Cool video. Atlanta was such a cool little city back then...with its own character and charm...and the people knew how to have a good time. The city has grown up, and I think itself too seriously now. I miss the old Atlanta. Thanks for posting!
RIP Ronnie Hammond. ARS was the pride of our Atlanta and the whole state in the mid to late 70s. Thank you for so respectfully bringing us these songs live in the 1980s & 1990s for those of us who weren't old enough to be at Grant Field!
Atlanta was a great place to be young in the70s. I roamed all over town in my old Spitfire. Freaks and hookers on Peachtree, Piedmont Park. Old New York bookstore, The Fox, Electric Ballroom, Great S.E. Music Hall, the Omni, the Plaza Theater, VA. -Highland, Richards. What a time to be young!
The Varsity, the Fox, Ted Turner in the dugout, Lewis Grizzard at the typewriter, the Peachtree Road Race, Mary Mac's, the Limelight, Shootin the Hooch, Underground, the Flames, Fran Tarkenton…...and more. Great work and thanks.
When I saw Backstreet I holla'd! 😂 This video is LEGIT ATL!! LOVE IT! BTW I've always wanted to hear this song played in a stadium when the city won a championship. Great party jam.
I enjoyed the pictures as much as the the song. This took me back. I still drive past Mary Mac's and The Plaza on my way to and from work each day. How things have changed.
This was the first Concert I ever went to....8 yrs old and drunk on Champagne...Brother Snuck me into the Omni. God I had a good time...Thanks for the memory....
Thanks. I agree with you 100%. I worked and lived there from '82 to '89, and the city used to be relatively easy to get around in, and had a vibrant, classic, Old-South feel to it. Now, when I have to go up there on a conference, and I ride by where I used to live, work, and play, I hardly recognize any of it.
Thanks for this video this is when i grew up in Atlanta brings back great times remember Peaches records those were the days , Everybody's Pizza closed this week i remember when it opened 40 some years ago how sad. Thanks again great video******
This must've been lovingly compiled by a native. I was born at Piedmont Hospital in the mid 60s and I remember Atlanta looking like this. Now, it's filled with outside interests almost exclusively, and all the old families are in the suburbs or even further out. I miss you, Atlanta. It's true: you can never go home again.
Living in Louisiana I saw this great band of musicians so many times during the 70's. First as an opener and then headliners in their prime years. Never a bad show, but the most memorable was their headline night at the legendary "Warehouse" in New Orleans. What a show!!!
+1stSaintsFan I saw The Allman Brothers @ Warehouse , a great place back then...then Dylan and his Rolling Thunder...did u ever go to Rosie's ? or hang out at Molly's Irish Pub on Tolouse or Molly's at the Market on Decatur or anywhere in the Quarter , I worked @Your Fathers Mustache on Bourbon St. too !
The Wizard of Rock and Roll During those years my sister lived in the Quarter for about 20years. I did go to Molly's on Toulouse and I remember Rosies. My sister lived on the corner of Dauphine & Dumaine. Johnny White's was and is still my hangout. Corner Stool drinking a Shiner Bock. Who Dat!!!
+1stSaintsFan I hung at Johnnies , played cards ....knew Johnny's wife and daughter when They and I moved to Steamboat Springs , seperate times then met...in travel....Most people , like Jim Monoghan Sr.from my days 70-80s gone now , Johnny's moved too? to the corner when , last time there was early 80s for Jazz Fest , best time in NOLA I lived St Louis between Bourbon and Dauphine @Judge Levy's house. I worked for Alm Hirt and lived near his club but he opened a Gazebo on Decatur and it bombed ! I quit after I saw it was a losing deal...
I lived in Atlanta from '94-'97, & it still had that Old South feel to it, even though it was getting more modernized by then. I still love that city!!!!!
ARS was one of the greatest bands to play and proud they hailed from Georgia! I wish the video had a picture of the Great Chattahoochee River raft race!
I grew up in Indianapolis and neve traveled SOUTH of the Ohio River until I joined the USAF.... my First memory of Atlanta was a trip through there on my way to MOODY AFB from tech school from Illinois....
