Published:12/16/05
By Josie Jay

"Rock & Roll Ain't Noise Pollution"

Rock and Roll Academy Concert at Sheridan Opera House This Saturday The small studio has deep red walls lined with posters of rock and roll greats – Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison. The ceiling is low and covered with black foam ceiling tiles to absorb the sound; the raised stage, which takes up most of the space, is packed with instruments, mic stands and amplifiers. Welcome to the Rock and Roll Academy.

The five members of the band Krest are scattered around the room, readying for rehearsal.

“We really like AC/DC,” says Thad Pryor, who plays guitar, drums and bass for the band. Other influences on their music include Hendrix, he says. “Max, play what you learned for Purple Haze.” Max Laws, guitarist for Krest, plays the first few bars flawlessly.

Other members of Krest include Trevor Croke on bass and drums, Sheamus Croke on keyboards and Jack Jones on drums, guitar, bass and vocals.

“We need to get Trev some candy,” says Pryor of Croke, who’s laid out on the floor. “He’s crashing.”

Most of the members of Krest have been in the Rock and Roll Academy since its inception in September of 2004, but in different bands. They came together this semester for some good ol’ rock and roll, and you can hear them live this Saturday at the Rock and Roll Academy’s Winter Tour 2005 in the Sheridan Opera House, where Krest will show you that “rock and roll ain’t noise pollution,” says Jones.

Krest is the opening band  Saturday. “We get the crowd hooked,” says Pryor.

Academy Director Mark Galbo formed the Rock and Roll Academy over a year ago to give kids the opportunity to really experience music without restricting them to one instrument; part of the exuberance on display here, no doubt, comes from the fact that the kids get to play any and all the instruments they want.

 “The cool thing about this place is they do all play all the instruments – no one tells them they can’t,” says Galbo. “My goal is to develop musicians.” Galbo, who has spent his entire career as a musician – half of it performing and the other half teaching – says he often has to “resist my teacher-ly instincts and challenge myself to do less.” He wants the kids to find their own sound and come together as a band.

“We don’t tell anyone what to do around here,” says Galbo. “It’s their decision what they play. Students their age need a chance to hang out in a semi-structured environment.”

Galbo says his goal for the Rock and Roll Academy was to “create a scene” for the kids, “by setting up space and having an intent for what they do,” and from that scene, set up events for them to work towards, like Saturday’s concert.

By giving them the freedom to find their own direction as musicians and a band, Galbo says, “They play with a lot of confidence. No one’s telling them what to do.” And during the concerts, on stage in front of a screaming audience, “they’re confident, not frightened at all.

“They can’t wait to get out there and do their thing,” says Galbo. “I had to develop that over years. There’s no failure here.”

“It’s so cool,” agrees Pryor of playing in the concerts.

“It’s so much fun,” adds Jones. “It’s the best part.”

The Rock and Roll Academy now has ten bands comprised of nearly fifty students, ages 8 to 17. Each band gets an hour and a half of rehearsal time every week, and garage jams are held once a month for all the bands. “They get together – it’s free form,” says Galbo of the garage jams. “They don’t see the other bands during rehearsal,” so it’s a chance for them to check out what everyone else is doing.

The members of Krest, who have been milling around on stage playing various chords and beats, organize themselves onstage. Pryor counts out the beginning of Highway to Hell on the drums and the band tears into the song. Galbo steps up onstage to adjust an amp, and then lets them at it.

Sheamus Croke pulls his black top hat low over his eyes and seems to play the keyboard by feel. Laws stands with his stockinged feet spread wide, tongue out, ripping the chords. Jones takes the bass and pounds out the low notes, while Trevor Croke, newly revived by some sugar, plays guitar. They make it all the way through once, and Pryor ends the song by blowing on the ends of his drumsticks. Various bandmembers make suggestions for the next round and they take a second shot.

“The solutions they come up with are unerringly correct,” says Galbo. “I won’t answer their questions a lot of the time.” That’s because Galbo wants them to work through the logistics that come along with being a band. “When they’re on stage, they aren’t looking around for me. They learn to rely on themselves and each other.” That doesn’t mean the bands are focused all the time, however. “Sometimes I have to remind them we have a concert coming up, but I’ve seen bands ill-prepared get up on stage and play flawlessly,” he says.

