Tuesday, December 9, 2014

The 12th Gate

  • 36 10th Street NW, Atlanta GA
  • Founder: Robin Feld, in conjunction with Methodist church (non-profit)
  • Capacity: 150
  • Opened: 1968
  • Closed: January 1974 
    1971
    • Eric Quincy Tate - January 1
    • Radar - January 2
    • Avenue of Happiness - January 3
    • Eric Quincy Tate - January 7-8
    • Younguns - January 9-10
    • Little Feat, Stump Brothers - January 11-13
    • Fox Watson, Stump Brothers - January 15
    • Fox Watson, Jim Rhyne - January 16
    • Shayde - January 17
    • Stillbrooke - January 21
    • Shayde - January 22-23
    • Doc Fields & Friends - January 24
    • Radar - January 28-29
    • Eastside Blues Band - January 30-31
    • Captain Beefheart, Ry Cooder, Booger (12th Gate benefit at Sports Arena) - February 4
    • Avenue of Happiness - February 5
    • Wet Willie - February 6-7
    • Younguns - February 11-12
    • Booger - February 13-14
    • Rev. Pearly Brown, Anne Romaine - February 17
    • What Brothers - February 18-19
    • Wet Willie - February 20
    • Stump Brothers - February 21
    • Hampton Grease Band - February 25-27
    • Henley Walton's John - February 28
    • East Side Blues Band - March 4-5
    • Scald Cats - March 6
    • Leonda - March 7
    • Robin Conant - March 11
    • Radar - March 12-13
    • Fox Watson - March 14
    • Scald Cats - March 18
    • Wet Willie - March 19-21
    • South - March 25
    • Booger - March 26
    • Milkweed - March 27-28
    • Sylvia & Bart, Deborah Emerson, Foxes, Jim Rhyne - April 2
    • David & Judy Doke, Dan English, Pan Handle - April 3
    • Buddy Moss, Jimmy Hartz - April 4
    • David & Judy Doke - April8
    • Radar - April 9-10
    • Uncle Lumpy - April 15
    • Booger - April 16-17
    • Foxes - April 18 
    • Dan English - April 22
    • East Side Blues Band - April 23
    • Hansen & Alger - April 24
    • Avenue of Happiness - April 25
    • Hampton Grease Band - April 29-May 2
    • Goose Creek Symphony - May 6
    • Hansen & Alger - May 7
    • Fox Watson - May 8
    • Vince Quinn - May 9
    • Little Feat - May 11-13
    • Ever Wind - May 14
    • Buddy Moss - May 15
    • Frank Luther - May 16
    • Archie; Michael & Kevin - May 20
    • Scald Cats - May 21-22
    • Doris Abrahams - May 23
    • Steve Dempsey - May 27
    • Booger - May 28-29
    • David & Judy Doke - May 30
    • Henley Walton's John - June 3
    • Wet Willie - June 4-6
    • Milkweed - June 10-12
    • Avenue of Happiness - June 13
    • East Side Blues Band [J Geils dropped in & played a set June 18] - June 17-18
    • Buddy Moss - June 19
    • Frank Luther - June 20
    • David & Judy Doke - June 24
    • Doris Abrahams, Vince Quinn - June 25-27
    • Jeff Espina - July 1-3
    • Bull - July 4
    • Binoogah - July 8
    • Foxes, Legal Tender - July 9-11
    • Milkweed - July 15-17
    • Bull - July 18
    • Hampton Grease Band - July 22-25
    • Legal Tender - July 29
    • East Side Blues Band - July 30-31
    • Bull - August 1
    • Salmon & Dale - August 5
    • Vince Quinn - August 6-7
    • Rhino Country - August 8
    • Perpetual Motion - August 12-13
    • Foxes - August 14
    • Bull - August 15
    • Wet Willie - August 19-21
    • Sunday Morning - August 22
    • Jeff Espina - August 26-28
    • Bull - August 29
    • Sundance - September 2-3
    • Scald Cats - September 4
    • Doke - September 5
    • East Side Blues Band - September 9-11
    • Dan English - September 12
    • Hampton Grease Band - September 16-18
    • Dawn Workshop - September 19
    • Radar - September 23-26
    • Bull - October 3
    • Prometheus Unbound - October 7
