Yer Ol' Uncle D

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Feb 19, 2021

"I love classical music and that had a big influence on me. When you play a classical record I like the tension in that kind of music. That’s what I wanted to do with my riffs. I wanted to create some tension and drama. I wanted to create that same thing that you get like watching a horror film or listening to a real heavy classical album. I wanted to do that with rock." - Tony Iommi, born this day in 1948.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Feb 18, 2021

"My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing." - Allen Toussaint

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Feb 13, 2021

"When I left Genesis, I just wanted to be out of the music business. I felt like I was just in the machinery. We knew what we were going to be doing in 18 months or two years ahead. I just did not enjoy that." - Peter Gabriel

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Feb 4, 2021

Has anyone ever seen Joshua Ray Walker and Storf in the same room at the same time?

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Feb 1, 2021

When I get to the bottom
I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and I turn
And I go for a ride
Til I get to the bottom
And I see you again
Yeah yeah yeeaah

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 31, 2021

"I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine." - John Lydon, born this day in 1956.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 30, 2021

"The whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about." - Steve Marriott, born this day in 1947.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 29, 2021

"The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat." - Cicely Tyson

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 25, 2021

"I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind." - Etta James, born this day in 1938.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 24, 2021

RIP Tom Stevens. Thanks for everything...

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 22, 2021

"It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity." - Michael Hutchence

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 18, 2021

"Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison, and Pablo Picasso." - Alice Cooper

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 14, 2021

"There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll." - Dave Grohl

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 12, 2021

"Frank (Zappa) liked me because I went nuts on the piano using feet, head, whatever I could find to bang on the piano." - George Duke, born this day in 1946.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 11, 2021

"I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead." - Clarence Clemons, born this day in 1942.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 10, 2021

On this day in 2016, David Bowie exploded into a million stars and rose into the ether. Thanks for everything.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jan 2, 2021

"A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business." - Loretta Lynn

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Dec 30, 2020

"I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob." - Ellas McDaniel (Bo Diddley), born this day in 1928.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Dec 29, 2020

""I know it sounds like a complete cliche, but I've always been a big Velvet Underground fan, and the effect I want to have on people is the effect it has on me looking at pictures of Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison in 1966. The photographs of them in Andy Warhol's Factory contain just about everything that made their music so awesome." - Jim Reid

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Dec 28, 2020

"I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have." - Alex Chilton, born this day in 1950.