the DENVER thread

I eat pizza more than I play jazz.

kyle!

Buffalo Bill's grave.

What did he do again?

if it was in denver it was probably st. mark's

what else can we say about Colorado and/or Denver?

there's SO MUCH TO SAY

Denver was an important place for the "beat generation." Beat icon Neal Cassady was raised on Larimer Street in Denver, and a portion of Jack Kerouac's beat masterpiece On the Road takes place in the city, and is based on the beat's actual experiences in Denver during a road trip. Beat poet Allen Ginsberg lived for a time in the Denver suburb of Lakewood, Colorado, and he helped found the Buddhist college, Naropa University or the "Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa" in nearby Boulder, Colorado.

Other companies with major operations in the Denver area include:

* Frontier Airlines
* Coors
* J.D. Edwards, now part of Oracle Corporation
* Regal Entertainment Group
* Samsonite
* StorageTek
* Sports Authority
* Quizno's
* First Data
* United Airlines

YES! That's it. They went there all the time.

* Tim Allen
* India.Arie - Neo-Soul singer, born India Arie Simpson
* Phillip Bailey - R&B lead singer with Earth, Wind & Fire. Later made pop tunes with Phil Collins among others, graduated from Manual High School
* Chauncey Billups
* Richard Butler (born in Bennett, Colorado)
* David Fincher
* Pat Hingle
* John Kerry (born at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Aurora, Denver's eastern neighbor)
* Joseph C. Phillips Actor and political commentator
* Dean Reed
* Karl Rove
* Alan K. Simpson
* Paul Whiteman

Famous non-native residents

* Neal Cassady - the beat generation icon was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, but was raised in Denver
* Don Cheadle - born in Kansas City, Missouri, graduated from East High School
* Judy Collins - folk singer, born in Seattle, Washington, graduated from East High School
* Madhuri Dixit - Indian actress married to Dr. Sriram Nene, a heart surgeon, born in Bombay, India
* John Elway - Hall of Fame quarterback for the Denver Broncos, 1983 - 1998 NFL seasons (including the Super Bowl played in 1999)
* Bill Frisell
* Pam Grier - born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, graduated from East High School
* Hattie McDaniel - First African-American to win Academy Award for Gone With the Wind, born in Wichita, Kansas and raised in Denver
* Golda Meir - Former Prime Minister of Israel, lived in Denver for a time as a teenager. Her house is preserved as part of the Metropolitan State College of Denver campus.
* Pat Oliphant - editorial cartoonist, born in Adelaide, Australia
* Dianne Reeves - Jazz vocalist, graduated from East High School

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wtf, he's from michigan!

No, I thought you had Chicago envy.

can i be pedantic for a second and say that fitzsimons army hospital was located in what later became aurora? the territory had not yet been annexed when kerry was born.

this is what i do all day.

a-ha!

I think I've spent a total of about 36 hours in Denver in my life, most of them at Elich's, or sleeping at someone else's house overnight, or going with my parents to get my sister orthopedic shoes. This was in the late 1980's. goddamned right I hated it!

I am very much biased against colorado now but only because of all the horrible white republicans and christian coalitian types. If you killed all the people in the state it would be grand! (er, Mandee excepted)

A friend of mine studied poetics there.

xp Wow! Now I have a very vivid picture of what it must be like.

it manages to not be considered at all!

yeah! he is great. kind of a weird fit for us, but i'm not sure who would fit w/ the mallman really.

this thread is just turning into me plugging gigs, but ... bizarrely we're playing from 8-10 tonight at the Southwest Rink at Skyline Park. You know, the free ice skating rink on the 16th Street Mall. It is going to be weird!

someday my schedule is gonna line up for one of these!!

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this sunday! 1st show w/ my new band, forces at work. playing w/ a ridiculous bill - new bums (donovan quinn, ben chasny), and the mighty howling hex (poster to the contrary we go on first)! we pretty much started the band so that we could open for the hex, so we might break up after this.

surely by now denver's population has grown with more ilxors?

haha maybe not!
what a summer in denver. chihuly at the gardens, that weird video game thing downtown, laserium at the denver museum of nature & science, red rocks, legalized weed....
hey we're playing another show this week too if anyone wants to come say hi: www.hi-dive.com/event/559907-web-sunsets-denver/

coloradoans - this is happening at my house, and you're invited! for reals.
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ROLL CALL

denver has become much more populated, tons of "PROGRESS', the dumpster pic above from 2005 was taken in a neighborhood that is now very trendy and hip, and is coincidentally a block away from my office.

Bookmarked this thread because I'm willing a move to Denver into existence.

Glad the whole omelette thing got sorted out early on in this thread. Stay hammy, cheesy n' eggy, Denver!

cant believe no one on ilx has moved here yet, come on ppl

Get out here Eric — Colorado is very very nice.

15"-40" in boulder. christ! what a weird-looking storm.

The dry weather last week was the calm before the storm.

A lot of water is expected to fall from the sky over the weekend, especially over the Central USA.

Some areas could see feet of snow. Some could see flooding.

Will this be a #drought buster? We’ll see.
@NOAA pic.twitter.com/KKKeW1GJAk

— NIDIS Drought.gov (@DroughtGov) March 11, 2021

like tornado alley but a noreaster? wtf

On edge as my sister and her family live in Lafayette ... seems like they're too far north to be in danger, but still, damn.

I assume/hope your sister's house survived, Eric (and your sister and her fam, obvs.) The fire came within half a mile of my mom's house (she lives in Louisville) before the wind died down and the snow started.

I am sorry I missed the show at Tyler's house. I could have stayed with my sister.

thought this revive was going to be about Boebert/Beetlejuice.

There was even another Joan Shelley house show in 2019! Maybe we'll do it again next year ...

In the meantime, I'm still playing in random bands out here! This is our next show. I've never been to the venue, but I'm a little worried about them throwing around the terms "circus arts" and "cabaret" ...

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Hah, no, I was just feeling a little homesick today, even though I've been away for more than 30 years. I really am curious as to what happened with Eric's sister's house. I guess more than 1000 homes were lost in that fire. Prices in the Boulder exurbs are out of control.

yeah they really are — i definitely couldn't afford it these days, glad I got here when I did.

When I was in school at Boulder in the mid- to late 80s, Longmont was a cow town, where a few students chose to or had to live. It's been completely transformed.

Same for downtown Denver, although it's still got the feel of a small city.

checkin out prairiewolf. nice. a few blocks from the venue above is tennysons tap-- tyler did you ever check dead comets when they had their regular sessions there, pre covid? seems adjacent.

Oops, never did follow through there, but my sisters house made it fine. They were basically a block away from the evac zone, and houses as nearby as a mile did go up, but their house was safe, and they donated a bunch of clothes and toys to families who lost everything

a crazy / awful event — still seems kind of unreal. it's been a fairly mellow year out here (knocks on wood) so far in regards to wildfires.

haven't heard of dead comets! but they do seem adjacent ... there are some decent musical things going on in denver and the surrounding area.

This guy we're playing with in a couple weeks is good: https://aarondooley.bandcamp.com/album/the-international-disassociation-of he's touring around the midwest and east coast pretty soon

m. sage is out here, playing some shows and putting on some of those outdoor / ambient Floating gigs.

Hi I live in Longmont now, and I'm a married person with (step)kids. I love it here!

HI! That place needs you. By which I mean every place.

Hi! Good to hear.

homo II is in longmont?! we've gotta cross paths someday ...

I'm playing a show tonight in lafayette — battling a lame cold, so things will be extra woozy.

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