Mikey Houser Appreciation Thread

It's a classic

Barstool rodeo's in town, think I'll be goin down.

Low Country

Can't Change The Past

Song In My Heart

Solitude

No Crying Now

Can't Change The Past - She Drives Me To Drink (live)

Happy Child (live)

Sandbox (live, WSP)

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better than WSP's studio records I'll agree

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I couldn't even tell you the last time I listened to a studio album

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Wood

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the tits

They don't play them as much because it's not Houser playing them. Nobody wants a wook riot

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I was trying to say the originals since Houser died have blown incredibly hard. So hard that they hardly ever play any of them live.

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Are you saying that they don't play the studio stuff since Mike's death live or songs from Space Wrangler, Ain't life Grand or Til the medicine takes live anymore? Because if you mean the ladder you are mistaken

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Are you saying that they don't play the studio stuff since Mike's death live or songs from Space Wrangler, Ain't life Grand or Til the medicine takes live anymore? Because if you mean the ladder you are mistaken

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I'm not sure how you got that from what I posted.

The songs that Widespread Panic have written since 2002 are for the most part hot garbage.

The setlists are almost entirely pre 2002 material. Houser material. JB can write lyrics but no one has known how the frick to write a song since Houser died.

They are the definition of nostalgia act.

Doesn't mean I don't still like to go for the party and to see my boys JB and DAS, but they've been going through the motions, mailing it in, whatever you want to call it, since Houser died to pick up a pay check and keep the employees at Brown Cat employed.

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12/31/12 Time Warner Cable Arena, Charlotte, NC 1: Last Dance > Vacation > Last Dance, Ribs And Whiskey, Party At Your Mama's House > Stop Breakin' Down Blues, All Time Low > Rock

2: Disco > Greta > Love Tractor, Sell Sell, Machine > Barstools and Dreamers, Up All Night, Midnight Special

3: Pigeons, Time Is On My Side, Fishwater, Blue Indian > Ride Me High, Goin' Out West > Jack > Maggot Brain > Chilly Water, Ain't Life Grand

E: Driving Song > The Ballad of John and Yoko > Happy Xmas (War Is Over) > Driving Song > Tall Boy

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By my count, in three whole sets and a 5 song encore, they played ONE of their post Houser songs and that's Up All Night.

Yeah I agree with you that most of the stuff they have written since 02 hasn't been great but I wouldn't go as far as to say they are just going through the motions during live shows. I've heard many different versions of Houser's songs with different jams and they do a lot of great covers. I believe they are still one of the best live performances to see these days and I won't miss any opportunity to go when they come close to La

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Couldn't have said it better my self

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The rumors for Spring 2013 swirling around over on the WSP message board is:

Burnthday Blog

The Latest:

Wakarusa 2013
Hangout Festival 2013
More Wood Tour shows to come (currently unscheduled)
1600 Tunes For Tots tickets sold
New songs rehearsed prior to Tunes For Tots
Panic En La Playa double poster set by Jeff Wood

Winter 2013:

2013 Spring Tour announcement coming in mid-January
The next Multitrack release from the Archives in January
No additional shows outside of Panic En La Playa Dos in early 2013

2013 Spring Tour:

Exhibit Hall at The Classic Center, Athens, GA 4/6 vs. mid-late April (tour opener)
Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park, Alpharetta, GA 4/7
BJCC Arena, Birmingham, AL
The Palace Theatre, Louisville, KY
Macon Centerplex, Macon, GA (mid-late April)
Peabody Opera House, St. Louis, MO 4/9-10
UIC Pavilion, Chicago, IL 4/12-13
Beacon Theatre, New York, NY
Asheville Civic Center, Asheville, NC
Wanee Music Festival, Live Oak, FL 4/19-20
Township Auditorium, Columbia, SC 4/22-23 vs. 4/23-24
The Wharf at Orange Beach, AL 4/26-27 vs. Summer Tour
Warner Theatre, Washington, DC
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, New Orleans, LA 5/1 vs. 5/2
The Woods Amphitheatre at Fontanel, Nashville, TN 5/3-4 (tour closer)

2013 Summer Tour:

Bonnaroo, Murfreesboro, TN
Red Rocks, Morrison, CO 6/28-30 vs. 6/27-30
Grand Targhee Resort Amphitheatre, Alta, WY 7/4-6
San Francisco Bay Area
Moody Theater, Austin, TX
Oak Mountain, Pelham, AL
Red Hat Amphitheater, Raleigh, NC

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I hope they do the Wharf runs again. That 3 or 4 year span when they came down for the weekend were wild

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