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I've never actually been inside Philips Arena, but I've walked past it a couple of times since it's right next to the Georgia Dome and World Congress Center. It's connected to the Omni Hotel and the CNN Center. I had dinner there and got a kickass hoody from the Braves store there when I went to the Peach Bowl just before New Years. Well, I think the reason that I've never been to Philips is that the Hawks have sucked in recent years, and I'm even less of a hockey fan than a basketball fan, so I doubt I'd ever go to a Thrashers game unless the tickets were free, even if they were a top team, which they're not. They've had several good concerts there, but I've never been to any. Most of the concerts that I've been to were at Lakewood.

The Omni however, which sat precisely where Philips sits now, I've been to several times. Mostly to Hawks games back in the 80s and a few in the early 90s. The Hawks had playoff caliber teams back then with Nique, Kevin Willis, Spud Webb, and Doc Rivers, but ever since that crew left, the Hawks haven't been able to get off the ground. My parents told me that they took me to a hockey game when I was little, back when we had the Flames, but I don't remember it. Of course, the Flames had a good team after they moved to Calgary.

I remember the last time I went to the Omni, I saw Soundgarden back in 96 or 97. They were doing a makeup show for the one they did in Atlanta that was somewhat disrupted by the Olympic hoopla. I think it was right around the time that they came out with their last album. Well, after that, they had Metallica, which I didn't get to go to, and then they tore the place down, to build Philips.

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sports , stadiums , arenas , coliseums