Widespread Panic celebrated their 55th, 56th and 57th consecutive sell-outs at Red Rocks this weekend, offering up seven sets of fiery jams, including the return of some long-dormant tunes.
The biggest story out of Friday, June 22 was an online shout-out by tech celebrity Elon Musk of Tesla, who tweeted a picture of the band’s visuals during their first set “Space Wrangler.” (The backdrop depicted a Tesla Roadster, barreling through space with a bumper sticker reading “Don’t Panic.”) Night one also included two of Panic’s most well-known songs as a double encore: “You Got Yours” and “Climb To Safety.”
Night two included the first big bust out of the run, as well as a themed set, geared toward the little ragers in the audience. Set one, which began with a “Rebirtha” and ended with a “Tail Dragger,” also featured kids-oriented songs like “Little Kin,” “Radio Child” and “C. Brown.”
After WSP played an abridged set two, with just five songs (namely “North,” “Sharon,” “Sell Sell,” “Good People” and a closing “Second Skin”), set three offered up the first “Puppy Sleeps” since 2002. It was also the third time the band ever performed the song, and the first time it was played with Jimmy Herring on lead guitar (show gap: 1,070).
The celebratory energy of Panic on the Rocks carried over into night three, as Widespread Panic played a batch of two sets. They opened the evening with an appropriate “Let’s Get The Show On The Road,” and punctuated set one with other live favorites like “Cotton Was King,” “Bust It Big,” “Diner” and “Pigeons.”
During their final set of the weekend, the band “Got Down To Business” before launching into “Chainsaw City” and later sank their teeth into a lengthy “Drum Solo”> “Surprise Valley”> “Goin’ Out West”> “Ain’t No Sunshine”> “Four Cornered Room” segment. They closed out with a raucous “Ain’t Life Grand,” and encored with “You Should Be Glad” and “You Wreck Me.”
Check out all three setlists from this weekend’s Panic on the Rocks below:
Widespread Panic
Friday, June 22
Red Rocks Amphitheatre Morrison, CO
Set I: Solid Rock, One Arm Steve, Glory, Contentment Blues, Send Your Mind, Sleeping Man > Driving Song > Space Wrangler > Driving Song, Travelin’ Light
Set II: Protein Drink / Sewing Machine, 1×1, Happy, B of D, Love Tractor > Drums > I Walk On Guilded Splinters > Papa Legba, Stop Breakin’ Down Blues
Enc: You Got Yours, Climb To Safety
Source: Panicstream.com
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Widespread Panic
Saturday, June 23
Red Rocks Amphitheatre Morrison, CO
Set I: Rebirtha > Blackout Blues, Little Kin > Radio Child, C. Brown, Tickle The Truth, Stop Go > Weight of the World, Tail Dragger
Set II: North, Sharon, Sell Sell, Good People, Second Skin
Set III: Greta > Cease Fire > Blue Indian, Holden Oversoul, Puppy Sleeps^, Expiration Day, Flat Foot Flewzy
Enc: Porch Song
Notes: ^Last time played 4/22/02
Source: Panicstream.com
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Widespread Panic
Sunday, June 24
Red Rocks Amphitheatre Morrison, CO
Set I: Let’s Get The Show On The Road, Bear’s Gone Fishin’ > Weak Brain, Narrow Mind, Cotton Was King, Old Neighborhood, Bust It Big, Diner > The Take Out, Pigeons
Set II: Let’s Get Down To Business, Chainsaw City, Visiting Day, Up All Night, Drum Solo > Surprise Valley > Goin’ Out West > Ain’t No Sunshine* > Four Cornered Room, Ain’t Life Grand
Enc: You Should Be Glad, You Wreck Me
Notes: ^Last time played 12/31/14
Source: Panicstream.com
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