Yer Ol' Uncle D

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 24, 2019

You can watch a free live stream of every set at LOCKN' this weekend thanks to good ol' Ben & Jerry. Trey Anastasio and Derek Trucks just kicked off a set...

Watch Now: The Relix Channel Announces Free LOCKN' Livestream

Arrington, Va.’s LOCKN’ Festival will offer a free webcast this weekend, featuring acts like Trey Anastasio Band, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Joe Russo's Almost

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 23, 2019

"I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set. I was a mental drummer." - Keith Moon Born this day in 1946. That's a very accurate statement.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 22, 2019

"I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go." - Layne Staley

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 21, 2019

"Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don't have any surface noise. I said, 'Listen, mate, *life* has surface noise." - John Peel

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 20, 2019

"Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car." - Robert Plant

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 19, 2019

"Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us. The streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that." - John Lydon

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 17, 2019

"I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale." - Peter Fonda. RIP.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 16, 2019

"If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done." - Ray Davies

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 14, 2019

Today is our daughter's birthday but she gave us a present - a new granddaughter named Georgia.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 11, 2019

"I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke." - Ornette Coleman

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 10, 2019

"My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever." - Bob Marley

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 9, 2019

"If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously." - Jerry Garcia, lost this day in 1995.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 6, 2019

"For me, the Beatles are proof of the existence of God." - Rick Rubin

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 6, 2019

"It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything changed." - Pete Townshend

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 5, 2019

"You can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30 odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary." - Rob Halford

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 2, 2019

Watching NickJr with the granddaughter and just saw a commercial for milk featuring 'Children Of The Revolution' by T Rex. Bolan spun.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 1, 2019

"Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us." - Jerry Garcia, born this day in 1942.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 1, 2019

"We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice." - Jerry Garcia, born this day in 1942.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jul 31, 2019

"One of the things that the Grateful Dead did was we spent a lot of time just turning each other on to music. If somebody was listening to something that really caught their ear, they'd make sure that everybody else in the band heard it, and that came home for us in innumerable ways." - Bob Weir. Kinda sounds like this place.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jul 27, 2019

I'm enjoying a beer at Fishbone/Galactic/ParliamentFunkadelic. Do come by and have one with me.