I found this website of photos taken around Atlanta from about 1969-1972.
http://www.messyoptics.com/bird/contact_sheet.html
There are images from some of the most influential elements of my past. You can see glimpses of the Hampton Grease Band and Glenn Phillips, who inspired me to become a guitarist. Images from the Twelfth Gate, run by Robin Eden, where I witnessed (and usually got to meet) Weather Report, Oregon, Bill Evans, McCoy Tyner, Larry Coyell, Elvin Jones, Roland Kirk, Little Feat, Pharaoh Sanders, Gary Bartz, and more. I eventually played there one night doing a duo with drummer Donald Gentry. You will find photos from the "Atlanta Hippie Scene", free concerts at Piedmont Park, the 2nd Atlanta Pop Festival, and the Great Speckled Bird.
This led me to the discovery of the following article, written by Glenn Phillips, about the history of the Hampton Grease Band. I am compeled to archive it here because it is so important to me as those guys were heros to me. Later some of us became friends and even shared the stage together.
Posted by dancoy at February 12, 2004 11:51 AM