PaniCast 72 - Playa Cuatro Highlights UNO

                                                               photo of Playa Cuatro on 1/24/15 crowd by Josh Timmermans

Widespread Panic just finished four nights in the Dominican Republic at Panic en la Playa Cuatro - and to my ears it sounded like the boys were having a really fine time of it.... plus there were some sweet guest performances as well (more of that in part two).
So I figured I would pare down the 12 hours of music to a two part PaniCast of highlights.
Part one includes highlights from night number one, two and three... ENJOY!!

January 24, 2015
For What It's Worth >
Sell Sell >
Stop Go >
Blue Indian
(Fire on the Mountain jam during Stop Go)
Waiting on the Bus >
Jesus Just Left Chicago >
Love Tractor

January 25, 2015
Coconut >
Walk On
Rebirtha
(Not Fade Away and Jessica jams and China Cat Sunflower tease during Rebirtha)

January 26, 2015
Barstools and Dreamers >
Drums

SOURCE INFO
(all four nights of Cuatro)
Bennett Schwartz
1/24/15
Schoeps ccm41>DinA>KC5>CMC6>analog>788T (HPF 0) 24/48
FOB/DFC 40' back , stand and @ 9'

1/25/15 and 1/26/15
Schoeps ccm41>DinA>KC5>CMC6>analog>788T (HPF 0) 24/48
FOB/DFC 40' back , stand and @ 8'

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PaniCast #70 Let's Get Down to Business, SHALL WE?!

Good evening Ladies and Gents!
It is hard to believe it has been SIX YEARS since we stopped doing these little nuggets of goodness...

For this next first time out of the gate I am including some tasty treats from the start of spring tour 1999.
The band is feeling firey right of the gate in Philly - in particular, listen for JBs vocal embellishments during the second chorus of Let's Get Down to Business.
The quintessential Pleas > Chilly from Salem features a lazy jammy intro to Pleas that was indicative of how the band would get things going in Spring '99.

Get excited about 1999, because I am going to be featuring a few more tracks from this under-appreciated Spring Tour in future weeks!

I finish everything off with a couple of selections from the Stockholm Syndrome tour of 2004 at the Gothic in Denver Colorado. Stockholm Syndrome is a side project of David Schools featuring Jerry Joseph on guitar and vocals, Eric McFadden on lead guitar, Wally Ingram on drums and Danny Dziuk on keys. Their version of North is driving and includes a ZZ Top tease while their funky version of Coudn't Get it Right features a Down on the Farm tease.

And finally, please tell your friends and neighbors we are back. Believe it or not these 'casts take a good bit of time to produce and it would be a waste if people weren't sharing this wonderful music.

And finally a BIG THANK YOU to all of the tapers and fans who make these recordings and this wonderful project called the Everyday Companion possible.

Peace, Ted

April 10, 1999
Electric Factory
Philadelphia, PA
(set one opener)
Let's Get Down to Business,
Pigeons,
B of D >
Rebirtha >
Red Hot Mama >
Diner >
Greta >
Goin' Out West

April 9, 1999
Salem, VA
(set 2 opener)
Pleas >
Chilly Water >
Dyin' Man >
Chilly Water

Stockholm Syndrome
August 6, 2004
Gothic Theater
Englewood, CO
North >
Couldn't Get it Right

Source Info:
4/10/99
Source: Schoeps MK4 > Reutelhuber > DA-P1 @ 48 kHz
Location: FOB / DFC / ORTF / 6ft
Taped by Jim Finn. Clone courtesy of Carter Lyle. Transferred by BobbyHurley.

4/9/99
Source:  (fob/dfc) Schoeps mk4 (ortf @ 6.5 ft.) > Reutelhuber > DA-P1 @ 48 kHz
Taped by:  Jim Finn  (clone courtesy of Carter Lyle)
Transfer by:  BobbyHurley

Stockholm Syndrome
8/6/04
Taped and transferred by Todd Ramsden
Source:  FOB, 3' LoC, Drink rail:  Audix m1290 > Lunatec V3 (optical out) > Nomad JB3

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PaniCast 67 - Chasing your own Tail

Take a listen to how easily the band slides into Party at Your Mama's House after Rebirtha this week. The band had obviously worked on PAYMH over the course of the previous 6 months and this is a fine example of how the song had matured at his point in their career. JB then proceeds to completely blow the lyrics to Can't Find My Way Home, but I still enjoy the power the band is able to bring - JB follows this up with a solo acoustic version of Gradle, which we come back to at the end of the cast.

