Category Archives: Bands

Visiting Macon

theBogHouseLogoSee 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 – MysterE, Bill Hardin, Ron Currens and Joe Bell from Hittin the Note.

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In 1970 Dekalb County’s Columbia High School signed a contract for a local band some students said were amazing.  Soon after their live album ‘At Fillmore East’ made them super stars. The Allman Brothers showed their stuff and honored the contract to play their prom in the gym.  A prom to brag about for years. Dekalb Police had to call in Ga State troopers to help handle gate crashers. Mark (David) Chapman was a 9th grader; later he would gain infamy by killing John Lennon.prom

Thanks to  David Turner for improved print of Duane ‘s first cover shot for The Bird. 

Love that STP shirt (save the park, stop the police)duane69

ABB at Atlanta Municipal Flyer

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.

zhgb4The Hampton Grease Band were a main stay of the community and seemed always ready to play for a good cause. This show was memorable because I was at Emory and knew the Young Republicans who supported Nixon and his Vietnam policy. They stopped just short of being pro-war activists. 

We had driven to Emory’s AMB, really enjoyed the Greaseband experience of that evening, even though Young Republicans could be heard outside trying to be disruptive. I had driven The Celestial Omnibus, my hippie VW bus. We returned to leave and the bus would not go backwards.   We assumed a flat tire but found more when we checked in the dark. ‘Someone’ had slashed all four tires to ribbons; their idea of debate. Luckily a friend ran Mother’s Tire Company and brought over four replacements.

The unique Mr. Bruce Hampton. Bruce’s site

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 Scott Freeman on the band.

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Hampton Grease Band review

What’s Grease?

Julian Cope’s Review  of  Music to Eat  for unsung heroes 

2006 Reunion concert

Harold Kelling, RIP, helped raise funds for the new Little Five Points community.

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Col. Bruce Hampton @ 2007 Inman Park Festival

 

The tragedy and triumph of Glenn Phillips’ ‘Lost at Sea’

Glenn Phillips Band 2008 Redlight Cafe St. Patrick’s Day

The Glenn Phillips Band RainShadows live

Glenn Phillips – Scotland

Glenn Phillips w/ Peter Stroud-11/07

Glenn Phillips – Live in Athens, Georgia – “John Marshall”

Glenn Phillips- Live in Athens, GA-1996 – “Vista Cruiser”

 

 

The Phooey Party its ownself.

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Another party for the building formerly the garage of the Governor’s Mansion,  now an outstanding home.image088 phooey010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Phooey Party background

shapeimage_6 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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Phooey Party invitation

 

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Such was Maddox’s notariety that the party got mentioned in the New York Times

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Maddox used the axe handle as a symbol. He gave them out at his restaurant as “Pickrick toothpicks” to intimidate anyone trying to segregate his business. He then used that not so subtle symbol of segregation in his successful run for governor.

The Phooey Party made a peace symbol of axe handles.

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Lester was a fool and acted so in public as camouflage for his racism as benevolent affection for his ‘lesser Colored folks’.  He even had a Black man  as Uncle Tom join him in a stage act.  One of the neighbors to the old Governor’s mansion was Mugsy.  In 1965 Time Magazine  described him thusly: “Milton M. (“Muggsy”) Smith, 63, an Atlanta insurance salesman who made a name during 16 years in the state legislature trying to repeal every segregation law in Georgia.” Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842098,00.html#ixzz0lgEuyZnw

In 1961 Muggsy had run interference for Lester’s run for mayor of Atlanta. By drawing Black voters to himself as their benevolent friend, he almost got Lester elected mayor. Imagine if he had been Mayor during the events of Allen’s term, the early 1960s. Don’t think Atlanta would have been known as ‘the city too busy to hate’.

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Ever loyal to Lester, Muggsy gathered supporters to jeer at arriving guests and called the police repeatedly to complain. 

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