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• Seek Up Play Video
• Proudest Monkey Play Video
• Satellite Play Video
• Two Step Play Video
• The Best of What's Around Play Video
• Recently ( Truncated ) Play Video
• Water Into Wine Play Video
• Lie in Our Graves Play Video
• Dancing Nancies Play Video
• Warehouse Play Video
• Tripping Billies Play Video
• Drive In, Drive Out Play Video
• Lover Lay Down Play Video
• Rhyme & Reason Play Video
• #36 Play Video
• Ants Marching Play Video
• Typical Situation ( Dave solo ) Play Video
• All Along the Watchtower ( Bob Dylan  cover) Play Video

Note: Entire show, except where noted, with Tim Reynolds. This show was recorded for the live album Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95.

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• Dancing Nancies
• Lover Lay Down
• Rhyme & Reason
• The Best of What's Around
• Typical Situation
• Drive In, Drive Out
• Lie in Our Graves
• Proudest Monkey
• Tripping Billies
• Ants Marching
• Water Into Wine
• All Along the Watchtower by Bob Dylan

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Hosting literally thousands of concerts and events over the past 75+ years, the history of entertainment at Red Rocks tends to follow the arc of popular culture and popular music. Opera, classical and chamber music performances of the early 1900s to 1940s gave way to the rock and roll and psychedelic music of the 1960s and 70s. Soft rock took over the venue for the majority of the 1970s, a genre deemed “safe” for the amphitheatre after a tumultuous and legendary Jethro Tull concert in 1971 resulted in a ban on rock and roll music being performed at the venue enacted by then-Mayor William H. McNichols and San Feiner, director of the city’s Theaters and Arenas division at the time.

Eventually the ban was lifted, paving the way for performers then and now considered musical superstars of all genres to fill the amphitheatre, including jam bands, new age rock artists, alternative, indie, rap and hip-hop and now, EDM performers and DJs.

Below are some of the most notable performances in Red Rocks history.

Pietro Satriano - 1906

On May 31, 1906, the grand opening of what was then known at Garden of the Titans featured Pietro Satriano and his 25-piece brass band.

Signor Ferollo's Band - 1910

Signor Ferullo’s Band, the in-house musicians at Denver's Lakeside Amusement Park, played Red Rocks on August 7, 1910. Tickets cost 60 cents, including the 45-minute round trip on the Colorado & Southern railroad from Denver to Morrison.

Mary Garden - 1911

Mary Garden, world-famous Scottish soprano performed on a makeshift platform on May 10, 1911, while fans sat and watched on a rocky slope. Her concert was pronounced as “the first test of the acoustic qualities of the great natural auditorium, capable of seating 30,000 people in which the most delicate notes on the violin which reach every part.”

Red Rocks Grand Opening - 1941

The Red Rocks official grand opening took place on June 15, 1941. The governor and mayor spoke, as did representatives of Rotary International. To honor the Native Americans, the program opened with a ceremonial Eagle Dance and a Zuni Indian melody. To further showcase the natural acoustics, vocal artists sang, “Home on the Range,” “Ol’ Man River” and the Overture from Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld.”

Easter Sunrise Service - 1947

The first sunrise Easter service debuted on April 6, 1947, and is now Red Rocks' oldest annual event, held near the beginning of each season. In its first year, an estimated 60,000 visitors showed up, while 16,000 squeezed in that Sunday morning.

Lily Pons - 1952

Lily Pons brought a huge crowd to the Rocks on July 3, 1952, to hear her perform with Saul Caston and the Denver Symphony. A crowd of more than 12,000 attended and a concert reviewer noted that she “sang with the voice of a happy bird trying its trills and roulades to break the calm of a summer night.”

The Beatles - 1964

On August 26, 1964, The Beatles played Red Rocks in concert for $6.60. Only three-fourths of the seats sold, making Red Rocks the only concert on The Beatles’ initial American tour that did not sell out. “I remember it was very high and the air was thin,” drummer Ringo Starr later recalled. “They were giving us hits from oxygen canisters.”

Johnny Cash - 1965

The first country and western musicians came to Red Rocks on August 29, 1965. Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three headlined the show, which included Tex Ritter, June Carter and the Statler Brothers.

