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Guitarist 🎸 Songwriter 🎶 Studio Nerd 🎤 Cyclist 🚴🏻 🤘🏻Toby Ellis and the Breakdown 🤘🏻
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Happy Birthday to two guitar players/songwriters I find myself defending to musical zealots of all kinds lol I love Kurt Cobain and Walter Becker enough for all of us. #curtcobain #walterbecker #nirvana #steelydan #rock #punk #jazz

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Happy Birthday to the living legend Tony Iommi! One of the reasons I started playing guitar. #legend #guitar #guitarplayer #blacksabbath @iommi.com

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Happy Birthday in heaven to the original funky drummer, Clyde Stubblefield. Possibly the most sampled musician of all time. #clydestubblefield #funkydrummer #drummers #thisdayinmusic

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Intro and break to a song called Every Dance. #acousticguitar #martinguitar #guitar

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Happy Birthday to Billie Joe Armstrong, singer and guitarist for Green Day! What's your favorite Green Day song? #greenday #americanidiot

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Happy Birthday to multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis! Long time collaborator of Nick Cave, in The Bad Seeds and Grinderman. #thebadseeds #grinderman

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Happy Birthday to the amazing Peter Hook! 69 years old today and still rocking. #peterhook #joydivision #neworder

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A peanut butter sandwich dipped in chili is one of my favorite lunches. Has been since grade school. Is this a midwestern thing? #peanutbutter #chili #delicacy #midwest

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Happy Anniversary to Rush 'Moving Pictures', released 44 years ago today in 1981. This was the first record I heard and owned on CD! I still have copies on vinyl and cassette along with that CD! #rush #movingpictures #progrock

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Happy National Guitar Day! Here are a bunch of my favorites. #nationalguitarday

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RIP Tom Robbins. There’s a copy of ‘Cowgirls’ on my desk to this day. You can open it up to almost any page and have your mood changed for the better.

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If you grew up in the 70s your mom had a copy of Tapestry on 8 track. If not now's a good time to have a listen. Happy Anniversary on this release 54 years ago today. #caroleking #tapestry #70srecords

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Two weeks into my personal Meta deletion. In don't miss it at all. What I am hearing from others is always the same "but that's the only place where 'this or that' group communicate". Ever wonder why the oligarchs seem one step ahead? Get off their platforms. #meta #deletemeta

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An old song called Blood. Tuned in open D. #guitarsky #guitar #acousticguitar

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When I travel I like to get local lore and ghost stories. What are you favorite souvenirs? #witchofpungo #ghoststories

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It’s been a very emotional day, so I decided to remind myself there’s still a lot of beauty in the world. #walkinthepark #sunset

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My top streams for January were Rage Against the Machine and the Grateful Dead. I'd say that about sums up the month perfectly. #january #rage #grateful #rageagainsthemachine #gratefuldead

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🔥 abilities 🔥 #goodfortune #fortunecookie

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Solo section from “Backdoor Blues” #guitar #vintageguitar #blues #rock #stratocaster

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Happy Chinese New Year! 2025 is the year of the snake! Read more about it here. #lunarnewyear #chinesenewyear #yearofthesnake

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I found this James Jamerson playlist in Tidal! Please join my virtual listening party today on the kings birthday! #jamesjamerson #bassplayer #fenderprecisionbass #motown

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Happy Birthday to the late James Jamerson (b.'36- d.83) the absolute legend who played on almost all Motown recordings while he was with the label. The hits are too many to name here. #motown #jamesjamerson #bassplayer #fenderprecision

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A verses worth of guitar from “Dream a little dream”. #guitar #acousticguitar #fingerpicking #hybridpicking

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Today we honor the memory of the late Tom Verlaine on the anniversary of his passing. Join me in a virtual listening party of Television's Marquee Moon, one of the finest albums ever made. #tomverlaine #television #marqueemoon #guitar #guitarsky

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