Rock concerts were a summer staple at University of Colorado Boulder’s Folsom Field in the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s, but only have been staged a handful of times since — largely because they sometimes drew raucous fans who used nearby lawns as restrooms, drank too much, took too many drugs and caused massive traffic jams in the city. CU’s Board of Regents effectively banned concerts at Folsom after Van Halen’s 1986 show.
Now, after a 15-year hiatus, concerts are coming back to the football stadium, as three of the surviving members of the Grateful Dead team up with John Mayer for performances on July 2 and 3. Dead & Company, as the band’s been christened, is expected to draw up to 60,000 people over the two nights.
Could the new, proactive plan university officials have drawn from bring more big concerts to Folsom, or will the past repeat itself? .
