Bluest Tape

Instrumental selections have been a staple of Panic setlists since its earliest days in Athens. They can be show and set openers, mid-set tempo changers, welcome surprises, and, as the kids like to say, pure fire, too. Today’s selections just scratch the surface of Panic’s cache of wordless wonders. We start with a “Maggot Brain” opener from 1994, a rare “Machine” separated from its usual partner-in-crime, “Barstools and Dreamers,” and a speed metal version of “B of D” from Spring 2000. Links below

We continue making our way through Spring 1996, finding the band in rare form in Columbia, SC, Statesboro, GA, and Norfolk, VA. Listen for an especially intense version of “Cream Puff War,” a rare mid-set “Dream Song,” the last performance of the Scott Joplin ragtime classic, “Solace,” and an intense “Porch Song” set closer. If episode one didn’t convince you that Spring 1996 is a keeper, then these three selections certainly will!Links below go to whole show streams from Panicstream.29 March 1996 -

For the inaugural episode of The Bluest Tape, we charge headlong into the stellar Spring Tour of 1996. Coming on the heels of Sit n Ski, the band returned to the Midwest, Southeast, and East Coast for a 26-show tour that featured some not just some of Panic’s best playing to date, but some of the best in its 30-plus year history. Join us as stop for fantastic first set selections from Columbia, MO and Johnson City, TN, and a wild and raucous second set closer from Buckhannon,

I'd rather be Driving > Disco > Driving.Episode 1 coming on 3/28/17 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.