    • East Side Blues Band - October 8
    • Hampton Grease Band - October 9-10
    • Sundance - October 14
    • Gershon Freidlin, Pat Alger - October 15-16
    • Gershon Freidlin, John Young - October 17
    • Doris Abrahams - October 21-23
    • Vince Quinn - October 24
    • Milkweed - October 28-31
    • Lawton Singh, Iskon - November 1
    • Radar - November 4-6
    • Bull, Frank Luther - November 7
    • East Side Blues Band - November 12-13
    • Foxes - November 14
    • Salmon & Dale, Summerwhisk - November 18-19
    • Robin Conant - November 20
    • Bull - November 21
    • Hampton Grease Band - November 25-27
    • Buddy Moss - November 28
    • Jeff Espina - December 2-4
    • Bull - December 3
    • Milkweed - December 9-11
    • Suggins County String Band - December 12
    • Salmon & Dale - December 16-17
    • Doke - December 18-19
    • Eric Quincy Tate - December 21
    • Radar - December 22-24
    • East Side Blues Band - December 25-26
    • Silverman - December 28-29
    • The Avenue of Happiness - December 30
    • Robin Conant & Pat Alger - December 31
    1972
    • Suggins County String Band - January 1
    • Bull - January 2
    • Salmon & Dale - January 6
    • Milkweed - January 7-8
    • Prometheus Unbound - January 9
    • Suggins County String Band - January 1
    • Bull - January 2
    • Hampton Grease Band - January 13
    • East Side Blues Band - January 20-22
    • Jazz with Bull - January 23
    • Suggins County String Band - January 27-28
    • Radar - January 29-30
    • Doke Family - February 3
    • Salmon & Dale - February 4
    • Jeff Espina - February 5-6
    • Silverman - February 10-11
    • Milkweed - February 12-13
    • Hampton Grease Band - February 24-26
    • Rick Anderson - February 27
    • Wet Willie - March 2-4
    • Stonehenge - March 5
    • David Olney - March 9-11
    • The Motion - March 11
    • Forty Fingers - March 16
    • Radar - March 17-19
    • New Avenue of Happiness - March 23
    • Hampton Grease Band - March 24-25
    • Sherry King & The American Beauty Rose Band - March 26
    • Forty Fingers - March 30
    • David Olney - March 31-April 1
    • Solid Senders - April 6-7
    • Rev. Pearly Brown - April 8
    • Buddy Moss - April 9
    • Gershon Freidlin & Matty O'Hare - April 13-16
    • Jeff Espina - April 20-22
    • The Starving Braineaters - April 23
    • Flood - April 27
    • Suggins County String Band - April 28-30
    • Vince Quinn - May 4
    • Milkweed - May 5-6
    • American Beauty Rose Band - May 11-13
    • Bull - May 14
    • The Starving Braineaters - May 18-19
    • Radar - May 20-21
    • Wet Willie - May 25
    • Hampton Grease Band - May 26-27
    • Leon Bass & John D. Young - May 28
    • Solid Senders  June 1-2
    • Forty Fingers - June 3-4
    • The Atlanta Electric Farm Band - June 8
    • Robin Conant, David Olney - June 9
    • Stump Brothers - June 10
    • Bull - June 11
    • The Starving Braineaters - June 15-16
    • Jeff Espina - June 17-18
    • Millard Archibald - June 22
    • Zoot Cooter - June 23-25
    • Faith Illusion - June 27
    • Radar - June 29-July 1
    • Bull - July 2
    • Pat Alger - July 6
    • Pat Alger, Robin Conant - July 7
    • Silverman - July 8-9
    • Hampton Grease Band - July 14-15
    • Bull - July 16
    • Chappaqua - July 20-22
    • Albert & Newman - July 23
    • Shuffling Hungarians - July 27
    • Susan Miller - July 28-29
    • The Dokes, Geiger Rock - July 30
    • David Olney - August 3-4
    • Suggins County String Band - August 5-6
    • Forty Fingers - August 10-11
    • East Side Blues Band - August 12
    • Hampton Grease Band - August 18-20
    • Starving Braineaters - August 24-26
