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

Hopefully it was tha gay one.

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it's not a fixation.

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posted by username Peter Buck on 4/21/17 at

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Are you positive?

Let's get back to the topic though..You don't earn multi-decade longevity and a multi-generational following by inheriting a bunch of losers who hang out in the parking lot before your concert, most of whom are only there to flaunt their phony lifestyle and don't even buy tickets.

And they didn't even inherit anybody's parking lot losers anyway. That was just a result of them earning the ability on their own to play the venues with the bigger parking lots that have the square footage to facilitate all that baloney. It's like ants at picnics for those venues for that style of music. Would have happened even if Jerry Garcia had lived to be 100.

ANother hole in your claim is the chronological order of it. The truth is the music snob gatekeepers of early 90s version of "the scene" had already been complaining that WSP had become too successful and mainstream.....looong before healthnut Jerry Garcia's heart popped like a zit.

When they recorded that song "Cant Get High", it was kind of like when REM did that ryming song on DOcument. Suddenly, they were on Conan Obrian and parents were dropping their junior high school kids off at WSP shows so they could hear the band that plays "Can't get High". And "the scene" went into red alert crisis mode! Oh no!!!It's no longer ultra special cool to like WSP!! This is how childish and gay the politics of "scenes" and music snobs are.

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it was kind of like when REM did that ryming song on DOcument.

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You mean that song with KRS1? Radio Song?

Diner, Driving Song, Jack, Pilgrims, StopGo, Space Wrangler, Papas Home, Hatfield, etc are unoriginal and boring?

How about them single handedly making people outside of Athens aware of Vic Chestnutt & Bloodkin?

Did one of the guys steal your girlfriend or something 30 years ago?

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You mean that song with KRS1? Radio Song?

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No, the rhyming one about earth quakes, birds and snakes, and arrow planes.

I'm not into the jamband stuff. I know enough about it though to know that their sound is as unique and original as it comes. The secret was the way their original guitarist played, which has never been played like that before, and the new guy is able to duplicate it, so they're still in business.

Either way, nobody'd probably disagree though that they're one of the most hard-working and humble bands in the history of recorded music though. So it seems kind of petty to shite on them as copy-cat lucky-sperm-club legacy inheritors.

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Vic Chesnut

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Very depressing and sad most of it. And kind of disturbing sometimes.

Freakish talent obviously. From another world.

I wonder what the catalog would have sounded like though if it weren't for his condition. Cooped up, and crippled and self aneastheisized. Or maybe he'd have been an insurance salesman if it wasn't for the wheelchair. WHo knows how that stuff works..

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The secret was the way their original guitarist played

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Sometimes it was almost haunting the way Mikey used the volume pedal to weave in and out of the music. Can't think of anyone else right off the top of my head that used it to the same extent that he did.

Jim Hendrix did... but he did it much better.

Not sure a lot of you get the context of all of this... if you like them, then they are good ... music is cool like that.

Vic Chesnutt was very original and very out there. He kinda almost made you feel uncomfortable. He was in Athens and doing good work well before WSP. Same with Jack Logan, who was possibly as odd, but a lot of fun to watch.

..but make no mistake... they were steeped from the frat Jam movement... and that was a joke in Athens in the 80s... I guess the victors can rewrite history...