The Olympics ruined Atlanta....it was never the same once they started planning for it. I remember when you could get from one side of town to the other without having to pack a lunch and take a GPS....It was strange seeing the photo of the Fox without all the high rises dwarfing it.... and being able to see the top of the old Marriott's bubble restaraunt at all....
The bubble I think you are referring to is actually on the Hyatt Regency. Anyway, I agree with your assessment (lunch and GPS---true!) and the Fox as I remember it, too.
I agree, I've found that the slide shows some of these people put up on youtube are more artistic, interesting and poignant than that of the "experts" who made videos in the 70s 80s and 90s.....
Good ol Atlanta. It's cool seeing how the city was back then. I heard about the Coliseum and that Philips Arena replaced it. Same as the Flames were replaced by the Thrashers. Man I miss those late nights going to the Thrashers games. Now, onto the music. I've just started listening to the Atlanta Rhythm Section, and let me tell you, they totally rule!
Jack lived in Atl in 70's-used to listen to Atl Rythm Section @ their apt in Dekalb practicing tunes -Allman Bros in Chastain park just jamming-Bob Seeger played prom B4 he Was Bob Seeger Silver Bullett -Gary McKee WQXI OMG remember the Birthday Monster ?!! Thanks for the trip down memory lane - what great times we had-the music today comes nowhere near
Amazing to see the city before Bank of America Plaza (1992). Polaris was one of the tallest buildings, and the Westin Peachtree Plaza was the tallest hotel in the WORLD when it was built in the 1970's! Unreal!
...Northerners who tore down everything to replace them with their featureless, soulless structures, and who sucked the life out of the city with their homogenous gentrification...
Joltin Jack used to listen to ARS practice @ their apartment in Dekalb 1972-sounds like you were jammin' around Atl then too! Gary Mckee OMG remember the Birthday Monster? Listened to Allman Bros in Chastain Park just jammin - Bob Seeger @ Lakesifde High School played prom B4! he was Bob Seeger and Silver Bullet. Thaks for the trip down memory lane. What a great time we had!!.....
It's amazing as much as Atlanta has changed since the 70s how many of the pictures could've been taken yesterday: the Plaza Theatre, the Hiatt Regency, the Varsity, the Fox. Parts of the city have remained mostly unchanged.
Thanks. I like that video on your channel as well...the one with all the retro-style art of young couples in their "pad". Kinda reminds me of the video by Steely Dan - "New Frontier" (1982).
I LOVE the pictures in this video. It reminds me of how Atlanta use to be. I see the traffic was still horrible however lol. I am a HUGE ARS fan. I saw them last summer and posted a few pics of the concert on my facebook page.
Oh yeah...who else attended Champagne Jam, July 7, 1979 at Grant Field? -- ARS, Aerosmith, Cars, Dixie Dregs and Whiteface?? ME! ME! ME! RIP Robert and Ronnie... @joltinjack -- you lived in Riverbend when it was party central on the Chattohoochee River -- wild times for damn sure!
OH! You are SO right. I was devastated when Atlanta "won" the Olympic bid. (Everyone else was thrilled.) I knew it was only going to be a nightmare all around. My only hope was that the world would finally recognize that we're not all Scarlett O'Hara clones. I think they finally got that. I'd also hoped that they'd discover that we're not a bunch of backward idiots. Sadly, that did not seem so evident to most.
The once great, Belle of The South ... Atlanta, Georgia! WHAT HAPPENED? So many great traditions have been lost by being, "politically correct!" Really sad! Great song & video! Thanks!
I lived in Atlanta (Riverbend-Post River-and finally Post Woods) from June of 1982 through March 1989. I remember waking up to WQXI, and listening to McKee. I used to be amused at the disdain McKee seemed to have toward the weatherguy (Joe Sobo?) when he tried to be funny. Sobo sounded like a little Italian from the Northeast. McKee was scathingly ruthless at times toward Sobo. HA!
This is around the time when Atlanta was starting to head into her best years then peaked when the Braves went through their 90s best player around and winning the World Series in 1995, plus having the Olympics held in 1996...
