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Widespread Panic
04/19/02
Walnut Creek Amphitheater,
Raleigh, NC

1: Space Wrangler > Walkin’ (For Your Love) > Little Lilly > Send Your Mind, Happy > Wondering, C. Brown*, Fishwater**, Imitation Leather Shoes

2: Disco > Tall Boy, Give, Party At Your Mama’s House > Stop Breakin’ Down Blues**, Porch Song > Drums > Astronomy Domine Jam > Pleas > Blue Indian*, Climb To Safety

E: Nobody’s Loss*, Papa Legba

* with John Keane on pedal steel
** with John Keane on guitar

[Soundcheck: ‘Puppy Sleeps’ jam (Dave & Mike only), ‘Clinic Cynic’]

2nd row akg 414 TL2 (omni)
Taped by Wes Taf, DAT from JJ Clifton, Transferred by Steve Porcari, Seeded by Jason Grant

Photos by Robbie Dunn

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Widespread Panic
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival -Acura Stage
New Orleans, LA
04/29/2010

01. Intro
02. Love Tractor
03. Pigeons
04. Space Wrangler
05. Walkin’ (For Your Love) >
06. Blight
07. Thought Sausage
08. Imitation Leather Shoes >
09. Proving Ground
10. Down*
11. Walk On The Flood >
12. North
13. Up All Night**
14. Tall Boy**
15. Good People**
16. On Your Way Down** >
17. Bust It Big**
18. Ophelia**
19. You Should Be Glad**
20. This Part Of Town
21. Aint Life Grand*

*with John Keane on pedal steel
**with The Megablasters

Source: AKG Ck1x
Recorded and seeded by Nick Burlison

~from JamBase’s Most Important Shows of the Decade

As far as anyone knew, this was it. By all accounts, Sunday, April 28, 2002 at Pelham, Alabama’s Oak Mountain Amphitheatre appeared to be Widespread Panic lead guitarist and co-founder Michael Houser’s last concert. It was the final night of a brief eight-show spring tour that felt like, and in many ways was, the “Goodbye Houser Tour.” Although not an official word had been uttered, most fans knew that Houser had contracted pancreatic cancer, and one could tell just by looking at him up close onstage that his time was drawing near. Although he would bravely perform seven more shows as he began the spring tour two months later, at this point, Sunday at Oak Mountain looked like the final one.

The venue, set in the heart of Panic Country, was packed with 10,000 serious fans and there was a tension and energy hanging in the humid Alabama air unlike anything I have personally ever experienced. The band rose to the occasion; from song selection (there wasn’t a dry eye during the “Trouble” encore) to execution to the Jerry Joseph guest appearance, it was nearly flawless and one of the best shows of the band’s legendary career. But it was more than just that. It was the way the weather coincided with the music, making it feel like bandleader John Bell had created rain during “Cortez The Killer.” It was the undeniable sense of community. It was the bittersweet, sad-yet-grateful feeling for the opportunity to say goodbye properly and rage it one more time. It was the weight of it all. Standing at Oak Mountain, bitter tears and warm rain washing over one’s face, wrapped in arms from friends both old and new, truly believing this was the final Houser jam, it felt like we were part of history on that day. (Kayceman)

~and a JamBase interview with JB years later

Q: You know there was something I’ve been thinking about for a while, and if it’s none of my business that’s fine, but I was thinking about that Sunday night show at Oak Mountain. For a lot of people who were sort of paying attention, they thought that it could potentially be the last time Mikey played. I mean I thought it was at least a possibility because the tour was ending, and that show was very over the top in my opinion. So I’m curious, what did you guys say to each other before you went on stage? I’m assuming you guys were under the impression that maybe Mikey might not be around for the next tour. Was that in your thought process at that time?

JB: Well, we’d already talked about it, and the plan was that Spring Tour would have been it.

Q: Right, that’s the impression I was under so…

JB: Well I’m not sure if the decision had already been made there, but fairly quickly after that he said, “I want to go out and play as long as I can.”

Q: Right, so leading up to that show, when you guys are going on stage, and there was a chance this might be the last time you’d get to play music with Houser, how does that situation play itself out?

JB: Well, you gotta know we were still… it’s something we’d been doing since ’81.

[Very long pregnant pause. More than what JB said, it was the way he looked – staring out the window, not exactly tearing up, but you could see the emotion in his eyes. This was the most powerful moment of the interview – the moment between words, where the thought was floating in the air, in his mind – between the two of us as we spoke of Houser.]