A backwards Porch > Take Out pairing helps us dive headlong into a Driving sandwich featuring an epic Hope in a Hopeless World. Yes, epic.

The Breathing Slow features JoJo (I think) saying "See you later" and Dave laughing maniacally before they hit the stride of that jam - I remember listening to this show once in the middle of the night and having that section of music give me the chills. I edited out the Mercy > Nobody's Fault and I urge you to seek this show out and listen to it as well as the first set... well worth the effort.

Walk On > Chilly - does it get any more quintessential than that??

And we finish the aforementioned Gradle - JB solo acoustic, pouring his emotions into the rendition.

Make sure to check out the Flash player for streaming the 'cast - you have to let the entire 'cast preload before playing, but it should be worth the wait. Any how, let me know what you think...
Many thanks to Steve Bullock for his help with that player.

November 9, 1997
Ann Arbor, MI
Rebirtha >
Party at Your Mama's House >
Help Me Somebody

Encore #1: Can't Find My Way Home

April 21, 1996
Boalsburg, PA

Porch Song >
The Take Out >
Tall Boy >
Driving Song >
Hope in a Hopeless World >
Driving Song >
Breathing Slow

Walk On >
Chilly Water

November 9, 1997
Ann Arbor, MI
Encore #2:
John Bell solo acoustic
Gradle


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PaniCast 60 ... but I'm so glad you made it

The shuttered Paramount Theatre, Asbury Park, NJ

Feels good to be back in business.
No santa claus surprises this year, but the ever benevolent Ground Hog seems have delivered.

Tell your friends - we're back!



April 22, 1997
Asbury Park, NJ
Porch Song >
Stop-Go >
Who Do You Belong To? >
Vacation >
Rebirtha

May 6, 1995
Atlanta, GA
Smoke and Burn (aka Burned Faceless) >
Diner

July 9, 1995
St. Louis, MO
Pilgrims

May 30, 1998
Santa Barbara, CA
Makes Sense to me

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Everyday Companion Podcast #60

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PaniCast 46 (or is it 420) Music for the Planet

Earth Day is upon us and I strongly suggest each of you pick up the following double disk of live music goodness - Music for the Planet. In collaboration with bands such as Widespread Panic, Phish, The Grateful Dead and thirteen others Nugs.net has produced this exclusive compliation to benefit Rock the Earth, a non-profit environmental advocacy group.

Do something for yourself, get some great music and help secure a sustainable future for us all - pick up the CD here.

Did you know it's April 20th today?!
I figured I would go back and find what I had from performances on April 20th and present some highlights. April 20, 1990 makes the cut here for intro music with Snorkle Search. This is a free-form jam that was named by Larry Acquaviva, a former roadie who took extensive notes during shows. We've kept this piece of 'Larry's Code' in the database as a tribute to Larry's contribution to the project, which is extensive. I also had highlights from 4/20/1993 but frankly they just weren't very good...

So here's how this week's cast goes down:
Intro music
April 20, 1990
Murfreesboro, TN
Snorkle Search (free-form jam named by Larry Acquaviva, roadie for Widespread Panic)

April 20, 2002
Raleigh, NC
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

April 20, 2001
Knoxville, TN
Pusherman >
Rebirtha >
Pusherman

April 20, 1996
Buckhannon, WV
Dirty Business >
Love Tractor >
Dirty Business

April 20, 1997
Washington, D.C.
And It Stoned Me

April 14, 2007
Huntsville, AL
Electric Funeral Jam >
Flat Foot Flewzy

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PaniCast 42 Pleas Let's Get Down to Business

March 27, 1997
Reno Hilton, Reno, NV
Pleas,
Let's Get Down to Business,
Machine >
Barstools and Dreamers

February 6, 1996
Snow King Center, Jackson, WY
Down on the Farm

June 13, 1996
Backyard, Bee Cave, TX
Porch Song > Rebirtha > Papa Legba

We've featured portions of the second set of the '97 Reno show in the past - this week we start the show with the first set opener.

Then an epic 11 minute Down on the Farm from Sit and Ski tour. Returning to the playlist for the first time since the infamous Carrol Farms Pasture Party
in 1989, the song's 1,000 show absense is one of the longest lapses in the band's history. 'Bout time they let Jimmy have at it with this song, don't you think?