Next on the songsheet for Krest is Wild Thing. For this song, Jones moves to the drums and adjusts the mic for his vocals. Trevor Croke moves to bass and Pryor plays guitar. They vary the tempo throughout the song and finish big with a display of showmanship – Laws and Pryor  playing their guitars behind their heads. “Let’s do the last verse,” suggests Jones. “From right after I hit my cymbal.”

Saturday’s concert at the Sheridan Opera House begins at 4 p.m. for an under-18 show, followed by an all-ages show at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adults; $12 for students; and $20 for an all-day student pass, and are available at Between the Covers Bookstore, Wizard Entertainment and www.TellurideTicket.com.

Other bands playing Saturday are Emma and the Bureaucrats: Emma Gross, Miles Duffield, Skyler Hollinbeck, Shawn Swain, Jonas Fahnestock; The Elements: Clayton White, Cameron Johnston, Christian Johnston, Skylar Hollinbeck; Satori: Sam Engbring, Harry Kearney, Hagen Kearney, Max Bregman; Shotgun Hotel: Danny West, Zack Kula, Ryan Swain, Andy Gallen, Devin Brown; In Perfection: Marina Marlens, Mia McGlaughlin, Ellowyn Kane, Chloe Creel, Caroline Winslow, Kailee Kennedy; Random Antics: Cameron Ortiz, Fern Miller, DJ Lewis, Julian Misliuc; Bandex: AJ Rekdahl, Hagen Kearney, Harry Kearney, Max Bregman; Detour: Travis Weaver, Jeff Weaver, Luke Farny, Andrew Farny, Max Walker, Sarah Miller; and Let There Be Rock: Scout Engbring, Cordelia Pryor, Miles Galbo, Amos Knight, Mike Fortenberry, Caleb Hurwitz, Chase Barnum.

For more information on the Rock and Roll Academy, call 728-1186

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Published:6/21/05– from The Telluride Watch:
By Carlos Cagin

Rock Revolution Hits Telluride

Disguised as just another Mountain Village office, the Rock and Roll Academy is a piece of youth culture trapped in a high-end mountain resort. The glass door bearing the academy's logo provides just a hint of the thriving culture within.

If rock 'n' roll is undergoing a renaissance in Telluride, here's the source.

"A community isn't all of the 20-year-olds together, it's not all of the 50-year-olds together, and it's not all of the 7-year-olds together," says Rock and Roll Academy founder Mark Galbo.   "It's a mix."

Along with manager Dean Bubolo, Galbo has created a music sanctuary, a haven where kids can grow into musicians. Pictures of local kids share the walls with music greats. Posters of Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix and The Who can all be found next to pictures of local "stars on the rise," including the bands Exodus, Shotgun Hotel and The People's Republic of Rock, all testaments to Galbo's influence on Telluride's youth.

Galbo is modest when asked about the sudden rise of rock in Telluride.

Rock 'n' roll "reemerges when it needs to," he explains. The current period is comparable to the 1960s, he says, when rock was young. The war in Iraq can be compared to Vietnam, Galbo suggests. "We are at cultural unease," he says, "and that's what rock and roll's about."

Popular music is also cyclical, Galbo says. "When things get too 'Britney Spears-ish,' somebody like Kurt Cobain comes in and takes rock back up."

But Galbo, by attributing the sudden musical revolution in Telluride to the social climate and musical cycle, just might be understating his own impact on Telluride's youth.

Before Galbo moved to Telluride full-time, two years ago, Telluride was a community with a few individual musicians, their notes for the most part floating up, up and away in the mountain air, heard by few.  

Soon, music-teacher Galbo had 67 individual students a week. He transformed that base into a school that today has given rise to nine bands made up of local kids. The school provides a structure to support the growth of young musicians.

The impact, Galbo hopes, reaches beyond the students to affect the entire community. "We hope to profoundly impact this community as a whole," he says. "We want to reach out to the non-music people as well."

Galbo hopes to produce concerts showcasing the bands that have emerged from his school that not only demonstrate what "his kids" can do, but to reach out to people of all ages.

"A lot of events are age-specific," he explains. "What we hope to accomplish is an intermixing of the ages."

