Leftover Salmon

Dec 14, 2009 by Anonymous

Leftover Salmon – 20 Years of Swimming Upstream By Michael Gerity  Are you ready for the country? It was the end of the month, the end of the year and a conclusion to a decade that was, for lack of another word- interesting. It was December 1989 and for one group of Colorado musicians it was only the beginning of what would become a long, arduous journey back upstream. In October, there was a severe earthquake in San Francisco just before the start of Game 3 of the World Series. And the Grateful Dead released Built to Last on Halloween, the album that proved to be their last studio effort. By November, Mikhail Gorbachev’s Perestroika had brought such sweeping changes to the Communist world that it culminated with a worldwide viewing of a falling...