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Bob Roper

@roadie2.bsky.social

🇨🇦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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My Saturday afternoon viewing is “Neil Peart:Taking Center Stage (A lifetime of Live Performance)”. A 3-DVD documentary that was first released in 2011. I watched it back then, forgot about it, and stumbled across it the other day in the Hamilton Public Library. Well with chasing down.

28.02.2026 21:54 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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This week’s Little Free Library.
#LittleFreeLibrary

28.02.2026 17:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Album du Jour: “The Neil Sedaka Collection” - Neil Sedaka

Just because.

#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky

28.02.2026 16:52 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Now reading “Raised On Radio: The AOR Glory Years 1976 - 1986” by Paul Rees.

#BookSky #NowReading #NonFiction

27.02.2026 18:19 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Album du Jour: “Zoot Allures” - Frank Zappa
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky

27.02.2026 14:49 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Throwback Thursday … comparing flannel shirts with Bob Seger back in 1974.

26.02.2026 21:26 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Album du Jour: “English Settlement” - XTC
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky

26.02.2026 18:55 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tour Pass Wednesday: Weezer from the StreetFest 2015 in El Paso
#LiveMusic #TourPass

26.02.2026 02:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Willie Wednesday Album du Jour: “Willie And The Boys: Willie’s Stash Vol. 2”
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection ##VinylSky #LPSky #CountrySky

25.02.2026 16:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Album du Jour: “Our Mother The Mountain” - Townes Van Zandt
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky

24.02.2026 19:02 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ticket Stub Tuesday: Neil Degrasse Tyson at the sONY Centre in Toronto in 2016.
#LectureSky #TicketStub

24.02.2026 16:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Movie Music Monday: “Urban Cowboy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” - Various Artists
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky #SoundtrackSky #CountrySky

23.02.2026 15:07 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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This week’s Little Free Library.

22.02.2026 15:20 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Sunday Jazz Album du Jour: “The Great Reunion” - Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky #JazzSky

Some quality listening to ease the anxiety between periods of the Gold Medal game.

22.02.2026 14:56 — 👍 19    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

One of my favourite signings during my A&R years at WEA.

22.02.2026 01:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Up next…”Great Stories: The Amazing Artwork Of J. Scott Nicol”.
#HobbySky #PuzzleSky

21.02.2026 20:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Classic Album Saturday: “Ramones” - Ramones.

“Hey ho, let’s go
Hey ho, let’s go…”

#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky

21.02.2026 17:59 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Now reading “Road Cases: A Rock & Roll Journey” by Rob Corsie with John McVicar
#BookSky #NowReading #NonFiction

20.02.2026 19:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Album du Jour: “Happy Trails” - Quicksilver Messenger Service
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky

20.02.2026 17:23 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Album du Jour: “American Tunes” - Allen Toussaint
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky

19.02.2026 19:15 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tour Pass Wednesday … Styx & Yes from their “Progressive U.S. Tour” in 2011.
#LiveMusicSky #TourPass

18.02.2026 21:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Willie Wednesday Album du Jour: “Ride Me Back Home” - Willie Nelson
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky #CountrySky

18.02.2026 17:02 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Album du Jour: “QuarterFlash” - Quarterflash
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky

17.02.2026 19:06 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ticket Stub Tuesday … Ladysmith Black Mambazo at Koerner Hall in Toronto in 2017.
#LiveMusic #LiveMusicSky #TicketStub

17.02.2026 14:42 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Movie Music Monday: “The Woman In Red (Official Motion Picture Soundtrack)” - Stevie Wonder and Dionne Warwick
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky #SoundtrackSky

16.02.2026 17:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sunday Jazz Album du Jour: “Invitation” - Jaco Pastorius
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky #JazzSky

15.02.2026 16:28 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This week’s Little Free Library.

14.02.2026 20:15 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Classic Album Saturday: “Ladies Of The Canyon” - Joni Mitchell
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky

14.02.2026 18:59 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Album du Jour: “Mendocino” - Sir Douglas Quintet
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #VinylSky #LPSky #TexMexSky

13.02.2026 20:20 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0