Before the pandemic hit last March, the practice spaces at Dog House Music Studios in Lafayette were booked two months out for acts slated to play Red Rocks and the Pepsi Center, including the Motet, BoomBox and Lotus. But just as national tours and local shows started to cancel, the business, which Gary Lennox originally opened about fifteen years ago, closed down under COVID-19 restrictions.
About a week before lockdown, some bands approached new owners Kenny Vasko and his wife, Liz Vasko, who bought Dog House about two years ago, about livestreaming from the building. Over the next two months, the Vaskos spent $10,000 on two stages and lighting systems, turned their largest rehearsal studio into a livestream studio, and piped high-speed fiber-optic Internet into the building.