PaniCast 39 Playing to 10 or 10,000

A listener wrote in asking to hear selections from the Stone Balloon or Hammerjacks - unfortunately I only had one of the two in the archive, the Stone Balloon.
This classic college bar no longer exists, except in the hearts of it's former patrons.



While I was looking for this show on disks and drives I ran across a show from a few days earlier at the Imperial Room, Concord Resort Hotel in Kiamesha Lake, NY. The location itself sounded interesting so I checked it out. The venue is one of the old classic 'Catskills' hotels in it's hey day. It has since fallen into disrepair.

Imperial Room at the Concord Resort

It sounds like there are maybe 50 people at this show - you can hear banter between band members at the start of Maggot Brain and JB thanking some one, presumably a crowd member, for a beer; "Probably be warm by the time you got up here. Cheers." In any case, this is another one of those examples of the band playing to 10 as if they are 10,000, if I may once again misquote Col. Bruce. The Let's Get the Show on the Road is started by JB before the feedback has died down at the end of Chilly Water, and I am guessing he is playing ONE MORE before the club shuts them down. You may need to TURN UP the Let's the Show on the Road - it is pretty quiet.

And finally there are a few selections from a classic and still vibrant venue, Ziggy's in Winston-Salem. Todd is ON FIRE for these two songs and the jam between the two songs remind me of Blight.... ENJOY!

Intro Music
November 8, 2001
Happy Child

March 16, 1994
Stone Balloon, Newark, DE
Wondering >
Proving Ground

March 14, 1994
Imperial Room, Concord Resort Hotel, Kiamesha, NY
Raise the Roof
Maggot Brain >
Jam >
Chilly Water >
Let's Get the Show on the Road (JB solo)

November 3, 1992
Ziggy's, Winston-Salem, NC
It Ain't No Use >
Jam >
Better Off

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PaniCast 27 - Big Start, Big Finish

Widespread Panic fall 1996


October 29, 2000
Other One Jam

October 25, 1997 Opening the first set
Greensboro, NC
Proving Ground >
Flat Footed Flewzy >
Proving Ground

September 7, 1997 end of the first set
Boston, MA
Love Tractor (with Branford Marsalis and DJ Apollo)

March 12, 1997
Vail, CO
Encore
Maggot Brain >
Henry Parsons Died (with Other One jam)

1997 was a great year for Panic and here are a few highlights. I put this Cast together with a guiding principle of "interesting starts or stops." Here are but a few for your consideration.

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PaniCast 25 - "SUGAR everybody!"

October 31, 1994
Evanston, IL
Omni Orrington Hotel Ballroom

Linus and Lucy Theme
Space Wrangler >
Guilded Splinters >
Maggot Brain
Coconut >
Mr. Soul

It was a dark and stormy night in Illinois. No kidding.
Cold horizontal rain coming down in sheets. Reports of plane crashes. In the hotel bar on the big screen the Bears and Packers on Monday Night Football are playing in 'throw back' uniforms. A girl in a grass skirt and a coconut top floats by. Are we in some sort of weird time-warp?

If that seems strange, imagine showing up for a halloween show and buying tickets at the door for $12!
Northwestern's fall ball in a hotel ballroom featuring Widespread Panic was a truly memorable experience and the last small scale halloween the band ever played.

Turn this one up loud !

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