Ahhhh..."ARS!!! Champagne Jam '79, The weekend (redbud 'n beer) parties "way down yonder on the Chattahoochie" (on Johnson Ferry), the BEST LOOKIN', CUTEST, MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRLS in the 20th Century!!! Decatur, Eric Quincy Tate (EQT for REAL fans)...days when you could race yer street machines up 'n down the 120 loop without gettin' a ticket 'coz some of the cops (Officers Ball and Anderson!) were cool enough to enjoy the hell outta watchin' us drag safe! Idealism at it's height. It's all gone.
you know it!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got to see some awesome bands 3 years in a row in Dog Days Rock Fests!!!!! Damn skippy(lol) we had some "high class fun" on the 'Hooch with our brewskis tied into an inner tube floating along with us. Yeah, them wuz the days....
Cool video. Atlanta was such a cool little city back then...with its own character and charm...and the people knew how to have a good time. The city has grown up, and I think itself too seriously now. I miss the old Atlanta. Thanks for posting!
RIP Ronnie Hammond. ARS was the pride of our Atlanta and the whole state in the mid to late 70s. Thank you for so respectfully bringing us these songs live in the 1980s & 1990s for those of us who weren't old enough to be at Grant Field!
What a fantastic slideshow: THAT's the Atlanta that I remember!
That's the Atlanta I miss
@@pamelagray6863
😎 Went to Atlanta once, never went back
I prefer Charlotte
YES. ❤️ Me too. I was born in Atlanta. We called it The Magic kingdom.
@@SUGAR_XYLER And what's your point ?
Atlanta was a great place to be young in the70s. I roamed all over town in my old Spitfire. Freaks and hookers on Peachtree, Piedmont Park. Old New York bookstore, The Fox, Electric Ballroom, Great S.E. Music Hall, the Omni, the Plaza Theater, VA. -Highland, Richards. What a time to be young!
Atlanta in the 70's- Atlanta Rhythm Section - Champagne Jam
Man them good days in the mid 70's .
The Varsity, the Fox, Ted Turner in the dugout, Lewis Grizzard at the typewriter, the Peachtree Road Race, Mary Mac's, the Limelight, Shootin the Hooch, Underground, the Flames, Fran Tarkenton…...and more. Great work and thanks.
Great video,,,,,,,Louis Grizzard, great old memories of a great old city...Hotlanta!!!!
Remember Grizzard's sports column? One day he wrote "Bob Horner didn't play yesterday, had Hienekenitus again".
The olden days were so fun--and look at ALL those American cars! Miss those times...
Man was that good.
Looking at all my beloved Atl. Bro. and Sis.
I love you guys.
Truly!!!!!
Great song and a great video! Makes me homesick. I recognized just about every scene there. Wow. Keep livin' ATL!
When I saw Backstreet I holla'd! 😂 This video is LEGIT ATL!! LOVE IT! BTW I've always wanted to hear this song played in a stadium when the city won a championship. Great party jam.
Yes, I was rockin' out to this in 1978. Loved it. STILL LOVE it! ARS is the best!
one of the finest southern bands just like skinyrd they areallbut gone
Who remembers the "Champagne Jam" at Tech field,
Hurricanes from Dante's in Under Ground Atlanta and Willy-B at the zoo?
Great times.
Very cool video!!!
I was born in this great city in 1959! I dont live there now but I long to go back. I actually lived in Doraville!! Love ARS!!!
96 Rock sweatshirts
I enjoyed the pictures as much as the the song. This took me back. I still drive past Mary Mac's and The Plaza on my way to and from work each day. How things have changed.
@joltinjack I was born, raised, and lived here all my life. I REALLY miss old Atlanta.
Me too .
And I,m still here .
I miss America before it fell
Watching this video almost made me nostalgic for the '70s. (almost)
Timeless Classic to me means Tunes Like This 70s Tunes Out last Todays music!
This was the first Concert I ever went to....8 yrs old and drunk on Champagne...Brother Snuck me into the Omni. God I had a good time...Thanks for the memory....
