it's times like these you learn to live again it's times like these you give and give again

Artist- Foo Fighters
Song of the day- Times like these

The Foo Fighters are in that category of band for me that is epic and awesome and I know the songs from the radio and I know they are amazing but seem so far up on that rock platform and at a distance to truly embrace. This is a ridiculous assumption I realized once I saw them in concert in the pouring rain as I wore a poncho and umbrella, chilled to the bone, knowing that they would cancel their set at lollapalooza like several other bands had to due to safety. Not only did I see probably the greatest rock show I will every see in my lifetime, but saw the most generous of musicians, soaked inside and out giving everything they had with the biggest genuine smiles on their faces. They may have been rock gods but it wasn't about basking in the glory but experiencing this amazing moment with tons of people with music.

As I watched their new docu-series "Sonic Highways" on HBO, I was reminded of their generosity that Chicago evening, and how they were outpouring again not with just their own music but the music of America, of a history that this musical nerd is dying to hear. So for those times in our own history in those shared generous moments, this one's for you.



I am a one way motorway
I'm the road that drives away
then follows you back home
I am a street light shining
I'm a white light blinding bright
burning off and on

it's times like these you learn to live again
it's times like these you give and give again
it's times like these you learn to love again
it's times like these time and time again

I am a new day rising
I'm a brand new sky
to hang the stars upon tonight
I am a little divided
do I stay or run away
and leave it all behind?

it's times like these you learn to live again
it's times like these you give and give again
it's times like these you learn to love again
it's times like these time and time again

there goes my hero he's ordinary

Lollapalooza Edition:
Artist- Foo Fighters
Song of the day- My Hero

On a day celebrating independence and the fight for it, it seems fitting to play this song. And after watching a day of "Rocky" marathons, I've had much time to contemplate just what makes up a hero. And though Foo Fighters are fantastic at rocking out, it wasn't till being at this concert in Hollywood a few years ago I realized what great songwriters they were. My favorite line from the song is I think what makes heroes in our lives so great, being ordinary. It's when the extraordinary can somehow happen from human hands, when they push themselves when they think they can't, when they triumph when they have no reason to, but what makes them "my hero" is when they risk their ordinary lives to do the extraordinary for me. The sacrifice for another, that is my kind of hero. Maybe it's not always laying down lives, but laying down time, laying down your heart, wisdom, love, humor, strength for another. For all my heroes and your heroes out there. This one's for you.



too alarming now to talk about
take your pictures down
and shake it out
truth or consequence, say it aloud
use that evidence race it around

there goes my hero
watch him as he goes
there goes my hero
he's ordinary

don't the best of them bleed it out
while the rest of them peter out
truth or consequence, say it aloud
use that evidence race it around

kudos my hero
leaving all the best
you know my hero
the one that's on