Yer Ol' Uncle D

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 6, 2023

"The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness of the local ranchers, choking with waste the creek that runs through my property. There's certain times of day that the cowboys like to send them turds down the river. Them fuckers piss me off. if you gotta mess up the ecology of the world in order to raise a bunch of cows, well eat something else." - Merle Haggard, born this day in 1937, died this day in 2016.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 5, 2023

“Was my management style aggressive? I would say so. Call it what you like – as long as it works. If somebody had to be trod on, they got trod on. Too true.” - Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin manager extraordinaire, born this day in 1935.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 4, 2023

"There was a time when I had the blues - I mean I really had it bad. I couldn't pay my light bill and I couldn't pay my rent and I really had the blues. But today I can pay my rent and I can pay the light bill and I still got the blues. So I must been born with 'em... That's my religion - the blues is my religion." - McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) born this day in 1913.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 2, 2023

"When there are dogs and music, people have a good time." - Emmylou Harris, born this day in 1947.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 2, 2023

"To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye. Art is a way of possessing destiny." - Marvin Gaye, born this day in 1939.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 2, 2023

"The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do." - Leon Russell, born this day in 1941.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 31, 2023

Caitlin Clark. What a player.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 31, 2023

"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, in fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same." - Angus Young, born this day in 1955.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 24, 2023

Can we trade in a couple truly heinous living folks and get these two back? Please? Pretty please?

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 22, 2023

I've just listened to this song 10 consecutive times. Some of the darkest beauty ever created...

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 19, 2023

"I just tried to come up with some honest songs. I was writing about real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going to be interesting to other people. I've never had any discipline whatsoever. I just wait on a song like I was waiting for lightning to strike. And eventually - usually sometime around 3 in the morning - I'll have a good idea. By the time the sun comes up, hopefully, I'll have a decent song." - John Prine

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 17, 2023

"I think most non-Christians who try to be good people are probably better Christians than Christians." - Paul Kantner, born this day in 1941.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 17, 2023

"You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s. If you can remember anything about the '60s, you weren't really there." - Paul Kantner, born this day in 1941.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 17, 2023

"Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings." - Paul Kantner, born this day in 1941.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 12, 2023

"I'm very interested in religion and different religions, and I know quite a lot about it. I love gospel music, and I love going to churches, but the one drawback is that I don't actually believe in God. And it is quite a handicap, you know." - Nick Lowe

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 9, 2023

"I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll." - John Cale, born this day in 1942.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 9, 2023

"I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me. I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke." - Ornette Coleman, born this day in 1930.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 8, 2023

"I want them to play Britney Spears at my funeral. This way I won't feel so bad about being dead, and everyone there will know there is something worse than death." - Gary Numan

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 6, 2023

"I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts exist. We can all arrive at the same facts if we engage in the process of experimentation, observation, and verification, which can solve more of the world's major problems than a debate over whether God does or doesn't exist." - Greg Graffin

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 5, 2023

"When I was 14, I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15, they changed the leaving age to 16. When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory." - Mark E. Smith, born this day in 1957.