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Published on 07/01/2009 at Wed Jul 01 15:12.
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photo by Thad Roan

I’m still coming down from my third annual trip to Bonnaroo festival. A four day music extravaganza in Manchester, Tennessee that included Bruce Springsteen, Beastie Boys, Nine Inch Nails, David Byrne, Wilco, Erykah Badu, TV on the Radio, The Mars Volta, Girl Talk, two Phish shows and too many others to name. Coincidentally Phish will be playing a four-show stint at Red Rocks Amphitheatre later this summer. Coincidentally, a group of Broncos traveled to Red Rocks a few weeks back to participate in some alternative conditioning. The concept of the Denver Broncos working out at one of the most heralded concert venues in the United States was too much for me. What a perfect opportunity to write that live music post I’ve been wanting to. The post that Kyle told me was a stretch, but if I could find a way to connect music and the Broncos, to go for it. Thank you strength & conditioning coach Rich Tuten, you have given me inspiration. And an easy in.

I know the Red Rocks work out is a weak link, but these next few weeks are part of the dead zone for football news. I suggest we share stories of the other connections we may have.

I can’t track many loves as far back as fifteen years. Two have held true.
1. My love for the Denver Broncos.
2. My love for live music.

Both provide a rush like no other, producing feelings in me that come from unknown places, releasing an unsafe amount of adrenaline to my brain. Both have grown from my childhood/teenage years, evolving into something completely new. I now follow the Broncos with elevated evaluation and desire to understand the inner workings. I now watch concerts from a safe distance of the pit, realizing that seeing the show is more important to me than being punched in the face and thrown into other bodies. Closer/Further.

My first show (without parental supervision)/Best Opening Band Discovery
Beck*The Roots*Atari Teenage Riot
3/17/1997
J.A.R-Akron, Ohio
Ah Junior High. Of course seeing Beck was amazing, especially when he was still making music that moved. I believe he is an artist from my generation that will be around for a long time. However! The best part of this show was none other than Jimmy Fallon’s house band. That still sounds weird. The Legendary Roots Crew. I was a little white boy from small town Ohio going to see a weird funky white guy from California. Having no prior knowledge of Questlove, Black Thought, Hub, Rahzel (still touring w/them at the time) and the rest of the crew, I was completely floored, my mind was blown, and they changed my perspective on music. I have seen them nine times since, and while these road dogs are taking a break from touring, they continue to be one of the best live acts around. Well worth your $.

Live in NYC or visiting and love The Roots? They have a residency at Highline Ballroom called The Jam. Tickets are only $10 in advance, $12 at the door. Pretty amazing. Tonight they play at midnight. I will be attending, I have a feeling they will be playing a lot of Michael Jackson.

Broncos Comparison: Like a lot of Denver fans around my age, The Drive was the moment that hooked us. Being from Ohio, my parents being Browns fans, dog biscuits and all, this was my rebellion, a rebellion that grew into an obsession.
Two thoughts on my Ma & Pa:
1. They always supported my Broncos/Elway fandom, how hard it must have been for a son to admire that which caused them so much torment. Thanks parents.
2. I’m sure it could have been worse. I could have become a Steelers fan. You’re welcome parents.

Best Show (Consistently)
Radiohead
8/8/2001 & 8/21/2003
Blossom Music Center-Cuyahoga, Falls Ohio
8/9/2008
All Points West-Liberty State Park, New Jersey
I know everyone has different tastes in music, and Radiohead may not come anywhere close to being delicious on your palette. Let me say this though, I would have paid the $100 APW fee for their light show alone. They literally played inside a three dimensional cube of LED’s.
I hate playing favorites, I can never get away from listing 2-3 bands at a time, but Radiohead has been at the top of the conversation since hearing OK Computer back in ’97. Please do yourself a favor, when Radiohead comes back to the states, get your tickets and get them early.

See the light show.
Hear the show & Interview from Production Team.

Broncos Comparison: If it was Elway and The Drive that pulled me in, it was the addition of Terrell Davis that settled me into a groove. Much can be said of his short stint in the NFL, but little can be argued about what he did with that time. Consistently great from his rookie season through his fourth season, Terrell Davis left me scratchy throated Sunday after Sunday. What a great feeling it was to finally have a player to ground the Broncos, literally. While Radiohead is enjoying a much longer career than TD, both will enjoy inductions into their respective HOF’s.

