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re: 19 Years Ago Today: Widespread Panic 4/18/1998 Downtown Athens, GA.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 4:10 pm to Peter Buck
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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Posted on 4/19/17 at 7:32 pm to Jefferson Dawg
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I don't understand the R.E.M. fixation.
REM sucks. There, I said it.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 7:52 pm to Jefferson Dawg
Jefferson, it's not a fixation. In the early 80s, R.E.M. Was a great show in Athens. Them and pylon were great shows. They were the cornerstones of Athens music. R.E.M. Certainly jumped the shark and when they did, they started to be vocally approving of WSP... which is not ironic.
Other than a spell in Africa and SE Asia, I was around to watch this whole thing happen. My baseline and context are rock solid. You can say what you want, but anyone who was around and paid attention knows the scene for them changed after 1995 from a hoaky fun Allman brothers band with long guitar solos singing about coconuts to the centerpiece of a subculture usurped from the Greatful Dead... not saying they willingly stole th schtick... but they certainly ran with it.... and being that they were steeped in the frat Jam band culture... it,isn't a big stretch...
Other than a spell in Africa and SE Asia, I was around to watch this whole thing happen. My baseline and context are rock solid. You can say what you want, but anyone who was around and paid attention knows the scene for them changed after 1995 from a hoaky fun Allman brothers band with long guitar solos singing about coconuts to the centerpiece of a subculture usurped from the Greatful Dead... not saying they willingly stole th schtick... but they certainly ran with it.... and being that they were steeped in the frat Jam band culture... it,isn't a big stretch...
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