Simon

Sometimes it's like trying to grab a handful of smoke.

A couple things I learned that I hadn't known: Shirley Temple is actually on the cover in three different places. On the same day JFK was assassinated, Aldous Huxley also died and the Beatles released With the Beatles.

They must have had bad luck in the drawing.

I inadvertently caught her at a bluegrass festival one time and she started off by walking onto a stage with no fanfare, accompanied by only one guy carrying a single drum and she then proceeded to rip my soul right out of my chest while I stood there like this: 😯 An unreal level of presence and power when she's standing right in front of you.

Rhiannon Giddens deserves a slot here. No posing, no preening, no shoes; just pure power. She can tear up a fiddle too:

Cool interactive site if you click on the cover

I have no idea what this song is even about but you can feel it across 30 years.

He's still "wandering" around the Bronx at the ripe old age of 85.

I almost went with this; one of my favorites. 🤙

I think they just both worked in the same place

Not only is one of those guys still around, he is actually in this very thread. 🤯

There's actually a bunch of us who joined on that exact date (or used to be; many have moved on). I think it was the first day that SDS had completed all his prep and made the new site available. I could be wrong but I think that SDS is the only person that actually has a join date prior to September 5, 2001 and he's only a few days earlier. We be OGs, homey.