"I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud." - Roger McGuinn of The Byrds
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"My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear." - George Clinton, born this day in 1941.
"There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It doesn't matter if it's Whitney Houston or a nameless, faceless person on the street. That's just as big of a tragedy for me." - Chris Cornell, he would have turned 55 today.
"I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good." - Brian May, born this day in 1947.
Iggy's back - with jazz?
Iggy Pop Set To Release New Album, ‘Free’, In September
Iggy Pop has announced the release of his new album, 'Free', the follow-up to the widely-acclaimed 'Post-Pop Depression', on 6 September 2019.
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"Rock was born in the South, so saying 'Southern rock' is like saying 'rock rock.' " - Duane Allman
"A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I could go on this trip with these people. The drums found me; I didn't find them. When I started playing, I realized how appropriate an instrument it was for me." - Janet Weiss
"We play the music we want to play and we play the places we want to play. I'd hate to be on the usual record company where you get an album out and you do a tour, and you do all the Odeon's and all the this, that and the others. I couldn't just do that at all." - Ian Curtis, born this day in 1956, committed suicide on 5-18-80 the day before Joy Division's first major US tour.
"I'll leave a store if I hate the music. If it's just, like, techno, I feel like my brain is going to explode." - Kim Gordon
@Bohnjaggs was kind enough to let me pick this week's record for the N&G Listening Club....
The N&G Listening Club V1 - Archive only
I have been behind on this thread for so long and I apologize to those who have picked albums in the meantime while I've not been active here. But I'm working my way through the albums now! First one, Hiatus Kiayote - Choose Your Weapon (chosen by @Splunders ) My opinion is very similar to...
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"Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real." - Peter Murphy
“You've got to dig it to dig it, you dig?” ― Thelonious Monk
"I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone." - Paul Westerberg
Cali folk - y'all cool?
" We do whatever is needed. Sometimes not playing at all, which is the hardest thing to do on stage. A lot of people are uncomfortable with silence. This band kind of enjoys it." - Mark Sandman of Morphine. RIP and thanks for everything.
"Music is probably the only 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
"The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues." - Willie Dixon, born this day in 1915.
"Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time." - Ornette Coleman
And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love
You make.
"If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove." - Timothy Leary -
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