688 Club

The club re-opened as the "686 Club" on December 31, 1986, but was renamed "The Rollick" the next day. By 1990, the space was occupied by a club called "Weekends". The club was operated by an Atlanta attorney as an industrial/goth club known as Tyranny from 1995 - 2000. The space was later occupied by Outa Control Inc. Sometime thereafter, the original building was extensively remodeled. As of July 2012, it houses a Concentra urgent care medical facility.

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A partial list of notable bands and artists that appeared at the 688 Club between 1980 and 1986:

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• 10,000 Maniacs
• 999
• 8 Eyed Spy (Lydia Lunch)
• The Accelerators
• Alex Chilton
• The Bangles
• The Basics
• Billy Idol
• The Black Crowes (as "Mr. Crowe's Garden")
• Black Flag
• Bo Diddley
• The BoDeans
• The Bongos
• The Brains
• Glenn Branca
• Bush Tetras
• Butthole Surfers
• Cabaret Voltaire
• Certain General
• Chris Wood & The New Restraints
• Chubby Checker
• The Church
• Circle Jerks
• The Creatures
• The Cretones
• Dash Rip Rock
• DDT
• Dead Kennedys
• Dexy's Midnight Runners
• D.N.A.
• Dreams So Real
• Dream Syndicate
• Drivin' N' Cryin'
• Echo & the Bunnymen
• Einstürzende Neubauten
• The Exploited
• The Fall
• Fishbone
• The Fleshtones
• Flipper
• A Flock of Seagulls
• Gang of Four
• The Go-Go's
• The Golden Palominos
• Guadalcanal Diary
• The Gun Club
• Hoodoo Gurus
• Human Sexual Response
• Hüsker Dü
• Iggy Pop
• INXS
• Jason & the Scorchers
• The Jesus and Mary Chain
• Jim Carroll
• Joe "King" Carrasco
• John Cale
• Johnny Clegg and Savuka
• Jonathan Richman
• Kevin McFoy Dunn
• Let's Active
• Love Tractor
• Lyres
• Marianne Faithfull
• Marshall Crenshaw
• Meat Puppets
• The Method Actors
• Minutemen
• Mr. Crowe's Garden
• New Order
• The Nightporters

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• Now Explosion
• Oh OK
• Oingo Boingo
• Pete Shelley
• Peter Tork
• The Plague
• The Plastics
• The Plazza Drugs
• The Psychedelic Furs
• Public Image Ltd.
• Pylon
• Ramones
• Raves
• Raybeats
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• R.E.M.
• The Replacements
• The Residents
• The Restraints
• Richard Hell and the Voidoids
• Robyn Hitchcock
• Rodney Crowell
• RuPaul
• Saccharine Trust
• Samhain
• The Side Effects
• Siouxsie and the Banshees
• The Smithereens
• Sonic Youth
• Specimen
• Stan Ridgway
• The Stranglers
• The Swimming Pool Q's
• The Swinging Richards
• Timbuk 3
• Translator
• U.K. Subs
• Uncle Green
• Uncle Bonsai
• The Vapors
• Vietnam
• Violent Femmes
• Voodoo Idols
• Wall of Voodoo
• Wee Wee Pole
• XTC
• X-teens

