Now , if your so inclined, I wonder if you might provide a few details about the Widespread Panic, I have one of their cds but I never listen to it. I put it on once a long time ago but found it uninteresting. Some people I know really like them though, so I wonder if maybe I just sampled the wrong disc.
I like Joe Strummer a lot. How was the dvd ??
Funny you should ask, because I thought you might be familiar with them (WSP) somehow. I'm not what you'd call a 'fan' per se. In fact, I had never even heard of them until a tape of theirs (along with a few ol' Grateful Dead boots) appeared on my old front lawn one day, together in a case. Someone must have thrown them out of their car window as they were driving by, or perhaps it was someone I knew thinking to themselves, "Fuck it, I'm sick of listening to this stuff, I think I'll throw this bunch of tapes on Frod's lawn for him to find and wonder how they got there," or something like that....
So anyway, lately I had been getting dry on stuff to listen to in the car (and I listen to music in it a lot these days) because I'm too lazy to bother hooking up an mp3 player. And a person gets tired of the same old stuff sometimes, no matter how good it is, thus my decision to dig out the WSP cassette tape which I had only listened to once a long time back, not long after it showed up on my old lawn (this was like ten years ago, when I used to live in a house of my own, with my family.) So anyway, that's why I listened to it, and I found that this particular live recording wasn't bad... it's "jam band" kinda stuff, stuff I hardly ever listen to, so it was a refreshing change in that sense...
And now for the king of all political punks, and my spiritual leader, god rest his soul, Joe Strummer! It was a damn good documentary, I recommend you rent it and watch it asap. It was made a couple of years ago, after he died. It was nicely done as films go, and painted a fairly accurate portrait of Strummer (as well as The Clash) as we know him. Two thumbs up, and some bottles and bricks!!!