Eye on the Arts: Time
By Nick Olynyk
Lance Writer
March 26, 2008
 Before local band Time had hair flowing over their shoulders, Ryan Watson and Tyrone Buccione were rocking out in residence.
The group’s humble roots first penetrated Windsor from the tenth floor of Laurier Hall, three years ago. “We were just jammin’ and wrote a song,” Buccione says, pointing across the table at Watson, “Then we started recording—”
“Yeah, recording in the kitchen in rez,” Watson says, chuckling. “But we knew bigger and better things were coming.”
Having bassist Patrick Bon Clayton join, Time’s composition was slowly ticking along.
Buccione convinced friend and well-sought drummer, Taso Pavlou, to join, selling the band as being the Canadian cusp of Detroit rock city, five months ago. The pair previously played together in their Ottawa high school band, Flint.
Today, the member’s diverse musical upbringing has created an eclectic sound, ranging from heavy rock tones to chaotic, Pink Floydish interlude tracks.
“We all come from very different backgrounds,” says Watson, a communications major.
Pavlou speaks up, “It’s a wide variety. It’s all around me. I never put my finger on a specific taste... I come from a background of a lot of folklore and Greek music.”
“Hardcore, Pink Floyd, seventies progressive rock. Yes, Rush, Queen,” offers Buccione, who now writes songs and handles promotional management for the band full-time. “My dad beat the rock into me...with a rock,” he jokes. “Naw, don’t print that.” The group breaks out laughing.
But Watson is quick to add Time hasn’t turned its back on absorbing contemporary styles.
“Even some of the newer bands too... they are doing the right thing as well, not necessarily throwback [music]. You don’t want to be a retro band, but at the same time you’re taking influences from real rock ‘n roll, timeless music.”
This osmosis approach to the musical brethren seeped into their newest single, “White Window,” currently circling through Ontario radio playlists.
Penned in what Watson calls a “dark, dingy basement” serving as a “living area, as well as band space,” the song reflects how the group saw personal events happening in their world while living in a Rankin Street home with a “little corner, white window.”
In the upcoming months, Time plans on releasing an EP starched with fresh material to complement “White Window,” which is opening doors of opportunity for the group.
Already signed on to perform at the LaSalle Strawberry Festival this June, the band’s aspirations for a Michigan tour are jerking into motion as the members attempt to slash through the red-tape of obtaining American work visas.
Meanwhile, the band has been winning favour at the Basement Pub’s “Battle of the Bands.”
“We couldn’t get off [the stage], everybody kept chanting for an encore,” says Watson.
“It’s a really mutual thing,” mulls Pavlou. “You feed off of the energy the fans put out, and when you see that energy being reciprocated by the [crowd], then it’s a big thing.”
“And that’s the beauty of it all,” Watson finishes, leaning in, “it’s not really about anything else.”
See Time at the Basement Pub March 26, in the Battle of the Bands finals. Time will also appear at the Chubby Pickle on April 4, also featuring Sledgehammer, Citizen Erased, and the Peach Leeches. For more information go to www.myspace.com/timerockandroll.
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