Remembering Bill Bass, one of Colorado's last independent promoters.
In a nation now swept up in Swiftgate, it’s hard to remember the simpler days of concerts. Long ago , kids listened to the radio to hear what bands were coming to town. Teenage fans in the tri-state area would mark their calendars for the on-sale date and start lining up at the box office, sometimes all night, waiting to spend their babysitting money to get a real, printed concert ticket.Up until then, only Fey Concerts had been doing the big shows in the area.
"Bill saw the value in the band," adds Buck Williams, manager and agent for Widespread Panic."I would call him because i needed dates filled in Shreveport or Santa Fe, and he would just do them. He believed in the band. But we believed in him, too. Which is why he did those shows in Shreveport and Milwaukee, which is why we stuck by him. He was a real friend."
"I knew Bill was a drummer," says Sunny Ortiz, Widespread Panic's drummer. We talked about it over the years — so, yeah, I finally called him up on stage. He gave me a look, like 'Don’t leave me,' so we played together. It was great. But then I couldn’t get him off the stage! Seriously, Bill was really great to us. He really believed in us, and he loved music.”
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