. My most memorable evening was when I had a stint with the band 421 on a thursday night opening for a cover band who's name will eventally come to me- but I spotted an insanely gorgeous redhead who wore 5 inch black stilhetto heels- which would make my blood boil. It came to me, not too long beforehand I saw a column in the Denver Post about the mayor of Georgetown named Kolleen Brooks- I saw her pic and my eyes BLEW UP.

It was really her. I approached her and to her credit, she politely declined my advance. I got rejected by the mayor of Georgetown! So when I saw a few months later on The Rocky Mountain News that she got recalled in a special election, her face looking dejected was on the front page. A part of me wanted to think it was karma for turning me down, but she had the decency to not have led me on. I always wanted to share that.

I was lucky enough to live at the apartment complex across the street from Eck’s. No need to drive, and all my favorite bands played there. One night Jackyl played and Jesse James Dupree asked to join me for a nightcap. I said no.