A very personal tribute to one of Denver's best stores, just in time for Record Store Day.
will be participating in the festivities, its two stores, located steps from each other on the 600 block of East 13th Avenue, deserve a saluteFor those scoring at home, that's 47 years, and for more than thirty of them, Wax Trax has been among my favorite haunts — which makes me a relative newcomer compared to customers who've been going to the joint since the Gerald Ford administration.
I grew up in Grand Junction and was raised by parents who weren't exactly music connoisseurs. My dad owned three albums — a Louis Prima set , a collection of songs sung by comedian Jerry Lewis , and a snoozy long-player by easy-listening pablum provider Ray Conniff . Moreover, radio outlets in the community essentially omitted anything programmers considered too edgy, too loud or too funky.
A few years later, however, my cousin gave me a job at the stereo store he owned, and the business subscribed to assorted music magazines revealing the existence of incredible performers whose work I'd never heard — and none of them were regulars on . By the time I hit high school, I'd found several kindred spirits with whom I made numerous trips to Denver to see concerts such as 1979's Colorado Sun-Day #2, featuring Ted Nugent, Heart, the Cars and UFO.
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