I can't stand that I missed this! I had just had a baby like the week before...so yep NO WAY to go. Ya know... I started working at the Plex at ...gulp...14. I loved that club! I have boxes full of playlists from almost every show that I ever saw at the old Plex on Spring, The next one, 688, and for some reason...Blue Rat flyers, and even a menu from Doby's next to the Majestic. Someone on here asked about Bryon Marsh..look him up on Facebook..alive and doing well..Paul..sorry I missed the party. love you long time.

Great club. I remember when it was gutted and toured the place with Marc Williams. I was a DJ at WRAS and Marc was the Music director plus became the house DJ at 688. Here are two acts from two ends of the spectrum who played 688: The Dead Kennedys and Chubby Checker. I was shocked how many folks were there for Chubby. He put on a great face paced show and the punks were jammin'

i was a 688 regular from 1980 to 1983 and was at all the iggy shows...i believe first show was joan jett in front of about 5 people...huge jason and the nashville scorchers fan which 688 first exposed me to...black flag before henry rolling when dez sang, i got pulled up onstage to sing louie louie, got my lip split open by some ahole on my way up, basically just shouted obscenities spitting blood from my mouth, then dove off the stage, then drove back to west ga college and woke up covered in bruises and welts and loved every minute of the experience....that's 688 to me...one day a biker bar, the next a place for anti-social people like me...i returned towards the end of 1984 and it still had great bands...husker du on valentines day sticks out the most

It seems like I lived in the 688. One night they had a rock 'n roll polka band - it was an absolute blast to dance to them. I was there for several nights of Iggy Pop - there weren't many people there because no one had heard of Iggy. REM was like the house band. Joan Jett was hard core back then. I really loved the night that Jim Carroll played - he was so pale and thin, we wondered if he would live through the first set. The 688 was the first place in Atlanta to have music videos. I still have my t-shirt from the first anniversary of the 688; it is the limited edition version with Sheila, Steve, and Tony's names on it. What ever happened to Baby and the Pacifiers and their club? That was also a fun scene.

WOW! It was gone all too soon,.... never got the chance to say thanks to Steve, but somehow I think he's still living it , I was a true child in the mix of it all back then, He and Mark (wras) Got "Current Rage" heard? OH, the storys....