Friday, December 5, 2014

Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom

  • 663 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta GA
  • (in The Georgian Terrace ballroom, across from the Fox Theatre)
  • Owners: Alex Cooley, Mark Golob 
  • Capacity: 1100
  • Opened: Wednesday, March 13, 1974
1974
  • Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen (with Rory Gallagher, March 15) - March 13-16
  • Badfinger - March 20-23
  • Aerosmith - March 27-30
  • Dr John - April 3-6
  • Steely Dan - April 8-9
  • Graham Central Station (special guest James Cotton Blues Band, April 11) - April 10-13 
  • Electric Light Orchestra - April 22-23
  • Freddie King, The Night Crawlers - April 24-27
  • Tim Buckley, Albatross, Fat Chance Band - May 8-11
  • Charlie Daniels, Bruce Springsteen, Aim - May 13-18
  • Argent - May 20-21
  • Ballin' Jack, Brother - May 23-25
  • NRBQ, Henry Gross, New Days Ahead - May 27-June 1
  • El Roacho, Heartsfield - June 3-4
  • Slade, 10cc - June 5
  • Roy Buchanan - June 6-8
  • Mary McCrary - June 10-12
  • REO Speedwagon, Elder - June 13-15
  • Papa Doc, Outlaw - June 17-18
  • Kiss, Outlaw - June 19-22
  • Isis, Minnie Riperton - June 24-29
  • Cowboy, Michael Urbaniak & Fusion - July 1-6
  • Kansas, Fresh Start - July 8-12
  • Kansas, Cisco - July 13
  • Nazareth - July 15
  • Kiss - July 17-18
  • Sugarloaf - July 19-20
  • Atlanta Rhythm Section, Birnam Wood - July 22-27
  • Trapeze, Leviathan - July 29-30
  • Parliament Funkadelic, Leviathan - July 31-August 1
  • Ashford & Simpson, Leviathan - August 2-3
  • REO Speedwagon, Mose Jones - August 5-6
  • Mose Jones - August 7-8
  • Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Mose Jones - August 9
  • The Stampeders, Mose Jones - August 10
  • Orphan, Mercury - August 12-13
  • Locomotiv GT, Mercury - August 14
  • Mercury, Metroplex - August 15-17
  • Hudson & Ford, Outlaws - August 19-24
  • Rory Gallagher, Status Quo - August 26-28
  • Locomotiv GT, Mike Greene Band - August 29-31
  • Mayson, Borealis - September 2-3
  • Martha Reeves with Nicky Hopkins, Borealis - September 4-7
  • Charlie Daniels, Tate Blues Band - September 9-10
  • Freddie King, Fat Chance - September 11-14
  • Suzy Quatro - September 12
  • Fat Chance - September 16-17
  • Kiss, Rush, Fat Chance - September 18-20
  • Kiss, Outlaws, Fat Chance - September 21
  • Mike Quatro, Mother's Finest - September 23-25
  • Aerosmith, Mother's Finest, Muscadine Blues Band - September 26-27
  • Mother's Finest, Muscadine Blues Band - September 28
  • Roy Wood's Wizzard, Rockets - September 30-October 1
  • Nektar, Rockets - October 2
  • Caravan, Rockets - October 3-5
  • Muscadine Blues Band - October -9
  • Blue Tail Fly, Warm - October 10-12
  • Harvey Mandell, Mercury - October 14-17
  • Harvey Mandell, Cunningham Corner - October 18-19
  • Sailcat - October 21-23
  • Fanny, Sailcat - October 24-26
  • Canned Heat, Brother - October 28-30
  • Parliament Funkadelic, Brother - October 31-November 2
  • Kansas, UFO - November 4-5
  • Kansas, Mahogany Rush - November 6-9
  • James Cotton Blues Band, Rich Mountain Tower - November 11-14
  • James Cotton Blues Band, Carrie Nation - November 15-16
  • Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, Don Preston - November 19-23
  • Ross, Outlaws - November 25-27
  • Ross, Michael Murphy - November 28-30
  • Fancy, Sailcat - December 2-3
  • Alex Harvey Band, Sailcat - December 4
  • Renaissance, Alex Harvey Band - December 5-7
  • Cactus, Lightning - December 10-14
  • The Roger McGuinn Band, Navasota - December 16-21
  • Mother's Finest, Fat Chance - December 23-24, 26-28
  • Freddie King, Fat Chance - December 31

3 comments:

  1. does anyone know who opened for freddie king on may 8, 1976 at alex cooley's electric ballroom?

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  2. I don't know, but perhaps another reader will. Thanks for stopping by. Cheers..

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  3. I was wandering thru my old ticket stubs the other day and I came across a ticket from the Electric Ballroom on which I wrote the acts that I saw that evening since the ticket did not include that info. Here is what I wrote then: Thin Lizzy, Graham Parker & the Rumour, and Gasolin'; then I wrote "Sep 1976", but for the life of me I can find no record of such a concert anywhere on the Internet. Does anyone else remember that lineup? If so, what specific date did it occur? Thanks for any assistance that can be provided to an old man whistlin' towards the graveyard...so to speak. Rock on brothers!

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