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Bob Roper

@roadie2.bsky.social

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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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Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 6h

We’re good with this!

Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 15h

Tour Pass Wednesday: Little River Band from their 1984 tour for “The Net”.
#LiveMusic #TourPass

Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 15h

Willie Wednesday Album du Jour: “Me & Paul” - Willie Nelson
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky #CountrySky

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Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 1d

Album du Jour: “Something More Than Free” - Jason Isbell
#Music #MusicSky #VinylCollection #NowSpinning #VinylSky #LPSky #AmericanaSky

Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 1d

Ticket Stub Tuesday … Paul McCartney at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto in 2015.
#LiveMusic #TicketStub

Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 2d

Movie Music Monday: “The Pink Panther (Music from the Film Score Composed and Conducted by Henry Mancini)”.
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky #FilmScore

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Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 3d

…is feeling thankful.

Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday Jazz Album du Jour: “Concepts In Blue” - J.J. Jackson
#Music #MusicSky #VinylCollection #NowSpinning #VinylSky #LPSky #JazzSky

Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 4d

The Six Hitch Heavy Horse Competition at the Norfolk County Fair this afternoon.

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Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 4d

Classic Album Saturday: “4” - Foreigner
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky

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Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 5d

Album du Jour: “Ronnie Hawkins Sings The Songs Of Hank Williams”
#music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky #CountrySky

Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 5d

Now reading “Last Rites” by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres.
#BookSky #NonFiction #NoeReading

Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 5d

Gotta love the natural cloud formations here in Burlington this morning.

Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 6d

Yup.

Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 6d

Throwback Thursday … With Rory Gallagher and Bonnie Bender (Capitol Records) in Toronto back in 1978.

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Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 6d

Album du Jour: “Notes From San Francisco” - Rory Gallagher
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky #BluesSky

Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 7d

Tour Pass Wednesday … Pat Metheny
#LiveMusicSky #TourPass

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Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 7d

Willie Wednesday Album du Jour: “Love And Pain” - Willie Nelson
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky #CountrySky

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Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 8d

Quick stop for a cup of Burlington’s best rocket fuel.

Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 8d

Ticket Stub Tuesday…Mark Knopfler at Massey Hall in Toronto in 2015.
#LiveMusicSky #TicketStub

Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 8d

Album du Jour: “Musta Notta Gotta Lotta” - Joe Ely
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky

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Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 9d

Movie Music Monday: “A Hard Day’s Night (Original Motion Picture Sound Track)” - The Beatles
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky #SoundTrackSky

Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 10d

Next up … “Fictions”.
#PuzzleSky

Bob Roper @roadie2.bsky.social · 10d

Sunday Jazz Album du Jour: “Miles Davis Live - What It Is: Montreal 7/7/83”
#Music #MusicSky #NowSpinning #VinylCollection #VinylSky #LPSky #JazzSky

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