It is said that they were even better on Saturday night.вЂќДЁ/5/69 Georgian Terrace Hotel, Atlanta, GA

Especially tasty was some of Harold KellingвЂ™s lead guitar work. With the Grateful Dead, Chicago Transit Authority, Spirit, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, ItвЂ™s A Beautiful DayД®lement, accompanied by Richard Robinson (electronics), with Frank Hughes lightsД¬lifford Endres in Great Speckled Bird, 7/28/69: вЂњA free-flowing synthesis of light, sound, and action, Element featured the addition of Richard RobinsonвЂ™s electronic music to the Hampton Grease Band, and backed by one of Frank HughesвЂ™ fine lightshowsвЂ¦ The Grease Band, aging like wine in a barrel, played relaxed and mellow and yet upon occasion got up and took right off. Non-HGB show: Stump Brothers, billed as вЂњLecture & Music: Can Discord Be Beautiful?вЂќ with Mr. (The Guild), poetry by Rosemary Daniell, computer by Gene Nottingham and George CairnesДҐ/25/69 Studio Theater, Atlanta Memorial Arts Center, Atlanta, GAДҐ/26/69 Studio Theater, Atlanta Memorial Arts Center, Atlanta, GAДҐ/27/69 Studio Theater, Atlanta Memorial Arts Center, Atlanta, GAДҐ/28/69 Studio Theater, Atlanta Memorial Arts Center, Atlanta, GAДҐ/29/69 Studio Theater, Atlanta Memorial Arts Center, Atlanta, GAДҐ/30/69 Studio Theater, Atlanta Memorial Arts Center, Atlanta, GAДҐ/31/69 Studio Theater, Atlanta Memorial Arts Center, Atlanta, GAД§/7/69 Unitarian Universalist Church, Atlanta, GA With Radar, Banana, Perpetual Motion, Electric Collage Light ShowД¤/14/69 Bottom of the Barrel, Atlanta, GAД¤/15/69 Bottom of the Barrel, Atlanta, GAД¤/16/69 Bottom of the Barrel, Atlanta, GAД¤/17/69 Bottom of the Barrel, Atlanta, GAД¤/18/69 Bottom of the Barrel, Atlanta, GAД¤/19/69 Bottom of the Barrel, Atlanta, GAД¤/25/69 Bottom of the Barrel, Atlanta, GAД¤/26/69 Bottom of the Barrel, Atlanta, GAДҐ/24/69 Studio Theater, Atlanta Memorial Arts Center, Atlanta, GAДЄ Research Institute and Production Coordination Guild For the Arts, Inc. Great Speckled Bird 1st Birthday celebration with Crust, Smoke, Nail, Little Phil and the Night Shadow, Toni Ganim, Anne Romaine Rock Around the Clock (or previous night) With Leonda, billed as the Incredible Hampton Grease Band A high point was Bill HaleyвЂ™s вЂRock Around the Clock,вЂ™ played almost straight and proving just how really hip the Grease Band is.вЂќДЎ1/28/68 Peachtree Art Theatre, Atlanta, GAДЎ1/29/68 Peachtree Art Theatre, Atlanta, GAДЎ1/30/68 Peachtree Art Theater, Atlanta, GA in Great Speckled Bird, 11/18/68: вЂњThe band was working under at least one handicap (a new drummer)вЂ¦ Everything considered, Grease was very together Friday night - I particularly remember several tripartite guitar improvisations that transcended the dimensions of stage, band, instruments, performers and audience. Piedmont Park Be-In with Celestial Voluptuous Banana, Strange Brew, Danny & Jim, Toni Ganim, Guerilla TheatreДЎ0/xx/68 University of the South, Suwanee, GAДЎ1/8/68 Peachtree Art Theatre, Atlanta, GAДЎ1/9/68 Peachtree Art Theatre, Atlanta, GAДЎ1/15/68 Peachtree Art Theatre, Atlanta, GA Summer 1968 (left to right: Harold Kelling, Glenn Phillips, Bruce Hampton, Charlie Phillips) Patron pulls gun and demands James Brown cover, band plays Popcorn, parts 1 & 2 I published my extensive history, Lost Live Grease: Recovering the Hampton Grease Band (including interviews with Glenn Phillips, Jerry Fields, Mike Holbrook, and others), on Aquarium Drunkard in December 2020.ДЇall вЂ™67 William Franklin Dykes High School, Atlanta, GAДЇall вЂ™67 Poison Apple Room, Stables Bar and Lounge, Atlanta, GA Except for circulating tapes (7/5/70, 5/7/72), all setlists are approximate.ДЄlso including dates for spin-off bands the Stump Brothers (Glenn Phillips, Mike Holbrook, Jerry Fields), Avenue of Happiness (fronted by Mik Copas with Bruce Hampton on guitar), and the Starving Braineaters (Harold KellingвЂ™s post-Hampton Grease Band project). Tons of further info & stories about the Atlanta вЂ™60s-вЂ™70s music scene available via The Strip Project. Notes: Dates & setlist information from Great Speckled Bird archive, Glenn PhillipsвЂ™s fantastic memoir Echoes: The Hampton Grease Band, My Life, My Music and How I Stopped Having Panic Attacks, and elsewhere. Hampton Grease Band: Harold Kelling, Jerry Fields, Mike Holbrook, Glenn Phillips, Bruce Hampton (please comment with all corrections/memories/additions or email!) My Little Corner of the World (Bob Hilliard & Lee Pockriss) (with Marilyn Kaplan on vocals) Whole Wide World (Wreckless Eric) (with WE & Amy Rigby on vocals) Outside Chance (The Turtles) (with Wreckless Eric on guitar & vocals) I Heard You Looking (with Ivan Julian on guitar)ДЄba Dabba Do Dance (The Tradewinds) (with Todd Abramson on vocals) More Stars Than There Are In Heaven (acoustic version)

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