    • Bull - August 27
    • Pat Alger - August 31-September 1
    • Buddy Moss - September 2-3
    • Stump Brothers - September 7-8
    • Jeff Espina - September 9-10
    • Stillwood - September 14-15
    • Suggins County String Band - September 16-17
    • Larry Coryell - September 26-October 1
    • Hampton Grease Band - October 6-7
    • Bull - October 8
    • Zoot Cooter - October 12-15
    • Fletcher & The Piedmonts - October 19
    • Buddy Moss - October 20-21
    • Starving Braineaters - October 22
    • Fred Cale - October 26
    • Jeff Espina - October 27-29
    • Leg Of Otis, Snat Brothers - November 3-4
    • Bull - November 5
    • Arc - November 9
    • Pat Alger - November 10-12
    • Suggins County String Band - November 16-17
    • Joe da Roach - November 18-19
    • Hampton Grease Band - November 24-25
    • Doris Abrahams - November 26, November 30-December 2
    • Element - December 3
    • David Ezell - December 7
    • Leg Of Otis - December 8-9
    • David Olney - December 10
    • Nancy & Jeremiah - December 14
    • David Olney - December 15-16
    • Leg of Otis - December 21
    • Starving Braineaters - December 22-23
    • Weather Report - December 26-28
    1973
    • Hampton Grease Band - January 4-6
    • Bull - January 7
    • Forty Fingers - January 11-12
    • Flood - January 13-14
    • East Side Blues Band - January 25-28
    • Weather Report - January 29-31
    • Ellen McIlwaine, Bill Sheffield - February 1-2
    • Ellen McIlwaine, Pat Alger - February 3-4
    • Stump Brothers - February 8
    • Buddy Moss - February 9-10
    • Bull - January 11
    • Jim Ryne - February 15
    • Jeff Espina - February 16-18
    • Leg of Otis - February 22-24
    • Bull - February 25
    • Breakfast Special - March 1-4
    • Smith & Scrapper - March 8-9
    • Starving Braineaters - March 10-11
    • East Side Blues Band - March 15-18
    • The Cummings Brothers - March 22-24
    • Bull - March 25
    • Big Mama Thornton, George "Harmonica" Smith, East Side Blues Band - March 27-April 21
    • (closed for remodeling) 
    • McCoy Tyner Quartet ("Grand Reopening") - May 1-5
    • John Herald & The Honkies - May 7-12
    • Bill Evans Trio - May 14-19
    • The Elvin Jones Ensemble - May 21-26
    • Pat Alger, Will Boulware, Mike Holbrook, Al Nicholson - May 28
    • Buddy Moss, Sparky Rucker - May 29-June 2
    • East Side Blues Band - June 4-9
    • Pat Alger, Jeff Espina - June 12-16
    • Townes Van Zandt - June 18-23
    • Bill Braynon & The Soundsationals, Wahoo - June 25-30
    • Silverman - July 2-7
    • Rahsaan Roland Kirk & The Vibration Society - July 9-12
    • Time - July 13-14, 16-21
    • Keith Sykes, Pritchard Avenue Band - July 23-28
    • Gary Bartz, NTU Troop - July 30-August 4
    • Pat Alger, Robin Conant - August 7-11
    • Lifeforce - August 13-18
    • Silverman - August 20-23, 25
    • Friends & Neighbors - August 24
    • Elements - August 27
    • Mose Allison - August 28-September 1
    • Big Mama Thornton, George "Harmonica" Smith - September 3-9
    • Breakfast Special - September 15-18
    • Oregon - October 4-7
    • Taylor & Francisco - October 8-13
    • Pharoah Sanders - October 16-21
    • Silverman - October 22-27
    • Mad Mountain Mime Troupe - October 30, November 1-3
    • Protrudamus - November 6-11
    • John Hammond - November 12-18
    • McCoy Tyner Quartet - November 20-25
    • Malombo - November 26-December 1
    • Ellen McIlwaine - December 4-9
    • Oregon - December 11-16
    • Gary Bartz, NTU Troop - December 18-23
    • Mike Greene Band - December 27-30
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    9 comments:

