- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Widespread Panic in the Streets of Athens, GA
- Creator:
- Courtesy of UGA Press
Wood, Jeff - Publisher:
- UGA Press
- Date of Original:
- 2018
- Subject:
- Arts--Georgia
Culture - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- images (object genre)
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Widespread Panic released their first-ever live album, Light Fuse, Get Away (1998), for which they held a free, open-air release party in downtown Athens in April 1998. The massive event once held the world record for the largest album release party at an estimated 100,000 attendees.
The book cover for Gordon Lamb's Widespread Panic in the Streets of Athens, GA depicts a guitar at its center, surrounded with illustrated buildings of downtown Athens. The central guitar fretboard is depicted as a fuse to reflect the themes of the book. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/widespread-panic/widespread-panic_001/
- Rights Holder:
- UGA Press
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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