Thanks. I agree with you 100%. I worked and lived there from '82 to '89, and the city used to be relatively easy to get around in, and had a vibrant, classic, Old-South feel to it. Now, when I have to go up there on a conference, and I ride by where I used to live, work, and play, I hardly recognize any of it.
Bring back 96 rock
Yeah...I loved that great station, and Z-93's Ross & Wilson Show.
Ross Britain's "earwitness news" and "boogie checks".
Rock & Roll Preppy!
i was there in 79 at grant field mother's finest was also in the lineup
Me too. Many times any years.......Bob Segat Heart. God bless these truest musicians and the Rock & Roll. they "brought it"
I was there too also in 78 .
I was there as well. Remember the ramblin raft race when mothers finest played at Morgan falls?
Thanks for this video this is when i grew up in Atlanta brings back great times remember Peaches records those were the days , Everybody's Pizza closed this week i remember when it opened 40 some years ago how sad. Thanks again great video******
Here in B-More this was on WKTK. Have not heard this in 40 years. God they ate so good. Very tight licks. Lot of blues. Some jazz thrown in.
I miss this Atlanta and these times, 96 rock ARS forever !!!
ahh the Atlanta flames. they loved hockey in Atlanta.
Not really. The Flames and the Thrashers left town.
not as much as calgary
Yes, there's a picture of Lewis Grizzard in there, sitting at his typewriter.
Atlanta was magical in the 70 's. Anyone remember the Mad Hatter in underground atl?
Just love the beat, and the way they sing thank you Ma'am with a southern accent, yeah!!
I was only in the bus station , but I knew there was a great city right outside . Loved my trip through Georgia .
The very best of the Southern Rock ... I love their melodies....
so many great memories. I moved to Atlanta 40 years ago and haven't left yet !
I wish I could have seen THIS Atlanta, not the one today. Sherman might as well come back and burn it again, so we can start over.
This must've been lovingly compiled by a native. I was born at Piedmont Hospital in the mid 60s and I remember Atlanta looking like this. Now, it's filled with outside interests almost exclusively, and all the old families are in the suburbs or even further out. I miss you, Atlanta. It's true: you can never go home again.
Those were the days great pictures in Atlanta ,brought back a lot of good times*******
Thanks for posting; great song, and it is nice to see Atlanta back in the 70s....
Good video The only time in my life I've been to Atlanta was July of '76 We went to that HR Pufnstuf park at the Omni
Sid and Marty Croft.
Wow what an acid trip weird place that was.
Oh my sir you make my heart flutter with your images.. I reminisce.Grew up in Stone Mountain.
Thanks for the video!
I was there at Grant Field!!! right up front!!!
Living in Louisiana I saw this great band of musicians so many times during the 70's. First as an opener and then headliners in their prime years. Never a bad show, but the most memorable was their headline night at the legendary "Warehouse" in New Orleans. What a show!!!
+1stSaintsFan I saw The Allman Brothers @ Warehouse , a great place back then...then Dylan and his Rolling Thunder...did u ever go to Rosie's ? or hang out at Molly's Irish Pub on Tolouse or Molly's at the Market on Decatur or anywhere in the Quarter , I worked @Your Fathers Mustache on Bourbon St. too !
The Wizard of Rock and Roll During those years my sister lived in the Quarter for about 20years. I did go to Molly's on Toulouse and I remember Rosies. My sister lived on the corner of Dauphine & Dumaine. Johnny White's was and is still my hangout. Corner Stool drinking a Shiner Bock. Who Dat!!!
+1stSaintsFan I hung at Johnnies , played cards ....knew Johnny's wife and daughter when They and I moved to Steamboat Springs , seperate times then met...in travel....Most people , like Jim Monoghan Sr.from my days 70-80s gone now , Johnny's moved too? to the corner when , last time there was early 80s for Jazz Fest , best time in NOLA I lived St Louis between Bourbon and Dauphine @Judge Levy's house. I worked for Alm Hirt and lived near his club but he opened a Gazebo on Decatur and it bombed ! I quit after I saw it was a losing deal...
