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22-508: With a final estimated cost between $ 8.5 million to $ 9 million, the arena was designed by Odell Associates and constructed by McDevitt and Street, of Charlotte, North Carolina. The venue capacity is configurable from 9,800 to 13,800 seats. Hampton Coliseum was one of several former homes of the American Basketball Association Virginia Squires professional basketball franchise. The coliseum

44-582: A Miracle," Irving Berlin 's "Russian Lullaby," Smokey Robinson 's " The Way You Do the Things You Do " and " I Second That Emotion ," Peter Tosh 's "Stop That Train," Bob Marley 's "Stir It Up," Robbie Robertson 's " The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down ," the Manhattans ' " Shining Star ," Van Morrison 's " And It Stoned Me " and " Bright Side of the Road " and Norton Buffalo 's "Ain't No Bread in

66-507: Is Brad Bartholomew, who joined the board in 2014. Jerry Garcia Band The Jerry Garcia Band was a San Francisco Bay Area rock band led by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead . Garcia founded the band in 1975; it remained the most important of his various side projects until his death in 1995. The band regularly toured and recorded sporadically throughout its twenty-year existence, generally, but not always, during breaks in

88-460: Is what it is, and who was I to say anything? This band preceded me; the whole concept of the band preceded me." Staples of the band's repertoire included Holland–Dozier–Holland 's " How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) " (widely perceived as the group's signature song and their most-performed song), Peter Rowan 's "Midnight Moonlight," Jimmy Cliff 's " The Harder They Come " and "Sitting in Limbo,"

110-514: The Sensational Nightingales ' "My Sisters and Brothers," Hank Ballard 's "Tore Up Over You," Bob McDill and Allen Reynolds ' " Catfish John ," John Lennon 's " Dear Prudence ," Jesse Stone 's "Don't Let Go," Allen Toussaint's "I'll Take a Melody" and " Get Out of My Life, Woman ", Little Milton 's "That's What Love Will Make You Do," Chuck Berry 's " Let It Rock " and " You Never Can Tell ," Bruce Cockburn 's "Waiting for

132-638: The 1972 Golden Globe winning documentary, Elvis on Tour , with Presley donning a powder blue jumpsuit. Madonna brought The Virgin Tour to the Coliseum on May 30, 1985. Metallica performed at the Hampton Coliseum in 1986. The venue remains popular with the rock band Phish , whose multi-night stand in 1998 was released as Hampton Comes Alive as well as choosing Hampton Coliseum as the site of their 2009 reunion shows . The band has performed at

154-641: The 1987, 1988, and 1989 Colonial Athletic Association Men's Basketball Tournaments were held in the coliseum. The Old Dominion Monarchs basketball team played occasional games in the coliseum from 1970 to 1995, usually one game a year, although twice the team played several games in the coliseum, in the 1979–80 and 1984–85 seasons. The Hampton Coliseum is the home of the Virginia Duals annual wrestling tournament, hosting invitational college and high school matches. The National Wrestling Alliance , WCW , WWE and other wrestling promotions have run shows at

176-903: The Breadbox." The band also performed Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II 's " Ol' Man River " and Miles Davis ' " So What " on one occasion apiece. As with the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia regularly covered many songs by Bob Dylan with the group, including " Tangled Up in Blue ," " Simple Twist of Fate ," " Knockin' on Heaven's Door ," " Forever Young ," " Señor (Tales of Yankee Power) ," " Tears of Rage ," " I Shall Be Released ," " Tough Mama " and " When I Paint My Masterpiece ." The group did not perform between November 1978 and October 1979; during that year, Garcia, Kahn and keyboardist Merl Saunders (who performed with Garcia and Kahn from 1971 to 1975 in

198-737: The Coliseum since the 1980s. The Grateful Dead performed 21 concerts at Hampton Coliseum between 1979 and 1992, including their now-famous 1989 shows at the venue. The shows were later commercially released as Formerly the Warlocks because the band was billed under the name The Warlocks. Elvis Presley performed 2 shows at the Coliseum in April 1972, another show in March 1974, and another 2 shows in August 1976. All shows were sold out. Performances from Presley's show on April 9, 1972, featured heavily in

220-512: The Grateful Dead in the early 1980s. During this period, the group continued to play as many as fifteen concerts a year in an informal residency at The Warfield , a 2,300-capacity theater in San Francisco . Clarence Clemons also guested with them on tour for a brief time in 1989 and 1990. Kahn briefly led the group (rechristened JGB ) following Garcia's death in 1995. Seals became the bandleader after Kahn's death in 1996; as of 2017, he

242-664: The Grateful Dead's schedule. Although the name Jerry Garcia Band only properly applies from late January 1976, this Garcia side-band's actual history and repertoire really began with local club gigs in 1970 featuring Garcia, Merl Saunders, John Kahn and various others, including Tom Fogerty on rhythm guitar (1971-72), Martin Fierro on tenor sax and flute (1974-75), and briefly (October-December 1975) Nicky Hopkins on piano, as well as drummers Bill Kreutzmann, Bill Vitt, Gaylord Birch, and Paul Humphrey. Garcia and Kahn met in 1970 playing together at Monday jam sessions hosted by Howard Wales at

