Surf’s up, Colorado: Hey, hey, we’re the Astronauts!

The Colorado 150, Part 3 of 6: Meet everyone from Woody Paige to Frank Welker to Bill Murray to India.Arie as our countdown moves into the top 100 leading up to Colorado’s 150th birthday

“Who the hell ever heard of a surf band in Boulder, Colorado?”

So says the late, legendary producer Al Schmitt on a video immortalizing Colorado’s first global breakout band of the rock ‘n’ roll era: The Astronauts.

“They’re one of the great stories in Colorado music history,” said G. Brown, the state’s premier music historian and curator of the definitive Colorado Music Experience website. “They were the Beatles of Denver.”…

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