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Denver Broncos players have traded their mouthpieces for microphones over the course of the team history. Leading up to the 1977 National Football League playoffs, fullback Jon Keyworth cut a [...]

One of the most influential promoters to emerge from the nascent rock concert scene, Barry Fey moved to Denver from Illinois in early 1967. After a trip to San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury [...]

Producer James William Guercio had gotten his start producing a string of hits for the Buckinghams circa 1967, including “Kind of a Drag,” “Don’t You Care” and “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy.” He became a [...]

In the fall of 1991, Los Angeles rapper DJ Quik was arrested for allegedly throwing a bottle into the crowd during a concert at Denver’s Mammoth Events Center. A fan was struck in the cheek, [...]

To students of rock music, Robert Hunter was known as an essential member of the Grateful Dead—an offstage presence who, primarily collaborating with guitarist Jerry Garcia, wrote the words for [...]

When the impossibly tall man with obsidian hair walked into the Gavin A3 Summit in Boulder in 1997, people attending the convention couldn’t help but stare. Yes, it was Ric Ocasek, the former [...]

1978 was my first full year of contracting with The Denver Post as the popular music beat writer. And Eddie Money called me to make sure that I knew he was coming to Boulder (opening for Santana [...]

The Colorado mountain resort of Steamboat Springs had a contest to name an otherwise unnoticeable highway bridge north of town in 1993. Locals were sharply split. After much public debate and two [...]

During their initial heyday from 1967 to 1972, the Moody Blues had some sensationally successful recordings in their “cosmic” symphonic rock style. In the mid and late 1990s, the Moodies enjoyed [...]

The counterculture’s idea of rock music—as opposed to the latest Top 40 hit—started to dominate in Denver by 1968. Barry Fey, a fledgling promoter whose career would span four decades, had grown [...]