The day before the Widespread Panic Bataclan show I had been at their gig at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. Dirk Stalnecker, Panic's tour manager, confided that the Paris pre-sale had not been great & asked if I could phone up some friends to come down to the show. The band happily put them on the guestlist, just to add a few more bodies to the 1400-capacity venue. I called Marti at home in Paris & she hit the phones, calling everyone we knew. A bunch of them showed up at the Bataclan concert, which turned out to be an outstanding show.
WIDESPREAD PANIC
June 17, 1998
Le Bataclan
Paris France
Let's Get Down To Business
Radio Child
Pickin' Up The Pieces >
Dyin' Man
Pleas >
Love Tractor
Happy
Rebirtha >
Papa Legba >
Hatfield >
Drums >
Pilgrims >
All Time Low
Ain't Life Grand
And It Stoned Me >
Fishwater
Here are a few pics from the pre-show hang at the Bataclan Café (adjacent to the venue) & the aftershow, to which all our friends were invited:
Christophe Rossi & Sunny Ortiz @ the Bataclan Café before the gig.
Local musicians & fans included Gilles Fegeant (standing, in red t-shirt),
Denis Vandermeersch & Michel Ravinet.
At the after party: Paris singer-songwriter
Nikki Matheson, Ralph Metzger & Marti.
Nikki, Christophe, Sunny Ortiz, Todd Nance
& soundman Danny Friedman.