JB: Playing-wise, I felt no difference except for possibly some things where you just realize that he’s playing great, and you go, “Hey, it’s not just a great night; this could be… you know… this could be… the last great night.” But he’s playing his heart out till the last minute, and he was really on. And then there’d be some songs, I think, probably like, I don’t know, “Ain’t Life Grand” – there were certain tunes. And a couple times I remember him getting a little choked up, or maybe a microphone wasn’t working, who knows, but then I’d be singing it by myself and thinking, “Wow, this is about to happen just like this anyway.” We knew the possibilities. And he had his family out with him, and he was really digging it. I know he felt the most normal when he was playing. He wasn’t listening to his heart beat real fast or getting freaked out or anything. So I think it was like we were taking it as another gig, but now this was something totally different.

Widespread Panic
04/28/02
Oak Mountain Amphitheater
Pelham, AL

Set 1
1.) Let’s Get Down To Business (04:47.25)
2.) Action Man (04:29.27)
3.) Makes Sense To Me (04:19.23)
4.) Pusherman -> (12:46.61)
5.) Diner -> (13:36.66)
6.) Ride Me High* (09:40.47)
7.) Genesis** (08:13.33)
8.) Holden Oversoul (08:09.01)
9.) Conrad (09:20.19)

Set 2
1.) Chilly Water -> (06:19.72)
2.) Visiting Day -> (06:33.35)
3.) Chilly Water (04:47.55)
4.) Blue Indian** (05:32.61)
5.) Driving Song -> (07:18.74)
6.) Breathing Slow -> (04:08.08)
7.) No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature North*** (07:07.28)
8.) North*** (12:23.62)
9.) Cortez the Killer*** -> (17:43.17)
10.) Drums**** -> (01:32.40)
1.) Drums**** -> (21:57.52)
2.) Walkin’ (For Your Love) (05:39.13)
3.) Papa’s Home (08:34.35)
4.) Ain’t Life Grand (06:24.28)
5.) Crowd (01:17.51)

Encore:
6.) Trouble** (04:06.06)
7.) Down (04:20.62)
8.) Postcard (10:31.58)

* with John Keane on guitar
** with John Keane on pedal steel
*** with Jerry Joseph on guitar/vocals
**** with Brad Rosen on percussion, Dr. Arvin Scott on percussion

[‘Nicaragua’ rap by Jerry Joseph during ‘North’; Particle opened]

AUDIO SOURCE:
{Schoeps MK41+KC5+CMC6(XY) -> Oade M148} +
{Neumann AK30+LC3+KM100 (split 2′) -> Oade M148} ->
Soundcraft Spirit Notepad 4-Channel Mixer -> mod SBM1
Recorded By Mike Falcon and Ben Morrison
Digitally Remastered and Transfered to CD BY Doug Oade

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Widespread Panic
04/27/02
Oak Mountain Amphitheater
Pelham, AL

Set 1:
1.) Surprise Valley -> (08:16.67)
2.) One Arm Steve -> (05:21.05)
3.) Weight Of The World (06:22.37)
4.) Rebirtha -> (08:15.49)
5.) Wondering (04:40.68)
6.) Old Joe* (03:55.54)
7.) This Part Of Town* (05:29.62)
8.) Impossible -> (05:44.65)
9.) Flat Foot Flewzy (05:44.70)

Set 2:
1.) Love Tractor -> (10:07.55)
2.) Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (04:46.69)
3.) Thought Sausage (05:58.51)
4.) The Waker** (03:54.02)
5.) Happy Child -> (01:17.13)
6.) I’m Not Alone* -> (03:14.08)
7.) Tie Your Shoes* -> (12:04.74)
8.) I’m Not Alone* -> (02:52.31)
9.) Drums -> (18:25.07)
1.) Jam*** -> (07:50.39)
2.) Use Me*** (11:03.16)
3.) All Time Low (03:59.30)
4.) Henry Parsons Died (12:10.21)

Encore:
5.) Help Me Somebody (06:28.27)
6.) Don’t Be Denied* (07:56.22)

* with John Keane on pedal steel
** with John Keane on banjo
*** with Cecil Daniels on midi-saxophone

[‘Swing Low Sweet Chariot’ rap by JB during ‘Good Morning Little Schoolgirl’;
‘Little Drummer Boy’ tease by Dave after ‘Drums’;
‘Henry Parsons Died’ false start by Dave before ‘All Time Low’;
‘Amazing Grace’ rap by JB during ‘Help Me Somebody’; Rana opened]

