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<\/p>\n Cameron Williams and Randolph Turner played at Home Team BBQ back in April. The crowd was full of long-time locals who came to see the founding members of the band Jes Grew, which formed in Aspen in 1998. The two musicians are fronting the 10-piece band Home Team Time Machine for a free show Saturday from 5 to 9 p.m. at Home Team in the Inn at Aspen.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n In the classic song \u201c1999,\u201d Prince sang, \u201cI was dreaming when I wrote this, so sue me if I go too fast. Life is just a party, and parties weren\u2019t meant to last.\u201d<\/p>\n Musicians Randolph Turner and Cameron Williams might take umbrage with Prince\u2019s comment about parties not being meant to last when they front the 10-piece band Home Team Time Machine at Home Team BBQ in the Inn at Aspen on Saturday from 5 to 9 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n The show promises to have revelers partying like it\u2019s 1999 in the Roaring Fork Valley. If you spent any time at the Tippler, Legends, Howlin\u2019 Wolf, Acme, Mountain Dragon, Timber Mill, Grottos or the Double Diamond, then you might want to ignite your flux capacitor and let the Home Team Time Machine take you back to those halcyon days in the \u201890s and early aughts in Aspen at Saturday\u2019s free show at Home Team.<\/p>\n \u201cMusic has always been part of the Home Team culture for multiple reasons, mainly because of the community it creates,\u201d Kutcher Miller, owner of Home Team, said. \u201cThat\u2019s what these jam sessions with Randolph, Cameron and the boys are all about. For those that stumbled into Aspen decades ago and have managed to hang on and make a life here, these afternoons on the patio take us back to a simpler, more carefree time of our lives. There can be a sense of longing for \u2018the old Aspen\u2019 amongst the air of entitlement and pretentiousness that can sometimes cloud our valley and hopefully some live music at the base of Buttermilk allows us to forget that for a minute so we can just listen, laugh and enjoy together.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAnd if you just stumbled into Aspen last week, c\u2019mon over, we\u2019ll always leave the lovelight on for ya!\u201d<\/p>\n Home Team Time Machine is rooted in the musical bond between Turner and Williams, who have been playing music with one another for close to 30 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n Williams grew up in Tallahassee, Florida and went to college at Western State in Gunnison. He finished school at Florida State in 1997 before moving out to Aspen in 1998. Turner grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of Georgia before moving to Aspen in 1992.\u00a0<\/p>\n Upon arriving in Aspen, Williams immediately began playing solo gigs around town.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI kept hearing about this new kid in town named Cameron Williams,\u201d Turner recalled. \u201cWhen we played together it was like an instant musical brotherhood. Different guys would join us for gigs and we decided to form Jes Grew.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Other original members of Jes Grew, which got together in 1998, were Rob \u201cMonkey\u201d Desaro on keyboards, Andrew Simmons on bass and Paul Valentine on drums.\u00a0<\/p>\n Williams left the valley in 2000 and started the band Tishamingo, which toured nationally from 2000 to 2008. After Williams departure, Jes Grew continued to play gigs sporadically with a varied set of musicians until 2017 when the band hung it up.\u00a0<\/p>\n Jes Grew came out of a five-year hiatus in February 2024 when they played the Bud Light Hi-Fi Concert Series in Wagner Park. Since then, the former members of Jes Grew have played a few gigs with Williams at Home Team and every show has been a gathering of old school locals getting down to one of their favorite old bands.\u00a0<\/p>\n Turner and Williams will be joined Saturday by Steven Vidamour, Toby Britt, Rob Dasaro, Galen Gatzke, Kriss Harmony, Ben Yaeger, Mark Yaeger and Chris Lanter.\u00a0<\/p>\n Home Team Time Machine plays primarily cover songs by bands like the Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers and more.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s such a great reunion every time we get together,\u201d Turner said. \u201cIt\u2019s a great time to catch up with old friends. We\u2019ve had so many great experiences, we also celebrate those who aren\u2019t with us anymore.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aspendailynews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cameron Williams and Randolph Turner played at Home Team BBQ back in April. The crowd was full of long-time locals who came to see the founding members of the band Jes Grew, which formed in Aspen in 1998. 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