This venue is a rock structure in Red Rocks Park near Morrison, Colorado where concerts are given in an open-air amphitheatre.
The earliest notable rock and roll performance here was by The Beatles on August 26, 1964.
An incident during a performance by Jethro Tull on June 10, 1971, led to a five year ban of rock concerts here due to unruly fan behavior. During this time, “softer” performers such as Carole King and John Denver played here.
In June of 1983, U2 played a memorable concert here. The performance was released as a full concert-length video, Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky. Also, two tracks from their performance were on U2’s 1983 live album, Under a Blood Red Sky.
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
18300 W Alameda Pkwy
Morrison CO 80465
720 865-2494
June 5th 1983 was when U2 filmed their concert “Under a Blood Red Sky” at Red Rocks. There were two other bands that were supposed to open for them, “The Alarm” and “The Divinals”, but they were canceled due to intermittent rain during the day of the concert. Because they were filming for MTV the concert, for U2 at least, had to go on. Due to the inclement weather only 1/3rd of the ticket holders arrived for the concert. In the following days, all ticket holders were provided a full concert with all acts at CU Boulder’s Event Center whether one had an expired ticket or not.