Concert History | Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field — The First Concert Under the Added Stadium Name

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On Tuesday, 21 November 1989, the Rolling Stones played Atlanta with Living Colour at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field. The point of this session is the venue name, not a reconstructed set list: it was the first concert held there after Georgia’s Board of Regents added “Bobby Dodd Stadium” to the football ground’s identity.

Georgia Tech says the facility had been known as Grant Field until the Board’s April 1988 vote. Its own concert chronology separates five concerts hosted at Grant Field from those held at Bobby Dodd Stadium, beginning the latter list with the Rolling Stones and Living Colour on 21 November 1989. That institutional division matters because the same physical bowl did not suddenly become a new building; a new commemorative stadium name joined Historic Grant Field. Source: https://ramblinwreck.com/news/2015/03/31/the-rolling-stones-coming-to-bobby-dodd-stadium

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution independently identifies this exact performance as the first concert in the space after the renaming and also dates the Board’s action to April 1988. Earlier concerts therefore remain Grant Field events; this one begins the venue’s concert record under the added Bobby Dodd name. Source: https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/photos-concerts-and-special-events-held-bobby-dodd-stadium/n44rsxeb5vNqMJtfMB0DVL/

Status note, checked 7 September 2026: Georgia Tech now calls the facility Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field, following a naming partnership announced in 2023. The institution still describes the 1989 Stones appearance as the band’s first concert at Bobby Dodd Stadium. Source: https://ramblinwreck.com/facilities/bobby-dodd-stadium

Coordinate method: the pin is the seating-bowl centre at 33.772500, -84.392778 from Wikidata (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2907951). The independent U.S. Census geocoder places Georgia Tech’s official address, 150 Bobby Dodd Way NW, at 33.7738429, -84.3922335, about 158 metres north. Georgia Tech’s directions bound the stadium by Bobby Dodd Way, North Avenue and Techwood Drive (https://ramblinwreck.com/directions-to-bobby-dodd-stadium). A 220-metre precision radius honestly covers the bowl and the address-range result.

Cover: Mistercontributer, “East Stands of Bobby Dodd Stadium,” 14 March 2013, CC BY-SA 3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_Stands_of_Bobby_Dodd_Stadium.jpg. The photograph shows the east-stand exterior at North Avenue and Techwood Drive after later renovations; it does not depict the 1989 concert or the stadium’s 1989 configuration.