{"id":24969,"date":"2019-06-06T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/shooting-for-the-stars-satellite13-summits-newest-band-plays-first-show-at-10-mile-music-hall\/"},"modified":"2019-06-06T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T23:28:00","slug":"shooting-for-the-stars-satellite13-summits-newest-band-plays-first-show-at-10-mile-music-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/shooting-for-the-stars-satellite13-summits-newest-band-plays-first-show-at-10-mile-music-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting for the stars: Satellite13, Summit\u2019s newest band, plays first show at 10 Mile Music Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.8043010752688\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-366976-846\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Satellite13-ESW-060719-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Satellite13-ESW-060719-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Shane Morris \/ Silverthorne Photography | Satellite13 drummer Leo Lopez, producer Tom Fletcher, bassist Tyler Easton, guitarist and vocalist John Truscelli and fiddler Jess Rose pose for a photo. The band will be having their first show and releasing their EP on Friday, June 7.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><strong>Satellite13 drummer Leo Lopez, producer Tom Fletcher, bassist Tyler Easton, guitarist and vocalist John Truscelli and fiddler Jess Rose pose for a photo. The band will be having their first show and releasing their EP on Friday, June 7.<\/strong><br \/>Shane Morris \/ Silverthorne Photography<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Satellite13-ESW-060719-1.jpg\" alt=\"Satellite13 drummer Leo Lopez, producer Tom Fletcher, bassist Tyler Easton, guitarist and vocalist John Truscelli and fiddler Jess Rose pose for a photo. The band will be having their first show and releasing their EP on Friday, June 7.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Satellite13-ESW-060719-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Satellite13-ESW-060719-1-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Shane Morris \/ Silverthorne Photography | Satellite13 producer Tom Fletcher, drummer Leo Lopez., bassist Tyler Easton, guitarist and vocalist John Truscelli and fiddler Jess Rose pose for a photo. The rock band's first show at 10 Mile Music Hall starts at 8 p.m. on Friday, June 7.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><strong>Satellite13 producer Tom Fletcher, drummer Leo Lopez., bassist Tyler Easton, guitarist and vocalist John Truscelli and fiddler Jess Rose pose for a photo. The rock band&#8217;s first show at 10 Mile Music Hall starts at 8 p.m. on Friday, June 7.<\/strong><br \/>Shane Morris \/ Silverthorne Photography<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Satellite13-ESW-060719-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Satellite13 producer Tom Fletcher, drummer Leo Lopez., bassist Tyler Easton, guitarist and vocalist John Truscelli and fiddler Jess Rose pose for a photo. The rock band's first show at 10 Mile Music Hall starts at 8 p.m. on Friday, June 7.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Satellite13-ESW-060719-1-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Satellite13-ESW-060719-1-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Shane Morris \/ Silverthorne Photography | Satellite13 drummer Leo Lopez., guitarist and vocalist John Truscelli, fiddler Jess Rose and bassist Tyler Easton pose for a photo. In addition to their EP being available at the concert, the rock band will also sell a special stainless-steel beer tumbler that comes with a free pour from HighSide Brewery.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><strong>Satellite13 drummer Leo Lopez., guitarist and vocalist John Truscelli, fiddler Jess Rose and bassist Tyler Easton pose for a photo. In addition to their EP being available at the concert, the rock band will also sell a special stainless-steel beer tumbler that comes with a free pour from HighSide Brewery.<\/strong><br \/>Shane Morris \/ Silverthorne Photography<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Satellite13-ESW-060719-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Satellite13 drummer Leo Lopez., guitarist and vocalist John Truscelli, fiddler Jess Rose and bassist Tyler Easton pose for a photo. In addition to their EP being available at the concert, the rock band will also sell a special stainless-steel beer tumbler that comes with a free pour from HighSide Brewery.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/explore-summit\/shooting-for-the-stars-satellite13-summits-newest-band-plays-first-show-at-10-mile-music-hall\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/explore-summit\/shooting-for-the-stars-satellite13-summits-newest-band-plays-first-show-at-10-mile-music-hall\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">Overnight success may be a popular phrase, but it is rarely true. John Truscelli\u2019s latest venture, in a sense decades in the making, may finally be that ticket to stardom for him and a group of Summit County musicians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Rather than launch a new bluegrass or jam band like those frequently found throughout the county and Colorado, Truscelli went to his rock roots and put together <a id=\"N0x12185b0N0x12408b0:N0x12185b0N0x1243038\" href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/explore-summit\/shooting-for-the-stars-satellite13-summits-newest-band-plays-first-show-at-10-mile-music-hall\/Satellite13band.com\">Satellite13<\/a>. The band \u2014 whose name refers to an early satellite that broadcast music \u2014 mixes subgenres and inspirations like classic rock, grunge, alternative and indie rock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cA lot of these songs were written a long time ago in the \u201990s when rock was thriving and I thought I was Eddie Vedder or Scott Weiland,\u201d said Truscelli, the lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Comprised of Tyler Easton on bass, Leo Lopez on drum, Jess Rose on fiddle and Truscelli, the group formed organically through playing together in the local scene over the years. Rose \u2014 known for her work in the <a id=\"N0x12185b0N0x1240910:N0x12185b0N0x12431e8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/explore-summit\/summit-county-based-quintet-shaky-hand-string-band-talks-bluegrass-touring-and-the-art-of-music\/\">Shaky Hand String Band<\/a> \u2014 and Easton played together in the Dewey Paul Band, Truscelli and Lopez played together in Easton\u2019s Frisco Funk Collective and Rose and Truscelli perform as a duo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t just that we picked these people,\u201d Easton said. \u201cIt was just a no-brainer. \u2026 It made sense and once we dived into it, it was clearly the direction we were going to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Fans of the other acts shouldn\u2019t worry though, they won\u2019t be going on hiatus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been so lucky to make a living doing this here,\u201d Truscelli said. \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t just put that on hold for too long unless we had to. We\u2019re just seeing what will happen with this one for this time being because we have an opportunity for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Since December 2018 they\u2019ve been holed up in their Silverthorne studio writing, recording and rehearsing. The lifelong musicians play to each other\u2019s strengths like \u201cyin and yang.