AUDIO SOURCE:
Neumann AK30+LC3+KM100 (split 2′) -> Oade M148 -> mod SBM1
Recorded By Mike Falcon
Transfer: Dat -> Oade DAW -> DSP -> CD -> EAC -> Flac 16
Digitally Remastered and Transfered to CD BY Doug Oade

2002-04-27Photo by Kenji Sone

 

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Widespread Panic
04/26/02
Oak Mountain Amphitheater
Pelham, AL

Set 1:
1.) A of D -> (03:49.36)
2.) Cream Puff War -> (03:09.61)
3.) Fishwater (11:03.67)
4.) Walk On (07:48.45)
5.) Gradle (04:46.00)
6.) Travelin’ Light (07:07.47)
7.) Junior* -> (10:26.07)
8.) C. Brown** (10:02.13)
9.) The Take Out* -> (02:22.01)
10.) Porch Song* (03:37.26)

Set 2:
1.) Bowlegged Woman (08:57.46)
2.) Climb To Safety -> (05:48.29)
3.) Little Lilly -> (07:00.49)
4.) Werewolves of London -> (06:03.06)
5.) Imitation Leather Shoes (05:25.58)
6.) Space Wrangler -> (08:20.59)
7.) Vacation -> (12:56.10)
8.) Drums*** -> (17:25.40)
1.) Jam**** -> (06:22.38)
2.) I Walk On Guilded Splinters**** -> (10:28.29)
3.) Me And The Devil Blues***** (09:36.58)
4.) Give* (05:59.73)

Encore:
5.) Can’t Find My Way Home (05:04.47)
6.) Sometimes (04:37.11)

* with John Keane on guitar
** with John Keane on pedal steel
*** with Dr. Arvin Scott on percussion
**** with Dr. Arvin Scott on percussion, Robert Randolph on pedal steel
***** with Dr. Arvin Scott on percussion, John Keane on guitar, Robert Randolph on pedal steel
[‘Werewolves of London’ played during a full moon;
‘Night People’ rap during ‘Fishwater’;
‘You Better Run’ rap by JoJo during ‘Junior’;
‘Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)’ rap by JB during ‘Bowlegged Woman’;
Robert Randolph & the Family Band opened;
Last ‘Werewolves of London’ – 06/01/96, 591 shows]

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AUDIO SOURCE:
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{Neumann AK50+LC3+KM100 (XY) -> Oade M148} +
{Neumann AK30+LC3+KM100 (split 2′) -> Oade M148} ->
Soundcraft Spirit Notepad 4-Channel Mixer -> mod SBM1
Recorded By Mike Falcon & Ben Morrison
Digitally Remastered and Transfered to CD BY Doug Oade

2002-04-26_27_28Photo by Kenji Sone

Thirteen years later I still listen and remember and Im still amazed at what went down at Oak Mountain Amphitheater in 2002. That spring tour was a quick, close to home, 10 day, 8 show tour that was obviously manufactured as a farewell for their friend and our favorite guitarist. it was a chance for him to rip it up with his friends eight more times and vice versa. And as a fan, a chance for us to say thank you for everything.

All the stars aligned for the last three shows to take place in Pelham, Alabama too, a band/fan favorite venue. That stage was rocking as much as that bridge connecting the two lots outside. The fuzz was thick in the lots but when you made it to the right side of those turnstiles what took place is nothing short of pure Panic magic and now Panic lore.

I personally am mentally incapable of living through a late April without jamming these shows and emotionally reflecting on these three nights. Maybe it was the song choice in sync with the moon phase on Saturday night. Maybe it was those Saturday night encores where they sincerely seemed to ask for help as we were all looking for a brand new day and a brand new way to help. And JB in his lowest voice adding some Amazing Grace lyrics at the end. I mean swing low sweet chariots low voice. The next song you could hardly hear the band over the crowd as he somehow got the words out about meeting a friend, playing guitar, dreaming of being stars and playing all night in DBD.

Sunday…wow. By all accounts our Last Dance with Panic as we knew them. Maybe it was the lighting show in the distance to accompany Cortez. One thing was evident, from the first song to the after show house music, it seemed that the mission of the band was clear- to get down to business, to stop playing games, to quit with the lame pretense and tackle that which shackled us all of the pressing business. The business of the band, the business of their friendship, the business of allowing the fans in on it, and the business of life and death and honoring a man with an incurable disease. They more than tackled it.They officially communicated to us what was going down that night the best way they knew how, through their music. The song choices, the way the lights hit Houser, switching up the lyrics in Postcard to reflect the unfortunate circumstance. It was a Houser showcase.

