After a year of unemployment, Colorado musicians are fed up with low rates and poor treatment by venues, according to guitarist Aidan Pagnani. So he and sax player Sarah Mount have been recruiting musicians to join the recently formed Colorado Musicians Union, hoping that they can prevent the music industry from going back to business as usual characterized by what they say is rock-bottom pay (when musicians are paid at all), rampant mistreatment and even assaults on musicians.
Although the Denver Musicians Association has been around for decades, they note that it largely represents musicians working for larger organizations, not gigging artists whose careers are more precarious and who are harder to organize.
Killer Klowns From Outer Space and
Return of the Living Dead, both of which had the added effect of planting the punk-rock seed in his formative brain. The latter movie, in particular, has a punk-laden soundtrack that kicks ass with bands like the Cramps, T.S.O.L. and 45 Grave making appearances. Both remain his favorite horror flicks of all time.
“Those two movies introduced me to both horror and music,” he says. “I didn’t know it was punk music at the time, and I didn’t fully get into punk rock until I heard the Offspring’s The Kids Aren’t Alright. ”
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