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re: 19 Years Ago Today: Widespread Panic 4/18/1998 Downtown Athens, GA.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 2:54 pm to Jefferson Dawg
Posted on 4/19/17 at 2:54 pm to Jefferson Dawg
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Not even close. Believing that and also listing REM's opinion on the subject, proves how out of touch you are on this one. Sorry. Also Jojo Herman is a Mississippi carpetbagger from NYC.
I' mean, I was here during the whole thing and I was paying attention to it all.
Th R.E.M. Reference was nothing to do with their talent assessment. It was to illustrate that they were against the whole Jam band Dead cover stare at the floor and shake your head in your KAO Spring Beach Bash Tee shirt and Birkenstocks scene... once WSP starting getting popular and John Keane hooked up with them, REM started to change their tune about them. They capitalized on good timing in the late 80s and early 90s with the huge resurgence of popularity of the Dead and Allaman brothers. They were a good band for that genre. Jerry Garcia died in 1995 as Gus had proficized*. It was then that they rose to a whole other level and made an absolute killing on the road filling the void for the Dead shows. This is not an opinion. My opinion is their music is mechanically very good, but boring and trite. The whole scene also leaves a lot to be desired...for me personally.... but again, that part is my opinion...
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Posted on 4/19/17 at 4:10 pm to Peter Buck
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Th R.E.M. Reference was nothing to do with their talent assessment
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REM started to change their tune about them
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REM! REM! REM!!!
I don't understand the R.E.M. fixation.
R.E.M had jumped the shark before Widespread Panic even existed. REM was playing arenas with the indigo girls and accepting MTV video awards and doing PSAs telling people not to wear fur and carrying the banner for mainstream Top 40 when bands like Widespread Panic stole the college music scene away.
Either way, the Grateful Dead thing is dead wrong. Even in 98, when they played for 100 thousand or whatever in Athens, I guarantee you they barely sold out medium sized theatres anywhere outside of the southeast. So the idea that they inherited anything is bizarre.
In the early days , it was just young college kids and good new music that had some hypnotic powers. The hippie stuff seemed to take hold only after their creative powers started to wane and they started living off inertia and became mostly an excuse for losers to gather to do drugs.
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