This show was our official press release finally confirming the rumors. It was the epitome of conflicted emotions, the best of times and the worst of times. How could we feel so blessed to have been a part of it and not want to be anywhere else on the planet that night yet hope like hell something like this would never ever happen again?

JB said later, ” “Hey, it’s not just a great night; this could be… you know… this could be… the last great night….and he was really on,” speaking of Houser. Then he didnt hear him for a minute in ALG, assuming Houser was choked up. I dont think sweat was the only wetness dripping from his face onto his Fender Tele that night, and during ALG too. How could he not choke up? How did all of them not choke up?
JB may as well have said before the love song, Genesis, “this ones for Mike.”Maybe it was JB fully turning his head and shoulders to sing these words directly to Houser, “and now I’m feeling you inside, our heart is rolling with the tide, I hope it feels like an open ride, so let me stay with you!” Thats when about 10,000 of us facing the stage choked up. They came out into day and our skys of blue had turned to gray. But I think we were very clear to say to the band that night that we never looked away and never will.

Music and emotion are synonyms, whether it’s who is playing the music or the emotions the music invokes in the listener. And nobody expresses emotion like Widespread Panic. Its the one show I can simply think about the lyrics, his solos, and our reactions to his solos and no matter what I’m doing I get full on chills and an all arm hair salute. Its the show where the crowd noise at those key moments is just as chilling as the music. Maybe it was his solo right before the “powdered sugar in her hair…touch of a halo” Diner rap. Maybe it was the Trouble, Down, Postcard encore where the love flowed through everyone there. I think it was every freakin solo he did that night that was so smokin and emphatic as he climbed the neck of that guitar higher and higher and bent those strings like nobody else can- sending us into a state of pulsating bliss and soul shakin life each time.

A couple of months later a show ended in Iowa and he went home after probably giving his bashful wave and head nod to the crowd again. Only five short weeks after that he went on to live the Moon Times. That timeline shows me what his friends on stage, what they accomplished each show, and what we all meant to Michael Houser.

People pose the question, was your first show life changing? My second show changed it in a way where I knew that I’d be chasing shows in my free time for as long as they tour and making free time to chase shows. But it was 3 shows in late April 2002, sometime after my centennial mark, that TRULY changed my life. It was what they did and how they did it and how they let us be part of it. This was the run that shattered my perceptions of what a band/fan relationship is. It showed me what is possible through art. It gave me the consciousness that whatever life throws you, including the death of loved ones, that you can persevere. It showed me how you can face adversity with courage, composure and dignity. It was so much bigger than the music and the scene.

Im not sure why I feel the need to remind. If you were there you need no reminder. I think its that after all these years and as hard as I shook my bones and yelled and clapped it just never seems like it was enough compared to what he brought us. So I try to honor him in some way every January 6, August 10, and of course April 26-28. I feel like I owe that and so much more.

These shows were where the word family took on new meaning for me with the fanbase and it became familial with WP as well because of the way they let it play out for us.

Whether your first show was 25 years ago or last year, if you want to get lost in a run of kickass music with more emotion than you can stand, think of the circumstances and listen again to April 2002 at Oak Mountain. Get chills once more on this anniversary.

We miss you and thank you Mikey:)

Drew Davis
Widespread Panic Fan

2002-04-26aScan by Frederick Scott Phillips

Widespread Panic
The Classic Center
Athens, GA
April 25th, 2007

Set 1

1) Intro
2) Thought Sausage
3) Machine
4) Barstools(TY Rap)
5) All Time Low
6) Bears Gone Fishin’
7) You Got Yours
8) This Part of Town*
9) Aunt Avis**
10) Protein Drink**
11) Sewing Machine**

Set 2

1) Intro
2) Old Neighborhood>>>>>>>Chilly Water
3) Disco
4) Love Tractor
5) Contentment Blues
6) Greta
7) Cream Puff War
8) Nobody’s Fault But Mine
9) North
10) Chilly Water
11) Crowd

Encores:

1) Cant Find My Way Home>>
2) Postcard
3) Porch Song

* with John Keane on pedal steel
** with John Keane on pedal steel, Vic Chesnutt on guitar/vocals
[‘Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin’ rap during ‘Barstools and Dreamers’]

