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Featured image for post: Paul Epstein’s “Let Me Take You Down (to the basement)” #8

Paul Epstein’s “Let Me Take You Down (to the basement)” #8


Were you at this show? Years ago, while working at Twist And Shout, a small piece of paper fell out of a record I had just purchased. I almost tossed it in the trash. However, I luckily turned it over and noticed that it had a cute illustration on it. When I looked closely, I was startled to see it [...]

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Paul Epstein’s “Let Me Take You Down (to the basement)” #7


The Denver Pop Festival You probably know all about the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival which took place in upstate New York over the weekend of August 15-18, 1969. In addition to the enormity of the event--just shy of half a million people--the big budget movie and multiple soundtrack LPs ensured [...]

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Paul Epstein’s “Let Me Take You Down (to the basement)” #6


Meep Records and a Changing Denver. Look at that image. Do you recognize it? From 1917 until 2014, Gates Industrial Corporation hulked over several blocks of South Broadway and defined the look and feel of that stretch of Denver. It wasn’t the prettiest, especially once they started closing buildings [...]

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Paul Epstein’s “Let Me Take You Down (to the basement)” #5


Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Review, May 23rd 1976 Dylan’s 1975-‘76 tour, dubbed Rolling Thunder Review was an incredible thing to behold. Somewhere between 15-20 musicians participated in varying combinations in an ever-evolving show that veered from straight folk-Dylan and Joan Baez sharing a [...]

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