Concert History | Bobby Dodd Stadium — The Second Night Preceded a 21-Year Public-Concert Gap

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On Wednesday, 4 May 1994, Pink Floyd played the second of two nights at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field in Atlanta. This exact session matters less as a set-list artifact than as the last public concert the stadium would host for twenty-one years.

Georgia Tech's concert chronology dates the engagement to 3–4 May and identifies the Rolling Stones' 9 June 2015 return as the venue's first concert since those Pink Floyd dates: https://ramblinwreck.com/news/2015/03/31/the-rolling-stones-coming-to-bobby-dodd-stadium. The chronology also records a 1996 Hootie & the Blowfish performance for Olympic athletes and volunteers, but explicitly distinguishes it as not open to the public. An independent contemporary account likewise described the 2015 Stones booking as Bobby Dodd's first concert since Pink Floyd in 1994: https://www.fromtherumbleseat.com/2015/3/31/8320373/the-rolling-stones-concert-atlanta-bobby-dodd-stadium-grant-field.

The gap changed how the building had to be made into a concert venue again. Georgia Tech's facilities retrospective explains that by 2015 the stadium and its surroundings had changed, while little institutional record of earlier concert operations remained; Assistant Athletic Director John Portland described the planning task as effectively starting fresh: https://ramblinwreck.com/here-it-comes-here-it-comes/. This is not evidence that Pink Floyd caused a ban or a closure—no such causal claim is made. The significance of 4 May is chronological and operational: after that second night, public concert use became so episodic that the venue's working knowledge did not carry intact to the next booking.

The pin marks the stadium bowl, now officially called Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field. Wikidata places its center at 33.772500, -84.392778: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2907951. A separate U.S. Census address geocode for Georgia Tech's official 150 Bobby Dodd Way NW address falls about 158 metres north. Georgia Tech's directions place the stadium between Bobby Dodd Way, North Avenue and Techwood Drive: https://ramblinwreck.com/directions-to-bobby-dodd-stadium. A 220-metre precision radius honestly covers the large footprint and the difference between the bowl-center and address pins.

Cover image: Lector avidus, “BobbyDoddStadium Oct85 S stands,” photographed 11 October 1985, CC BY-SA 3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BobbyDoddStadium_Oct85_S_stands.jpg. The image shows the empty stadium looking toward the old south stands nine years before this concert; it does not depict Pink Floyd, the 1994 stage, or the crowd.