Taped and Transfered by: Bennett Schwartz (coloartist)

Widespread Panic
04/24/02
Civic Center
Savannah, GA

Set 1:

1.Aunt Avis* >
2.Red Hot Mama >
3.Who Do You Belong To?
4.Radio Child
5.Rock**
6.Pickin’ Up The Pieces**
7.Greta >
8.Big Wooly Mammoth >
9.Coconut

Set 2:

1.Don’t Tell The Band
2.Machine >
3.Barstools and Dreamers
4.Clinic Cynic
5.Tall Boy >
6.Airplane >
7.Drums*** >
1….Drums and Bass***>
2.Pilgrims
3.Ophelia
4.Proving Ground

Encore:

5.City of Dreams* >
6.Mr. Soul**

* with John Keane on pedal steel
** with John Keane on guitar
*** with Drew Worsham on percussion

[‘Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin’ rap during ‘Barstools and Dreamers’; ‘Here Comes The Sun’ tease by Dave after ‘Drums’]

Source: FOB/DFC/ORTF Neumann AK40>LC3KA>KM100>SX-M2>AD1000@44.1Khz
Taped by William Boswell & Ryan Varnum

Widespread Panic
Asheville, NC
04/22/02 Asheville Music Zone
WNCW 88.7 Live Broadcast

Brute

1) Radio announcer talking (2:43)
2) Scholarship+ (5:37)
3) You Got It All Wrong+ (3:23)
4) Expiration Day+* (5:08)
5) You’re With Me Now+ (3:56)
6) Puppy Sleeps+ (6:33)
7) Radio announcer talking (1:19)

Widespread Panic

8) Wondering (4:28)
9) Tall Boy> (7:01)
10) Little Lilly (6:46)
11) Old Joe* (4:01)
12) Blue Indian* (5:59)
13) Climb To Safety (6:22)
14) Give (5:33)
15) Let’s Get the Show On the Road> (6:09)
16) Sometimes (4:35)

+ w/ Vic Chestnutt (i.e. brute.)
* Keane on pedal steel (may have been on other tunes as well)

[live radio broadcast from the Asheville Music Zone. John Keane plays entire show; No Michael Houser]

taped transferred by: spider john
source: FM>sony d8

2002-04-21

Widespread Panic
04/21/02
Civic Center,
Asheville, NC

1: Hope In A Hopeless World, Diner > Bear’s Gone Fishin’* > She Caught The Katy*, Old Joe**, Casa Del Grillo, Happy Child > Holden Oversoul > It Ain’t No Use > Henry Parsons Died

2: Action Man, Sleeping Man, Hatfield, All Time Low, Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys > Blackout Blues > Drums > Jam* > Papa’s Home* > Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys*, Chilly Water*

E: Chunk Of Coal, End Of The Show**

* with John Keane on guitar
** with John Keane on pedal steel

photo by Kenji Sone

Widespread Panic
Walnut Creek Amphitheatre
Raleigh, NC
April 20, 2002

Set I
01. Low Rider >
02. Driving Song >
03. The Waker >
04. Driving Song >
05. Ride Me High >
06. Arleen >
07. And It Stoned Me*
08. This Part Of Town*
09. Thought Sausage >
10. One Arm Steve

Set II
01. Surprise Valley >
02. Travelin’ Light
03. Conrad
04. Visiting Day >
05. Stop-Go* >
01. Drums** >
02. Love Tractor >
03. Down
04. Pigeons >
05. Makes Sense To Me

Encore
06. crowd
07. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35*
08. Ain’t Life Grand*

* with John Keane on pedal steel
** with Bently Rhodes on percussion

[First ‘Rainy Day Women #12 & 35’; ‘Mind Left Body Jam’ teases before and after ‘Love Tractor’; ‘All Time Low’ rap by JB during ‘Down’; Soundcheck: ‘Visiting Day’, ‘Don’t Tell The Band’]

Taper: Nick Stiritz, patch D.P. Swint
Converted, Edited, & Seeded by D.P. Swint

Widespread Panic
12/29/2001
Philips Arena
Atlanta, GA

Set One:

01. Little Lilly >
02. Papa Legba
03. Thought Sausage
04. Diner >
05. Aunt Avis
06. This Part Of Town *
07. Blue Indian
08. All Time Low >
09. Cream Puff War

Set Two:

