Widespread Panic 3/25/05 Fox ATL

Hey Y'All,
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> Another show in the books. Not quite as crazy with anticipation as the previous night after an almost 15 month absence in our life. The scene outside was not as frenzied prior to the show. Marcus again let us share his nice piece of real estate in row O, thanks Bro! Carrington and Chris met up with me inside and we set up shop. We knew sooner or later we would get our first instrumental tune, so why not sooner, as they kicked off the radio broadcast with a well received Disco. For some reason, the vocals were a bit low for the first couple of tunes, but Chris dialed it in after that. Strong stuff out of the gate, but I am not a big fan of ending a set with a 3 minute song, especially Give! The set was pretty much on the short side, only 54 minutes. I always did used to preach to folks after many a Dead show, it's not the quantity, but the quality. This one will fit on 2 discs.
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> The second set opener combo rocked! Very smooth transition from Wrangler into Pigeons. We did get some radio friendly tunes, as can be expected. Again, there were no drums to speak of other than the little break in the middle of Surprise. I would imagine Todd and Sonny will get their shot on Saturday. Marcus and I were looking at all the P songs as the 2nd set progressed and were wondering if we might get a Proving, Porch, or Papa's thrown in. We heard JoJo lay down the pretty keys intro and realized we were getting our first This Part of Town since Mikey's last show. JB covered the vocals nicely.
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> Again, there were not as many tapers as usual. The first night there were only 6 rigs in the balcony per our good friend taper John. Downstairs, maybe only about 10-12. It looked like Robert was in hog heaven running his 6 Schoeps mix at the board! Chris, my wife, rolled tape on the trusty old R-500 back home. It looked like a compressed signal as the levels did not variate too much. We checked it out when we got in.
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> Nice running into Jake and Kynd Veggie Dave!
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> Here is how it went down:
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> Widespread Panic
> Fox Theatre
> Atlanta, Georgia
> 3/25/2005
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> 8:17
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> DISCO> 5:21
> SURPRISE VALLEY> 8:06
> C. BROWN 6:36
> TRAVELIN' MAN> 7:58
> REBIRTHA 9:00
> JUNIOR 5:33
> COUNTING TRAIN CARS 3:44
> TALL BOY> 4:12
> GIVE (IT UP) 3:27
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> 9:11 (54:04)
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> 9:43
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> SPACE WRANGLER> 9:26
> PIGEONS 9:30
> DOREATHA 6:30
> PICKIN' UP THE PIECES> 8:23
> HENRY PARSONS DIED 5:25
> PILGRIMS> 8:14
> WATCHING THE SLEEPING MAN 5:52
> LUCKY IS, AS LUCKY DOES?> 6:55
> ACTION MAN 4:20
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> 10:49 (2:01:20)
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> 10:55
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> THIS PART OF TOWN> 6:16
> IMMITATION LEATHER SHOES 3:55
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> 11:05 (2:12:21)
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> Schoeps mk41>Lunatec V2>Apogee Mini-Me 48K
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> Lots of "A" list material out there ready for our ears. I wouldn't mind the old "Chilly>Pleas" opener for Saturday night. Also looking for another favorite, Diner! We shall see what is in store for the Saturday night throwdown. We know we have the Porch being served up tomorrow. My question of the day, are there any slower elevators than those at the Georgian Terrace?
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> Late,
> Z-Man
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