Good Sunday Morning

[Simon]

Originally Posted by Greenie

Well, I have to admit that while The Police concert was really good last night, it doesn't even come close to Spooky & Simon's 30 year old stories

Not to worry...you'll be old one day too.

Originally Posted by spookyx

The Agora ballroom show was 1978 (or 79) That was a good time for the agora, huge oilcans of tooheys beer (woohoo) and bands like the clash, devo, public image and many more playing there. There was another place (The Roxy?) that had a few good shows like patti smith. ...and you could stay at the Georgian terrace hotel for about $30 a day.

Yep, I saw all of those bands there. Joe Strummer fronting the Clash before he got new teeth and made all the vocals sound strange. Even wound up with one of the yellow Devo jumpsuits made out of Tyvek. A friend used to rent the old round apartment on the top of the Georgian (before remodeling), and we saw Bow Wow Wow at the ballroom inside the Georgian way back when.

Originally Posted by T Pat

Spooky is making me feel old, the first concert I went to was Big Brother And The Holding Company at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. The lead singer was a hippy chick named Janis Joplin.

The first concert/show I attended was in 1962 or '63 ... I went with my parents to a 'nightclub' in Wildwood, NJ to see Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. I was about 7 or 8, and was wearing a suit and tie and drinking ginger ale in highball glasses with swizzle sticks. -- Feeling any younger?

Originally Posted by bluemoney

Holy Shit Balls !! I was at that one!
Loved the Agora too, especially to see more local products like; The Dixie Dregs, Sea Level, Mothers Finest, The Producers, R.E.M, Riggs (etc.)

For me it was the Agora and also "688" (at 688 Spring Street) and The Bistro--a house where Baby and The Pacifiers used to live and perform. Then there was Club Rio, Metroplex, Moonshadow Saloon, Numbers. Local bands we followed were the one you mentioned plus The Brains, Pylon, Heathen Girls with Rose Whipper & Marc Stowe, The Swimming Pool Q's, The Basics, The Fans, The Method Actors, The Throbs, Chris Wood and The Restraints, and of course B-52s...and more I can't remember right now.

Those were the days, my friend ... we thought they'd never end.

[bluemoney]

Originally Posted by Simon

For me it was the Agora and also "688" (at 688 Spring Street) and The Bistro--a house where Baby and The Pacifiers used to live and perform. Then there was Club Rio, Metroplex, Moonshadow Saloon, Numbers. Local bands we followed were the one you mentioned plus The Brains, Pylon, Heathen Girls with Rose Whipper & Marc Stowe, The Swimming Pool Q's, The Basics, The Fans, The Method Actors, The Throbs, Chris Wood and The Restraints, and of course B-52s...and more I can't remember right now.

Those were the days, my friend ... we thought they'd never end.

Pylon was one of my wife's favorites! I'll never forget seeing them at the I&I Club in Athens on Halloween night 1982!

I'm on a roll so here are some more bands; Phil & The Blanks, The Little Tigers, Oh Okay, Rum Jungle, The Michael Guthrie Band, Normal Town Flyers . . . More great bands (along with many you listed) that played the Athens Clubs like The 40 Watt, Tyrones and the I&I

Here's A Classic

[spookyx]

Originally Posted by Simon

For me it was the Agora and also "688" (at 688 Spring Street) and The Bistro--a house where Baby and The Pacifiers used to live and perform. Then there was Club Rio, Metroplex, Moonshadow Saloon, Numbers. Local bands we followed were the one you mentioned plus The Brains, Pylon, Heathen Girls with Rose Whipper & Marc Stowe, The Swimming Pool Q's, The Basics, The Fans, The Method Actors, The Throbs, Chris Wood and The Restraints, and of course B-52s...and more I can't remember right now.

Those were the days, my friend ... we thought they'd never end.

I used to love 688, great place, one of my favorite shows was a New York Punk band named DNA (not to be confused with a crappy band by the same name)

Simon, did you go to the Ultravox concert at the agora ballroom (early eighties?) if you did and remember the fight on the main floor that was me beating the crap out of some jock who threw a drink on my then gf instead of stopping the fight, the stage crew just pointed a big spotlight on us.

good times