Yer Ol' Uncle D

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 25, 2022

"If I'm onstage or not, I find the communal experience of a rock concert, or any music performance, achieves a kind of transcendence that I associate with spirituality. It's what I think people expect church to be like. Or just what I've always thought church should be. You lose yourself, and at the same time come to the realization or understanding that you're part of something bigger than yourself." - Jeff Tweedy

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 24, 2022

"We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being. Love is the most powerful energy there is." - Lenny Kravitz

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 23, 2022

"I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes. I love to see people laugh and I love it more if I can make them laugh." - Keith Moon, born this day in 1946.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 22, 2022

"I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks." - John Lee Hooker, born this day in 1917.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 18, 2022

"I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making music. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music." - Aimee Mann

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 16, 2022

"Our look evolved from the fact that we bought thrift-store clothes. It wasn't like, 'Let's adopt a thrift-store aesthetic.' We just didn't have any money." - Fred Schneider

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 12, 2022

"I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences." - Buck Owens, born this day in 1929.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 11, 2022

“Some of my early stuff was infected by the deadly disease of cynicism, which is a disease of the young, I think, When you’re young, it seems very clever to be cynical. But as you get older, hopefully, if you’re not completely stupid, you realize that you have to be a bit more positive, as a simple matter of survival." - Joe Jackson, born this day in 1954.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 10, 2022

"It's only the giving that makes you what you are." - Ian Anderson, born this day in 1947.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 9, 2022

"The worst thing you can be is a musician. You shouldn't have too much respect for what gets the job done. It's a tool. It's a piece of equipment. That's the problem with musicians. They get too hung up on the wrong things." - Jim Reid

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 8, 2022

On this day in 1970, Janis Joplin bought a headstone for the grave of her greatest influence, Bessie Smith, at the Mount Lawn Cemetery in Philadelphia. Blues singer Smith died in 1937 after being refused admission to a whites only hospital.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 7, 2022

"Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing." - Bruce Dickinson, born this day in 1958. Amen.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 5, 2022

"Every time you play, you have energy within you - universal energy. That's the energy that keeps everything together - the planets, the galaxies. Everything." - Airto Moreira, born this day in 1941.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 2, 2022

"There is a view that jazz is 'evil' because it comes from evil people, but actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street and on the streets of New York City were the musicians. They were doing the greatest healing work. They knew how to punch through music that would cure and make people feel good." - Garth Hudson, born this day in 1937.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 1, 2022

"I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political." - Robert Cray, born this day in 1958.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jul 31, 2022

"Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities. I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life." - Bill Berry, born this day in 1958.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jul 28, 2022

"The people who control the music industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money." - Rick Wright of Pink Floyd, born this day in 1943. Variant this, limited that - this man knew what's up long ago. RIP and thanks for everything.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jul 27, 2022

"I think God made woman to be strong, not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way; Mother was a strong woman." - Little Richard

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jul 26, 2022

"You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex." - Mick Jagger, born this day in 1943.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jul 25, 2022

"DEVO was like the punk band that non Punk America saw as Punk and so when people who were really into Punk rock would be walking around on the streets the jocks who learned about Punk through Devo would roll down their windows and yell at the Punks: 'HEY, DEVO!!'" - Thurston Moore, born this day in 1958.