Our eighth day of this colorado tour would mark our first show out of three in Denver. Besides the the fact that our friends in town could finally come see us, we were especially excited that we only had to drive 10 minutes from Carter's apartment to the first venue, Sancho's Broken Arrow. The club was legitimately a Grateful Dead bar. All over the walls hung old Dead show posters, photographs and psychedelic artwork. As we walked in, we were amazed at how crowded the bar was for a Monday and credited it to the Mens NCAA Basketball National Champion showing on TV in the bar. We were shocked however when the game ended and no one left or seemed to care - this was a built in crowd.
We set up in the middle of the bar, on the floor (there was no proper stage), and began playing around 10 pm. We had a lot of friends, old and new, in the audience and their energy seemed to rub off on the locals. Soon we had the interest of the entire (completely packed) bar. This was already the best show we had ever played on a Monday!
Midnight rolled around and we were planning on a set break, but considering we had a day off yesterday, no one was tired! So we kept playing what would end up being a 3.5 hour marathon set. Incredibly, the entire crowd stayed till the end of our double encore - we were on cloud nine. Later we found out that 149 people had come through the door, our biggest crowd of the tour so far.
Here's the setlist...
4/4 Denver, CO - Sancho's
Can't Have Both > Willy, China Cat -> I Know You Rider, Pool Rock, King Kong, Yeti, Smoke Two Joints > Banana Jam, The Wave, Pancakes > Ronnie, Camp Cut-Coulie, Officer, Together Not the Same, C3PO -> Garden Grove -> CP3O, Doc Brown, Denver Jam ->Rogue II, Lion in the Grass, Fire on the Mountain > Crossfaded Mammoths, What I Got, Reptar
E: Denver Jam #2, Harley
Day 9
We had another day off on Tuesday and spent it hiking at Red Rocks amphitheater right outside Denver. For those who don't know, Red Rocks is one of the most famous outdoor venues in the country. Built into actual "Red Rocks" national park in Morrison, the venue has hosted some of the greatest artists around since the 1940s. Here's a picture of Sam and I (peter) on the stage.
It was great to get some exercise and explore some mountains. Check out some more of these pictures from our hike...
Afterwards we met up with Carter to check out a local Brewery and then retired back at his apartment with a movie (Electric Apricot - A Les Claypool mocumentary about Jam Bands, I highly recommend it to fans of Spinal Tap) to rest up before Wednesday's show at Quixote's True Blue.
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