On this day in 2016, David Bowie exploded into a million stars and rose into the ether. Thanks for everything.
Yer Ol' Uncle D
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"A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business." - Loretta Lynn
"I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob." - Ellas McDaniel (Bo Diddley), born this day in 1928.
""I know it sounds like a complete cliche, but I've always been a big Velvet Underground fan, and the effect I want to have on people is the effect it has on me looking at pictures of Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison in 1966. The photographs of them in Andy Warhol's Factory contain just about everything that made their music so awesome." - Jim Reid
"I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have." - Alex Chilton, born this day in 1950.
Ho. Ho. Ho.
RIP to the mountain of Mountain - Leslie West.
"Digital for storage and quickness. Analog for fatness and warmth." - Adrian Belew, born this day in 1949.
"Punk rock isn't something you grow out of. Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'." - Joe Strummer, 18 years gone today. Miss you, man.
"You know, there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music." - Mike Watt, born this day in 1957.
"The very first instrument I played was the bottom of my feet, workin' out rhythms, tap dancing. We used to dance up and down Bourbon Street." - Professor Longhair, born this day in 1918.
When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.
"What you doing with your hand in that woman's dresser drawer?"
Molten hot pocket: aht, aht, I bund my mouf.
"I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television...In madness there is order." - Tom Verlaine
"If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time." - Janis Joplin
"Greenpeace is my payback: I donate certain portions of my proceeds to Greenpeace. Hopefully we can educate the world to pay a little more attention to global warming." - Rick Danko, his last interview 3 days before we lost him on this day in 1999.
"As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more." - Otis Redding, lost this day in 1967.
"The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable." - Tom Waits, born this day in 1949.
"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe." - Frank Zappa, 27 years gone today. -
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