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* Ain’t life grand? It most certainly is for me. But is it for you? Here’s Yonder Mountain String Band covering Widespread Panic…

Gonna bring her a kiss
Make those blues run

posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Mar 20, 15 @ 1:01 am

Comments

Good way to start the morning - haven’t seen Yonder since Jeff Austin departed …. always a fun time.

Comment by Lucifur Friday, Mar 20, 15 @ 6:13 am
Poor guy sets out to go to the grocery store, but on the way he sees a liquor store and drops his grocery money there instead. His wife’s depressed but he gives her the only thing he has, a kiss, to chase her blues away. The booze, however, let’s him dream of a long gone childhood when “Life was Grand”. All the while the beat of the music sets the pace of life, always moving forward, with or without you.

Under Rauner, you’re on your own. Nobody there for a hand up. If you can’t cut it, can you please just die off to the side, so as not to cause me to have to ignore you? God bless America, land of the free, and home of the brave. We’re all riding a wave on a surfboard, trying not to fall off. Some surfboards are larger, much larger, than others, and their wake causes more and more turbulence, but hey, life life’s grand, while the ride lasts. Hang onto that surfboard, because if you fall, the water’s cold, deep, and unforgiving. God forbid you drown. It’s so hard to surf through cluttered waters. Ah, but for the good old days…

Good song choice Rich. It means different things to different people, but, like all good music, it makes you think.

Comment by PublicServant Friday, Mar 20, 15 @ 7:02 am
For some reason that I’ve forgotten, I thought I didn’t like this band.

I was wrong.

Good stuff, Rich.

– MrJM

Comment by MrJM Friday, Mar 20, 15 @ 7:32 am
(And if anyone wants to get a little trippy on a Friday morning, can I recommend “The Peanuts Gang Singing ‘Echoes’ by Pink Floyd”? https://youtu.be/lQnfL_ZWEAo)

Comment by MrJM Friday, Mar 20, 15 @ 7:34 am
NL, PS, geez, it’s early yet. Like Ulysses Everett McGill would say, consider the lilies of the g-d field.

Look at me for example: After first day action, I’m sitting pretty tied at 1,330,309 place in the CBS Sports bracket challenge.

If Harvard makes that last shot against NC, I’m in a tight spot.

Comment by Wordslinger Friday, Mar 20, 15 @ 7:36 am
Need some upbeat stuff on a gloomy Friday morning. Toe-tapping music is a plus today!

Comment by Nearly Normal Friday, Mar 20, 15 @ 7:42 am
That is some serious good stuff.

Thanks. Seriously.

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Mar 20, 15 @ 7:58 am
Word, the brackets are exactly why I’m less than sanguine this morning…my lilies were trampled underfoot by Georgia State. I “put my money down”…”ain’t life grand”!

Comment by PublicServant Friday, Mar 20, 15 @ 8:13 am
cool.
Peanuts? Pink Floyd? whoa. My house is ridin’ into Friday morning nice and dreamy on a sunless morning.
Memories of 1981 NOCC Guam. mmhm. (Couldn’t surf, too much coral.)

Comment by cdog Friday, Mar 20, 15 @ 8:35 am
This, if I might be so bold, is better. A sidetracked trip to the grocery store makes me think of a 70 Bonneville rag-top, and, of course, the good old days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PvebsWcpto

Comment by PublicServant Friday, Mar 20, 15 @ 8:37 am
Thanks, Rich. Life is grand. How many catastrophes have we averted? I know I’m lucky to be here this morning, or should I say mornin’.

Comment by Grandson of Man Friday, Mar 20, 15 @ 8:48 am
i’m surprised you didn’t go with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGKPHFrHVVY

Comment by bored now Friday, Mar 20, 15 @ 9:04 am
approve.

Comment by quicknote Friday, Mar 20, 15 @ 9:05 am
Thanks Rich, needed this after the carnage of bracket being ripped apart and destroyed by those Number 14 seeds yesterday.

Comment by Give Me A Break Friday, Mar 20, 15 @ 9:12 am
Diet Yonder since Jeff Austin Departed. Still a cool performance. JAB is ripping it up! Glad to see you have some decent taste in music though Rich!

Comment by BlameBruceRauner Friday, Mar 20, 15 @ 1:07 pm