19 Years Ago Today: Widespread Panic 4/18/1998 Downtown Athens, GA.

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Totally just down voted you on accident.

Sorry, but I agree

I pissed on a dead body in that ditch behind the Bank of America (now a parking deck)

widespread panic, it's everywhere

Thanks for posting, brings back great memories

Random memory from that night:

You can't make long posts because people's attention spans have been clipped by technology, so I'll skip the part about how I was about to die if I didn't get some food in my stomach.

And, I had just enough change in my pocket when I got downtown to buy a hotdog from a street vendor. This guy probably didn't even break even on the exchange because I put so many of the free condiments and toppings on it. But, when I went to take a bite, I must of gripped too low on the bun with my fingers, and the sloppiness from all the excessive toppings didnt help anything either, and so the hotdog popped up out of the bun.

And I remember standing there, paralyzed with disappointment and still holding an empty bun up to my open mouth, frozen......... watching this hotdog roll perfectly slowly down Clayton street. 100 percent exactly like Frogger with dirty hippies and drunks crossing its path randomly back and forth from every direction. At one point missing being crushed by a Teva sports sandal by a quarter inch tops. But this hotdog never so much as got touched. And it never accelerated. Or slowed down or changed course or anything either. Which seems impossible given all the variables like the imperfections of the gravel and debris and stuff. But, instead, just kept rolling exactly straight down the middle of the street at a constant casual pace. For at least a hundred yards until I lost sight of it in the dark.

LINK.....

The next day, some severe storms rolled through the area and the damage and flooding took up most of the local news for the week. Overshadowing a story about 49 people that came to be hospitalized from eating food traced back to a clayton street hotdog vendor at 'Panic in the Streets'. Three of them eventually died. And thats a true story.

A higher power knew you were destined to start HGMF on a bizarro uga message board.

That dog be rolling away like, "Earn this, Jeff."

dude has his bongo in a stroller.


respect

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whatever the frick they became. ..

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One of the most successful touring bands of all time?

Can't argue that and I'm happy for them. They seem to have handled it pretty well. Reality TV is wildly successful tho...

They exploded when the Dead died and they inherited the schtick. Make no mistake though. There was a very big greatful dead scene in Athens in the 80s.. it had a lot of ties to the Greek System. Lots of Dead cover bands. There was that scene and then there was the Athens Music scene. WSP was not considered Athens music scene by Athens music scene people until WSP hit it big. I remember R.E.M. mocking the whole Dead Jam band scene. 90.5 didn't play them. There was a pretty big divide musically. With that said, it was much more lucrative to play Dead and Allman Brothers covers at frat houses 2 or 3 times a week vs playing for 100 people at the 40 Watt or Frijloeros.

The frat hippy wanna be scene that had Dead Head stickers on their 318is were the original fans of WSP. It naturally dovetailed into the scene it became when th Dead stopped touring. I was there at the beginning and watched it all happen.

...and Jojo was from Mississippi and married a gal from BHM whom I know. He was classically trained and a fantastic musician.