STACK #188 June 2020

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M usic: it’ll test your head, and your mind, and your brain, too – in the most enjoyable of ways. For Daniel R. Wood, one particular film soundtrack provided the means of challenging their childhood tastes and became a gateway to an early love of a genre which their emo-adoring peers didn’t want to hear about. “When I was 13 I watched The School Of Rock , with Jack Black in it,” they explain. “There’s a Ramones song on the soundtrack [ My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes To Bitburg) ], and that’s what got me into music. I was into all the punk stuff when I was young: Ramones, The Saints, Sex Pistols, Television.” From there, their tastes flourished into classics like Kate Bush, Sonic Youth, and particularly David Bowie, STACK ROVING REPORTER

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whose iconoclastic, androgynous style Daniel loves. Bowie comprises a good part of Daniel's vinyl collection, which spans from the ‘60s and ‘70s (The Beatles, The Byrds, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan) through the ‘80s (particularly the revered French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer) and up to the present day. They also adore several Japanese bands from the ‘90s such as Luna Sea and Malice Mizer: “They were very theatrical – a lot of make-up, a lot of really extravagant outfits,” they explain. As a player of 12-string guitar (which they got into because of the jangly, ‘60s sound the instrument creates) and fretless bass (“it’s got a certain tone that you won’t get from a normal bass guitar), Daniel is always interested in new

1. The Teskey Brothers Live At The Forum 2. Tame Impala The Slow Rush 3. Kanye West Jesus Is King 4. Tyler, The Creator Igor 5. Queen Greatest Hits 6. Ocean Alley Chiaroscuro 7. Billie Eilish WHENWE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DOWE GO? 8. Bob Marley Legend 9. Nirvana Nirvana 10. Niall Horan Heartbreak Weather

Daniel R.Wood at JB Hi-Fi Macarthur Square, NSW

sounds. And that’s one of their favourite things about working for JB: “What I learn from my co-workers, from my regular customers… I find a lot of new stuff to check out,” they

say. “And, the social aspect of it!” Head into Macarthur JB to talk K-Pop and rock legends with Daniel today.

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