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Bob Roper
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🇨🇦Retired Canadian music industry vet, vinyl listener, book reader, concert goer, library lover, and nature trail wanderer…amongst other things. #booksky #vinylsky #musicsky #nowspinning #vinylcollection
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Movie Music Monday: “Xanadu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” - Electic Light Orchestra & Olivia Newton-John
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning#VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky #SoundtrackSky

I only ever listen to Side B…the ELO tunes are on the side.
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Sunday Jazz Album du Jour: “Between The Lines” - UZEB
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky #JazzSky #FusionSky
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Classic Album Saturday: “Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols”.
#Music #MusicSky #NowListening #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky #PunkSky
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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So, Sir Paul is playing in Hamilton Ontario tonight. Single tickets are going for well over $1,000. In 1965, I saw Paul perform along with three of his best friends in Toronto. My ticket cost $5.00 and I bought at the box office an hour before the show.
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Now reading “Maple Syrup: A Short History Of Canada’s Sweetest Obsession” by Peter Kuitenbrouwer.
#NowReading #BookSky #NonFiction
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Rural Mailbox Friday.
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Album du Jour: “Rage Against The Machine” - Rage Against The Machine.
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky
November 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Throwback Thursday … With my old boss, Rodger Hodgson of Supertramp, at Casino Rama in 2016.
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Album du Jour: “Muddy Water Blues: A Tribute to Muddy Waters” - Paul Rodgers
#Music #MusicSky #NowPlaying #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky #BluesSky
November 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Tour Pass Wednesday … Bette Midler from her 1994 Summer Tour.
#LiveMusicSky #TourPass
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Willie Wednesday Album du Jour: “Brand On My Heart” - Willie Nelson and Hank Snow
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky #CountrySky
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Album du Jour: “The Tree Of Forgiveness” - John Prine
#Music #MusicSky #NowListening #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky
November 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Ticket Stub Tuesday … King Crimson at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto in 2015.
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Movie Music Monday: “Oklahoma (From the Sound Track of the Motion Picture)”
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky
November 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Sunday Jazz Album du Jour: “Monk’s Dream” - The Thelonius Monk Quartet
#Music #MusicSky #NowListening #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky #JazzSky
November 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Classic Album Saturday: “Waiting For Columbus” - Little Feat
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Album du Jour: “Me And Bobby McGee” - Kris Kristofferson
#Music #MusicSky #NowListening #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Rural Mailbox Friday.
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Now reading “Backbeats: A History of Rock And Roll in Fifteen Drummers” by John Lingan.
#BookSky #NowReading #NonFiction
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Throwback Thursday…Helping my co-workers at WEA here in Canada present Motley Crüe with platinum records celebrating their “Shout At The Devil” album back in 1984.
#MotleyCrue #LiveMusic
November 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Album du Jour: Robert Johnson - “The Centennial Collection”
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky #BluesSky
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Willie Wednesday Album du Jour: “My Way” - Willie Nelson
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky #CountrySky
November 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Album du Jour: “Shabooh Shoobah”- INXS
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Ticket Stub Tuesday: Foreigner at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens in 1981.
#LiveMusicSky #TicketStub
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM