Comments for Zephyr, Going back to Colorado

Nice band from the seventies, Candy Givens sings great, Tommy Bolin, guitar, is awesome.

zephyr is a the heart and soul of my early days of becoming aware, lewis ormand

I saw zephyr as the warm up band for Jimi hendrix in albuquerque in the late 60's. Wonderful times and music. Everyone was "psyched-out". Met the band next door at the local diner and talked for a bit. One of the best concerts I've seen.

I was a kid hanging with my older brother's friends and living in the Cap-Hill area of Denver. If you know of the snake pit, I probably know some of you.... I had just moved from a northern suburb and fell into an amazing situation. I was the punk gopher-guy long hair kid just hanging around the Bowl (at the park in Boulder, CO) and my older friends were helping Zephyr setup for a show. It became apparent that a necessary hardware item (a cable or connector etc.) was needed for the show to happen! I got to jump into a Porche with an 'elder' and zoom back to Denver to pickup the part! Zoomed back to Boulder and, unfotunately...:-) don't remember too much of that night! I do remember Jimmy at Red Rocks though. Someone dropped or otherwise let fall a bottle from the top of the Rocks(Red Rocks Amphitheater). We used to be able to hike up into the crevices to the great vantage point on the North Wall of the Amphitheater. During Purple Haze, Jimmy stopped mid-song and, gesturing up toward the cave, said something to the effect of "hey man..., be cool up there" We hear later that it injured a girl or some other fairly predictible bummer event... I wasn't into reading the news back then and so will never know what happened to the girl who got beaned by that bottle... I did the Denver Pop Festival at Mile High Staduim too. I was recently told that seeing Jimi twice is cool, but that seeing Jimi and Janice together was really cool! It was. I was one of the youth-full masses attacking the fence and eventually finding that piece of wire fence that we could yank up (taking two guys!) to let multiple others scamper QUICKLY through. I distinctly remember being on the upper exterior West-facing ramp area. While I did not directly participate (though it was probably just that I was late that I missed the opportunity) in hurling the trash can down toward the 'pigs', it was one of those both scary and exhilirating things that came with the neighboorhood back then. I got to see The Doors at something that was billed as Woodstock West. I 'think' it was advertised as such... I remember the band maybe playing a song or two, or maybe a set and then a break or somethun... They came out and started in on, I think, Wild Child..., and jm reached over to the organ and grabbed a tall bud. Popping the cap, he slammed about half of the can then threw the remainder into the audience. Of course, that immediate area (and the rest of the place for that matter) went nuts. I used to ride my bicycle (from the DU area of South Denver) to concerts at Mammoth Gardens (now The Fillmore http://sfx.com/venue.asp?venueID=1380&zipcode=80201) and saw Santana. I remember the buzz prior to the show being something about how young the drummer was..., and I remember that he had a sort of impish grin, but the guys was amazing! And the weird part was that I was again one of the masses out there on the floor and he tossed his drum stick into the audience and..., yep. It came to me. I drove an old cadillac off the shoulder of the road in Left Hand Canyon back then... I squandered opportunity. I quit high school (grade nine) and went to work. I wander Sanchos on occasion and, when helped along, remember Candy and Tommy Bolin and Denver and the Golden Apple and PosCO and on and on and on... It would be fascinating if some other oldie like me that remembers these old Denver-Days-Recollections would know who I am! Sorry RK.... probably the wrong forum to rant and reminisce. I miss my old friends. pk

Zephyr was Boulder's answer to Jefferson Airplane. Candy Givens and Tommy Bolin were part of the extreme flame that persisted from the sixties to ankle deep in the seventies. If you are looking for Tommy at his most ripping look to Billy Cobham's Spectrum and Teaser. For a look at the heart of rock 'n roll in 1971, listen up.