Jimi Hendrix - 1968

Jimi Hendrix and Vanilla Fudge appeared on September 1, 1968, ushering in the psychedelic era. “I had a lot of fun at that Denver, Colorado place. That was groovy,” Hendrix recalled. This would be Hendrix’s only show at the venue, of which there are no known recordings or photos. It was the first Red Rocks booking for Denver concert promoter Barry Fey, who went on to control the lion’s share of bookings through his “Summer Of Stars” series, which began in 1976.

Jethro Tull - 1971

Jethro Tull’s show on June 10, 1971, sold out early and then exploded when thousands arrived without tickets and crashed the gates, resulting in confrontation with 200 cops. After police helicopters zoomed in to lob tear gas, rock-throwing and chaos ensued. The show went on, but with tear gas drifting over the crowd and performers. After that melee, rock concerts were banned from Red Rocks for five years until 1976.

John Denver - 1974

John Denver became the first artist to play four nights in a row (June 27-30, 1974) at a venue he helped make popular with broadcasts from his shows at Red Rocks during the 70s and 80s.

Bonnie Raitt - 1976

Bonnie Raitt’s initial appearance at Red Rocks came as part of the Summer of Stars, celebrating Colorado’s statehood centennial and the 200th anniversary of the United States. Her performance that year came with another first-timer, Jimmy Buffet.

Bruce Springsteen - 1978

Bruce Springsteen debuted at Red Rocks on June 20, 1978 in his first outdoor performance. Springsteen was notoriously reticent about playing outdoors but was finally swayed when told that Red Rocks was simply “indoors without a roof.” An awestruck Springsteen took the stage and marveled, “Nice place you got here . . . bunch of big rocks!”

Grateful Dead - 1978

The Grateful Dead’s maiden run at Red Rocks came on July 7-8, 1978. That two-night stand sold out, and some say these shows ushered in the modern-day jam-band movement. The following year, the Dead shifted to three nights as they preferred to play multiple nights rather than a single show.

U2 built their reputation playing in misty mystical weather at Red Rocks on June 5, 1983. Producers spent $40,000 to light the rocks, and despite driving wind and pounding rain, the show went on in front of 4,400 hardy fans. This became a turning point for the band, resulting in the group’s live concert film and album Under a Blood Red Sky.

Bob Dylan - 1986

Bob Dylan played Red Rocks on July 26-27, 1986, with backing from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. Dylan’s show was the biggest of that summer for Red Rocks.

Blues Traveler - 1993

On July 4, 1993, Blues Traveler begin their three-decade long residency playing Red Rocks every Fourth of July.

Dave Matthews Band - 1995

Dave Matthews Band released Live At Red Rocks 8/15/95, the first in a series of live recordings to give fans an alternative to the many bootlegs on the market.

Film on the Rocks - 2000

To celebrate the new millennium, the now popular Film on the Rocks series was created, pairing popular Hollywood films with local music acts. The debut on August 7, 2000 screened Casablanca with local band Hot Tomatoes Orchestra.

Widespread Panic - 2008

In 2008, Widespread Panic surpassed all other performers by putting on 32 sold out shows, prompting Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper to proclaim June 27, 2008 “Widespread Panic Day.”

Mumford & Sons - 2012

On August 29, 2012, Mumford & Sons recorded their live performance of their single “I Will Wait” at Red Rocks. The performance was released as the band's official video for the song and Mumford & Sons also released a full-length film of their show, entitled The Road To Red Rocks.

Stevie Wonder - 2019

Stevie Wonder played Red Rocks for the first time on June 24, 2019, at the age of 69. His performance at the venue was one for the ages as he ran through his parade of timeless tunes, with Usher joining him on stage for a few classic soul-infused songs.

Diana Ross - 2019

Diana Ross set a record five decades in the making when she played Red Rocks on July 22, 2019. Her concert in 2019 came 50 years after her first performance at the venue, when Ross, as lead singer of the Supremes, played Red Rocks in 1969 in what would be the group’s farewell tour.

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Dave Matthews Band

17 SONGS • 2 HOURS AND 11 MINUTES • OCT 28 1997

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Dave Matthews Band helped define the jam-band underground of the 1990s with their energetic, musically and emotionally rich sound and have gone on to become an enduring American musical institution. Steeped in the progressive, multicultural sounds of the '80s -- they spliced bar-band college rock with groove-based jazz and worldbeat explorations given slippery life by Matthews' exuberant exhortations and moody introspection -- the group built a following through traded cassettes of live performances. 1994's Under the Table and Dreaming was their big breakthrough hit which saw them vault into the mainstream; constant touring and albums like 2009's Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King kept the group there. No matter how many hits or changes in lineup they had, the band remained road warriors, returning to the studio on occasion to release albums like 2023's Walk Around the Moon.

