High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dave Schools aka "Dave Smalls", (born December 11, 1964) is the bassist for the band Widespread Panic ("Panic"), and hails from Richmond, Virginia. In addition to playing with Panic, he has had numerous side projects with Jerry Joseph, The Stockholm Syndrome, J Mascis and the Fog, Slang, and Acetate. Schools has also played bass with Gov`t Mule.