This diversity goes beyond the multi-aged audience that attends his concerts to include the bands as well. Incoming tenth grader Shawn Swain, a local rising star, is a member of several bands, with band mates ranging from fifth to 11th grade.

"It's nice working with a range," Swain says, because you have more people to learn from.  

Galbo says that his goal isn't to train musicians in the classical sense. He wants to avoid lecturing kids to musical stardom. Instead, Galbo's approach is to encourage his students to figure things out together, and to learn from each other.

"I think the old model of the guitar lesson is dead," Galbo proclaims. "I trust the students to have the music inside of them."

As Keaton McCargo, an upcoming fifth grader, describes it, songs at the academy begin with a CD. As the song plays, Galbo helps each member of the band figure out his or her part. McCargo says that when the time comes, "You know what your part is, and then everyone knows what to do."

As the musicians develop, Galbo explains, he teaches them less.

"I think of [teaching music] as painting. You might start out with all this paint, but as you mature, you use less paint."

The next scheduled appearance of Rock and Roll Academy bands will be July 2 at Youth Link. It will be a benefit for the Telluride Town Park Skate Park.

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By Suzanne Cheavens
Published: Friday, December 16, 2005

Rockers: young, gifted and back

Ladies and gentlemen, insert your earplugs.

This Saturday, Dec. 17, the students of the Rock and Roll Academy are storming the Sheridan Opera House stage for two shows of unbridled rock and roll energy. Which sounds somewhat redundant, when you think about it.

Winter Tour 2005 will stage two shows - a 4 p.m. show for those 18 and under and at 8 p.m., an all ages show. The double header is the culmination of the academy's fall semester and will feature all 48 enrolled kids on stage.

Rock and Roll Academy Director Mark Galbo, spells out the school's primary goal.

"F-U-N," he said. "These shows celebrate the kids and how amazing they are."

Some of the bands - 10 in all - concertgoers can look forward to In Perfection, an all-girl band of 10-12-year-olds, Emma and the Bureaucrats and Satori, formerly Exodus.

"Well, they all stand out," Galbo said, "but In Perfection is just full of energy - very uptempo."

Emma and the Bureaucrats is fronted by the enchanting Emma Gross, Galbo said.

"I told the four guys in her band that if have a good female lead singer, the rest is easy."

Satori, a group of seventh- and eighth-grade boys, earned top billing for the shows for a reason.

"They're the ruling band and everyone knows it," Galbo said. "They are unbelievably good."

Galbo said the two shows give the students a taste of what it's like to be a working musician.

"They really get to feel like a rock star," he said. "And doing two shows is good for working out the kinks."

Rock and roll is nothing but high energy on every level - musicianship, lyrics, tempo, attitude. Telluride's own school of rock has been attracting as many as 50 young people per semester to its brand of academia for a few years. Under the tutelage of and infused with Galbo's infectious enthusiasm, the school doles out lessons not only for bass, drums, guitar and singers, but in confidence, self-reliance and working as a team. Or in this case, a band.

The academy's winter semester commences Jan. 24 and runs for four months. Registration is taking place right now. Thirty-four young rockers have already signed up.

Never-nevers can learn to play the instrument of their choice in a band setting in a single semester, but Galbo said many students return for multiple sessions.

"They learn fast," he said. "They definitely come back and by two or three semesters things really take shape."

Tickets for Saturday's shows are $20 for adults, $12 for students, $20 for all-day student passes and are available at Between the Covers, Wizard Entertainment and tellurideticket.com.

For more info, or to register for the upcoming semester call 728-1186 or go to: rockandrollacademy.com

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Published:5/6/05
By Reilly Capps

Are you ready to rock and roll?

Thad Pryor practices his guitar licks during Hurricane of Hell's band practice at the Rock and Roll Academy in Mountain Village.

Photo by Drew Ludwig

Just four days before their big concert, the band is getting worried.

The People's Republic of Rock, students at the Rock and Roll Academy in Mountain Village, slayed the audience at their last show, in December. They were stars. But their lead guitar player is leaving on a family trip, and lately the band is having some intra-squad squabbles over who should play what and how. Co-lead singer Devin McCarthy, 12, doesn't know if the band can pull it together for Saturday's two shows at the Sheridan Opera House.

