On Tuesday night, the unassuming underside of Interstate 70 — where it bisects the Denver Coliseum and National Western Stock Show complex — transformed into a concrete cathedral.
With Turnstile at the altar, framed by the towering support beams that hold I-70 up and creating a nave stretching to the west, thousands of fans packed onto the floor beneath the freeway. Every few minutes, a light rail car thundered past the stage, like the swell of an organ, rattling the sanctuary.
What might have once seemed like an unlikely setting for worship became, for one night, a house of sound, light and energy…