The Atlanta International Pop Festival, which Cooley helped produce, brought ’60s icons Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, the Staple Singers and others to the Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton in July 1969. Cooley also presented the Grateful Dead at a free concert in Piedmont Park at about the same time.
“We did it for the love of the music, we honestly did,” Cooley told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 1997 of the pop festival. “We made $6,000, and, believe it or not, we felt kind of guilty about making money on it.”
And he kept on being Atlanta's musical godfather right up until his death.
There better be a BIG write-up in Rolling Stone.
Proof Positive the world is not flat: If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
If you get a chance, read the wiki entry of his (lengthy) life's accomplishments- it wasn't all gravy but he did a lot with a lot of folks over the years, some of whom people will recognize.
I wonder who, these days, will do what Graham and Cooley did back then...
Director Alan Arkush worked as an usher at the Filmore East, and he's popped up in Hitchcock type cameos in his films wearing his Filmore East usher's shirt.
He directed a film called Get Crazy!, about a New Year concert at a venue obviously inspired by the Filmore, starring Malcolm McDowell as superstar rocker Reggie Wanker and featuring Lou Reed as a Dylan-style folk-rocker.
Unfortunately, you can't get a copy these days, and there will never be an official DVD release.
Proof Positive the world is not flat: If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
Oddball factoid: Bowie may have played on a Kinks album before he was "David Bowie" - he did session work on sax in the kate Sixties as "David Jones" (his real name) and there's a credit for that name on sax on at least one of the studio tracks on the Kinks' "Everybody's in Show-Biz".
Proof Positive the world is not flat: If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
Julie wrote:My heart is hurting for this one. As much as I learned to love his music as I grew up, my first memory of the man was from film. RIP Goblin King!
Yanno how some people have Angels/Devils for a conscience? I have a Dark Elf ShadowKnight and a Half Elf Ranger for mine. The really bad part is when they agree on something.
I usually mark the passing of even favored musical and acting talents with just a modicum of sadness. But I have really been feeling down over Mr. Bowie's passing. He's one of the ones I'll really miss.
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Yanno how some people have Angels/Devils for a conscience? I have a Dark Elf ShadowKnight and a Half Elf Ranger for mine. The really bad part is when they agree on something.
Jabberwonky wrote:I usually mark the passing of even favored musical and acting talents with just a modicum of sadness. But I have really been feeling down over Mr. Bowie's passing. He's one of the ones I'll really miss.
Take comfort in that David knew the end was nigh, managed to be productive to the very end (and happy, judging by his birthday photo shoot) and shuffled off this mortal coil on his own terms. To that end i echo, "Well played, sirrah, well played."