Yer Ol' Uncle D

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 3, 2022

"Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn . . . The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power." - James Brown, born this day in 1933.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 25, 2022

"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, born this day in 1923.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 21, 2022

"DMT was a gaseous wax you'd smoke that gave you a 20 minute psychedelic high. When you'd exhale - poof, you'd be high. I saw Buddha, man. That sounds like no big deal, but I saw a gigantic holographic Buddha. Thousands of details were included in this Buddha. I didn't make them up. I can't even draw, you know? I could barely spell cat. And there it was. I thought, Wow - the power of the mind, you know?" - Iggy Pop

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 18, 2022

"Columbia was very conservative, and the Doors were just plain too weird. They didn't want a band that said "Father I want to kill you/Mother I want to fuck you." Elektra was very brave to sign them. There was very strict censorship in those days. It was brave to put out a record that said the word "high" on it." - Paul Rothchild. record producer extraordinaire, born this day in 1935.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 14, 2022

"I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous." - Loretta Lynn, born this day in 1932.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 13, 2022

"People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!" - Al Green, born this day in 1946.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 12, 2022

"All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note." - Herbie Hancock, born this day in 1940.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 11, 2022

"Sometimes the human race is given absolutely marvelous gifts, and we take those gifts and squander them just because we are human beings. This is all about that." - Stuart Adamson, born this day in 1958. Hope you are at peace.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 7, 2022

"Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed." - Courtney Love

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 7, 2022

"You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation." - Billie Holiday, born this day in 1915.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 6, 2022

"If I hear another line dance song, I think I'm going to puke." - Merle Haggard, born this day in 1937, died this day in 2016.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 4, 2022

The Grammys are an industry fueled, back slapping, money grabbing farce. Has been for decades.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 2, 2022

I'm a UNC grad (from long ago when their standards were much lower) and that was an incredible game. Neither team lost it. Also pretty surreal we killed K twice in his last season.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Apr 2, 2022

"I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys." - Marvin Gaye, born this day in 1939.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 31, 2022

"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 20, 2022

"Without music you are all dead; with music you are alive. There
is nothing music can't do." - Lee “Scratch” Perry, born this day in 1936.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 19, 2022

"You take all the time to write a song: you have to let it ooze on out by its natural self and that is pretty time consuming. Then you teach it to the band so everybody gets all the parts. Then you rehearse it and road test it, and all that. Then you get to the studio and there is a new guy in the band who calls himself the producer, right? Huh. He either makes it or breaks it usually before nightfall." -Gregg Allman

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 18, 2022

"I think a lot of people are having their midlife crisis in public. I think if you left something unfinished, go ahead and do it. But I guess I can't really answer that question in respect to my own music, because it's inconceivable." - Grant Hart, born this day in 1961.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 17, 2022

And that's why the NCAA Basketball Tournament is the greatest sports event on earth.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 17, 2022

"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