\u201d Rose and Easton studied music in college while Lopez has a background in drumming in Venezuela and Truscelli is self-taught and only reads a little bit of music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cBut if you do anything long enough,\u201d said Truscelli, \u201cget the 10,000 hour rule, and it\u2019s almost the same as a degree, really, if you think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Truscelli\u2019s mother played piano and his father was the drummer and singer in a swing big band, which led to Truscelli picking up those instruments before the guitar. \u201cI kind of got into music whether I wanted to or not when I was a little kid.\u201d After moving to Colorado when he was 6 and playing throughout high school, he got his first gigs in Denver at age 18. Lured by the mountains, Truscelli moved to Breckenridge in 1992 and worked as the entertainment for Two Below Zero Sleigh Rides in Frisco for 14 years. \u201cI was doing side gigs too, but that was kind of my main acoustic gig,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s how I was able to cut my teeth in music and learn how to actually play in front of a crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Before heading down a similar path of mountains and music, Easton attended Purdue University to study nuclear engineering. But the siren call of bass grooves was too strong and he went to Berklee College of Music to major in bass performance and minor in hip-hop bass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI got into music when I was in third or fourth grade with the piano,\u201d Easton said. \u201cIt just made sense to me, like math or anything else \u2014 how it all worked. When I was a 14-year-old kid I wanted to be Fieldy from Korn, man. I wanted to go out, make those crazy slap sounds like he did and jump around on stage. \u2026 I wanted to be a part of anything that creates that energy and inspires people in that kind of way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">This Friday will be Satelittle13\u2019s first public show, the release of their first EP and the first time they put on a production as complicated as they have planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The initial spark for Satellite13 can be traced back to when Truscelli participated in guitarist Steve Vai\u2019s 52-hour jam-a-thon for charity in 2018. Along with Vai, the event featured artists like Dweezil Zappa, Dave Navarro, Steve Morse and Moby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI got to go up and do \u2018While My Guitar Gently Weeps\u2019 with the whole band. (Music producer) Tom (Fletcher) was there, and asked if we wanted to make a record and he jumped on board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Connecting with Fletcher, who has worked with bands such as Toto, Ozzy Osbourne and Yes, soon brought them to systems technician Damon Gold who was fresh off of Elton John\u2019s farewell tour. Recently another music business veteran, Jerry Greenberg, came into the fold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s somewhere between a musical theater production and rock show,\u201d said Easton. \u201cIt\u2019s not just going up there and throwing the songs out. The whole thing is designed as a show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cA rock opera,\u201d Truscelli added. \u201cIt\u2019s a story about a boy and a girl; who doesn\u2019t relate to that? It\u2019s like \u2018Romeo and Juliet,\u2019 with the Foo Fighters and a fiddle playing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Since there is a narrative, they stress to be at the venue on time to not miss key elements of the show. They also want people to hear their new experimental sounds afforded to them. \u201cWe recorded a toolbox on one track for a drum loop,\u201d said Truscelli. \u201cBeing able to use the technology as an instrument and not a crutch has been fun for us because we\u2019ve never really done that either with a project.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The concert will be roughly twice as long as their debut EP, with a full-length album slated to release later. Along with the music, the merch table will be home to 16-ounce stainless steel beer tumblers that come with a free specialty beer brewed in collaboration with HighSide Brewing when purchased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The gang is excited for the change in tune, and \u2014 with popular acts like Greta Van Fleet and films such as \u201cBohemian Rhapsody\u201d and \u201cRocketman\u201d \u2014 believes the community will be receptive as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI tell people, timidly, that it\u2019s a rock project and it\u2019s kind of different, and their eyes light up,\u201d Easton said. \u201cThey go \u2018Oh, fantastic!\u2019 There\u2019s a hunger for that and it\u2019s coming back around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">While folks are encouraged to see the Friday show that they hope will initiate their national touring career, it won\u2019t be their one and only time playing in Summit County. Satellite13 will perform at the music stage of the Colorado BBQ Challenge on Friday, June 14, from 3\u20134:30 p.m. As part of the free concert series at the Dillon Amphitheater, Satellite13 will play on Aug. 23 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe\u2019re really asking our friends and family in Summit to really come support this one because it really could be a \u2018hometown band does well\u2019 type of situation for us here,\u201d John said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cTo see that place full, with what were doing this time \u2026 it would just be unbelievable. I might not make it through the night, emotionally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/explore-summit\/shooting-for-the-stars-satellite13-summits-newest-band-plays-first-show-at-10-mile-music-hall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite13 drummer Leo Lopez, producer Tom Fletcher, bassist Tyler Easton, guitarist and vocalist John Truscelli and fiddler Jess Rose pose for a photo. 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