Blues Traveler at Red Rock Amphitheater July 4th

[Axe-man!]

check it out.....

http://www.redrocksonline.com/index.asp

anybody wanna go????

AM

I had free tickets to the Beatles concert and decided not to go... still regret it to this day.

I did attend the Jethro Tull concert... try experiencing tear gas in an altered state... still, a fantastic concert.

I also saw Mountain and James Taylor there.

It is possibly the best rock concert venue on the planet.

As a kid, we used to ride our bikes to Red Rocks we climbed every inch of the two formations and caves that flank the seating area. When we got older we used to drive out to the old "boot hill" graveyard their and tell ghost stories...

A lot of memories there...

I'll talk to Mary...

If you've never been... it is well worth the experience.

The earliest notable rock and roll performance at Red Rocks was by the Beatles on August 26, 1964. When Ringo Starr returned to Red Rocks with his All-Starr Band on June 28, 2000 he asked if anyone in the crowd had been at the Beatles concert thirty-six years earlier. On August 26, 2004 the East-Coast-based Beatles-tribute band, "1964" was flown to Denver to re-enact the Beatles concert held at the site exactly forty-years earlier to the date.
An incident during a performance by Jethro Tull on June 10, 1971 led to a five year ban of rock concerts at Red Rocks. Approximately 1,000 people without tickets arrived at the sold-out show. Denver police directed the overflow, non-paying crowd to an area behind the theater, where they could hear the music but not see the band. The situtation seemed satisfactory until some of the people without tickets attempted to enter the amphitheatre by charging at, and breaking through, the police line. Some of those without tickets began lobbing rocks at the police, and the police responded by discharging tear gas at the gate-crashers. The wind carried the tear gas over the hill, into the paying crowd and on to the stage. Following the "Riot at Red Rocks," Denver Mayor William H. McNichols, Jr. banned rock concerts from the amphitheatre. For the next five years, shows at Red Rocks were limited to softer acts, such as John Denver, Sonny & Cher, The Carpenters, Pat Boone, Seals & Crofts, and Carole King. The ban on rock and roll was finally lifted though legal action taken by Denver concert promoter Barry Fey, who tried to book the band America at the venue in 1975. After being denied a permit by the city, Fey took the city to court, and the court ruled that the city had acted "arbitrarily and capricious" in banning rock concerts at Red Rocks. Starting in the summer of 1976, the rock bands were once again welcomed at the venue.

[dynageno]

We had a similar experience here in fremont in the 70's. John mayall, Aum, and tower of power were playing. A bunch of us losers who didn't want or have money to pay charged the fence and climbed in. The fence went down due to the weight of all the people and soon they shut the power down and the concert was over...

hooligan....

[swmnkdinthervr]

What a great place to watch a concert...I saw Neil Young there...did a 45 minute encore of "Down By The River"