    1. UnknownJanuary 12, 2016 at 12:25 AM

      Yikes, big congrats on compiling this list. Robin Feld wasn't the founder, there was at least one earlier man involved with its beginning. Then Robin and Joe Roman took it over. Robin was probably a college freshman at the time. After her freshman year she stayed in Atlanta to tun the club, many years later marrying Paul McCandless of the band Oregon, settling in NYC and then Bolinas, CA where she died.

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    2. A. WalkerJanuary 12, 2016 at 5:14 PM

      Thank you for this. What history I gathered online had her working together with the church in the beginning. From what I read, Joe came in a bit later to co-manage with her, but you would know better if you knew them all firsthand. I just came across this link to her personal history. Robin Feld was an amazing woman, taken way too soon. http://www.coastalpost.com/05/01/10.htm

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    3. Gus KaufmanMarch 30, 2016 at 9:14 AM

      Robin co-ran/owned it with the amazing, charismatic Ursula Alexander for many years...Ursula later managed the Great Southeast Music Hall, then got involved with moviemaking in GA, moved to Hollywood, was a producer for Dynasty...now divides her time between NY and Charleston.

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    4. Pat AlgerJuly 2, 2017 at 1:38 PM

      Originally the 12th Gate was a Methodist Youth Fellowship inner-city outreach post - a volunteer run coffee house started by Rev. Bruce Donnely - Robin Feld very well may have been there in the beginning. I was raised in the Methodist church and went there initially because they had folk music and it was a friendly place for a small town kid going to GA Tech.

      Later Robin Feld along with Joe Roman turned it into the hip Venue it became drawing local and National Talent and eventually serving beer as well as coffee. Ursula Alexander also was one of the key people working there and I believe she was responsible for getting acts like Little Feat to play there.

      I played there quite a bit - Carter Tomassi was the most artful of all the local photographers. There is an iconic long-haired photo of me sitting on the front porch of the Gate on his website. Gus Kauffman wrote for the Great Speckled Bird among others and wrote a review of my last performance there before I moved to Woodtock, New York on my long journey into show business.

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      1. Reid SpencerNovember 27, 2018 at 7:14 PM

        I remember that shot of you at the Gate. Carter also took a classic shot of JP in the Kin-Tel Studios when we were recording. JP, Mat and I are getting together to play two concerts on Orcas Island April 1-2. Looks like the last date we played at the 12th Gate as Milkweed was May 1972.

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      2. AnonymousDecember 30, 2022 at 12:03 PM

        Hey Pat! Just discovered this page, and it was great seeing your post. I was living in ATL when you were playing at 12th Gate, then I too moved to Woodstock. Fond memories of great music and great friends! All the best! Dave Perkins

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    5. A. WalkerJuly 2, 2017 at 3:47 PM

      I'm so glad you found your way to this site, and congratulations to you on all the success you've achieved in the years since the 12th Gate. Your added insight is very much appreciated. I agree, too, that Carter Tomassi's photos (www.messyoptics.com) are at the top of the list in capturing the era in ATL back then. Such a time....

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    6. Mystere2July 13, 2018 at 1:17 PM

      Wow! What a source. Where on Earth did you acquire this treasure. Might I put a link on The Strip Project?

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    7. UnknownJanuary 3, 2022 at 12:49 PM

      Such a wonderful time in Atlanta and the positive vibes at the 12th Gate.Thank you Ursala for resurrecting this blog!I had no idea how the Gate met its demise.I enjoyed my time living and working with "Milkweed".Ursala you are one of a kind!

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