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Terrapin Care Station
Cambridge Audio

The protean musician, artist and designer's years in Colorado found him composing, recording and performing countless works.

Tim Duffy

A symposium at Fiske Planetarium convened members of Spontanuity, whose psychedelic light show provided visual background for the Dead’s 1969 concert in Boulder.

Grateful Dead/Spontanuity

For more than 25 years, photographer Garrett Hacking has captured the personalities and emotions of musicians at concerts across Colorado. He selected some of his favorite images exclusively for Colorado Music Experience.

B.B. King, Buell Theatre, 2008
Bob Weir, 1978

A founding member of the Grateful Dead, Bob Weir passed away on January 10, 2026, at age 78.

Tag Team

Tag Team’s “Whoomp! (There It Is)” was every B-boy and B-girl’s jeep-ready anthem in the summer of 1993. The slammin’ slang caught fire nationwide after Chicago Bulls fans shouted it during the NBA playoffs.

Bob Yeazel

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 ≫

On Record Book Series

On Record book series

Each volume of the award-winning On Record series gathers over 200 limited and extraordinary images and 100 interview-based profiles spotlighting an array of musical artists.

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merchandise

Explore the Colorado Music Experience’s store, stocked with stylish products and gifts for music fans.

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A non-profit organization established to preserve the legacies of Colorado music, CoME serves as a repository for informational and archival resources.

Jon Rizzi, G. Brown, Mark Zaremba and Chip Garofalo