Do you remember your first record? Your first concert? Your favorite artist from when you were that pizza face in sixth grade? Well this isn’t about that. This is about three artists/records that impacted/influenced you over the years –- you as a musician, James Barone, drummer for Denver rock act . So letap talk about your road.
“When you discover bands and records from the past and you listen to them a lot, itap so impactful that it seems like you’ve been listening to it for years –- just because of that familiarity.”
6 years old
“I remember a back-to-school assembly in the fifth grade, and one of the teachers was playing a snare drum. It was a joke thing, and I can’t remember the circumstances. He was playing marching stuff, and I thought that was so damn cool. For a couple years, I was playing with my empty Lego buckets building drum sets in my bedroom. I was forming a drum set. Later I got a snare drum, and I used the snare case as my bass drum – with buckets around as other drums. A lot of people have done that, I guess. I remember the first thing I tried playing was the 20th Century Fox orchestra intro.
10 years old
“The first tapes I ever bought were Depeche Mode and New Order and Information Society and Big Audio Dynamite. I’ll never forget all those cassettes. That Depeche Mode record, ‘Catching Up with Depeche Mode,’ was amazing. It could have been that the music was trickling down from my brother’s best friend’s older brother and then it trickled down to me, like, ‘This is what the cool, older guys are listening to.’ New Order’s ‘Republic’ was great, too. That song is so happy and rad –- ‘Regret.’ I always envision someone cruising around in a Corvette with the top off when I hear it, but its still pretty awesome.”
26 years old
“Kraftwerk had so many records. I’ve been listening to ‘Ralf and Florian’ a lot lately, and that record is awesome. Itap so electronic, but it the sounds seem so natural. It doesn’t sound like it was trapped in a bunch of electronic boxes. There’s space between all the sounds, and I like that.”
Tjutjuna releases its new record on Friday at the . Also on the bill: DJ Peter Black, Woodsman, Married in Berdichev. Tickets, $8, available at bigmarkstickets.com
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Ricardo Baca is the founder and co-editor of and an award-winning critic and journalist at The Denver Post.