I lived in Atlanta from '94-'97, & it still had that Old South feel to it, even though it was getting more modernized by then. I still love that city!!!!!
I miss THIS Atlanta! Fantastic shots.
I went to the one with Santana, Doobie Brothers, ARS. I think this was in 1978. It was a blast!
Great song and my beloved city! Thank you so much!!
Great. Brings back memories
The '70s were such sexy times. I want to just jump in this video and relive it, haha
Don't forget Mothers Finest was there too
In the 70s when 96 rock station was the compact discs radio station. Home cooking album was released.
Wow... talk about the wayback machine...good job Son, bless your heart.
I've always loved this band and this song in particular! Thanks for posting. Paul Goddard is the only man I have ever seen play a double base!
Great ! Thanks for posting great vid . Hadn't thought of the Lime Light in years !
Well done,thanks for posting.I grew up in the lakewood park area and this is a good reflection of the Hotlanta I remember.Kudos to you!
Great song, great group, and a great video. Thanks for posting.
Miss my city, too much has changed
WOW - thanks for taking me back i I was damn square in the middle of almost picture there - I TRULY appreciate you efforts!
Thanks for the memories!! This is so awesome!
Born and raised....70s and 80s were great in ATL....got some crazy Limelight stories.
@Dukethelegend Yep. I evacuated in 1989. I miss the old Atlanta...not the overcrowded, bland culture scene, thug infested new one.
ARS was one of the greatest bands to play and proud they hailed from Georgia! I wish the video had a picture of the Great Chattahoochee River raft race!
Underground Atlanta in the 70's really was underground. What they are are calling Underground Atlanta today doesn"t compare
I grew up in Indianapolis and neve traveled SOUTH of the Ohio River until I joined the USAF.... my First memory of Atlanta was a trip through there on my way to MOODY AFB from tech school from Illinois....
I was at Grant Field during the heyday and I see myself on the lp spine! Wow...
Thanks.
The Olympics ruined Atlanta....it was never the same once they started planning for it. I remember when you could get from one side of town to the other without having to pack a lunch and take a GPS....It was strange seeing the photo of the Fox without all the high rises dwarfing it.... and being able to see the top of the old Marriott's bubble restaraunt at all....
The bubble I think you are referring to is actually on the Hyatt Regency. Anyway, I agree with your assessment (lunch and GPS---true!) and the Fox as I remember it, too.
That's a bitchin' slide show you put with this great song; thank you for making that.
I agree, I've found that the slide shows some of these people put up on youtube are more artistic, interesting and poignant than that of the "experts" who made videos in the 70s 80s and 90s.....
I'm a pro drummer. I grew up on this stuff. and it still turns me on!!
Good ol Atlanta. It's cool seeing how the city was back then. I heard about the Coliseum and that Philips Arena replaced it. Same as the Flames were replaced by the Thrashers. Man I miss those late nights going to the Thrashers games. Now, onto the music. I've just started listening to the Atlanta Rhythm Section, and let me tell you, they totally rule!
thanks
Great pictoral!
Jack lived in Atl in 70's-used to listen to Atl Rythm Section @ their apt in Dekalb practicing tunes -Allman Bros in Chastain park just jamming-Bob Seeger played prom B4 he Was Bob Seeger Silver Bullett -Gary McKee WQXI OMG remember the Birthday Monster ?!! Thanks for the trip down memory lane - what great times we had-the music today comes nowhere near
Wow my city used to be so much smaller. I can't remember past the demolition of everything for the Olympics in 1996.
A FAVORITE
Amazing to see the city before Bank of America Plaza (1992). Polaris was one of the tallest buildings, and the Westin Peachtree Plaza was the tallest hotel in the WORLD when it was built in the 1970's! Unreal!
great song from a great album
Great video. This was back before it was completely overrun with ....
brian norton Racist fascist Nazis
...Northerners who tore down everything to replace them with their featureless, soulless structures, and who sucked the life out of the city with their homogenous gentrification...
