Music was essential in our lives. Most of us started out wanting to be The Beatles. It looked like their lives were exciting and interesting. Some of us went so far as to become musicians. The times did have an INCREDIBLE soundtrack! Which was good because at times with many of your heroes assassinated, you felt the music was all you could depend on.
Sgt. Pepper’s started a trend towards experimentation with sounds and influences.  It was finally decided that guys old enough to die in Vietnam should be mature enough to drink. Lowering the drinking age to 18 filled the clubs with young men and women wanting to dance and forget about what possibly faced us in the Nuclear Threat -Vietnam era.  Customers now demanded more than records;  many places hired a variety of live musicians.
Since it was possible to earn a living around Atlanta, some very unique and talented musicians were attracted here. The sheer variety of bands in Atlanta at the time made for very enriching and inspiring evenings, and afternoons in the Parks.
Atlanta’s hip community was lucky enough to have had the services of many great musicians, but two of the most extraordinary groups of musicians stand out. They were always ready to play and support our community. One, The Allman Brothers,  is still enjoying increasing success as they bring joy to listeners with music based in the musics of the South  including blues, country, gospel and jazz. The other, Hampton Grease Band,  had one album that became an industry joke and a trivia fact. Only now in retrospect is the complexity of their music being noticed and appreciated beneath the Dada zaniness that inspired it. Both Hampton and Glenn play astounding music and continue to amaze and inspire musicians around Atlanta and the world. Both can walk almost unnoticed in Atlanta while being adored by fans all over the world.
We just enjoyed hearing them play in the park and wish to say thanks for providing all the pleasure and a soundtrack for our lives.
One of my fondest memories is racing with my dog at twilight across the Piedmont Park open field as the Allman Brothers started Whipping Post roaring in the air like a storm gathering to release all that energy at once!  Boom!

A partial list:

The Bag, Celestial Voluptuous Banana, The River People, Hydra, Wet Willie,  Radar, Booger band,  darryl Rhoades and the Hahavishnu Orchestra, Eric Quincy Tate, Mose Jones, The Brick Wall, Atlanta Rythm Section, Lynard Skynyrd, Marhsall Tucker band, Brother bait, Little Phil and The Nightshadow, Kudzu, Stonhenge, East Side Blues Band, Chakra, Kindred Spirit, Ron Norris, Mother’s Finest, Silverman, Ellen McIlwaine, Fear Itself, Thermos Greenwood and The Colored people,

We hope to provide links to all these. Can you supply  any help? Anyone have tapes?

Heey Baby! Beach music

Thanks to Ricky Bear for this list of Atlanta musicians of the 60s and 70s on an invite to a reunion.