Atlanta
The Grateful Dead in Piedmont Park
On Monday, July 7, 1969, the Grateful Dead played a free concert in Piedmont Park in Atlanta -- their first-ever show in the city. It was a thank-you: Alex Cooley and the organizers of the first Atlanta International Pop Festival, held three days earlier, staged a free concert in the park for the acts and fans who had stayed in town, in what Cooley later described as "simple hippie guilt at making a…
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Municipal Coliseum
On July 7, 1966, the Animals played the Municipal Coliseum in Lubbock, Texas, supporting the headliners Herman's Hermits -- then at their American peak -- on a package tour. It was, though not billed as such, the last American summer of the original Animals: Eric Burdon, Hilton Valentine, Barry Jenk…
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On July 7, 1967, the Who played the Malibu Beach & Shore Club at Lido Beach on Long Island, New York -- not California, despite the name -- in second billing on a multi-act bill, a surviving ticket stub the primary evidence for the night. It fell about three weeks after their American breakout at Mo…
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The same night, at the Fillmore West, Jefferson Airplane headlined a benefit for the Wild West Festival -- a planned free-and-paid hybrid for Golden Gate Park that August, ultimately canceled amid disputes over whether it should charge admission at all. On the bill were the all-woman Haight-Ashbury …
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