Boulder Banjo Billy Haunted Tours
Colorado invokes images of the majestic Rocky Mountains, incredible scenery, and an abundance of outdoor activities. But the state also has a creepy side with its rich and amusing haunted history full of bizarre characters, creepy tails and unexplainable events. Boulder is one of those spooky destinations, and riding the haunted tour on Banjo Billy's Bus is fun for the whole family.
Phil Goodstein: Denver Walking Tour
Phil Goodstein, Denver History expert, taking us on a Denver Walking Tour: Wandering The Streets of Denver.
Jim Baugh Outdoors at the Chophouse Denver Colorado
In the Field: getting ready to film a cooking segment at the Chophouse in Denver Colorado.
Larry the cable guy
Comedy
JamBase Exclusive: The Gallery by The Lil' Smokies
Following last year’s successful Songs Of Their Own video series of artists covering songs by the Grateful Dead, the Twenty Years Later video series features some of JamBase’s favorite musicians recording songs released in 1996. Looking back, the music released 20 years ago proved to be critical in both rock ‘n’ roll history and particularly within the jam band scene. The year 1996 saw seminal albums released by Phish, Dave Matthews Band, Bela Fleck and The Flecktones, moe., The String Cheese Incident, the Disco Biscuits, Keller Williams, Galactic, Medeski Martin & Wood, God Street Wine, Strangefolk and The Slip, helping to solidify the maturing jam scene.
There were also influential records issued in 1996 by the likes of artists as diverse as Beck, Jamiroquai, Modest Mouse, Rage Against The Machine, Johnny Cash, Pearl Jam, Sting, Tool, 2Pac and many others. The Twenty Years Later video series takes a look back at those releases, with participating artists covering songs from albums turning 20 this year. For this installment, The Lil’ Smokies came to California to cover Counting Crows’ “A Long December.”
Following “Angels of the Silences,” “A Long December” was released as the second single off of Counting Crows’ 1996 Gil Norton-produced sophomore LP Recovering The Satellites. Composed by Adam Duritz, the band’s frontman penned the song after a friend of his was hit by a car, referencing trips to the hospital to visit while his friend recovered. Duritz told Rolling Stone this about the meaning behind the track: “It’s a song about looking back on your life and seeing changes happening, and for once me, looking forward and thinking, ‘Ya know, things are gonna change for the better — ‘maybe this year will be better than the last.'”
Missoula, Montana-based The Lil’ Smokies made a recent trip to the West Coast, stopping by the JamBases offices in San Francisco along the way. The quintet made up of banjoist Matt Cornette, mandolinist Cameron Wilson, Dobro player Andy Dunnigan, bassist Scott Parker and guitarist Matthew Rieger offered an acoustic take on both “A Long December” and their unreleased original “The Gallery.”
Audio and video recorded and edited by Jake Alexander.
RV
In Columbia Pictures' family adventure-comedy RV an overworked executive, Bob Munro (Robin Williams), persuades his wife and children to give up their Hawaiian vacation for some 'family bonding' on a cross-country RV trip. But it's all a ruse. Bob has other, more career-oriented reasons on his mind than sending quality time with his family in the Rocky Mountains. Through a series if misadventures, including constant run-ins with an overly friendly troupe of full-time RV'ers, Bob inadvertently learns the true meaning of family MPAA Rating: PG ©2006 IMF Internationale Medien und Film GmbH & Co. 3 Produktions KG. All Rights Reserved.
Suspense: Stand-In / Dead of Night / Phobia
The program's heyday was in the early 1950s, when radio actor, producer and director Elliott Lewis took over (still during the Wilcox/Autolite run). Here the material reached new levels of sophistication. The writing was taut, and the casting, which had always been a strong point of the series (featuring such film stars as Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Eve McVeagh, Lena Horne, and Cary Grant), took an unexpected turn when Lewis expanded the repertory to include many of radio's famous drama and comedy stars — often playing against type — such as Jack Benny. Jim and Marian Jordan of Fibber McGee and Molly were heard in the episode, Backseat Driver, which originally aired February 3, 1949.
The highest production values enhanced Suspense, and many of the shows retain their power to grip and entertain. At the time he took over Suspense, Lewis was familiar to radio fans for playing Frankie Remley, the wastrel guitar-playing sidekick to Phil Harris in The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. On the May 10, 1951 Suspense, Lewis reversed the roles with Death on My Hands: A bandleader (Harris) is horrified when an autograph-seeking fan accidentally shoots herself and dies in his hotel room, and a vocalist (Faye) tries to help him as the townfolk call for vigilante justice against him.
With the rise of television and the departures of Lewis and Autolite, subsequent producers (Antony Ellis, William N. Robson and others) struggled to maintain the series despite shrinking budgets, the availability of fewer name actors, and listenership decline. To save money, the program frequently used scripts first broadcast by another noteworthy CBS anthology, Escape. In addition to these tales of exotic adventure, Suspense expanded its repertoire to include more science fiction and supernatural content. By the end of its run, the series was remaking scripts from the long-canceled program The Mysterious Traveler. A time travel tale like Robert Arthur's The Man Who Went Back to Save Lincoln or a thriller about a death ray-wielding mad scientist would alternate with more run-of-the-mill crime dramas.