The Beatles came to Fulton County Stadium. For most of my generation this event put Atlanta on the map; we mattered down here in the sleepy South because The Beatles came here. And had their first experience with stage monitors thanks to an Atlantan.
When Jimi Hendrix played the chitlin circuit, he’d had an apartment on Pine St. near Auburn Avenue. Hendrix had played Atlanta opening for The Monkees, but was booted from the tour after the afternoon performance as judged not suitable for children. Now he took the Municipal Auditorium with The Experience.
Bill won’t like I included this, but It was often my vantage
Cream at Chastain Another concert that people use as a marker in their lives. My mother brought a crew of siblings and friends to join me from college. She’d lived with my brother’s and my band practicing at the house and said Cream was loud, but good. She said she was glad I had not had a set of drums as complex as Ginger Baker.
Stomp Atlanta’s Texas Hair, a hippie musical put on by a combine of musicians, actors, and craftspeople. The performance at the Arts Alliance ended with the whole audience led outside holding hands with The Combine members to form a huge circle around The High Museum. They returned to Atlanta in an old church in Buckhead, which was soon firebombed.
2001 was the movie that launched a thousand trips, most without chemical aids. The ending ride was indeed psychedelic and beautiful. At that time 2001 seemed infinitely distant when computers
like HAL ran things. The movie was shown in a theater on Peachtree. When you left HAL there was the big IBM, the newest in computers on display in the window next door. Move IBM back a letter each and get HAL?
New band Little Feat woodshedding in a small club, the 12th Gate! 2 shows nightly! 3 nights! A buck a show!!!
Ike and Tina rocked out the Auditorium to an integrated crowd. Later they returned to open for ZZ TOP on a makeshift stage near Lake Spivey. Carter Tomassi took some great pictures here.
I was 13 at ATL Stadium in ’65 for the Beatles. I saw Hendrix at the Municipal Auditorium (Also witnessed Paul Revere, Beach Boys, Elton, and The WHO there too). Also was at Cosmic Carnival in ATL Stadium for Traffic, Zappa, and Mountain’s midnight closing; + Goose Creek at 12th Gate (on 10th). Attended both ATL POPs at Hampton and Byron. Sports Arena too. Just to clarify however, 2001: a space odyssey was not just in “a” theater on Peachtree… 2001 was filmed in Cinerama (70mm 3-projector curved-screen precursor to IMAX) and shown at the then-unique Martin Cinerama theater at 583 Peachtree St. Cinerama was very special at that time. So remains Kubrick’s masterpiece. BTW, Great site!