An emigrate from South Africa, Dave Matthews settled in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1986. While bartending at a local bar called Miller's, Matthews started to become part of the city's thriving college rock scene. He struck up a friendship with guitarist Tim Reynolds, who encouraged the fledgling singer/songwriter to pursue his muse. Once Matthews had a demo tape together in early 1991, he recruited musicians he admired, eventually bringing drummer Carter Beauford, bassist Stefan Lessard, saxophonist Leroi Moore, and violinist Boyd Tinsley on board, along with keyboardist Peter Griesar. Through constant gigging, the band built up a strong word-of-mouth that spread throughout the region; the buzz would go national in part due to a tape-trading network cultivated by the group's hardcore fans. Griesar left the lineup in March 1993, but the Dave Matthews Band moved ahead in his absence, releasing the independent album Remember Two Things later that year and issuing a live EP, Recently, in 1994. After fielding offers from major labels, the band signed with RCA and released their debut effort Under the Table and Dreaming in September 1994. By the following spring, the record had launched the hit single "What Would You Say" and sold over one million copies, thus setting the stage for an extremely successful career.

A year and a half after the release of Under the Table and Dreaming, the record had sold over four million copies in the U.S. alone, propelled in part by the success of "Ants Marching" and "Satellite." The Dave Matthews Band responded by releasing 1996's Crash, which entered the charts at number two and quickly went platinum. The group spent the bulk of 1996 touring in support of the eclectic album, which reached multi-platinum status and spun off five successful singles, including the Grammy-nominated "Crash into Me." That same year, Matthews launched an attack on bootleggers in conjunction with the federal government, targeting stores that were selling semi-legal discs of live performances. The efforts of Matthews, his band, and his management resulted in an unprecedented crackdown on for-profit bootleggers in early 1997 -- with nearly all of the major foreign bootlegging companies placed under arrest by the United States -- thereby putting a moratorium on the entire underground industry.

To further combat bootleggers, the Dave Matthews Band released an official double-disc live album, Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95, in the fall of 1997. It was an unexpected success, debuting at number three on the charts and selling a million copies within the first five months of its release. The live record paved the way for a string of future DMB concert recordings; it also drummed up support for the April 1998 release of Before These Crowded Streets, the group's most ambitious album to date. Another two-disc live effort, Listener Supported, followed one year later, and summer tours kept the band busy as the decade drew to a close.

The new millennium, however, saw the band returning to the studio with producer Glen Ballard to record a fourth studio album, Everyday, which was issued in February 2001. Although notable for its slick, mainstream-minded sound -- not to mention the presence of electric guitar, which Matthews had never used on previous albums -- it was overshadowed by rumors of a darker album that had been recorded with Steve Lillywhite in 2000. Although the original album was rejected, the band eventually chose songs from those sessions, re-recorded several others, and released the results in July 2002 as Busted Stuff. Its debut single, "Where Are You Going," fared well on national radio, and the band rounded out 2002 with the release of Live at Folsom Field in November.

Several years after releasing Live at Luther College, a concert album that did not feature his band, Dave Matthews released his first proper solo album in 2003. The moody and brooding Some Devil was supported by a "Dave Matthews & Friends" tour -- the "friends" being Trey Anastasio, Brady Blade, Tony Hall, Ray Paczkowski, and Tim Reynolds -- and the album's chief single, "Gravedigger," earned Matthews a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. Boyd Tinsley also released a solo album that year, but the Dave Matthews Band reconvened shortly thereafter, releasing two additional live albums (The Central Park Concert, The Gorge) and returning to the road in 2004. The bandmates also joined Bruce Springsteen's Vote for Change tour toward the end of the year, just as their mail-order-only DMB Live Trax series debuted. In early 2005, they launched a website that featured progress reports on their next album in the form of video footage, diaries, and soundbites. When the flawed Stand Up finally appeared in May, it was the band's first album of all-new material since 2001's Everyday. Like its three predecessors, Stand Up topped the charts, making DMB the only band other than U2 and Metallica to score four consecutive number one albums.