Joltin Jack used to listen to ARS practice @ their apartment in Dekalb 1972-sounds like you were jammin' around Atl then too!
Gary Mckee OMG remember the Birthday Monster? Listened to Allman Bros in Chastain Park just jammin - Bob Seeger @ Lakesifde High School played prom B4! he was Bob Seeger and Silver Bullet. Thaks for the trip down memory lane. What a great time we had!!.....
It's amazing as much as Atlanta has changed since the 70s how many of the pictures could've been taken yesterday: the Plaza Theatre, the Hiatt Regency, the Varsity, the Fox. Parts of the city have remained mostly unchanged.
hah...Stumbled upon Weens "rendition" of this song a few years ago...these guys are funky love it.
Thanks. I like that video on your channel as well...the one with all the retro-style art of young couples in their "pad". Kinda reminds me of the video by Steely Dan - "New Frontier" (1982).
I LOVE the pictures in this video. It reminds me of how Atlanta use to be. I see the traffic was still horrible however lol.
I am a HUGE ARS fan. I saw them last summer and posted a few pics of the concert on my facebook page.
Oh yeah...who else attended Champagne Jam, July 7, 1979 at Grant Field? -- ARS, Aerosmith, Cars, Dixie Dregs and Whiteface?? ME! ME! ME!
RIP Robert and Ronnie...
@joltinjack -- you lived in Riverbend when it was party central on the Chattohoochee River -- wild times for damn sure!
It was when Heart showcased Barracuda
OH! You are SO right. I was devastated when Atlanta "won" the Olympic bid. (Everyone else was thrilled.) I knew it was only going to be a nightmare all around. My only hope was that the world would finally recognize that we're not all Scarlett O'Hara clones. I think they finally got that. I'd also hoped that they'd discover that we're not a bunch of backward idiots. Sadly, that did not seem so evident to most.
The once great, Belle of The South ... Atlanta, Georgia! WHAT HAPPENED? So many great traditions have been lost by being, "politically correct!" Really sad! Great song & video! Thanks!
i sure do miss altanta... i could go for a varsity hotdog right now lol as a child i use to get the naked dog
I lived in Atlanta (Riverbend-Post River-and finally Post Woods) from June of 1982 through March 1989. I remember waking up to WQXI, and listening to McKee. I used to be amused at the disdain McKee seemed to have toward the weatherguy (Joe Sobo?) when he tried to be funny. Sobo sounded like a little Italian from the Northeast. McKee was scathingly ruthless at times toward Sobo. HA!
for someone who grew up here in the 80's and early 90's almost 100% of the locations pictures in this video are unreconizable to me.
them were the daysssssssssssssssss
very cool video
Great swing dance song!
Oh my god. That's when it was. I was 16 or 17, my cousins took me there. Fortunately only 75% of that night was "lost". Came down from Gwinett County.
I haven't heard this in years.
This is around the time when Atlanta was starting to head into her best years then peaked when the Braves went through their 90s best player around and winning the World Series in 1995, plus having the Olympics held in 1996...
I loved the picture of the Fox and the Braves
long live the ARS the best in Southern Rock!! Sorry Lenard your # 2 on my list
Love it Johnny's favorite band
Ahhhh..."ARS!!! Champagne Jam '79, The weekend (redbud 'n beer) parties "way down yonder on the Chattahoochie" (on Johnson Ferry), the BEST LOOKIN', CUTEST, MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRLS in the 20th Century!!! Decatur, Eric Quincy Tate (EQT for REAL fans)...days when you could race yer street machines up 'n down the 120 loop without gettin' a ticket 'coz some of the cops (Officers Ball and Anderson!) were cool enough to enjoy the hell outta watchin' us drag safe! Idealism at it's height. It's all gone.
you know it!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got to see some awesome bands 3 years in a row in Dog Days Rock Fests!!!!! Damn skippy(lol) we had some "high class fun" on the 'Hooch with our brewskis tied into an inner tube floating along with us. Yeah, them wuz the days....
This is good shit .Istep in it every chance I get
Two years late in saying so, but.... Thanks!
AHH YES!!! The good ole days!!