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Flip Lemons

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Navy Vet, Sudden death survivor. (Get your heart checked people!) Been around and around but back in Chicago. Thankfully Married. Do dabble in songwriting on occasion. https://fliplemons.bandcamp.com/

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Still overcast outside but I still believe deep down the sun will return eventually. Could just need encouragement so I'll plop this down on the turntable. Cassette got me through many days in windowless berthing way way out at sea.

#music #vinyl
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07.03.2026 15:28 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ride Along, by Flip Lemons track by Flip Lemons

I do make music for my own enjoyment. Teenage years are awkward for everyone so trying to figure out how to ask someone out sometimes involved elaborate plans. I didn't own a motorcycle but if I did this is how I would have done it.

#bandcamp #music
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06.03.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Damp and gloomy out today. Making time for Harry singing Randy. A lot of beauty over somber themes and then....at the end....all of a sudden...the sun comes back again. It really never left.

Have a great weekend and shake a hand when you can.

#music #vinyl
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06.03.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My friends and I always wondered if he got the memo that today was the day of the photo shoot. Does make it easily identifiable. Usually says you can trust this person not to kill you if you spot it in their collection, so there’s that.

05.03.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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No shirt, no shoes, no problem, greatest hits album photo shoot is a wrap. It's fun and sensitively trippy, and most importantly affordable. Buy a couple, hand them out and become part of the solution. Let's hail some Atlantis!

#vinyl #music #donovan
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05.03.2026 15:33 πŸ‘ 95 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 1
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The Great White North theme continues. Back when magazines were one of the few options for learning #guitar Rik got a ton of exposure in the tab rags. Was beyond my limited skills. Sings way way up yonder as well. Couldn't do that either.
#canada
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04.03.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Well Well seems even #Canadians get the blues. Even packaged in a flour sack. Right on man! Great production inside and out.
#music #blues #vinyl
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03.03.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This Kinks album and my first car, a 73 Ford Pinto Squire Station wagon are forever intertwined. Neither got me laid but they did provide a initial taste of freedom of movement and mind. A world of exploration these english blokes and I had driving about.

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02.03.2026 15:05 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Everybody should experience LA. Is it weird, maybe..but I prefer different. Got to move your cheese around on occasion and that's a good thing. BB shook hands with Hollywood on this and I like it. Joe Walsh, Taj, and Jessie Ed. Sounds like a good time to me.

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01.03.2026 14:55 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wow, had no idea it was Friday. To be honest I don't work so much anymore, shitty ticker, so everyday is more Saturday in nature but man, there really is no feeling like a Friday especially one that just snuck up on you. Nice album any day.

#tgif #music #vinyl
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27.02.2026 14:18 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Acquired a few years ago in the vinyl attrition phase. In the old days if you just waited your friends out they would eventually get tired of lugging their record collection around. This and many like albums were gifted from Dave and his bad back.
#vinyl #music
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26.02.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Isn't It a Pity
Isn't It a Pity YouTube video by Nina Simone - Topic

Today is George Harrison's birthday and this is my favorite version of Isn't it a Pity. This record is resting somewhere in my collection just waiting to show itself again. Very much a timely version. Thanks George and Nina.

#george #music #beatles
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25.02.2026 14:20 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just throwing it out there but you can run a risk of a life time of "reservations for one" if you get obsessed with Yes but I'm guilty of being a big fan of this album. Starship Trooper is one of those "let's take that hill boy's!" anthems.

#music #vinyl
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24.02.2026 17:02 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Growing up in rural isolation hearing Beautiful World let me know that yes it "can" be a beautiful world, but maybe not for everyone. Early lessons in life, even the one's mentioned in song, remarkably seem to stick with you. Thanks Devo.

#music #vinyl #devo
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23.02.2026 15:46 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sometimes the low hanging fruit is the fruit you want. Album never really goes out of rotation around here but today it shall be featured. If you don't own it, what gives? The vinyl community is here for support through this dark time.

#music #vinyl
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22.02.2026 15:21 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Time and place #record that will set you back in time but not in the pocketbook. 30 mins of Instrumentals surrounded in panned reverb stereo surf. Cheaper than a beach vaca so relax in the savings. Pairs well with a tequila beverage. We cool?

#music #vinyl
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21.02.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The net of the story...."Rod" in the Rod Stewart Tribute band sat in with us one night and after a good many beers upon beers let me know that I could play in "his" Rod Stewart Tribute band anytime. Thanks "Rod"!

So I got that going for me.

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20.02.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Underneath all of our gruff exteriors there exists a sentimental side. If you need help finding that calm reflective place might I suggest this album. Set's you back about $1 but can unlock a nice place to be. Created a stream playlist.

#vinyl #music #skymusic
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19.02.2026 14:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I guess one day AI will sweep away the "organ-ic" nuance's that you get listening to Jimmy Smith records but for today how about 20 minutes of a Sermon! on an album recorded in a hotel ballroom. Currently, they can't take that away from us.

#vinyl #skymusic #jazz
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18.02.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My definition of 'round midnight has definitely expanded to start "round early evening. However or whenever you find yourself in need of a fantastic #record maybe give this a spin. One of those mental helper #albums.

#music #vinyl #jazz #miles
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17.02.2026 15:00 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Boiled peanuts! A delightful surprise to find'm raw at the market yesterday. Salty snack that takes the edge off the winter. Will double the batch moving forward. Great with R. L. Burnside on the hi-fi and wearing creek shorts.

#chicago #boiled #peanuts

16.02.2026 19:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It was a slow turn of the head toward the turntable the first time I heard this record. Did not know how those blokes did it but this album made my teenage ears immediately older and wiser. Thanks for the sonic sophistication.
#vinyl #music #guitar
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16.02.2026 15:42 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What's going on here is unexpected. Produced by Linda Ronstadt this thing sits like a breezy tropical island located stateside in Santa Monica. Jackson Browne sits in for a short vacation stay. Great "Pappa was a Rolling Stone" cover.

#music #vinyl
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15.02.2026 16:17 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This guy. We can all relate to a Saturday in traffic just getting all the necessaries before we do it all again on Monday. I feel ya brother.

#blackandwhite #photo #dogs

14.02.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hal Kirchen was always playing around Austin when I lived there. A finer #fender telecaster player is hard to find. Great loose country steel all over this record. Link to discogs included. FYI, my momma also hated diesels.
#vinyl #music #guitar
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12.02.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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One of those reference albums I use when setting up my home stereo after a move. Sound on the record is locked in my brain and for good reason. Could be I had a fairly new brain when I first heard it. Produced by Chris Thomas. He did some things.

#vinyl #music
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11.02.2026 14:21 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The last real Clash album was my first introduction to the band. I got caught up real quick with their previous works. This #album has an #Austin connection that I blurbed about on my music history tour. Recently passed Joe Ely was a big part of it.

#music #vinyl
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10.02.2026 15:16 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Probably more of a lazy Sunday afternoon record than a Monday motivation but here we are. I dig bands full of songwriters. Is it sometimes volatile, oh yes, as the democratic process tends to be but does it give you beautiful variety? Also yes.
#vinyl #music
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09.02.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tis the season. Matching an album cover to the conditions we in. Saw Levon in N.O. back when he owned a bar down there. Was just him and one other guy on stage and me and one other guy in the audience. Works for me.
#music #vinyl
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08.02.2026 20:57 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A welcome feeling. Hello Chicago.

#chicago

07.02.2026 21:37 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0