COLORADOPEDIA HERMANS LOL

Sad News that Herman's Hideaway is closing it's doors.  We'll miss this local music landmark, so we thought you'd like to learn a little more about it's history. 

Episode Transcript

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Channel ninety three three Channel ninety threethrees Colorado Pedio spotlights Herman's Hideaway. Founded
in nineteen sixty two by father andson duo Herman and Alan Roth, Herman's
Hideaway has been independently run until today, choosing to turn away from their obvious
calling is proprietors of a furniture apostrycompany, The Roths chose the road less

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traveled Broadway, starting with a restaurant, then changing it to a concert venue.
The Roths brought countless musical acts tothe stage and countless forbidden ax to
their backstage, the latter of whichexisted on the point fifth floor of the
building, bragging a five foot fourinch ceiling height and the hunchiest artist in
the city to be fair. Backin sixty two, basements were mostly used

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for buryon Anyway. Some of thebig bands that have hunched into Hermans include
Fish, the Dave Matthews Band,and Blues Traveler That's probably one of your
neighbors in the peak of their musicalcareer. But now in twenty twenty four,
Hermans is becoming a Latin dance clubcalled Cocoa Bongos, and we'll be
sad to see that go as wellwell. Today, I hope you learned

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a little more about the venue thatcarried the local music scene long before it
was even cool. Herman's Hideaway.Gotta miss you, Hermi Colorado Pedia from
nerves Ello Well at five oh five, brought to you my Loogo pizzer Chello
Wells on iHeartRadio.