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264-612: The Saunders/Garcia Band and Legion of Mary ) briefly performed in Reconstruction , a more egalitarian jazz-funk ensemble. According to Linda Kahn in a 2017 Reddit Ask Me Anything prompt, much of the band's repertoire was curated by her husband: "[H]e did bring most of the cover material to the table. He has a big record collection and they're all in really good shape, he was pretty anal about his records. I think as far as picking songs, he listened to records all

286-575: The band's original repertoire (most notably "Deal," "They Love Each Other," "Sugaree," and " Friend of the Devil ") was shared with the Grateful Dead. During Garcia's lifetime, the Jerry Garcia Band released one studio album, Cats Under the Stars , and one live album, Jerry Garcia Band . A number of additional live albums were released posthumously. The group was an indirect beneficiary of

308-575: The commercial success of the Grateful Dead's In the Dark (1987); as the latter group transitioned to summer stadium tours and multi-night arena engagements during their autumn and spring tours, the tour itineraries of the Garcia Band (hitherto confined to clubs and small theaters) came to encompass arenas (primarily in Garcia's key northeastern United States market) and outdoor amphitheaters favored by

330-455: The genre), gospel music and reggae . Rock versions of contemporary Americana were also prominent. The relatively languorous tempos were dictated by Garcia and Kahn, much to the chagrin of longtime drummer David Kemper: "[I]t bothered me from the very beginning. I’d say, ‘You know we need some uptempo material, it’s just putting me to sleep; the band is putting me to sleep.’ At first I’d say these things, and then I just decided to go with it. It

352-568: The release of many notable live albums and tracks that were recorded at the venue. 37°2′5.01″N 76°22′52.82″W  /  37.0347250°N 76.3813389°W  / 37.0347250; -76.3813389 Odell Associates Odell Associates is an American architectural practice formed by Arthur G. Odell Jr. in 1940. Originally based in Charlotte, North Carolina , it now has offices in Virginia, Texas and China. Arthur Gould Odell

374-540: The small San Francisco club, the Matrix. Over the years, the lineup of the Jerry Garcia Band changed many times. The one constant member besides Garcia himself was bassist John Kahn , who served as Garcia's principal musical collaborator outside of the Grateful Dead after 1970. Melvin Seals had the next longest tenure, serving as keyboardist from 1981 onward. Jerry Garcia's musical interests were famously varied, and this

396-529: The time, so it depends on whoever was in the band and whatever group was playing at the time and that influenced John a lot." Although the repertoire was strongly tilted toward covers, several Garcia- Robert Hunter originals (including "Run for the Roses," "Mission in the Rain," "Gomorrah," "Cats Under the Stars" and "Reuben and Cherise") were performed exclusively or near-exclusively by the Jerry Garcia Band. Some of

418-827: The venue 21 times between 1995 and the end of 2018. The world's first pay-per-view live broadcast of a rock show was held at the venue on December 18, 1981, when The Rolling Stones American Tour 1981 ended with a two-night stint. Guitarist Keith Richards memorably hit a man who ran onstage with his guitar. Other performers include: The Who , Bon Jovi , Led Zeppelin , Van Halen , Pretty Lights , Pink Floyd , U2 , Marvin Gaye , The Jacksons , Parliament-Funkadelic , Tina Turner , Bruce Springsteen , R.E.M ., Dave Matthews Band , String Cheese Incident , Widespread Panic , Jerry Garcia Band , Pearl Jam , Griz , KISS , and Grateful Dead offshoots Furthur and The Other Ones . The popularity of Hampton Coliseum among performers has led to

440-953: Was also home to the Virginia Wings in the American Hockey League and Hampton Gulls in the Southern Hockey League and the Hampton Aces of the North Eastern Hockey League and Eastern Hockey League . The coliseum hosted the Division I men's college basketball ECAC South Region tournament , organized by the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), in 1980 and 1981 . The 1985 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament and

462-624: Was born November 22, 1913, in Concord, North Carolina , and studied for a year at Duke University in 1930 before transferring to Cornell University , where he graduated in 1935 with a degree in architecture. He continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Odell became president of American Institute of Architects in 1964-1965). He died April 21, 1988, in Charlotte. The current CEO

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484-520: Was reflected in the diverse music played by his band. Like the Grateful Dead, the Jerry Garcia Band played rock music that was influenced by blues , folk , country , and jazz in an improvisatory milieu that largely served as a framework for Garcia's solos. However, the group eschewed the former band's avant-garde and world music influences in favor of a slower, groove-based "bar band" approach strongly oriented toward rhythm and blues (the band often featured female backing vocalists characteristic of

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