WIDESPREAD PANIC 2016 WINTER TOUR IN REVIEW

• Widespread Panic celebrates 30 years together.
• Panic En La Playa marks Todd Nance’s first shows back since 9/14/14
• The band plays 4 songs not played with Duane Trucks - ‘From The Cradle’, ‘Papa Johnny Road’, Solid Rock’ and ‘You Should Be Glad’ on Todd’s first night back - 02/02/16.
• Todd never sings a song at La Playa
• Final night of La Playa is SICK!
• In response to all of the Panic fans who passed away in early 2016, (names) JB dedicates the encore of ‘May Your Glass Be Filled, Angels Don’t Sing The Blues, Chilly Water > Action Man > Chilly Water.’
• ‘Nobody’s Loss’ returns after 122 shows - 02/03/16.
• JamBase confirms a rumor that Todd Nance has once again left the band. The official word from Widespread Panic is that "Duane will be the drummer for Widespread Panic moving forward. Todd will not be on stage this evening" - 02/09/16.
• The band plays ‘Rebirtha’ and ‘Cotton Was King’, and closes the second set with Papa Legba in Athens on Fat Tuesday, 02/09/16.
• On the second night in Athens, John Keane sits in on ‘Degenerate’ and ‘For What It’s Worth’ in the first set, and the band takes ‘Fishing’ off the woodshed, and plays ‘This Cruel Thing’ for the first time in 234 shows.
• Stop-Go returns in Columbia
• First set Louisville
• Flipping the sets in Louisville and playing 100 minute first set.
• Rotation returns to full-form
• Sex on the rail during Sharon
• On the anniversary of long-time crew member, Garrie Vereen, JB changes the words to “give me a lift here, Garrie” during ‘Gimme’, and the band plays the song they wrote for him, 'Jamais Vu'.
• Echo in Norfolk
• All NYE bustouts come back
• 15/16 sold out shows
• Rumors of hiatus looming
• the greta's all had an extended jojo intro
• honky read extended intro
• Last Straw making the rotation
• DAS comment during Blight in Norfolk
• I was in Huntsville, too and although that show was lack-luster, I remember the jam out of Greta
• 3 A of D 1st set openers.The return of Last Straw.The hiatus rumor for 2017
• The extended John Keane sit ins in Athens were pretty memorable.
• Schools taking someone's laser pointer.
• All originals two set show in Mobile and the first Vacation show-closer since '88
• Hatfield from Mobile was the best one I've ever heard
• Second time thats ever happened. SV > TYS > SV was played very well that night.
• This tour was great for the rotation as well.
• JB saying "white people, hanging out" with a chuckle during Night People rap in JKMB (Columbia night 2) was pretty funny.
• 4th ever Diner > Disco in Louisville may have been the first since 04/19/97 Palace Theater, New Haven, CT[From Good Homes opened]

Edit: Yea so first Driving > Wrangler since 95 and first Driving > Wrangler > Driving since 4/1/92.








'It seems their is some new energy stretching out second sets more this tour, 3 song encores
Topped it off asking the Brown Cat office to send LG&M.
Jimmy Herring uses the wah wah pedal again
no FTP's this tour but they brought out all the NYE songs to play. 5 songs out of the shed. The originals seemed to be their focus this tour and they did a good job blending the old and new school stuff. They also played a bunch of songs from Broomfield ween but nothing brought back from AVL ween. I assume those will come out later this year.
Saw four shows and 3 had a driving sandwich in the middle of the 2 nd set. 2 papas split up with drumz. 3 a of d openers, two heroes openers, on only a 10-15 show tour.
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