When the band started we all lived in this little house in Athens, Georgia, called King Avenue, and we had a friend. His name was Tom Gunther. We commonly knew him as Bear. He left town... Some months later we got a postcard. It arrived at the band house. On the front side of it was a skier catching air way up in the mountains. On the back side was a post mark from Telluride, Colorado, and a very simple message on the postcard that said, ‘The air here is great. We're having an ass-kicking time. This town is nuts. My kind of place. I don't ever want to leave.’
Dave Schools · Colorado Music Hall of Fame induction speech
...we had a buddy that wrote us a postcard and that turned into a song about 7 years ago. He gets little 15 cent royalty checks.
John Bell · KGSR (Austin), 4/12/97
By the numbers
- Frequency
- 1 in every 11.8 shows
- Most common lead in
- Porch Song (8 times)
- Most common lead out
- Proving Ground (9 times)
- Most common set position
- Encore 1, song 2 (45 times)
- Dave Schools, Colorado Music Hall of Fame induction speech · via Instagram (reel DaH3ejWizfL)
- John Bell & Todd Nance, KGSR interview, 4/12/97 (the royalty-check aside) · via Spreadnet
- Type & first-played · Everyday Companion / Burnthday catalog