I asked someone We went to college or university which have – while some just who grew up in Athens or visited UGA – to share their favorite show memory on the tell you. Below are a few of those memory:
My classmate Tom Hodgson said brand new Coliseum show the guy checked forward with the really try Jerry Butler singing their hits off “The brand new Freeze Man Cometh,” also “Only the Good Endure.” Tom said he recalls “Jerry, putting on a light suit which have a quartet out of gorgeous women singing equilibrium about. I really don’t remember who my time are, but she desired I happened to be because cool since Jerry Butler, and that i however desired she was as the hot due to the fact those singers.”
In addition, Sam Heys mentioned that “my favorite and more than long-lasting memories is the brand new Jerry Butler Homecoming concert towards the Oct. 24, 1969, once the my personal blind go out, Tap Finley, continues to be beside me more than a 1 / 2-century after.”
Betz Tillitski have vivid thoughts of the 1973 let you know from the Allman Brothers, claiming the inside of one’s stadium resembled an enormous bong. “I had seated and also the bulbs dimmed and, boy, is actually We surprised observe such uncommon flickers of white all along side lay. Including smoking cigarettes nevertheless the flames stayed better offered. I did not discover I found myself enjoying joints becoming lit up. Not ever been near a shared before. Citizens were passageway them all as much as. Next you to definitely uncommon however, sweet smell is everywhere. I recall assured my personal moms and dads don’t smell it to my clothes whenever i got house.”
Karen appeared and you will spoke to a few of your kept crowd and you can told me they had started away from home and had been exhausted
However,, she told you, “the essential fun performance I attended there’s on the springtime off 1974, and i also watched this new Coasters, This new Platters additionally the Tams. Endured on to the ground prior to the phase moving the entire big date. Ended up to your a beneficial guy’s shoulders enjoying the amazing show.”
I imagined I found myself on Woodstock
Not too most of the shows at the Coliseum have been an effective achievements. Dan Pelletier remembers the night Karen and you will Richard Carpenter “was indeed stinking in the combined plus the crowd booed, thus Richard stepped off the phase from inside the a great huff. I remember convinced, ‘Okay, so are you attending reimburse the cash you had been reduced for a speed you are not offering?‘ No refund obtained.”
My late buddy Rusty Gunn, just who grabbed some of the photographs associated it portion, told me a few years right back that 1st reveal at the Coliseum was as he was a great junior inside twelfth grade, and he and lots of family unit members got times observe Absolutely nothing Stevie Inquire plus the Temptations. (Helen Castronis remembers Ponder nonetheless is actually energized Haluan vain uskollisen naisen because the “Absolutely nothing Stevie” at the time, and that it appeared like “the guy starred all the appliance towards the stage.”)
Rusty might have been brand new king out of Stegeman concertgoers, as he spotted the new Relationship, the newest Righteous Brothers, Iron Butterfly, the brand new Four Passes (“these people were late however, and come up with right up, it why don’t we climb and you will stand-on the medial side off the fresh new stage”), Chi town, this new Allman Brothers, James Taylor, this new Beach Boys, Elton John, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Three Dog Nights, Mountain (“Leslie West’s keyboards looked like an effective ukelele on the their massive trunk”), Sure (“We read these were appalled there was zero organic restaurants given during the Vacation Inn”), Badfinger, the latest Carpenters, B.B. King and you can Billy Preston on the same expenses, and you can Stephen Stills which have Manassas (“the guy wore a UGA jersey”).
Betz, at the same time, had an opportunity to look for Tull, but selected never to, though she had a solution. “I had to your a disagreement into the people I was going with, and that i walked back once again to the car once we was basically for the range to go into,” she appreciated.
