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CPR's Open Air Presents: Bud Bronson & The Good Timers
Colorado Public Radio's Open Air Presents: Bud Bronson & The Good Timers with distinguished guests Big Dopes and SLYNGER live at the World Famous Lion's Lair!
Five long years ago, in early 2014, Bud Bronson & The Good Timers sent high-voltage shockwaves through the 2000 block of Colfax Avenue by playing a sold-out, debut EP release show at the World Famous Lion's Lair. The band's ambitions at that point were clear, singular, and bad to the bone: outrun the responsibilities of adulthood on a high-speed chase from the suburban basements they were spawned in through the time-forgotten dive bars of Denver, slamming as many cold cans and slapping as many high-fives as possible along the way.
$10adv / $12dos
21+
Half a decade later, the world is a different place. Some friends are married. Some have dogs. Some have even procreated. A reality-TV star is our president. Venmo is a verb. Spiked seltzer exists, and it's not called Zima. Denver is a booming metropolis. We don't have hoverboards, but we do have electric scooters. They're everywhere. And just as prevalent is the confusion of being a 30-something in a weird, big, uncertain world.
It is this world from which BBGT's sophomore LP, Between The Outfield And Outer Space (BTOAOS), was born. Released late 2018 via Snappy Little Numbers, BTOAOS takes a harder look at the well-worn rock & roll tropes the band so enthusiastically embodied in their early years. A departure from the reckless abandon of the band's earliest years, BTOAS finds BBGT confronting the dawn of a morning they pretended would never come -- and examining their own foray into fantasy amidst a world that seems hell-bent on clinging to its own.
Heavy? Yes. Bleak? Maybe. A downer? Hardly. While the band breaks into uncharted territory thematically taking a harder look at long-championed BBGT tropes such as nostalgia, excess and willful ignorance the music explodes with more urgency than ever.
BTOAOS title track wastes little time broadcasting the albums space-sized ambition, riding shimmering guitars into the outer reaches of the cosmos before We Are The Champions (Of The Basement) lands squarely back on Earth, playing like the rec-room soundtrack to a Bruce Springsteen show after-party. Over the next 30+ minutes, BTOATS seamlessly pays homage to the full spectrum of BBGTs influences, from 1970s AOR and Rivers Cuomo fan-boy shredding to early-aughts high-school essentials like Bleed American and Tell All Your Friends. The result is a complete, compelling and fully individual work that satisfies the lofty standards set forth by none other than Patrick Stickles: It should always be the dearest hope of the Artist that the Art they create could have been created by no one else.
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LocationLion's Lair Lounge (View)
2022 East Colfax Avenue
Denver, CO 80206
United States
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| Minimum Age: 21 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
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