You can stream the show here
I got introduced to WSP in the
early 90's. I had read about them in Relix and a few of the Heads I
met at Penn State had shows of them on tape. Most of the tape trading
I did through the mail were all Grateful Dead related. But Pratt,
Adam, and a few others had a nice selection that slowly introduced my
to this new music, not quite Southern rock, not quite
alternative/college rock, with more than a dash of GD influence.
First time I ever played a album for Adrian, he swore it was the Dead
until he heard John Bell's voice.
Adam was a Head from upstate New
York I got to know. We recently reconnected in Vegas for Phish's
Halloween run. He saw his first Dead show in 1987 when he was 16 or
17. His parents or friends of his parents did the catering for the
Dead's East Coast tours so he was hooked up. Saw the Warlock shows in
Hampton in 1989 and even a show in Europe during the 1990 Fall Tour.
And he was hooked up with Widespread. He had an all access pass for
the Spring Panic Tour. (All of the above is based on my memory, I may
have a few details wrong. If so, my bad). He even had Col. Bruce
Hampton's phone number and had golfed with him. I was hoping we maybe
would be able to meet the band but alas that did not occur.
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04/28/95
Field House, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA |
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1:
Mr.
Soul > Fishwater, C. Brown, Smoke And Burn, Better Off, Walkin'
(For Your Love), Gradle, Can't Get High, 1 x 1, Makes Sense To Me
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2:
Holden
Oversoul, Junior, I'm Not Alone, Conrad, Diner, Driving Song >
Gimme > Driving Song > Breathing Slow > Porch Song
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E:
Contentment
Blues > Red Beans
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[Last
'Breathing Slow' - 09/30/93, 211 shows] |
This was my second Panic show
after a HORDE show in 1993, which I remembered so little about I
didn't even do a post for it. I knew Mr. Soul as a Neil Young tune
and Fishwater has a driving beat so it was a great start. The
Fieldhouse was a rather large building with somewhat rather crappy
acoustics. I knew most of the second set and an opener of Holden
Oversoul and a closer of the Porch Song is just what I could have
wanted. Red Beans is a high energy encore.
I used to run into some of my
Panic friends at East Coast shows but hadn't seen any of them for
years until the magic of Facebook reconnected myself with Adam and
Pratt. I hope some of you are going down to Peir 6 tonight to catch
the boys. I have to skip this one but anyone that goes will most
certainly be having a good time by the water.
Dave Kemp
BA American Studies
PhD Rock and Roll
