it's a Psychobilly Freakout!! Reverend Horton Heat's Standing Bass Player Jimbo Wallace was rad, He's been in the shop before but this time they were running late, they couldn't get to the shop due to a big storm in the mountains, so we met up with him at the Gothic. It was good to see him again, this time he's Rock'n our Doc's!
We Had a blast with Jimbo Wallace, we set him up with a classic pair of 8 eye Dr. Martens and he set us up with tickets for the crew and signatures of his band on our boot for the collection, the Rev, "RJ" Matt & Diego along with "Big Sandy" all did it up! They played a sold out show at the Gothic Theatre just down the street from our shop!. High light of the night was a cover of Motörhead's 'Ace of Spades'Â
a great night with Echo and the Bunnymen.  we traded Dr. Martens for tickets for the crew, got to spend time with Ian McCulloch after the show - we've had this boot signed by different member over the years, different times in the shop, but to get to hang with Ian and have him finish this off was special!
does it get any better than this? Al Jourgensen & first lady of Ministry, liz rock'n OUR Dr Martens, 14 eye black and 14 eye Vondas - on a freak'n CAMEL!!
incredible day and night with Al Jourgensen & Ministry  the Colorado connection is real, after the show Pam & I hung out with him and his sweetheart liz along with some high school friends of Al's, learned a lot about him, crazy, he went to UNC same time as my brother Rich, mutual friends.. small world.  keyboardist - John Bechdel was Rad, he took time & photos with customers in the shop, good dude..
killer Post Punk band, Killing Joke: Official autographed this after their show at The Oriental Theater, they were cool to sign all our vinyl as well!!!  another Bad Ass boot for our collection!! this was my boot from the day,  it's a super rare size 10.5 Dr. Martens, in the 1990's we were able to special order half sizes, Dr. Martens let us get them but we were not allowed to advertise the half sizes. they may of had them in the UK, but in the USA this was unheard of..
A very special day And night with Simple Minds at FashioNation. An all time favorite band of ours and they lived up to and exceeded all our expectations. Thanks you guys, you're the best!
Jim Kerr wrote a cool review of our shop on their social media, pretty cool!!!! "SIMPLE MINDS LIVE IN DENVER ..on stage @ 8pm Paul Italiano was a DJ - ing kid in Denver, back in those day when Simple Minds were first releasing music and touring North America. New Gold Dream, and then Sparkle In The Rain were his initial experience of our music, leading him to see SM live at the world famous Red Rocks, Colorado, in 1984.Soon after Paul was working his way back through our earlier work including Sons And Fascination, and Empires and Dance. Sooner again Paul and Pam ( who would later get married) decided to open a store - selling some clothes that Pam made. They then started focusing selling shoes with a rock n' roll vibe. And although they started with almost no money, they soon had all manner of people beating a path to their door. A success story right there! All these years later Vixens + Angels is still going strong - perhaps one of the last great independents stores.https://www.vixensandangels.com Paul loves his music still, that was clear when we visited his store today. You can feel the love he has for music, fashion, and his city - Denver. That was apparent as we chatted while driving through the new cityscape that characterises Denver.  I certainly hope Simple Minds can equally show our love for what we do - tonight at the Paramount in Denver. We hope that is the case with every show we do. Thanks to Paul and Pam. Thanks to all who are coming to see Simple Minds tonight in Denver."
Jim Kerr signed this boot up for our ROCK STAR boot collection and we could not be happier. We've been saving this 13 eye that WE designed for our 13th anniversary back in the day (embossed with our name).  An old customer brought this pair back to us, he wasn't going to wear them any longer and said they needed to 'come back home'
A fun chance meeting with Kate Pierson of the B-52's, we did a promotion for their at Fiddlers Green and we able to go to the Meet & Greet with the band, we spoke to Fred Schneider before hand and arranged to bring him a cool pair of shoes compliments of Dr. Martens. And... just in case you were wondering, yes - she still has " it " the girl rocks!