Here is how she put it: "We're screwed.

"It doesn't help that there's a reporter here (and later a photographer). The press attention seems to make Devin nervous, and you wonder: How did this little thing called rock and roll get so out of control?

"He's going to write that we suck," lamented Devin, pointing to the reporter. "I can see the headline: 'People's Republic of Rock sucks. They're going to die in their concert. Go see them suck.

'"There are plenty of positive signs: Samantha Cole Johnson, 11, is mastering the complex drumbeat in a song by The Donnas. And Keaton McCargo, 9, is laying down a rock-solid baseline on Seven Nation Army, even though the bass is taller than she is. Reaching to the farthest frets seems to require a quick growth spurt in her left arm.

Mark Galbo, founder and director of the academy, isn't worried.

"They have great musical instincts," said Galbo, a long-time rock and roll veteran. "And one of the greatest instincts a musician can have is to get on stage and rock it.

"For encouragement, the band has a couple of groupies in attendance: Alexa Posner, 11, and Abby Erdman, 10, who nod their heads and sing along, obviously transported.

Plus, PRR (as they are known to their fans) does have a history of success.

At the last show, the Opera House sold out. There hasn't been a ticket this sought-after since Willy Wonka's coveted golden pass to the kingdom of sweets. Alexa the groupie tried to see PRR, but she was stopped colder than dry ice by the ticket checker at the door.

Desperate for a glimpse, Alexa thought about pulling a Woodstock: climbing a fence, ducking a rope, running around the ticket checker.

"Maybe when the person was talking to someone else," she thought, "I could sneak through their legs.

"She didn't. She's not a total rock and roll groupie yet: She still has morals.

And so she missed a show that can only be referred to in capital letters, a Show that made Rock History last year by Blowing the Century-Old doors off the Sheridan Opera House: the Winter Tour.

I was at Altamont, you know. And the Newport Folk Festival. And Shea Stadium. And I have never seen a show like this.

Were you there? Years from now, people who weren't there will lie and tell their grandchildren they were there.

If you missed it, your offspring will expect a darn good excuse, like "I was on vacation" or "I was serving a two-year prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter.

"Like the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, the whole first row was full of screaming teenage girls, really screaming, to the point where you wanted to go stick your head in a jet engine just to get some peace and quiet.

They screamed for every single group, paused sometimes to put their hands on their heads in order to keep the awesome power of rock from eating their brains out from the inside, until most of them decided the front row wasn't close enough and they rushed the stage.

News 4 from Denver was there (check out a video of the show on the station's Web site).

That concert was a shocking thing for Thalia Pryor, mother of a rock and roll singer, Macy. She heard her daughter singing about things she would never be allowed to discuss at home.

"We don't say that in our house," Pryor said, "but it's in the song, so. . . .

"Her son Thad heard about the fun and decided he had to be a part of it.

"It's just contagious," Pryor said. This time, the public demands two shows: one at 2:30 p. m. for people under 18 only, and another at 7 p. m. that's open to anyone.

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Published: 12/14/04
By Reilly Capps
–from The from The Daily Planet:

Winter Tour storms SOH stage

Eventually, rock and roll will be taught the way classical music is taught, in the living room of some stuffy old neighbor, and unwilling children will learn scales and "hot cross buns" and hate every minute of it. By then, rock and roll will be a chore, like learning algebra, and will be trotted out at Thanksgiving to impress your aunt Sally who claims she was at Woodstock.

Until that sad day, though, there is the Rock and Roll Academy, a music school in Mountain Village where there are few rules, most of the students have floppy haircuts, and where the Latin motto is stenciled on the door and in your heart: "Vivere agitare est."

"To live is to rock."

The Academy is run by Mark Galbo, a veteran musician and music teacher. It's only been in business for about six months, but in that time has already produced some very passable rock stars. Tickets are now on sale for the "Winter Tour 2004" tonight at 6 p.m. at the Sheridan Opera House. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for kids. Lines started forming late last week.

The band members range in age from 10 to 17, and all of them have had the good sense to give their bands righteously awesome names like Shotgun Hotel, Sliced Bread, and the People's Republic of Rock. They'll play AC/DC and White Stripes covers, plus original songs. They're not quite Bono yet. But they're not Yanni either.

