re: "A RIVER OF BOOZE... Inside one college town’s uneasy embrace of drinking"...

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was randomly looking at the Widespread Panic wikipedia page and it said Uptown Lounge is where they got famous. Played on Mondays. Did you get to see them?

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No. That was before my time. And was at the original location further up the street before it moved to the location that connected to Nowhere Bar. There was no live music at that one. Lots of other famous bands started out at the original too, i think.

By the time I got to Athens, Panic had already moved out of the downtown bars and fraternity houses and were playing the auditoriums and mid-size venues.