Yer Ol' Uncle D

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Aug 1, 2023

Somebody done screwed up and let me run the N&G AotM again. Hop in, have some fun, make a guess, possibly win some loot...

Needles & Grooves AotM /// Vol. 51 - September 2023 /// Hold My Beer Edition aka Blame @Skalap

Three years pass, defenses are relaxed, security loosens, complacency sets in, entrances go unchecked, guards take untimely naps and just like that your resident weird uncle manages to slip back into the AOTM thread for another eccentric installment. I had so much fun with the first one. It's...

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jul 30, 2023

"Rastafari means to live in nature, to see the Creator in the wind, sea and storm. Other religions pointed to the sky, and while we were looking in the sky, they dug up all the gold and diamonds and went away with them." - Jimmy Cliff, born this day in 1944.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jul 28, 2023

"A good player can make any guitar sound good." - Mike Bloomfield, born this day in 1943.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jul 28, 2023

"When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard." - Bob Dylan on Michael Bloomfield, born this day in 1943.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jul 27, 2023

"Everybody has a different guess about what was thrown off the bridge—flowers, a ring, even a baby. Anyone can think what they want but the real message of the song, if there must be a message, revolves around the nonchalant way the family talks about the suicide. They sit there eating their peas and apple pie and talking, without even realizing that Billie Joe’s girlfriend is sitting at the table." - Bobbie Gentry

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jul 20, 2023

"There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody." - Carlos Santana, born this day in 1947.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jul 20, 2023

"I used to work in jobs I hated because I needed the money to buy a guitar. I know what it feels like to be depressed. On the other hand, I also know what it feels like to have money, to be successful, to be independent, but I can tell you that money and success never solve your problems." - Chris Cornell, born this day in 1964.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jul 14, 2023

"The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music." - Woody Guthrie, born this day in 1912. He was very, very smart.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jul 14, 2023

"It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people." - Woody Guthrie, born this day in 1912.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jul 14, 2023

"I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I ain't a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns." - Woody Guthrie, born this day in 1912.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jul 13, 2023

"Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was dangerous, it scared everybody's parents, which was part of the attraction then - as it still is now... it totally blindsided me and made me want to get a guitar and do that." - Roger McGuinn, born this day in 1942.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jul 6, 2023

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jul 2, 2023

"What we're thinking about is a peaceful planet. We're not thinking about anything else. We're not thinking power, any kind of struggle, revolution or war or any of that. That's not what we want. Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to live an uncluttered life. A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps." - Jerry Garcia

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 25, 2023

"Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating. A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is enabled by her scars. I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it." - Carly Simon, born this day in 1945.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 24, 2023

"I don’t care about the rules. In fact, if I don’t break the rules at least ten times in every song, then I’m not doing my job properly. Emotion is much more important than making mistakes, so be prepared to look like a chump. If you become too guarded and too processed, the music loses its spontaneity and gut feeling." - Jeff Beck, born this day in 1944. So true. Thanks for everything.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 15, 2023

3 Red Hot Chili Peppers Songs That’ll Make You Say, “Okay, That’s Enough.”

Red Hot Chilli Peppers are just a band. Sure, I've heard a few parts of their songs, and yeah, I might have become a little irritable listening to them, but one time, I made it through an entire Sugar Ray album without snapping. That's some real mental fortitude.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 15, 2023

"I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it." - Waylon Jennings, who gave up his seat on the plane to Buddy Holly, born this day in 1937.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 15, 2023

"I was on acid, and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, "Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it". - Harry Nilsson, born this day in 1941.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 10, 2023

"I couldn't do no yodelin', so I turned to howlin'. And it's done me just fine." - Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett), born this day in 1910.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 5, 2023

"Life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love." - Patti Smith