Take, for instance, Shawn Swain, 14. Not only can he play a mean bass (for a band called The Worst), but he's got that look: the Poison T-shirt, the slouch, and the perfect rock and roll haircut. What a haircut! It's that exact Black Crowes length, studiously unkempt, falling far enough over his forehead that you can't see his eyes, but not so far that he can't see his frets. What makes it a perfect rock and roll haircut, however, is the fact that his father can't stand it.

"My dad hates it," Swain said. "He complains about it all the time."

This is the point of rock and roll, isn't it? To irritate the hopelessly fuddy-duddy parents? One wonders what Swain will do next to get under the old man's skin: tattoo his face? Date a Spice Girl? Start a bar fight?

"Maybe ?" he said, a hopeful smile creeping onto his face as he thinks of the possibilities.

One gets the impression that if that's where Swain wants to go, the Academy could show him the way in, advanced classes on how to be a rock and roll legend. Like, Hotel Suite Demolition 101. How to Date Winona Ryder 102. Your First Lawsuit 101.

For now, Galbo said, he's happy just teaching them music.

"Truthfully, I tried to give them enough room to form their own identity," Galbo said. "I try to create a space for them and then see what grows."

The space he created screams rock and roll. It's got bright red walls, foam acoustic padding on the ceiling, and a stage with amplifiers large enough to kick over during a guitar solo. Two gold albums are on the wall. A poster of Hendrix presiding over a rack of axes - shiny, classic, Buddy Holly-style axes, Slash-style axes, Elvis-style axes.

There's not much formal class time, so the kids don't learn how to read music, and songs get written in the same way Hendrix wrote them: in his head, under the afro, the notes rattling around in that genius brain of his.

Presumably, the parental units don't mind the lack of structure much. After all, the old geezers are funding these lessons, and many of them will show up at the Winter Tour tonight.

"My dad is showing up," said Swain, "so he can act like he's cool."

For the Winter Tour, the band members of The Worst are trying to come up with new ways to shock Swain's pops. Drummer Kolby Ward, 15, wants everybody in the band show up with a Mohawk, died green, with spikes coming out the sides of their heads. Guitarist Luke Kirsch, 14, has a better idea: just before they go on stage, they should all light their hair on fire.

They're in the middle of their final rehearsal, working on the four songs they'll play tonight, including two original tunes. They're having trouble with some of the chord changes on a song by Tsunami Bomb, but Galbo, the veteran, gives them some sage advice.

"No matter what happens," he said, "you wanna step up at the end like you ruled the world. You know, give a big wave to the audience and say 'Thank you, Cleveland! Good night!".

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Published: 6/18/04
By Kelly Hearn
–from The from The Telluride Watch:

T’Ride Rock ‘n’ Roll Academy
Heats Up for Summer Jammin’

Approach the tranquility of the Mountain Village Core, and through an open window comes a scratching, halted but recognizable version of “Wild Thing.” Once inside the studio of the Rock and Roll Academy, the source of the sound: Three 12-year-old rock ‘n’ rollers, heads thrashing, bodies crunched over low-slung guitars, banging out power chords against the backdrop of Marshal Stacks speakers, playing out an ageless teenage stadium fantasy that has no doubt marked the beginning of a thousand iconic careers.

With the right notes and lots of luck, Max Bregman or Hagen Kearney or Harry Kearney could morph into the next Hendrix, Stevie Ray or Santana.

How long have we been playing?

“As long as I can remember,” shoots back Bregman, his blond hair shooting rock-and-roll messy from under a low-pulled cap. “Hey, check this out.”

Attention pointed his way, he punches out a progression of bar chords, grimacing, leaning into the sound 88 la Eddie Van Halen.

“There are people who can’t play music, but they are very, very few,” says Mark Galbo, a longtime musician and teacher who, along with a business partner Dean Bubolo, founded the academy. He shouts now to be heard over a prepubescent but impressive rendition of The Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bob.”

Galbo, who has lived a musician’s life, studying, gigging, recording, producing and writing two music instruction books, and Bubolo (who is just learning to play the bass) opened the Academy in early March. The business has taken off and the two are looking forward to a busy upcoming season when they put on their summer rock school. Galbo is also a teacher at the Telluride Mountain School but points out that the Academy is a separate entity.

