less than great

we're pulling out of denver here in a bit.
we did TWO weeks here and it felt so LONG. it's weird when you're in a city for less then a week and then do two.
it doesn't seem like much, but take away the train run and load out and suddenly there's all this time on your hands!

we played the Denver coliseum which..... isn't the Greatest of places - there's also the Pepsi center which is more modern and where the Nuggets (NBA team) play.

we got the coliseum, which, it turns out, is a converted Airplane hanger! you can still see the curved ceiling - and it looks like they just plopped old seats along the sides.
there's no second level - the place looks like the have rodeos there - i guess they must since they have horse stalls in the back

which stink

there's not a lot of space either there so most of the dressing rooms where "Curtains and Poles" (it is what it sounds like) with the few available rooms reserved for the ringmaster and start performers and such.

we, the band, got curtains and poles.

we always seem to get placed next to the Flying Casacres (our trapeze troop) either them and/or the nursery.

now, that's always tough because 1) lots of loud crying kids 2) we have to watch our volume and language more than usual. not that we're especially BAD, but we're still smelly dude musicians types.

so, not that much space there - all of our dead boxes (empty road cases) had to go back in the barn/horse area in the DIRT. and most had good layers of dust today when we loaded out.

the worst thing - FLIES, SO MANY STINKING FLIES in this place!

nice part was there were a bunch of tables and chairs set up near our pie car - that's rare. bad part - that's where the flies were.