A symposium at Fiske Planetarium convened members of Spontanuity, whose psychedelic light show provided visual background for the Dead’s 1969 concert in Boulder.
The Rolling Stones put their talent on stage in Colorado for the first time on Nov. 29, 1965, when they were still a pop group. Nicholas DeSciose, 19, took on the assignment of shooting the concert.
A founding member of the Grateful Dead, Bob Weir passed away on January 10, 2026, at age 78.
In its original incarnation, the building at the corner of Monaco and Evans in Denver housed a three-screen movie house that failed. The Rainbow Music Hall was born in 1979 when concert promoter Barry Fey had a couple of interior walls knocked down and installed seats in a shallow U-shape around a 42-inch-high stage in the 10,000 square-foot hall. There was a sound booth across the back of the hall and a wide lobby.
Bob Yeazel
Guitarist/songwriter Bob Yeazel joined the Denver-based band Sugarloaf for its second album, Spaceship Earth, in 1971; he wrote or co-wrote many of the tunes, including “Tongue in Cheek” which peaked at #55 on the Billboard Hot 100). He had previously played on two albums as part of a Colorado band called the Beast. Yeazel was later the… more ≫
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