Folk Club Atlantis
The Folk Club Atlantis was a center of the Viennese music scene in the 1970s .
The restaurant was founded in September 1968 as the "Golden Gate Club" in the cellar of Café Parzifal in downtown Vienna. After a while it was taken over by an association of young people interested in and practicing music around the bustling Ernst Hilger . The members included a number of later well-known names, such as Erich Meixner , later a member of the Butterflies and some members of the Worried Men Skiffle Group , the pioneers of Austropop . The groups that performed included the Blue Grass Specials , the Austro-Canadian Jack Grunsky with his Jack's Angels and the " Milestones ". Wolfgang Ambros rehearsed his song Da Hofa here , "Al Cook" (Alois Koch) used the southern blues on his slide guitar and Erich Demmer played the factotum and, when necessary, picked up the guitar himself. Although not always well attended, the restaurant was of great importance as a meeting place for the Viennese "Folkniks". In the 1970s it was moved to the 9th district.
literature
- Georg Friesenbichler : Our wild years: the seventies in Austria , Vienna 2008, p. 196