Thee Best Show/The Ultimate
My Morning Jacket
6/13/2008
Bonnaroo-Manchester, Tennessee
A true convergence of every element. The band, the crowd and Mother Nature were in complete unison with each other. Half way through the 4 hour set, the clouds opened up and drenched our sun-dried bodies. It was a complete and utter down pour, accepted by the masses as something spiritual. MMJ seemed as if they were controlling the weather, the swells of rain coming to a crescendo while Kirk Hammit made a guest appearance to solo on One Big Holliday.
Four hours, 35 songs, with a couple interspersed body-moving covers, a thousand soaked to the bone free spirits. Something I will never forget.

Bronco Comparison: While the Ultimate would have to be one of the Superbowls, a more recent game that had equal euphoria and earthly elements was the Broncos/Jets game at the Meadowlands last season. Set up by the talking heads as a game that Denver had no chance of winning. (Didn’t someone say our players shouldn’t even get off the plane?) Freezing rain and wind gusts would have been a lot worse if not for the enjoyment from the misery Gang Green was feeling.

Short List
Show I wish I saw but will sadly never see- The Band or Talking Heads
Most Beautiful Show- Sigur Ros
First Show (with parental supervision)- The Beach Boys
Show I got the most beat up at- Metallica
Show(s) I want to see before I die-
Rolling Stones
Jay-Z
Bob Dylan
Paul McCartney

This year was my third consecutive Bonnaroo, an adventure that has been undeniably wonderful to me; I have vowed to make every year baring a super serious job/family holding me back. I was walking around my campsite early morning of the third day, having retrieved my necessary caffeine, when I saw a dude in a Dharma Initiative jumpsuit. He was selling t-shirts that brought together Phish and Lost. It’s obscure, an idea carved out for a very specific niche of people. It’s also genius because that niche was 100% appreciative to a group of friends who thought to bring together two things they truly love. Ask my friend Jeff, a crazy Browns/Phish/Lost fan, he bought four shirts.

Like the Broncos conditioning at Red Rocks it is truly beautiful.
A convergence of passions.

So how about you guys? Any experiences where worlds collide?

  • http://broncotalk.net Kyle

    Thank you Rich Tuten.

  • KMA

    Wow, never been this early on the comments list, It must be really slow. This felt like 7 degrees of separation but a very spirited effort.
    Mine was the Red Rocks U2 show that I was able to go to in 83. the same year the Broncos went 7-9 and Wade Phillips was canned. The season felt like the constant rain during the concert.
    there’s my 2 cents!

  • http://horviltiki.com/ Horvil Tiki

    Hey guy. long time ago I went to foxboro stadiat and saw bronco and patriot. They beat the new egland like 10 to 7 or some thing conry. I want to see hoge bomb ofr 6 from the elway but that not happen. they run a lot. I saw karl mekkenburg when he leaved the feild I was only one in stand with bronco shirt there and I raise up both hand in power. In powreful and the karl mekkenburg see this and he nod he head at me guy. that was so cool. best ever. I wish could ask the karl mekkenburg if he remember this I bet he remember guy. I bet he would tell you this. I saw elway too and that joe nameth guy he was real tan. guy cut this hoge fart in front of and this littel kid was drunk and fall down around.

    many year later I go with freins and they say we go to see this concert yes. and I was like were is this and they was like you is in foxboro and I was like that is wierd and they was all kind of traffic it like no move. but these girl they take off they shirt in limo above us and go crazy guy. that was crazy guy. and we get there and we buy from scalloper. And we got ticket from this guy to go in for cheapest and it was pink foyd guy. they have has all kind of crazy light. and hoge screens. I wish they had the limmo girls on this screen so big yes. and at end they have this megaton ball of disco that they put lights on and it make this megaton ball of disco it was so big I not know how they roller that thing in there guy. maybe plane drop this. the scalloper guy sold these real corny seat but we go down right front were some one not showed up. best seat in house from scalloper.

  • http://BroncoTalk.net Mr.East

    I’ve been a HUGE Third Eye Blind fan my whole life. I’ve missed out on tickets to other concerts because they sell in minutes. Just this past year I finally got to see them at Virginia Tech. I had to wake up extra early and wait for them to go on. The tickets went on sale at like 6am, but I was ready. Even though I got my tickets at 6:01 am I still was in row K. Row K however is a lot better than row ZZ.

