Nothing But Widespread Panic: 8/6/06 Widespread Panic Videos on YouTube

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It's an extremely hot and sunny afternoon. Last time I checked the thermometer read 93° and I think the humitity is hovering around 210%. I doubt I'll be going down to the Jazz in the Park concert that my friends asked me to attend. Not unless, of course, the park hosts portashowers. I don't own one of those personal hand-held fans. I don't think it would help anyway.

Sitting around, bored with the air conditioning blarring I decided to go on-line to YOUTUBE.com and watch a few Panic videos. In the search box I typed in Widespread Panic and was amazed to find 124 results. But not all of them were of the band. Some simply had the name Widespread & Panic in the title or tag.

I started at the top of the list and hit enter to play. I wasn't impressed. Some of the videos are simply 20 second clips of a partial song. Some are blurry and the shakey others anyone can tell were recorded by a cellular phone.
If I want to hear WP perform a song live I'll download the torrent. But if I want to see them perform at a show I didn't attend then, at least, get close enough to where I can tell if Dave is wearing long pants or shorts!

Ok, maybe I shouldn't have had such high expectations. So I tried to overlook the audience heads and the occassional Whoo Hooo!

I really have to commend these *cellularographers for their efforts. It's because of their earnest attempts I'm not completely bored this filthy hot afternoon. Moreover, I really should expect to hear Whoo Hooo and Hell Yeah! After all, it is a live performance they're recording. NO! Scratch that! It's a live PANIC show their recording. So HELL YEAH is totally acceptable.

After some thought and a nice cold cherry popsicle, I started to look at the videos in a whole new light. I tried to find the beauty in each one. Ok, that's not completely true. Frankly, I didn't watch all the videos in their entirety. As I continued through the list it was mostly

Play>Blur>Scream>Shake>Headache>Next

There were some I liked just because of the background lightshow compliments of Dino or Candace. A few cams had managed to capture an awesome light display but sadly it was obsured by the customary flailing-arms-in-the-air in front of the camera. I did find a few that I liked for whatever reason and made my own list.

I finally succeeded in making it through all of the YouTube WP videos and there was still time to reconsider the Jazz concert.