01. Imitation Leather Shoes
02. Christmas Katie >
03. Henry Parsons Died
04. Fishwater
05. Clinic Cynic *
06. C. Brown * >
07. Drums ** >
08. Drums & Bass >
09. Hatfield >
10. Ride Me High * >
11. Love Tractor

Encore:

12. Trouble
13. Flat Foot Flewzy

* with John Keane on pedal steel
** with Charlie Pruet on percussion

Life During Wartime tease before Cream Puff War
If I Needed Someone tease/rap by JoJo before Drums
Here Comes The Sun jam by Dave before Hatfield

Source: B&k 4022
taped by Smiley & Brothers?
transferred by Gordon Wilson

Widespread Panic
08-13-2006
Chicago Theatre
Chicago, IL

SET I:

01. Introduction from the archive 00:37
02. Pusherman > 11:33
03. Hatfield > 13:11
04. Rock 08:29
05. Weight Of The World > 05:38
06. Nobody’s Loss > 06:10
07. This Part Of Town > 05:09
08. One Kind Favor 12:58
09. From The Cradle > 04:02
10. Fishwater 08:37

SET II:

11. Goodpeople 09:37
12. Driving Song > 03:56
13. Disco > 09:19
14. Don’t Be Denied > 06:38
15. Surprise Valley > Jam > 13:25
16. Driving Song > 02:50
17. Impossible > 09:33
18. Drums > 06:06
19. Arleen > 11:40
20. Papa’s Home > 07:48
21. Space Wrangler 08:59
22. Tennessee Before Daylight > 06:31
23. Chilly Water 09:11

ENCORE:

24. End Of The Show > 04:27
25. Last Dance 07:52
26. Outro from the archive 00:45

Entire show with John Keane on guitar/pedal steel, Sam Holt on guitar/vocals
[Only ‘Tennessee Before Daylight’]

SOURCE: official DSBD/audience mix -> 192 kpbs mp3 [archive podcast] 222 MB

note: there is a fadeout in Drums

Widespread Panic
2002-04-24
Civic Center
Savannah, GA

SET I

01. Intro from the archive [01:00]
02. Aunt Avis* > [07:46]
03. Red Hot Mama > [08:50]
04. Who Do You Belong To? [05:11]
05. Radio Child [06:03]
06. Rock** [09:18]
07. Pickin’ Up The Pieces** [07:59]
08. Greta > [07:07]
09. Big Wooly Mammoth > [06:41]
10. Coconut [08:57]

SET II:

11. Don’t Tell The Band [04:28]
12. Machine > [03:22]
13. Barstools and Dreamers [14:30]
14. Clinic Cynic [04:37]
15. Tall Boy > [10:00]
16. Airplane > [16:28]
17. Drums*** > [12:14]
18. Drums and Bass > [09:21]
19. Pilgrims [08:16]
20. Ophelia [04:25]
21. Proving Ground [08:19]

ENCORE:

22. City of Dreams* > [08:22]
23. Mr. Soul** [07:03]
24. Outro from the archive [00:47]

* with John Keane on pedal steel
** with John Keane on guitar
*** with Drew Worsham on percussion

[‘Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin’ rap during ‘Barstools and Dreamers’; ‘Here Comes The Sun’ tease by Dave after ‘Drums’; Soundcheck: ‘The Last Straw’, ‘Disco’]

Widespread Panic
04-20-2002
Walnut Creek Amphitheater
Raleigh, NC

SET I:

01. Intro from the archive 00:30
02. Low Rider > 11:07
03. Driving Song > 04:11
04. The Waker > 07:20
05. Driving Song 02:27
06. Ride Me High > 09:15
07. Arleen > 07:23
08. And It Stoned Me* 06:12
09. This Part Of Town* 06:22
10. Thought Sausage 04:58
11. One Arm Steve 04:42

SET II:

12. Surprise Valley > 10:36
13. Travelin’ Light 07:17
14. Conrad 09:57
15. Visiting Day 05:19
16. Stop-Go* > 12:15
17. Drums** > 18:24
18. Love Tractor > 07:33
19. Down 04:07
20. Pigeons > 09:29
21. Makes Sense To Me 04:09

ENCORE:

22. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35* 05:38
23. Ain’t Life Grand* 05:17
24. Outro from the archive 00:44

* with John Keane on pedal steel
** with Bently Rhodes on percussion

[First ‘Rainy Day Women #12 & 35’; ‘Mind Left Body Jam’ teases before and after ‘Love Tractor’; ‘All Time Low’ rap by JB during ‘Down’; Soundcheck: ‘Visiting Day’, ‘Don’t Tell The Band’]

