Sam Goody's Bandemonium Draws Tens of Thousands of Panama City Spring Breakers to Oceanside Event.Business Editors & Entertainment Writers NOTE TO MEDIA: Photos/Logo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com and at www.newstream.com PANAMA CITY, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 28, 2001 Spring Break Event Brings Fun, Free Stuff and Big Name Bands to the Beach Sam Goody entertained an estimated 100,000 Spring Breakers during the past two weeks when Bandemonium took over the beach in Panama City, Florida Panama City is a city located along U.S. Highway 98 in Bay County, Florida. It is the largest city between Pensacola, Florida and Tallahassee, Florida. It is the larger (population wise) of two principal cities of the Panama City-Lynn Haven, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. . During the two-week period, Sam Goody's premier event showcased interactive games, product samples and prizes along with an abundance of music to the crowds on the beach. As the site for the finals of Sam Goody's unsigned band competition, Bandemonium, the world famous Spinnaker Beach Club hosted some of the biggest concerts of Spring Break. Over a three-day stretch, Vibrolush, They Might Be Giants, Tin Star, Blessid Union of Souls Blessid Union of Souls is an American rock band from Cincinnati that was formed in 1990 by Jeff Pence and Eliot Sloan. The current touring band members are singer Eliot Sloan (original member), bassist Tony Clark (original member), drummer Shaun Schaefer (Vinyltones), and guitarist , Eve 6 and The Go-Go's all took the stage for massive crowds of screaming spring breakers. While they were there, the vacationers also witnessed the crowning of the "Best Unsigned Band of 2001," when Meaningless Tag of Philadelphia beat out three other unsigned bands and ultimately more than 500 other entries for the Bandemonium title. In addition to the concerts on the Spinnaker stage, Bandemonium took the entertainment to the beach as well. A variety of emerging artists such as Smart Bomb, Cooter coot·er n. Lower Southern U.S. 1. An edible freshwater turtle of the genus Chrysemys. 2. Any of various turtles or tortoises. See Regional Note at goober. , Brizz, DJ Craze, Sprung Monkey and others performed daily concerts on the beach stage. Other beach activities included an evening on-beach screening of "Dude, Where's My Car?" (20th Century Fox) and "Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows" (Artisan) as well as appearances by WWF See Windows Workflow Foundation. Wrestlers, Lita, The Hardy Brothers, Molly Holly, Edge, Christian, K-Kwik and Test. Spring Breakers had their choice of activities from darts to air-guitar contests, all with great prizes from Sam Goody, Pepsi, Gibson, WWF, Rayovac, Rio Digital Audio, 20th Century Fox, Artisan and Sony. In addition, more than 400,000 product samples from Sam Goody, Pepsi, Rayovac, and the other Bandemonium sponsors were distributed to anxious consumers. Based in Minneapolis, Sam Goody is a division of The Musicland Group. Musicland is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : BBY BBY Best Buy (stock symbol) BBY Before Battle of Yavin (Star Wars) BBY BeBeyond (Chinese online community) ). As of December 31, 2000, The Musicland Group operated 1,336 retail stores in 49 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands under the names Sam Goody, Suncoast, Media Play and On Cue. In addition to its four store formats, Musicland also operates four commercial Web sites including: SamGoody.com, Suncoast.com, MediaPlay.com and OnCue.com. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.032801/bb10 http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.032801/bb10a |
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