Widespread Panic celebrates 25 years of making music with 3 nights of shows at Milwaukee's Riverside Theatre- October 20-22. This weekend Triple M gives you a chance to win tickets to the show. Just look for the Widespread Panic logo hidden somewhere on the Triple M website (that's the site you are on right now).
A few years back I had to spend a couple days and nights in Dubuque, Iowa. Don't ask me why or who I was with- for legal reasons, they'll all deny being there.
So, on our last night in Dubuque, we went out for dinner and drinks. After a couple cold beers we all decided to make the trek across the Mississippi river to East Dubuque.
East Dubuque is known for two things...
1) Chili Dogs
2) Strip Clubs
Since we already had dinner, we skipped the Chili Dogs.
We were at our second strip club of the evening when an attractive young woman figured out that I was the guy on the radio and that Widespread Panic was to perform in Studio M the very next day.
Don't ask- I have no idea how she got that information out of me?
Eventually- after becoming our tour guide for the evening and taking us from club to club to club- she convinced me to invite her to that Studio M session with Widespread Panic...her favorite band.
Again- don't ask.
I returned to the office the next day to a message from Widespread Panic's management company. Everything is set for the Studio M session this afternoon, we have just one request- this will be the band's first performance with their new guitarist, George McConnell, so please no audience. Just let the band use this as a warm-up for their show that was scheduled for that evening- which will be George's first live show with the band.
Great. Does anybody have the number for that stripper in East Dubuque?
Believe it or not- somebody did.
So I made the awkward call...
"Excuse me- I don't remember your name, but last night I saw you 'dance' and..."
"Well, you are now officially uninvited..."
She understood.
But somehow word got out that the band would be performing in Studio M- and after uninviting the stripper, people just showed up. And when the band saw those people hanging out outside the station, they invited them all in- so even though we were asked not to have a studio audience, we had a full house.
But no stripper.
How much cooler would Studio M be with a stripper?
There's already a pole in there.
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In addition to all the radio airplay " Put The Gun Down" has received, you may also have heard her music on several television...
Apparently Oreo flavored Oreos are not sufficient.
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