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Spreading The Love
Apr. 19th, 2011 10:53 amHad an amazing weekend in Birmingham at the Widespread Panic shows. I partied like a rockstar.
I left work at noon to head for Birmingham and ended up driving through the storms most of the way down I-65 although once I got south of Cullman the storms cleared. I was staying with a friend from Auburn in his new house in Hoover. We stood on his porch and watched the water pooling in his yard.
The Friday show was originally supposed to be at Oak Mountain, but was moved to the BJCC due to the severe weather that ravaged the state on Friday. At one point, this crazy high chick in front of us picked up a wet floor sign and started waving it around. She ended up hitting my friend in the head with it. This is also the same crazy high chick that had a "religious experience" at the end of the first set and was on the floor sobbing during the set break.
Saturday, one of my friends wasn't able to go because his wife was turning 30, so it was just two of us. And then my other friend bailed halfway through the show, so it was just me alone at Oak Mountain for the second set and encore.
Overall the shows were good. Widespread Panic is a band that absolutely should be seen live. But not only that, they should be seen live outside. Of the top five Panic shows I've been to, they've all been outside shows (the 2003 Warehouse District shows, the 2010 Atlanta shows, and this show at Oak Mountain). Still, while the Oak Mountains show was good, my favorite so far was still second night in Atlanta in 2010.
I left work at noon to head for Birmingham and ended up driving through the storms most of the way down I-65 although once I got south of Cullman the storms cleared. I was staying with a friend from Auburn in his new house in Hoover. We stood on his porch and watched the water pooling in his yard.
The Friday show was originally supposed to be at Oak Mountain, but was moved to the BJCC due to the severe weather that ravaged the state on Friday. At one point, this crazy high chick in front of us picked up a wet floor sign and started waving it around. She ended up hitting my friend in the head with it. This is also the same crazy high chick that had a "religious experience" at the end of the first set and was on the floor sobbing during the set break.
Saturday, one of my friends wasn't able to go because his wife was turning 30, so it was just two of us. And then my other friend bailed halfway through the show, so it was just me alone at Oak Mountain for the second set and encore.
Overall the shows were good. Widespread Panic is a band that absolutely should be seen live. But not only that, they should be seen live outside. Of the top five Panic shows I've been to, they've all been outside shows (the 2003 Warehouse District shows, the 2010 Atlanta shows, and this show at Oak Mountain). Still, while the Oak Mountains show was good, my favorite so far was still second night in Atlanta in 2010.