If we're giving bonuses for concerts Coleman (then Memorial) has hosted a helluva lot more than just Elvis.

- Jimi Hendrix (69)
- Janis Joplin (70)
- Elvis (71, 75, 76)
- The Who (71)
- Jethro Tull (72, 75)
- The Eagles (72)
- Elton John (72, 74, 76)
- Led Zeppelin (73)
- Neil Young (73)
- Allman Brothers (73, 82, 93)
- Lynard Skynard (75)
- Grateful Dead (77)
- Eric Clapton (79)
- Charlie Daniels (80)
- Stevie Nicks and Joe Walsh (83)
- Bob Dylan (90, 97)
- Jimmy Buffett (92)
- Tom Petty (95)
- Widespread Panic (96)
- Hank Williams Jr (08)

Plus The Band, Beach Boys, Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Al Green, Doobie Brothers, James Taylor along with Ronald Reagan and Bob Hope.

It's a shitty basketball arena but it has a ton of history - especially musical. That dwindled when the BJCC opened in Birmingham.

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Posted on 3/3/22 at 4:27 pm to SummerOfGeorge

quote:
- Jimi Hendrix (69)
- Janis Joplin (70)
- Elvis (71, 75, 76)
- The Who (71)
- Jethro Tull (72, 75)
- The Eagles (72)
- Elton John (72, 74, 76)
- Led Zeppelin (73)
- Neil Young (73)
- Allman Brothers (73)
- Lynard Skynard (75)
- Grateful Dead (77)

If you showed up on campus on 1969 and graduated law school in 1977 you would have been able to see these acts on campus.

That's pretty fvckin insane. The only major tour between 1969 and 1977 that didn't stop in Tuscaloosa was the Beatles, and that was mainly due to the fact that their last big tour years (1966) was right before Coleman opened in 1968.

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