    Anyways, the concert was amazing. Musically, they did not disappoint. The lead singer Stephen Jenkins is one of the most infectious people you will ever meet. By the end of the concert it was almost like you e did with that time. Consistently great from his rookie season through his fourth season, Terrell Davis left me scratchy throated Sunday after Sunday. What a great feeling it were under his hypnosis. Since I’ve been listening to Third Eye Blind since I was way way way young this was like the culmination of fan-hood. Between being nine years old and listening to them before going to bed as a child to blasting them in my first car at 16. It was a great feeling indeed.

  • Tom9798

    J. Kenneth. K . . . . that one photo has unleashed a thousand words . . . .

    I guess it’s time to bio-up . . . . ( maybe this should be a thread in this downtime) . . . .
    I’m 56 yrs. old . . . four yrs. at Metropolitan State College and two years at Colorado Tech. University . . . . twenty five yrs. semiconductor process equipment engineer . . . now I’m doing electronic surveillance at a casino in Cripple Creek, CO . . . .

    I have been to Red Rocks forty times . . . aside from the shows . . . I actually played there with a friend . . . and by mid afternoon . . . there were two hundred people still having a good time . . . .

    The very first show was John Denver . . . the Rocky Mountain High Tour . . . the second was John Denver . . . the Back Home Again Tour . . . .

    There was no seating assignment . . . . general admission . . . we’d sit ten rows up and wait ‘till the ticket guys crisscrossed and move down to the first row . . . . got to see both shows for free . . . .

    I play guitar/vocals and play harmonica . . . I was playing harp during the afternoon in about the fifteenth row ( Back Home Again) and there was a tap on my shoulder . . . it was John Denver . . . he said, “ you sound great . . . keep everyone happy!” . . . .

    He handed me a guitar pick . . . . which I still have . . . John’s t-shirt and jeans were torn and he was getting ready to do a sound check . . . .

    The show was one of the most memorable things in my life . . . . so I kept coming back to Red Rocks . . .

    Name the band . . . Stephen Stills ( when he stopped the show to tell the silhouettes on the rock’s up above to please be careful ) . . . Marshall Tucker . . . Climax Blues Band . . . Charlie Daniels . . . Bonnie Raitt . . . Rusted Root . . .

    Sting . . . . three times . . . and the Soul Cages Tour was just awesome . . . .

    But absolutely by far the best show I have seen consistently that will rock you . . . four times that I have been there . . . .

    The Allman Brothers Band . . . . this show is in a class by itself . . . . I don’t even know if they still go out on tour . . . but I consider Greg Allman and Dicky Betts two of the best I will have ever seen in my lifetime . . . .

    And these are just the shows at Red Rocks . . . .

    Chicago ( Carnegie Hall) . . . Joe Walsh and the James Gang ( Carnegie Hall )

    I’ve seen Jimi Hendrix at the Fillmore East ( when they handed out hit’s of orange sunshine at the door) . . . . Santana and Grand Funk Railroad ( with Mark Farner’s twenty minute version of “Mean Misstreater”) . . . .

    Frank Zappa and the Mother’s of Invention ( Waka-Jawaka – Hot Rat’s) . . . . Yes ( twice . . . once on the “Fragile” tour and once in Italy on the “Close To The Edge Tour,” . . . . along with the original Black Sabbath and Jethro Tull . . . both “Aqualung” and “Thick as a Brick” . . . .

    Joe Walsh . . . ZZ Top . . . The Beach Boy’s . . . America . . . . Elvin Bishop . . . Crosby, Still’s, Nash and Young (twice). . . Deep Purple . . . Foghat . . . Cactus . . . Hot Tuna . . .
    Tab Benoit ( five times) . . . . Eric Johnson ( at the Rack n’ Roll in Colorado Springs ) . . . Johnny Winters ( twice) . . .

    And fortunately I can’t remember the other half . . . .

    But I feel blessed . . . . I have seen the best in my lifetime . . . literally . . . and all you young guns out there can only hope to see such entertainment in yours . . . all the best . . .

    Thanks for the photo J. . . . . . T

  • http://BroncoTalk.net Mr.East

    Something is seriously wrong with Linux. I just read my post, how did J. Kenneth K’s words get in there? I guess I’ll have to settle back to Vista.

  • http://www.broncotalk.net Josh Temple

    East, I’m glad somebody shares my love for 3EB. Out of the Vein is one of the most underrated albums in a long time. They need to record new stuff!

