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re: 19 Years Ago Today: Widespread Panic 4/18/1998 Downtown Athens, GA.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 7:52 pm to Jefferson Dawg
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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Posted on 4/19/17 at 7:57 pm to Peter Buck
Here's my question...
If all the Dead Heads jumped on the Widespread tours, then who are all the people that jumped on Phish tours?
If all the Dead Heads jumped on the Widespread tours, then who are all the people that jumped on Phish tours?
Posted on 4/21/17 at 2:11 pm to Peter Buck
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it's not a fixation.
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posted by username Peter Buck on 4/21/17 at
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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