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| - Rocks Lounge is a terrific, intimate venue. Located inside the Red Rocks Casino, you'll have plenty to do around the Lounge while you wait for your show to start.
If you bought tickets in advance, you'll need to pick them up at the casino's Will Call booth, which located near the Keno stand. This is about 50 yards from the Lounge entrance and is easy to find thanks to ample signage pointing out the Keno area. Once you've got your tickets you can head back to the Lounge and proceed in, providing you're less than one hour prior to the start of the act. If you're early, you can grab a drink at the oval-shaped bar which is half on the Lounge side and half on the Casino side.
The bartenders here were the friendliest ones I encountered in the casino. They were very prompt and required no waving or signal flares or hand signals to get their attention. Drinks were priced appropriately (as opposed to similar venues in town!) and well-made.
When the doors open you are funneled into the Lounge area, which is all General Admission except for the reserved booths on either side. Those looked fabulous and spacious, and are priced to match their level of exquisiteness. The hardwood floor is great for dancing to the music, but can be rough on the feet if you're wearing inappropriate footwear. As this venue is essentially standing-room-only, you'll not want to wear high heels or anything funky in here. Stick to comfortable footwear or wind up barefoot like several young ladies I observed.
The best place to stand for the sake of acoustics is about fifteen feet back from the stage. Standing right at the stage offers you no real advantage other than a crick in your neck as you'll be staring straight up. Add to that the fact that you're directly under the ceiling speakers which are pointed behind you, and you wind up missing some of the music. So no need to rush the stage right as the venue opens.
There seemed to be a concern amongst a pair of Lounge attendees as to why they paid for tickets when others could hear the music from the casino floor. I wouldn't worry about this. The casino has so much ambient noise that the music would not sound great out there, and security keeps the walkways clear of stragglers who may try and gather just outside the Lounge to listen in for free. There did seem to be some folks at the casino side of the Lounge bar who could get a good earful of the music, but their view would have been completely obscured by the center of the bar itself. So worry not, busybody ticket-buyers. You're getting what you paid for, and nobody else is.
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