I asked people We visited college or university that have – while some who was born in Athens otherwise went to UGA – to fairly share their favorite concert memory regarding show. Listed below are some of those memories:
My personal classmate Tom Hodgson said the brand new Coliseum concert the guy appeared pass toward most is actually Jerry Butler singing his hits of “The new Freeze Guy Cometh,” also “Precisely the Good Survive.” Tom said he recalls “Jerry, using a light suit which have an effective quartet out of beautiful female singing harmony at the rear of. I don’t contemplate exactly who my time is, but she wanted I happened to be once the cool while the Jerry Butler, and that i without a doubt desired she is once the scorching because people singers.”
On the other hand, Sam Heys asserted that “my favorite and more than lasting thoughts is the Jerry Butler Homecoming concert to your Oct. 24, 1969, due to the fact my personal blind big date, Pat Finley, remains beside me over an one half-century after.”
Betz Tillitski features brilliant thoughts of these 1973 let you know from the Allman Brothers, stating the interior of stadium resembled an enormous bong. “I had seated therefore the bulbs dimmed and you may, boy, is I surprised observe these strange flickers off white most of the over the lay. Such as for example smokes nevertheless the flame stayed lighter stretched. I did not see I became enjoying joints being lit up. Not ever been close a mutual just before. People were passageway them up to. Next one to uncommon but sweet smell was everywhere. From the assured my personal moms and dads failed to smell they on my gowns while i got home.”
Karen made an appearance and you can spoke to some of the kept group and you will informed me they’d become away from home and was in fact sick
But, she said, “the most enjoyable show I went to there can be from the spring regarding 1974, and i noticed the fresh new Coasters, New Platters as well as the Tams. Endured on to the floor in front of the stage moving the fresh entire day. Ended up with the an excellent guy’s shoulders viewing the amazing inform you.”
I imagined I happened to be at Woodstock
Not that all the reveals at the Coliseum was an excellent victory. Dan Pelletier recalls the night Karen and you may Richard Carpenter “was indeed stinking up the mutual and the crowd booed, very Richard stepped off the phase in good huff. I remember considering, ‘Ok, so are your planning reimburse the cash you used to be repaid to possess a performance you are not providing?’ No refund got.”
My late buddy Rusty Gunn, just who got a number of the pictures accompanying so it piece, informed me a couple of years back you to definitely 1st let you know at the the newest Coliseum try when he was good junior in senior school, in which he and many relatives got times to see Absolutely nothing Stevie Wonder while the Temptations. (Helen Castronis remembers Ponder nevertheless is charged since “Nothing Stevie” at the time, and this seemed like “the guy starred the tool towards the stage.”)
Rusty could have been new queen regarding Stegeman concertgoers, as he watched this new Connection, new Righteous Brothers, Metal Butterfly, the fresh Five Passes (“they certainly were late but while making up, it let’s go up and you will stand-on the medial side away from the newest phase”), Chi town, the new Allman Brothers, James Taylor, the Seashore Boys, Elton John, Creedence Clearwater Renewal, Around three Puppy Evening, Slope (“Leslie West’s electric guitar appeared as if an effective ukelele toward his monstrous trunk”), Sure (“I read these were appalled there was no natural eating provided at Getaway Inn”), Badfinger, the brand new Carpenters, B.B. King and you can Billy Preston on a single expenses, and you will Stephen Stills that have Manassas (“he used a beneficial UGA jersey”).
Betz, simultaneously, had the opportunity to select Tull, however, chose not to, even when she had a citation. “I got to your a quarrel for the guy I found myself supposed with, and yli 50 postimyynti morsiamet i walked returning to the car once we was in fact into the range to get in,” she remembered.
