Yer Ol' Uncle D

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 7, 2020

Well, shit. RIP John Erhardt.

John Erhardt, Wussy and Ass Ponys Guitarist, Has Died

Erhardt also played pedal steel in the Ohio rock groups

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 7, 2020

"It's not the same without Jerry. It never will be." - Bill Kreutzmann

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 6, 2020

@GritNGlitter @Crabbers @dhodo Happy birthday, young'uns.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 6, 2020

"I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life." - Mark Lanegan

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 4, 2020

"There's no outdoing The Beatles." - Brian Wilson

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 3, 2020

"Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live." - James Brown

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 2, 2020

"Money don’t rule me, record companies don’t rule me." - Link Wray, the man credited with bringing distortion to the electric guitar, born this day in 1935. Getcha some...

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 1, 2020

"It's the people who scream the loudest about America and freedom who seem to be the most intolerant of a differing point of view." - Rosanne Cash

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 30, 2020

"I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any." - Captain Beefheart

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 27, 2020

"Badfinger I loved. Those guys were just so incredible. It's so tragic what happened to them. If you listened to Pete Ham's song "Without You", he wasn't kidding." - Cyril Jordan of Flamin' Groovies

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 25, 2020

"A guitar player goes on the road, and he misses his girlfriend for a while, but he manages to get along. A horn player gets out on the road, plays two or three towns, and then he'll get lonely, and next thing you know, he's packed up and left. It's better not to hire him in the first place." - Albert King

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 23, 2020

“You guys have something great, let’s make it happen in the studio, whatever it is, whatever it takes to do that, to get a perfect take, translate the live show into a recording.” - Ray Manzarek producing the first X record.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 20, 2020

"The same song on a different day was a different song." - Bob Weir

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 19, 2020

"That tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life's simple pleasures." - Billy Gibbons

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 18, 2020

"Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play." - Charlie Parker

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 17, 2020

"Real music lovers are actually my favorite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told what to think." - Prince

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 16, 2020

Thanks for everything Big Tom Callahan.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 15, 2020

“I wanted the music to come out of the speakers and just grab you by the throat and just knock your head against the wall and just basically kill you." - Iggy Pop

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 15, 2020

"If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music." - Keith Richards

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 14, 2020

"If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that's pretty good." - John Prine