I asked visitors I went along to college or university that have – and others which grew up in Athens or visited UGA – to generally share their favorite performance memory on the inform you. Listed below are some ones memories:

My personal classmate Tom Hodgson told you the fresh new Coliseum performance the guy seemed send on the most is actually Jerry Butler vocal their hits out of “The fresh new Freeze People Cometh,” including “Just the Good Endure.” Tom told you he remembers “Jerry, wearing a light suit having a great quartet away from beautiful feminine vocal harmony about. I do not think about which my personal date was, but she need I was as chill as the Jerry Butler, and i of course desired she is actually just like the sizzling hot while the those individuals vocalists.”

On top of that, Sam Heys said that “my personal favorite and more than long-lasting recollections is the fresh new Jerry Butler Homecoming concert for the Oct. 24, 1969, due to the fact my blind day, Tap Finley, has been beside me more than an one half-century later.”

Betz Tillitski features vivid memory of the 1973 inform you by the Allman Brothers, stating the within of your stadium resembled a big bong. “We got sitting while the lights dimmed and you can, boy, are I surprised observe these uncommon flickers of light the along side set. Instance tobacco although flame stayed better expanded. I didn’t understand I happened to be seeing bones are illuminated. Never been close a mutual ahead of. People were passage these around. Upcoming you to unusual but sweet smelling is almost everywhere. From the in hopes my mothers did not smelling it to my dresses when i got domestic.”

Karen showed up and you will spoke for some of your own leftover audience and said that they had become on the road and you can were exhausted

But, she told you, “the quintessential fun performance I went to there was regarding springtime out-of 1974, and i also spotted the Coasters, Brand new Platters while the Tams. Continuarea →