Bands – Pop Festivals – Music Venues and Clubs – Light Shows

For Atlantans of the era there were many great musicians and bands around, but two stood out.  First came The Hampton Grease Band, then the Allman Brothers Band.

                                                              The Hampton Grease Band

                                                              The Allman Brother’s Band

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

 

The Bag

Booger Band

Celestial Voluptuous Banana – Darryl Rhoades and the Hahavishnu Orchestra

The BrickWall

The Kindred Spirit – Chakra –Silverman

Chakra in the Park

Eric Quincy Tate

Atlanta Rhythm Section

Little Phil and The Night Shadow – Kudzu

Lynyrd Skynyrd – now

Wet Willie

Cruise-O-Matic

Thermos Greenwood and the Colored People

Hydra

East Side Blues band

Mose Jones – Stonehenge

Cruis-o-Matic

Marshall Tucker Band

Brother Bait

Mother’s Finest

Cool Breeze

Thanks to Bill Mankin

 

• Duane Allman obituary Issue of The Great Speckled Bird

  Great Speckled Bird v. 4 no. 45 (November 8, 1971) available as a pdf from Georgia State University Library here.

   

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• Ricky Bear

  Ricky Bear sent these to share.

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• 2007 Allman Brothers return to Piedmont Park

  September 8, 2007 (9/8/7) The Allman Brothers Band returned to play Piedmont Park with the Dave Mathews Band.  Here are MysterE and R. Tim on the front page photo from that day’s  Atlanta Journal Constitution.

  And the Brothers brought ...

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• Visiting Macon

  See Ron Curren of Hittin The Note’s photos of a  Macon Allman Brothers expedition   to visit Kirk  West.     The Big House is  a must visit for Allman fans.

  An homage – David Michaelson above, L-R below ...

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• Hydra

  Hydra in Piedmont Park

  

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• Radar

  Here are photos from the members of Radar, a well-loved, very creative band . They often played Piedmont Park free concerts. 

  http://www.messyoptics.com/bird/atl_15.html

  Here they are over the years.  

  Arthur Offen’s site

   

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• The Bag

  One of the first bands to play The Catacombs.

  Pictures courtesy Haynes McFadden

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• Hampton Grease Band

  Glenn Phillips, Guitarist extraordinaire,  has the inside story of The Hampton Grease Band history as only a member of the bandknows it.

  The Hampton Grease Band were a main stay of the community and seemed always ready ...

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• The Phooey Party its ownself.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  

  Another party for the building formerly the garage of the Governor’s ...

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• The Phooey Party background

   Lester did not like ‘colored people’ mixing with ‘Good folks’.  Even the AJC realized Lester felt much the same way about colorful people.

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