SOURCE: official DSBD/audience mix -> 160 kpbs mp3 [archive podcast] 189 MB

Widespread Panic
1996-12-30
Fox Theater
Atlanta, GA

SET I:
01. Introduction from the archive 00:37
02. Little Kin 05:10
03. Travelin’ Light [1] 06:36
04. Glory [2] > 03:30
05. Heroes > 05:19
06. Rock 07:09
07. B of D [1] > 03:14
08. Sleepy Monkey [1] > 07:58
09. Holden Oversoul > 08:12
10. Genesis [3] > 06:15
11. Blackout Blues [4] 07:16

SET II:
12. Love Tractor 06:58
13. You Got Yours 06:30
14. I’m Not Alone 06:11
15. Henry Parsons Died 06:35
16. Gradle 05:08
17. Junior [5] > Jam [5] > 12:55
18. It Ain’t No Use [5] > Jam [5] > 15:54
19. Driving Song [6] > 04:22
20. Drums [1] > 09:16
21. Jam [7] > 02:43
22. Driving Song [7] > 03:50
23. Ain’t Life Grand [3] 05:19

ENCORE
24. Fab Fox ‘Fess Jam [8] > Jam [9] > 11:03
25. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl [10] > 09:14
26. Outro from the archive 01:02

Dream Song [NOT INCLUDED – TAPE CUT]

[1] with Count Mbutu on percussion
[2] with John Keane on pedal steel
[3] with David Blackmon on fiddle, John Keane on pedal steel
[4] with David Blackmon on fiddle, John Keane on guitar
[5] with Chuck Leavell on keyboards, Count Mbutu on percussion
[6] with Count Mbutu on percussion, David Blackmon on fiddle
[7] with David Blackmon on fiddle
[8] with Chuck Leavell on keyboards, Dan Matrazzo on keyboards
[9] with Chuck Leavell on keyboards, Col. Bruce Hampton on guitar, Count Mbutu on percussion, Dan Matrazzo on keyboards, David Blackmon on fiddle
[10] with Chuck Leavell on keyboards, Col. Bruce Hampton on guitar/vocals, Count Mbutu on percussion, Dan Matrazzo on keyboards, David Blackmon on fiddle, John Keane on pedal steel

[Only ‘Fab Fox ‘Fess Jam’]

SOURCE: official DSBD/audience mix -> 192 kpbs mp3 [archive podcast] 231 MB

 

keane-studios

Studio Session
September ??, 1990
John Keane’s Studio,
Athens, GA

Rock*
C. Brown*
A of D,
The Last Straw
Pigeons
Love Tractor
Holden Oversoul
Proving Ground
Machine
Contentment Blues
Barstools and Dreamers
Space Wrangler
Wonderin’
Walkin’
JB Talking
JB Talking – Love Tractor

– Several songs include JB talking / conversation.
– There is a gap in Track 16 – JB talking – Love Tractor
– Wonderin’ starts in progress
– This is a must have for old school Panic Fans!!!!!

* with John Keane on pedal steel

[Exact date unknown (sometime in 09/90?);

‘Holden’ and ‘Contentment Blues’ appear on Space Wranger (reissue)

Widespread Panic
January 3, 1989
John Keane’s Studio
Athens, GA

Disc 1
01) C. Brown
02) Pigeons (v.1)
03) Barstools & Dreamers
04) The Last Straw
05) Conrad the Caterpillar
06) Machine Funk
07) Holden Oversoul
08) Jack (fades out)

Disc 2
01) // Impossible (fades in)
02) Disco
03) Gimme
04) Wishbone
05) Pigeons (v.2)
06) Liza’s Apt.
07) A of D
08) B of D
09) Contentment Blues

Filler: John Bell solo acoustic (studio)(date unknown)
10) Little Lilly
11) Climb to safety

Source: Soundboard
Remaster by: BobbyHurley

Widespread Panic
1/29/12
The Tabernacle
Atlanta GA

Set 1
01. Crowd/tuning
02. Papa’s Home
03. Wonderin’
04. Hope in a Hopeless World
05. Counting Train Cars
06. Help Me Somebody
07. Trouble*
08. Hatfield
09. The Ballad of John & Yoko
10. Climb to Safety

