I am happy to admit that that is not an original thought. The pod is the brownest album in ween’s catalogue, but this one’s the best. that was november 10th, 1992 for anyone struggling. Sweet mother, pure guava came out 25 years ago today. easy to navigate though and worth your time. In addition to that, paris phil demetrion (RIP) has a fascinating read over at what will feel like a time travel to 1996 at an angelfire page, but be warned it’s a little glitchy and has music that blares as soon as you pull it up. there’s really some great stories and information in here so definitely give these a listen. In addition to being huge in the athens music scene, jonathan has been an actor for the last fifteen years and has an imdb page worth checking out. I don’t use the word “epic” very often but his story is the stuff of hambland legend and the fact that it happened twenty years ago when the internet was in its infancy makes it all the more amazing. Harvey couch and jeff kollath from the bluest tape podcast have an awesome interview with jonathan spencer who was at nine of the ten shows after being one of the first to find out about the overseas trip and became the main guy stateside who organized the group of americans who travelled to france for the shows. I love widespread panic but i’m not nearly as knowledgable on their history as many, many other people, but i did find a few links that will satiate the information-starved and hopefully show you a few things you didn’t know before. The setlists are all over the place in the best way possible and while the recordings are hit and miss they’re definitely worth hearing if you want to cozy up and feel like you were there. Prior to these shows they played six in australia and new zealand and right after a few more in western europe before coming back and doing panic in the streets. They played 10 free shows at this little americanized music club that sat maybe 300 people, all in the name of spending some of their own hard earned money to take what was most likely a working vacation for them and their families (kind of like phish at the maya but without the exorbitant custie fees). Twenty years ago today widespread panic started one of the coolest residencies i’ve ever heard of at the now-closed chesterfield cafe in paris.
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