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(Some Guy) Sad Widespread Panic all over the Interstate   (wowt.com) divider line 28
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gopher321 [TotalFark]
2011-10-29 11:17:28 PM
www.mojoimage.com
 
dugitman [TotalFark]
2011-10-29 11:53:30 PM
Guess they're Walkin' now.
 
eyehate [TotalFark]
2011-10-29 11:55:27 PM
Widespread Panic has risen to elite status among American jam bands. Following in the steps of other Southern rock jam bands such as The Allman Brothers, they have influences from the Southern rock, blues-rock, progressive rock, funk and hard rock genres. They are frequently compared to other jam band "road warriors" such as the Grateful Dead and Phish.

Umm.

Yeah.

No thank you.
 
Iczer
2011-10-30 12:29:16 AM
Is it a bad thing if the first and only time I'd heard of this band was through Squidbillies?

/seriously
 
styckx [TotalFark]
2011-10-30 12:36:08 AM
Holy shiat this band has been around since 1986 and I never heard of them before?
 
ComicBookGuy
2011-10-30 01:06:28 AM
I saw them once, live. June 22, 1996 at Pier 6 Amphitheater in Baltimore. Decent show.

October 9th, I saw them play on a live simulcast. They played like 210+ mins before I changed the channel because it just felt like it was going to go on and on and on...
 
Henry Holland
2011-10-30 01:15:15 AM
gopher321:

Well played. [polite golf applause]

Rock bands and buses, eh?
 
What_Would_Jimi_Do
2011-10-30 03:10:06 AM
Ain't life grand
 
Happy Hours [TotalFark]
2011-10-30 03:16:27 AM
They're pickin' up the pieces now
 
whither_apophis
2011-10-30 03:20:05 AM
styckx: Holy shiat this band has been around since 1986 and I never heard of them before?

You'll be fine, it's nobody's loss
 
Skid Roe v. Wade Boggs
2011-10-30 03:32:37 AM
whither_apophis: styckx: Holy shiat this band has been around since 1986 and I never heard of them before?

You'll be fine, it's nobody's loss

Their full name is Widespread Panic At the Disco Biscuits.

You may have known them by that name.
 
jaytkay
2011-10-30 03:42:12 AM
Chicago Tribune this morning - " A man fell from the 3rd floor balcony at the Chicago Theatre early Saturday...

...The band Widespread Panic played its second of two scheduled shows at the venue tonight."
 
NicoFinn
2011-10-30 04:53:24 AM
jaytkay: Chicago Tribune this morning - " A man fell from the 3rd floor balcony at the Chicago Theatre early Saturday...

...The band Widespread Panic played its second of two scheduled shows at the venue tonight."

Yeah. These guys can keep playing even though their driver dies and their merch managers suffers a head wound saving the bus...but Kings of Leon can't play because they're too drunk. Yeah, I'm bitter.
 
2xhelix [TotalFark]
2011-10-30 07:33:31 AM
The bus went off the highway and the band's merchandise manager took the wheel.

Behold the power of The Schwartz!
 
REO-Weedwagon
2011-10-30 08:50:57 AM
Widespread Panic has risen to elite status among American jam bands. Following in the steps of other Southern rock jam bands such as The Allman Brothers, they have influences from the Southern rock, blues-rock, progressive rock, funk and hard rock genres. They are frequently compared to other jam band "road warriors" such as the Grateful Dead and Phish.

This is a hackneyed description of Widespread Panic.
 
Generation_D [TotalFark]
2011-10-30 08:58:54 AM
ok, "REO" why dont you write up a nice 10,000 word essay on them instead, and at no time mention the Dead, Phish, or pioneering southern rock jam bands.

Go.
 
REO-Weedwagon
2011-10-30 09:34:28 AM
well, "Gen" we're not talking about a 10,000-word essay, we're talking about a 58-word paragraph that's been copied and pasted by $10-an-hour Entertainment Section writers for the last 20 years.

This band deserves a f*ck of a lot better than some flippant comparison to other artists. And I ain't some doe-eyed fan boy. I'm pissed about their upcoming tour being some cheesy acoustic jive.
 
Generation_D [TotalFark]
2011-10-30 10:20:55 AM
You aren't up for WP: Unplugged?

I just made up a term for bands like this: Lifestyle bands. Where you not only are into the music, you are one of the extended family who is considered part of the ongoing conversation with the band over years' time.
 
Just_a_Bear
2011-10-30 10:38:25 AM
who? oh, they're a band. ok.
 
whither_apophis
2011-10-30 11:50:50 AM
whither_apophis: styckx: Holy shiat this band has been around since 1986 and I never heard of them before?

You'll be fine, it's nobody's loss

Just to be clear, if they had a song called "nobody's loss except for the family of the driver who died" I'd used that instead

/RIP driver guy
 
lexslamman
2011-10-30 11:52:05 AM
It is worth noting that though Panic has an annoyingly terrible vocalist and poor songwriting, they do have one of the best guitarists around right now in Jimmy Herring.

And yes, I usually do like jam-band music.
 
cryinoutloud
2011-10-30 01:44:22 PM
NicoFinn:
Yeah. These guys can keep playing even though their driver dies and their merch managers suffers a head wound saving the bus...but Kings of Leon can't play because they're too drunk. Yeah, I'm bitter.

I'm pretty sure those guys can keep playing no matter how farked up they are. I met them back in the days when they still played the bars (John Bell used to be in my classes at college and he remembered me--he'd sat right behind me in class, and we were both English majors), and once I bought them a bottle of whiskey in memory of Stevie Ray Vaughn, who'd died that day.

They were so trashed when they played that night even I could tell, and I have no musical taste at all. And John Bell was pretty much farked up from the time he got out of bed. I thought he was going to succumb to alcoholism, but I guess he never did.

/I don't really care for jam bands, but I did attend several of their concerts way back when.
 
jwmc1971
2011-10-30 03:09:48 PM
anyone else read that and see it as internet instead of interstate ? oh well ..back to beating off in a cup and drinking it . recycle !
 
wood_stones
2011-10-30 03:59:41 PM
Their vocalist is the best around, Whatchu talkin 'bout?
 
NathanAllen
2011-10-30 10:47:11 PM
Maybe they should have taken an Airplane, even if they didn't know how to fly they would have been okay.
 
zephman
2011-10-31 12:02:09 AM
eyehate: Widespread Panic has risen to elite status among American jam bands. Following in the steps of other Southern rock jam bands such as The Allman Brothers, they have influences from the Southern rock, blues-rock, progressive rock, funk and hard rock genres. They are frequently compared to other jam band "road warriors" such as the Grateful Dead and Phish.

Umm.

Yeah.

No thank you.

Umm.

Yeah.

Fark you.

/Not a widespread panic fan.
//Allman Bros./Dead family member.
///not Phish
 
eyehate [TotalFark]
2011-10-31 02:17:11 AM
zephman: eyehate: Widespread Panic has risen to elite status among American jam bands. Following in the steps of other Southern rock jam bands such as The Allman Brothers, they have influences from the Southern rock, blues-rock, progressive rock, funk and hard rock genres. They are frequently compared to other jam band "road warriors" such as the Grateful Dead and Phish.

Umm.

Yeah.

No thank you.

Umm.

Yeah.

Fark you.

/Not a widespread panic fan.
//Allman Bros./Dead family member.
///not Phish

Well, fark you too, little fella.
 
habitual_masticator
2011-10-31 08:27:42 AM
I like them
 
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