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{{cite news |work=The Advocate (Baton Rouge, La.) |date=1986-12-12 |title=Dash Songs |quote=The record was released by Atlanta's 688 Records, an offshoot from the 688 Club, one of the city's favorite new music nightspots.}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |title=Georgia Power performed last act at 688 Club |date=1986-11-14 |quote=Financial problems have forced the closing of the 688 Club, a 6-year-old fixture of Atlanta's pop-music scene.}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1988-08-05 |page=C4 |title=Expect Hot Cooking at Blues, Barbecue Bust |quote= Fans of the defunct 688 Club may remember Johnny Clegg and Savuka [...] The 688 Club was where the multiracial South African band made its Atlanta debut.}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1986-02-04 |title=Raunch Hands and Husker Du will rock this weekend |page=P8}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1986-03-29 |title=A return to site of `first big break' for 10,000 Maniacs |page=L30 |quote=10000 Maniacs: With the Windbreakers, at the 688 Club, 688 Spring St. Saturday, March 29. Club opens at 9 pm Music begins about 11 pm $5.}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1986-03-29 |page=L31 |title=Golden Palominos: Interchangeable players who can take a range of music and run}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1986-03-07 |page=P13 |title=Jesus and Mary Chain linked to bad image}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1986-09-03 |page=B2 |title=The Flea had to flee from his LA pad, but he was hittin' the road anyway |quote=Flea, bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, had no trouble at all leaving home for the brief road trip that brings the funkily rocking Los Angeles quartet to the 688 Club tonight.}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1986-08-08 |title=Walk the West, Smithereens team up |page=P2 |quote=Walk the West, a Nashville band, and the Smithereens, a New Jersey band that sounds British, play tonight at the 688 Club, 688 Spring St.}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1986-10-03 |title=Being gifted songwriter not enough for Rodney Crowell |page=P2 |quote=Rodney Crowell is performing Friday at the 688 Club, a venue associated more with punk and new wave music than with country-rock, because he's learned it isn't enough to be a gifted songwriter.}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1986-10-10 |title=Love Tractor pulling for album release, accompanying tour |page=C12 |quote=Love Tractor, which likes to claim it's the last of the first Athens bands, warmed up for its Saturday night performance at the 688 Club by painting a house.}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1993-02-28 |title=The city's small-club circuit has the amps turned up again, with live-music venues offering a supercharged, stompin' scene |page=N1 |quote= She refers to the long-defunct 688 Club, the popular early-'80s new-wave venue that was a keystone in Atlanta's alternative music scene.}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1986-06-13 |page=P6 |title=The music business still somewhat foreboding for the BoDeans |quote= The BoDeans: With opening act Cowboy & Spin Girl, at the 688 Club, 688 Spring St.}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1987-01-02 |title=New Year's Eve isn't what it used to be |page=C2 |first=Ron |last=Hudspeth |quote=The closed 688 Club, which reopened New Year's Eve as the 686 Club, has been renamed The Rollick by its new owners.}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1987-05-01 |title=Fan now a member of his favorite band |page=P10 |quote=[Robert] Warren, a journalism student at Georgia State University in the summer of '84, will be playing bass with the Fleshtones at The Rollick, which was the 688 Club when he first saw the band.}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1990-04-27 |title=Crawford takes unsentimental journey home |page=D4 |quote= The tribute to the 688 Club, which from 1980 until '86 occupied the Spring Street space now filled by Weekends, will feature Athens bands[...] |first=Russ |last=DeVault}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1991-10-04 |title=Night Beat |page=E4 |quote=Steve May, who guided the historic 688 Club during its short life (1980-86)[...]}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1988-03-12 |title=Sergeant takes command; Echo & the Bunnymen's quiet guitarist speaks out |page=L29 |quote= They were relegated to punk-oriented halls such as Atlanta's long-gone 688 Club and were lucky to get their music played occasionally on non-commercial radio. |first=Russ |last=DeVault}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1991-07-05 |title=Night Beat |page=C4 |quote=No real plan yet for a deserved benefit/memorial show here for the late Tony Evans, the genial Brit best known as a co-owner of the old 688 Club.}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1989-07-19 |title=Bangles Trying to Shake Off `Cute' Persona |page=D3 |quote=Ms. Hoffs, who will perform Thursday at Six Flags Over Georgia with guitarist-vocalist Vicki Peterson, said "That's why we like to tour a lot, and while these summer shows are outdoors and larger, we still love to play in clubs - we used to play the 688 Club there."}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1986-11-07 |title=Joe Bidewell finds former Velvet Undergrounder John Cale performing nearby |page=P10 |quote=Joe Bidewell, who brings one of his three musical faces to Atlanta's Margaritaville tonight, finds it "incredible" that John Cale is performing a few blocks away at the 688 Club.}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1986-08-23 |title=Drivin' 'n' Cryin' 'n' rockin' |page=L22}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1986-06-20 |title=Concert Calendar |page=P6 |quote=Atlanta's Swimming Pool Q's play tonight and Saturday at the 688 Club, 688 Spring St., with The Accelerators opening tonight and The Coolies Saturday.}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1986-11-30 |title=Variety of albums by local groups and labels has been released recently |page=J2 |quote=Atlanta's 688 Club is apparently history, but the record label it spawned lives on independently.}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1986-05-27 |title=Tuesday is Blues Day when it's after a holiday |page=B3 |first=Ron |last=Hudspeth |quote=The 688 Club celebrates it sixth birthday this week and may be losing its reputation as the place for tourists to spot punks in the flesh.}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1986-07-10 |title=Little Five Points residents protesting recent skinhead violence |page=A22 |quote=The brutal beating of 688 Club part-owner John Wicker in the parking lot of the Spring Street club on December 16, 1985. Four skinheads have been charged.}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1986-06-26 |title=Emmylou Harris pushing ahead, watching charts |page=P1 |quote=Emmylou Harris who, astonishingly, is scheduled to open for The Replacements June 28 at the 688 Club[...]}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1986-10-10 |title=Hot Spots |page=P1 |quote=Timbuk 3, a husband, wife and jam box trio sing "The Future's So Bright I've Gotta Wear Shades" late tonight at the 688 Club, 688 Spring St.}}

{{cite news |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=1986-10-02 |title=Richman's unique style attracts, alienates fans |page=B2 |quote=Jonathan Richman, who will perform at the 688 Club tonight, isn't the kind of performer who is either loved or hated.}}

{{cite news |title=Show 'n' Tell: Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go's |url=http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/show_n_tell_kathy_valentine_of_the_go_go_s/Content?oid=5453 |work=Creative Loafing |date=2001-07-18 |first=Lee |last=Smith}}

{{cite news |work=Creative Loafing |date=2001-12-12 |title=Two decades and still burning: Jason and the Scorchers stare down the barrel of 20 |url=http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/two_decades_and_still_burning/Content?oid=7293 |first=James |last=Kelly}}

{{cite news |work=Creative Loafing |title=RuPaul: Starrbooty's revenge; Queen of drag returns to roots and meets Atlanta at the crossroads |first=James |last=Kelly |url=http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/rupaul_starrbooty_s_revenge/Content?oid=322893 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071230064318/http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/rupaul_starrbooty_s_revenge/Content?oid=322893 | archive-date=2007-12-30 |date=2007-10-17}}

{{cite web |work=The Mercy Lounge |url=http://www.mercylounge.com/main.php?em781=188103_-2__0_~0~1523_-1_10_2007_0_0&content=calendar |title=Dash Rip Rock with Big Baby |date=2007-01-10 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

{{cite web |url=http://www.restaurantguideatlanta.com/bars404.htm |work=Restaurant Guide Atlanta |title=Atlanta Bars & Lounges - Area Code 404 |access-date=2008-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080203062153/http://www.restaurantguideatlanta.com/bars404.htm |archive-date=2008-02-03 |url-status=dead }}

{{cite news |first=Jeff |last=Clark |work=Stomp and Stammer |title=Numbers With Wings; Twenty-Two Years After It Closed, People Still Call 688 Atlanta’s Greatest Rock Club |url=http://www.stompandstammer.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=1542&Itemid=1&task=view&limit=1&limitstart=7 |date=October 2008 |access-date=February 6, 2012}}

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