Weekend on the Rocks, another live set, followed Stand Up at the end of 2005, and a two-disc compilation entitled The Best of What's Around, Vol. 1 collected studio material and unreleased live recordings one year later. Matthews and Tim Reynolds launched another joint tour in 2007, canvassing Europe and North America in the process. A performance from the latter continent was featured on the album Live at Radio City Music Hall, which served as a companion piece to 1999's Luther College. Meanwhile, the Dave Matthews Band released their own concert album, Live at Piedmont Park, and began working on new material, although the project was temporarily shelved during pre-production as the band diverted its focus to touring.

The musicians returned to the studio the following year, but unfortunately, LeRoi Moore passed away before the record could be completed. The saxophonist had suffered a serious ATV accident in June and ultimately succumbed to his injuries two months later. Former Béla Fleck saxophonist Jeff Coffin joined in his place, and the band heralded his inclusion with the release of Live at the Mile High Music Festival, a three-disc set capturing a Colorado performance from that summer. Early the following year, the Dave Matthews Band paid tribute to Moore with the release of Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King. The three-CD/one-DVD set Europe 2009, which chronicled a July 5, 2009 show in Lucca, Italy (CD) and a June 26, 2009 show at O2 Academy Brixton in London (DVD) arrived in December 2009. Additional performances were documented on 2010's Live in New York City and 2011's Live at Wrigley Field, the latter of which was released during the band's 20th anniversary. The Dave Matthews Band's seventh studio album, Away from the World, released in 2012, found them reuniting with producer Steve Lillywhite, who produced the band's first three studio albums. Away from the World debuted at number one upon its September 2012 release and found DMB embarking on another extensive international supporting tour, one distinguished by their first jaunt through South Africa.

As Dave Matthews Band were prepping the album release cycle for their ninth album, Come Tomorrow, in early 2018, the band announced that Boyd Tinsley was stepping down. That news arrived in February; in May, he was fired after the revelation of a lawsuit alleging Tinsley sexually harassed a musician hired for his side project Crystal Garden. Tinsley was immediately replaced by keyboardist Buddy Strong. Come Tomorrow debuted at number one upon its June 2018 release; Tinsley appeared on only one track on the record.

Dave Matthews Band returned to the road in 2021, playing summer tours that year and the next. Walk Around the Moon, the band's tenth album and first with Strong as a permanent member, appeared in May 2023. Produced by Rob Evans, Walk Around the Moon found Matthews in a particularly reflective mood, although it still found space for celebration. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Live At Red Rocks 8.15.95

An hour into the first official live release from the Dave Matthews Band, it seems like the singer has forgotten the words to his own song. As he plays the roller-coaster guitar figure of “Drive In, Drive Out,” Carter Beauford rolls into its martial beat, punctuating each meter with hi-hats. Matthews, though, sounds lost, mostly slurring syllables until he finds the occasional word or line and reaches the chorus like a life raft. But in all likelihood, Matthews had not yet written the lyrics to “Drive In, Drive Out” when his band drove into Red Rocks Amphitheatre in August 1995. In a matter of weeks, the group would head to upstate New York to begin recording its landmark Crash. But for now, Matthews and his bandmates were rehearsing their still-in-development tunes for an audience of several thousand. That energy—improvising along the razor’s edge, trying not to fall off—made Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95 an instantly canonical live record upon its 1997 release. Since the group’s first shows, the Dave Matthews Band had lived, grown, and evolved largely on the road, clocking nearly 750 shows in only four years. Their first studio album, Under the Table and Dreaming, had become a smash, built on songs Matthews and his bandmates had shaped onstage. That was the intention for the second album, too: To take what they’d done, and just get it on tape. You can hear that approach come to life during the Red Rocks show. Matthews and his deeply talented players gallop through “Two Step”—pushing the rhythm as hard as it can go—and unfurl during “Lie in Our Graves,” as LeRoi Moore tests melodic phrases and curves at length. They indulge in the old songs, too, sinking into the brooding opener “Seek Up,” and hammering hard at “Ants Marching.” They sound completely energized by the possibility of what’s to come. During their relatively brief tenure, Matthews and his band had already cultivated a rich tape-trading network by the mid-1990s, with zealots sharing sets by mail (and, eventually, online). Live at Red Rocks—the rare concert document to achieve multi-platinum status—was that community’s mainstream signal flare. It was also a public reminder to more casual fans to show up for next summer’s Dave Matthews Band show. After all, who could say what would happen there? Maybe you’d hear half of the new album—before the lyrics were even put to paper.

October 28, 1997 17 Songs, 2 hours, 11 minutes ℗ 1997 Bama Rags Recordings, LLC.

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