  • TJ

    My Morning Jacket @ Red Rocks last August was a show I will never forget. Love those guys.

  • OC Bronco

    U2 – Best Concert ever!

  • http://BroncoTalk.net Mr.East

    JT,

    Ursa Major is coming out soon. Have you checked out their Red Star EP? It’s really good. I totally agree too about Out of the Vein, that is one of my most treasured albums.

  • J. Kenneth K.

    Tom, it sounds like you’ve seen some amazing musicians, that’s truly an amazing list. Nothing like knowing your witnessing something that will always stick with you.

    Easty,Temple
    We could have gone years knowing that we all loved the Broncos and never knew about our 3eb obsession, I myself really enjoy the band and have seen them play a ton. Keep the posts coming here guys, let’s try to get more of the people involved, They really are awesome to read.

    JKK

  • Tom9798

    Thanks JKK . . . I feel blessed . . . I love music . . . love to play it . . . love to see it performed . . . read my blog at #5 if you missed it . . .

    It’s odd also the regret that I feel for having missed a show I could have seen . . .

    I was at my uncle’s in upstate N.Y. in Katonah . . . but did not go to Woodstock because of the rain and crappy traffic conditions ( showed on tv) . . . .

    I was in Vicenza, Italy and had the opportunity to go to the Munich Music Festival . . . didn’t go because of a party in town and didn’t want to do the few hour drive . . . .
    I missed Stephen Stills “Manassas” and Pink Floyd “Welcome To The Machine” . . . .

    Although I’ve seen Steely Dan . . . Little Feat . . . and Blue Oyster Cult . . . I’ve never seen some of my favorite bands . . . the Grateful Dead . . . Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks . . . . never seen U2 . . . . Phish . . . . or the Eagles . . . .

    The point I’m trying to make to you young guns . . . . If you get the opportunity to see a band that you really love their music . . . . go and see it . . . . if you think you want to go or know you want to go . . . . go and see it . . . don’t create excuses NOT to . . . don’t take no for an answer . . . . go and see it . . . .

    Or I can guarantee that thirty or forty years from now . . . . you WILL look back just like
    I have and say, “WTF was I thinking,” . . . . . all the Best . . . . . T

  • mikeyfantastic45

    1st and only concert at Red Rocks was Smokin Grooves 1997, senior year, the whole crew ditched school and had each spent our mornings rolling the necessary essentials for such a concert. The line up was sick, A tribe called quest, Busta Rhymes, The Fugees, Cypress Hill, and Ziggy Marley. I pretty much blew my load getting as close to up front for Tribe, Busta joined them on stage for a few “leaders of the new school/tribe” classics. Unfortunately by the time Cypress Hill and Ziggy Marley hit the stage, I was too blitted to remember much. I remember waking up at the wheel about 5 minutes away from my moms condo in Aurora late that night.

    That same year I got to watch the Broncos go on there redemption run through the playoffs. I was at the wild card game vs Jacksonville getting redemption for the previous years home field melt down. Then with all the boys got to watch us get redemption for earlier season losses to KC and Pittsburgh. Unfortunately, I ended up graduating high school at semester that year and moved out to California the week before the super bowl, and while I watched that game with bronco fans in LA, it was very sad to listen to all of the crew celebrating over the phone. A very bittersweet day for me.

    I too was also in attendance last year at the Meadowlands, and boy would that game have been miserable had we lost, however I rode bus to subway to subway soaking wet all the way home to Brooklyn, feeling nothing but pure joy.

    As for concerts

    I agree with you on wishing I could have seen the band, I watch the Last Waltz semi-annually. My mother also saw Hendrix twice, and I would have enjoyed that as well. As for what I have seen

    Springsteen- 2002 the greatest. (quite jealous of your bonaroo trip)
    Elton John/Billy Joel 2003
    Muse-ACL 2007these guys are amazing live
    Rage Against the Machine, with The Roots ’97 Fiddlers Green
    DeVotchka- Denver 2007
    Lollapalooza 94- Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest
    Ben Harper- California 2006

    As for worlds colliding, how about my love for Iced Coffee, Great Music, and the Denver Broncos colliding in a small coffee shop in Manhatten with a heavily bearded baristo wearing an Elway throw back that had definitely been worn in ensuing in a half hour discussion of the pros and cons of this years draft preventing anyone else from being served for quite a time. Thanks brother.