The Satire Lounge: Early Denver Folk Venue
Located and still going on East Colfax in the Capitol Hill Neighborhood – this venue once featured a young Bob Zimmerman – Bob Dylan during his brief stay in Denver. There is one lone photo of the singer at the Satire today – but now it is a sleepy little neighborhood joint.
April 22nd, 1960 – Satire Lounge – Dave Hamil
April 29th, 1960 – Satire Lounge – Mario Dunklee
July 8th, 1960 – Satire Lounge – Smothers Brothers – Dick Bailey
August 19th, 1960 – Satire Lounge – Walt Conley – Dick Bailey – Babara Shure
August 26th, 1960 – Satire Lounge – Walk Conley – Bernie Burns – Dick Bailey
September 9th, 1960 – Satire Lounge – Bernie Burns
October 6th, 1960 – Satire Lounge – Ron Shipman
October 23rd, 1960 – Satire Lounge – The Gourd Singers
November 4th, 1960 – Satire Lounge – Jerry Music – Walt Conley
November 11th, 1960 – Satire Lounge – Jerry Music
November 22nd, 1960 – Satire Lounge – Jerry Music
November 25th, 1960 – Satire Lounge – Lulubelle – Walt Conley
December 1st, 1960 – Satire Lounge – Barbara Dane
December 8th, 1960 – Satire Lounge – Barbara Dane
September 1st, 1965 – Satire Lounge License
July 1973 – Satire Lounge – Last of the Beatniks
October 7th, 1974 – Satire Lounge – Football at the Satire
July 1st, 2018 – Satire Lounge Ad
July 24th, 2002 – Satire Lounge – La Voz Correction
July 1st, 2014 – Satire Lounge – Literary Night
2024 – Satire Lounge
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June 9, 2024 at 10:25 pm
I wish I had $10 for every time we went to the Satire.
I was only 10 when the Smothers / Barbara Dane thing was happening so sadly I missed all that. Born too late. Thanks for the research.
But from 1973 through 1979 I must have eaten (and drunk) at the Satire at least once a week whenever we were in town. That was due to Luis’s (the original “Luis”) green chile. Back then it was unique and delicious.
I was, however – a witness/participant to the Satire’s small part in making a hit record.
One evening in late summer / early fall of 1974, after rehearsal a band I was in was chowing down on burritos & beer at the Satire when “head-Sugarloafer” Jerry Corbetta walked in. He asked what we were doing after dinner: … we said “nothing.” Jerry knew we could sing and he asked if we wanted to meet him at Applewood Studios in Golden later and lay down some backup vocal tracks. Since we had nothing better to do that night and we really liked Jerry, of course we said “sure” and did it for free.
Later on that evening we drove out to Applewood Studio at 6th & Indiana in Golden (now gone), and with Frank Slay & Jerry producing, we did background vocals for 3 songs that night, went home and forgot about it. About a month or so later, we were driving somewhere, and this song (“Dont Call Us We’ll Call You”) came on the car radio.
We thought it was just a local station helping Jerry out. But then I got a copy of Billboard and was surprised to see it sneaking up the national charts, eventually in the top 10, and Jerry & the band doing “live” performances on television, including Bandstand and a show with Wolfman doing his supposed short part (it’s not him on the record).
Jerry Corbetta was one of Denver’s best musicians and one of the nicest guys in the music biz – truly one of the “good guys” in Colorado music. RIP Jerry.
Shout out to outstanding Moonrakers/Sugarloaf guitarist Bob Webber, one of the last of the Mohicans & still doing it at Sugarloaf Canyon Productions Studio. Bless Jerry’s sister Barb for taking care of him in his later years. And thanks to Pete Contos’s Satire Lounge for making it happen.
June 10, 2024 at 12:06 pm
Now this is truly a great story! And a great memory.