Widespread Panic finished up both their three night Halloween weekend run and their fall tour last night at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield, CO, once again bringing out a slew of covers that hadn’t been played by the band in many years, many of them coming from Halloween runs in the past.

The group came out onstage decked out in Halloween attire, with frontman John Bell dressed as a character from Disney’s Haunted Mansion, bassist Dave Schools as Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Jimmy Herring as famed Colorado Rockies beer vendor Earthman, drummer Duane Trucks as Hulk Hogan, JoJo Hermann as Gilligan from Gilligan’s Island and Sunny Ortiz as the Devil.

The first set kicked off with a pair of ZZ Top tunes in “Waiting for the Bus” and “Jesus Just Left Chicago” and also featured covers of The Rolling Stones’ “Happy” and Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

The cover train got rolling full force with the second set, starting off with War’s “Slippin’ Into Darkness,” for which the band welcomed out Steve Lopez on percussion. Later in the set, the band reached back with two Ramones covers, “Beat On the Brat,” which hadn’t been played since Halloween 2003, and “I Wanna Be Sedated,” which hadn’t been seen since November 1, 2014. The set was closed out with the only cover debut of the night, a rendition of Nirvana’s “Lithium.”

The night ended with two two-song encores, the first of which continued the theme of the run in covering The Doors and Black Sabbath, with the first “Soul Kitchen” since October 28, 2000 and the bustout of the night in “Paranoid,” which hadn’t been played since the band’s early days on Halloween night, 1987.

After a break, Widespread Panic will return to the stage for their three-night New Year’s Eve run in Nashville beginning December 29.

Widespread Panic
1stBank Center, Broomfield, CO

Set I: Waiting For The Bus > Jesus Just Left Chicago, Happy, Angels on High, Good People, Heaven, Angels Don’t Sing The Blues, Hallelujah, Tall Boy, Ain’t Life Grand

Set II: Slippin’ Into Darkness*, Machine > Barstools and Dreamers, Vampire Blues, Henry Parson’s Died, Beat On The Brat^, I Wanna Be Sedated^^, Chilly Water > Walk On Guilded Splinters > Bust It Big > Chilly Water, Lithium^^^

Enc 1: Soul Kitchen%, Paranoid%%

Enc 2: Postcard, End of the Show

Notes:
*with Steve Lopez on Percussion
^Last time played 10/31/03
^^Last time played 11/1/14
^^^Debut
%Last time played 10/28/00
%%Last time played 10//31/87

Coustumes: JB: Disney Haunted Mansion Ghost Dave: Ozzy Osbourne Jimmy: Earthman (Colorado Rockies beer vendor) Duane: Hulk Hogan JoJo: Gilligan Sunny: The Devil

Source: www.panicstream.com