Exuding musical passion, Galbo paces excitedly to point out instruments, delving into his teaching philosophy, completely unfazed by the occasionally clashing sounds emanating from the students.

“I believe most everyone has an innate ability to play,” says Galbo. “What I try to do is make them confident and feel relaxed. Then we try to teach them how to play with other people.”

That’s why Galbo holds classes with five students at a time, though he will give individual lessons too. Holding group classes with novice musicians requires technology to hush the criss-crossing squalls and screeches of wrong notes and hacked chords. Scattered around the room are state-of-the-art instruments, from top of the line virtual drums to key boards to an odd looking something called a sound machine that punches out hundreds of sounds (jungle rain, tin drums, lighting). All instruments are connected to earphones so each student can unobtrusively learn private lessons before unplugging the phones and blending their sound with the rest of the “band.”

Not far from a stack of ready-to-play guitars – Fenders, Gibson SGs, Flying Vs and a Daisy Rock bass (“for the girls, cause you don’t want it to be all guys,” says Galbo) – there’s a door leading to a near empty room with purple walls and a few instruments. Large pictures of Hendrix and Dylan look down on the room.

“This is where we’re putting the studio,” Galbo points out, charting out his soon-to-be-completed vision of an audio-visual complex complete with cameras, editing boards and a suite of software that will let students write and record their own music. “We’ll also have the technology to let them go around the community with cameras and make their own music videos.”

Galbo, wearing sleek shaded glasses, walks to the window. “We’re going to put opaque Plexiglas on these windows,” he says. “The most important thing is that you design the room to the vibe. We are after the vibe. You should walk into this room, look around, and go ‘wow!’”

At first glance, it’s easy to see that Galbo knows vibe. He’s been recording for 18 years and teaching for 23 years in classes, individual lessons and at festivals. Living the musician’s life in LA, New York and San Francisco, he plays any style, from rock to classical. He also has two books under his belt: Melodic Arpeggios for Lead Guitar and another work, written with blues musician Arnie Berle, Beginning Fingerstyle Blues Guitar that “sold over 30,000 copies, which is really hot for an instrumental book,” he says.

One of Galbo’s teaching gigs is a yearly appearance at a festival at West Virginia where he works alongside some of the best guitarists in the country.

He strives to teach technique, the details and mechanics of music, but the real goal is to shore up “head” music with confidence, vibe and soul.Published 4/29/04–from The Telluride Watch:

A music teacher for 23 years as well as a recording artist and producer, Galbo decided to combine his love of teaching and music and create a forum in which musicians can play together. He recently opened the doors to the Rock and Roll Academy and already has nearly 20 students enrolled.

"The fun in music is to play together," Galbo said. "Whether they are professionals or beginners, most people wish they had someone to play with."

Galbo hopes the Academy will create a "music community." By offering instruction in every instrument that is part of a rock-n-roll band, and then stepping back and letting students play together, he hopes a rock band will evolve.

Galbo will take students through the entire process of forming a band, including recording, making videos, booking performances and marketing.

The idea for a music community came to Galbo as a result of all the different ventures he was pursuing.

"It seemed like a logical development for all the different things I had going on," he said. "The academy folds everything under one roof."

It also reflects Galbo's teaching methods. One of his favorite expressions is "learn to teach, teach to learn."

"It's the idea of the one-room school house, the kids teach each other," he said. "It builds self-esteem and confidence and creates a context for them to explore themselves as creative people."

Galbo discovered Telluride when he came here to work with the Blues and Brews Festival in 2000. By organizing the Telluride Acoustic Blues Camp every summer, he became familiar with the community.

"There was a lot of interest in music here," he said. "It was a good fit for me."

He's just now putting the finishing touches on the space for the music academy, yet Galbo is already setting goals for the future.

He hopes to start a teen program and eventually develop a "Battle of the Bands" type event.

"I see an opportunity to have an impact on the young community," he said.

He also wants to do an intensive rock camp during the summer, offering courses for different age groups and experience levels.

For now, however, he is concentrating on two classes at the Academy, teaching music at the Mountain School and setting up an online music network for locals looking for fellow musicians to play with.

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