What an amazing few weeks Colfax Radio has had. We have reached over five hundred thirty listeners on our pod cast page and over one hundred forty friends on Facebook and have officially launched www.colfaxradio.com. We also had what Little Mikey Colfax called “our two biggest interviews to date” with Jonathan “Skippy” Huvard from the Fox Street All-stars and Eric Martinez of Bloodkin and The Dyrty Byrds fame. We also were lucky enough to get a few minutes backstage with Pete from the New Mastersounds. Both The New Mastersounds and the Fox Street All-stars put on a great show and rocked the house. I do believe that I will not be missing another Fox Street All stars show ever again!
Michael had the chance to interview one of the first musicians I met when I moved to Denver. Eric Martinez sat down with Little Mikey Colfax to discuss his role with one of the dirtiest southern rock bands of all time Bloodkin. They also discussed the future of the Dyrty Byrds and what that has been like playing with Sam Holt and Eric’s partner in crime Tori Pater. When I first moved to Denver fellow Widespread Panic fans told be to go belly up at the bar at Highland Pacific which is where I had the distinct please of meeting both Eric and Tori. Now this is not my first time meeting local musicians in any state that I have moved to yet this experience was quite different in the fact that both of these local celebrities some how managed to remember my name. Even after my constant begging for Eric and Tori to play Rotgut or Quarter Tank of Gasoline. This is to me is a testament to the kind of people these two guys are and to the honest, soulful rock n roll that they play. Despite Tori and I not seeing eye to eye on Guns and Roses these two are greatly dedicated to the music they play and those that enjoy it just as much. Make sure you get out to see the last Dyrty Byrds show ever April 1.
To continue with the best week ever for Colfax Radio, my favorite band the Drive by Truckers were at the Ogden Theatre Friday and Saturday nights. For those of you that were at the show on Friday night should have been as blown away as I was. All the new songs such as Mercy Buckets and Everybody Needs Love were as great as I thought they were going to be. The highlight of Friday night was getting to take my great friend Pete Penzenstadler to his first DBT show. It put a huge smile on my face to see him rocking out to the very awesome new song Go Go Boots. When I asked Pete about what he thought about the show afterwards his exact words were, “That shit rocked! How can you go wrong with a three guitar attack?” This made my weekend! I had made another believer! The Saturday night show was good but no where near the show from the night before. I was thrilled to have the show end with Hell No I Ain't Happy, Let there be Rock, and Angels and Fuselage. The weekend finally came to an end Saturday night with the Fox Street All-stars with Stanton Moore at the Galactic after party at Pete’s Monkey Bar. The place was packed, the music was rocking, people were dancing hot and sweaty, and my friend Pete was as happy as I was!
Till next time, GO SEE LIVE MUSIC!
Music Culture People
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Colfax Radio! The beginning!
If you have ever spent any time on Colfax Ave. in Denver, Colorado you are quite aware of the fact that anything can happen, and I truly mean anything. You can catch a great local band, get extremely loaded and participate in any form of illegal activity and maybe catch a glimpse of the state capitol while fending off your pack of cigarettes from passers by. From experience I do know that after a while on Colfax Ave. and weeding through a good deal of rif raf you will find an amazing place where truly great thing happen! Sure you will have to scrape through the grime and tight knit circles of Colorado uber headiness, which I like to, call "bullshit". Once past this rough exterior you will find that there are some very interesting and amazing people, as well as a completely underrated local music scene that has the power to completely knock you out of your boots!
I met my business partner, Little Mikey Colfax, almost a year ago to the day, standing outside of Pete's Monkey Bar bullshitting about one thing or another and trying to insult each other with out pushing things to far and throwing one another into oncoming traffic. We quickly became great friends, brothers from different mothers if you will. After a year full of shows ranging from the Drive by Truckers, Widespread Panic, Juno What, Damon Wood's Harmonious Junk, Mighty High Band and Whiskey Tango and The Whappers of course we figured it was time to start something of our own. Soon after Colfax Radio was born.
Mikey and I had managed to throw an amazing benefit back in August 2010 at Pete’s Monkey Bar and have since become great friends with the bar owner Pete Penzenstadler. After hours of late night banter we decided that we could use Pete’s Monkey Bar as home base and studio to interview bands since there is a plethora of great music coming through the bar ever week. As of today, March 7, 2011 we have interviewed fifteen bands that include the likes of Mighty High Band, Whiskey Tango, The Funky Monks (including member of Kinetix), Damon Wood’s Harmonious Junk, Juno What, and various others. We are currently working on our sixth pod cast which will include music and interviews with Fried Grease and a few others I cannot name yet.
Hopefully after reading this you are as excited as we are and will stay tuned to Colfax Radio for great local music and what we consider the true essence of Colfax Ave.
Thanks for all your support!
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