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PaniCast 37 FebruRarities

July 26, 1997
Lakewood Amphitheater, Atlanta, GA
It Was You

February 3, 1996
Zephyr, Salt Lake City, UT
Junco Partner,
Solace,
Junior

October 20, 1986
Uptown Lounge, Athens, GA
Cardboard Box >
Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

September 23, 1993
The Music Farm, Charleston, SC
Rebirtha (instrumental)

November 19, 1988
Little Five Points Pub, Atlanta, GA
Jam > Lullabye For NYC
Ophelia

This week I am bringing you a selection of obscure tunes... some more obscure than others. We start everything off with It Was You, sung by Todd. It Was You was only performed 6 times in 1997 and once in 1998.

Junco is a New Orleans traditional, and Solace is a Ragtime traditional.

For the longest time I thought Cardboard Box was a phantom name for a jam, along the lines of Snorkle Search. There is no Snorkle Search but there IS a Cardboard Box!

The Lullabye for NYC can also be heard on Houser's solo album, Door Harp. I HIGHLY recommend this disk.

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PaniCast 19 'Did you hear?'

9/14/06 Radio City Music Hall
Rebirtha
Arlene

4/18/92 Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA
Dog Song >
Stop Go
E: Space is the Place Jam >
Travelin Light

Big thanks this week to the folks at Digitalpanic.org and
BENNETT SCHWARTZ!
Bennett, otherwise known as Coloartist, taped the Thursday night show and had it posted to digitalpanic.org for bittorrent download by 2:30 EST! As of midnight on Friday night over 1,200 people had downloaded this show!
Thanks Bennett for working so hard for us fans. After hearing this I have no doubt we are in for a WILD tour!

Bennett Schwartz, Outformation, Cactus Jack's, Evergreen, CO August 20, 2006

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Everyday Companion Podcast #19

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Podcast #8 Mud Island 1997

Mud Island 1997 - On the Humid, Hot, Flooding Mississippi

My brother flew down from Alaska to spend a couple weeks with me and Lisa in Chicago and during that time Panic was playing in Memphis so of course we had to drive down. As a fifteen year old kid living in Palmer, AK Daniel had never seen Widespread and he was staying with me at the height of my touring career with the band. I think I saw 32 shows that year... something like that.

In any case, my brother and I had a great time at these shows driving together in the car, checking out Graceland and grooving to the Panic. This trip ranks as one of the most memorable I've had in my storied (if only in my own mind) career as a fan.

This past weekend was the 2006 Widespread Panic Red Rocks run and the situation has changed. I have a house and a kid and a 'real' job and my brother is now the one that is out on tour. He drove from Oregon to go to Waukarusa and Bonnaroo partly in support of the Ice Cream Man. Ice Cream Man is a guy/organization that distributes FREE ICE CREAM a festivals around the country and takes pictures of everything and posts those pics to his website Ice Cream Man.com

On his way back from Bonnaroo he visited Lisa, Jackson and I. He was planning on attending the Friday Panic show at the Rocks. Saturday morning thought better of leaving in the face of being able to see another show by the accomplished band at the esteemed venue and stuck around. Sunday he woke up at 8:30 and was on the road by 9:15 for the 18 hour drive back to Oregon so he could teach on Monday morning! STUD.

In any case, this podcast is a long distance dedication to my amazing younger brother - I am proud to call you my brother even if you think I'm a "nerd!"



Mud Island, Memphis, TN July 19, 1997
Jack, Rebirtha into Arlene
Encore:
Junior* into End of the Show**
* with Warren Haynes
** with Danny and Eric from Bloodkin and Warren Haynes

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Everyday Companion Podcast #8

RedRocks Special 5 - 6/24/01 Sunday

Play this on a Sunday morning and be happy!

One of my favorite memories at Red Rocks involves hanging out with friends on a cool Rocky Mountain Sunday afternoon.

6/24/01 Red Rocks

"Trouble, trouble please be kind..." > Driving > Can't find my way home > Driving Song

But then again, a Saturday night Rebirtha can also get the hips shaking...
6/24/99 Red Rocks
Rebirtha



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EC Red Rocks Numero Cinco

Peace, Ted
PS we're not done with Red Rocks yet - tune in tomorrow for a BONUS episode!