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Featured image for post: Paul Epstein’s “Let Me Take You Down (to the basement)” #3

Paul Epstein’s “Let Me Take You Down (to the basement)” #3


Bob Marley And The Wailers On May 11, 1981 Robert Nesta Marley passed from this existence to the next. It’s safe to say that none of the Coloradans who experienced his concert at the D.U. (University of Denver) Arena on December 5, 1979 had any inkling that this tragic event was on the horizon. In [...]

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Featured image for post: Paul Epstein’s “Let Me Take You Down (to the basement)” #2

Paul Epstein’s “Let Me Take You Down (to the basement)” #2


The poster above hung in my house and then at Twist & Shout for years. When I first moved to Denver in 1968, it was not at the forefront of hip and trendy the way it is now. At that time, it was on the back end of being a Cowtown, and while there was a culture counter to the norm, you had to look [...]

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Featured image for post: Paul Epstein’s “Let Me Take You Down (to the basement)” #1

Paul Epstein’s “Let Me Take You Down (to the basement)” #1


Paul Epstein, Hall of Fame board co-chair and founder/former owner of Twist & Shout, is an avid music historian and archivist. We are delighted that he has agreed to share some of his collection and Colorado music memories with us every other Tuesday. “I moved to Colorado in 1968 and started going [...]

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The Hall of Fame Welcomes Inductee, The Fox Theatre


The Fox Theatre in Boulder was inducted into Colorado Music Hall of Fame on November 4, 2022 at one of their 30th anniversary shows, featuring moe. The Fox is part of the Flatirons Sessions induction class of 2021, which has been delayed being inducted due to the pandemic. In its 30 years, The Fox [...]

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