"I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool." - Bonnie Raitt
Yer Ol' Uncle D
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Hey @ThePakoBuelna - my buddy has a show on wncw.org called ARCOvernight and he just played Cafe Tacvba. Check out the playlist and tune in. Playlist Search
Spending the evening with Reverend Peyton & His Big Damn Band, Dom Flemons and Colonel JD Wilkes. Do drop by and have a drink.
"Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me." - Ray Charles
"We don't wear sequins because we think we're great. We wear them because we think sequins are great." - Gram Parsons, born this day in 1946.
"Live music is proof that there's some things the Internet can't kill. In our lifetime, we're going to see more and more things start to disappear and get gobbled up by the Internet, but live music won't be one of them." - Jim James
"Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock." - Neko Case
"When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could." - Alice Cooper
"I have a night off on Halloween. It's Halloween for me every night. Let everybody else be Ozzy for the night." - Ozzy Osbourne
"Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed." - Joe Strummer
"My last scan showed another little spot they’re going to zap. But there’s no chemo, no radiation, they do it and they tell me I’m good to go. Hey man, I get up in the morning, I read the obituaries, and if I’m not in them? I’ll make myself a coffee. [laughs]" - Paul Barrere of Little Feat. RIP and thanks for everything.
"You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums." - Lou Reed. Amen.
"Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be." - John Lydon
"Someone called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I solo. But that desperation is what makes it exciting." - Richard Lloyd of Television
""A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught" - Buddy Rich
"Coming from the era of vinyl you could argue that everything went wrong in the music business the moment we went digital. The day the first CD came out, it all went downhill in the music industry. Digital destroyed everything." - Andy Summers
"My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop." - Iggy Pop
"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
“Music is probably the one real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.” - Tom Petty He would have turned 69 today.
Happy birthday, you awesome person. -
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