Allen Attaway carries away a piece of the Georgia Music Hall of Fame sign that stood in front of the building on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Macon while dismantling the signs Wednesday morning.
By Wednesday afternoon, only the sign at the parking lot, half hidden by plants, remained.
While the signs were coming down outside the hall of fame Wednesday morning, something else was going on in the parking lot.
The mixing console used by American Sound Studio of Memphis, Tenn., in the late 1960s was being packed up by Chips Moman, one of the producers at the studio. He’s taking it back to his hometown of LaGrange.
Among the more than 100 Billboard hits recorded on that board in the late ’60s and early ’70s were Elvis Presley’s “Suspicious Minds,” the Boxtops’ “The Letter” and Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline.”
Moman said he hadn’t laid eyes on the board since it landed in the at the hall 15 years ago. He said he wasn’t sure what he was going to do with it besides take it home. “If this old board could talk, I’d have somethin’,” he said.