Set 2
11. Crowd
12. Pleas
13. Can’t Get High
14. Ain’t No Use
15. Blue Indian^
16. Carmelita^ (Warren Zevon)
17. Degenerate^ (Vic Chestnut)
18. Fishing^
19. This Cruel Thing^
20. Jack
21. Chilly Water
22. Going Out West
23. Encore break
24. C. Brown%
25. Blight%
26. End of the Show%

* w/ Colin Vereen
^ w/ John Keane
% Todd on 5 gallon bucket, JoJo on tiny keys, Sunny on small bongos
Except Blight & End of the Show JoJo on upright piano

Source: schoeps mk41 (dina)> kc5> CMD-2Uxt + schoeps mk22 (stg 22g)> kc5> CMD-2Uxt> sd 788t (24/96)
Location: fob/balcony rail
Taped, tracked, seeded by Adam Downs

“I had an interesting time growing up; My father, Garrie Vereen, worked for the band Widespread Panic for pretty much my entire life. I started going to shows with my friends on my own in 2001 and that’s when this song started to become very special to me… When the band would bust it out I would stop whatever I was doing and go backstage to sit with my father just to let him know I wasn’t getting into too much trouble.  

Garrie tragically left us earlier this year and it inspired me to learn to play and sing this song in his honor.  

So here it is, me pouring out my heart for my pops! RIP Garo…”

Photos by Andy Tennille

2002nye

Widespread Panic
12/31/02
Philips Arena,
Atlanta, GA

1: City of Dreams* > C. Brown*, Pickin’ Up The Pieces**, Stop Breakin’ Down Blues**, Nobody’s Loss, Who Do You Belong To?, Old Joe*, Porch Song

2: Thought Sausage, Wondering, Driving Song > Big Wooly Mammoth > Driving Song, Bayou Lena, And When I Die***, Blind***

3: Disco, Ain’t Life Grand, Pigeons, Greta > I’m Not Alone > Jam > Drums**** > Pilgrims > Chilly Water > Imitation Leather Shoes > Chilly Water

E: I Wish***, Climb To Safety*****

* with John Keane on pedal steel
** with Randall Bramblett on soprano saxophone/tenor saxophone
*** with Kevin Hyde on trombone, Randall Bramblett on soprano saxophone/tenor saxophone, Tom Ryan on tenor saxophone/baritone saxophone, Wayne Postell on trumpet
**** with Dr. Arvin Scott on percussion, Larry Acquaviva on percussion
***** with John Keane on guitar, Kevin Hyde on trombone, Randall Bramblett on soprano saxophone/tenor saxophone, Tom Ryan on tenor saxophone/baritone saxophone, Wayne Postell on trumpet

[Only ‘And When I Die’, Only ‘Blind’, First ‘I Wish’; Set 1 featured JB and George seated and acoustic and Dave on stand-up bass; Slide show of the band throughout the years before midnight and slide show of fans after midnight; ‘Little Drummer Boy’ tease by Dave after ‘Drums’; Soundcheck: ‘Down’, ‘Old Neighborhood’, ‘Ophelia’ (2 times with Randall Bramblett, Kevin Hyde, Tom Ryan, and Wayne Postell)]

 

1997-12-31

Widespread Panic
1997-12-31
Fox Theatre
Atlanta, GA

Set I: The History Set

01. Coconut (JB solo on acoustic)
02. Let’s Get The Show On The Road (JB solo on acoustic)
03. Wish You Were Here (JB and Mike)
04. Stop-Go (JB, Dave, and Mike)
05. Travelin’ Light (JB, Mike, Dave, and Todd)
06. Ophelia (JB, Mike, Dave, Todd, and Sunny)
07. Junior (Full Band)

Set II

01. Holden Oversoul >
02. Rock >
03. You Got Yours
04. Ride Me High >
05. Blight >
06. Papa Legba
07. Nobody’s Loss*
08. C. Brown*
09. Pigeons

Set III

01. Porch Song >
02. Arleen >
03. Greta
04. Pilgrims >
05. Diner >
06. Impossible >
07. Drums >
01. Drums >
02. Love Tractor

Encore:

03. City of Dreams*
04. Mr. Soul

* with John Keane on pedal steel

Slow ‘Porch Song’; Last ‘Ophelia’ – 01/11/91, 945 shows; Last ‘Wish You Were Here’ – 09/23/88, 1264 shows

Source: 2nd row akg 414 TL2 (omni) > oade m248 > sbm1 > d8
Taped by Wes Taf, DAT from JJ Clifton
Transferred by Steve Porcari, Seeded by Jason Grant