John Gross and Other Comets

by Zach Kopp

John Gross was standing outside Little Anita’s as I walked up. Formerly short-cut and clean- shaven, he’d grown out his graying locks and had a bushy gray-black beard after decades pioneering and curating Denver’s noise scene with his band Page 27 and his bygone storied venue on Denver’s north side. Rhinoceropolis was the first salvo in a wave of shutdo…