine's office in 'Dressed To Kill' and came out as @TrainFan73.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 16, 2024

"I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous. I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it." - Dusty Springfield, born this day in 1939.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 15, 2024

"When I sing the blues, I am free from the shackles of society's expectations. The blues is a language that transcends race, gender, and age. Through the blues, I have found my purpose, my reason for being." - Bessie Smith, born this day in 1894.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 7, 2024

"TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health." - Tom Petty

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 22, 2024

Hopefully this FAU / Northwestern officiating crew doesn't get to work another game. Horrendous.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 21, 2024

"You're the luckiest person in the entire world if you know what you really want to do, which I was lucky enough to know when I was very young. And you're the luckiest person in the world if you can then make a living out of it." - Andrew Lloyd Webber

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 11, 2024

"I'm only interested in working on records that legitimately reflect the band's own perception of their music and existence. If you commit yourselves to that as a tenet of the recording methodology, then I will bust my ass for you." - Steve Albini

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 8, 2024

"When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts. I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.' - Gary Numan, born this day in 1958.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 7, 2024

"I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way." - Townes Van Zandt, born this day in 1944. He designed it. He called it. Sorry he did. Glad for what he gave us.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 6, 2024

"I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. But even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe." - David Gilmour, born this day in 1946.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 5, 2024

"When I was 14 I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16. When I was 18 the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory." - Mark E. Smith, born this day in 1957.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Feb 25, 2024

"It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one." - George Harrison, born this day in 1943.