Friends, customers reflect on legacy of beloved Regina X-Ray Records owner Dave Kuzenko
CBC
It's been a hard week for Regina's music scene as it mourns the loss of longtime local record store owner Dave Kuzenko.
Kuzenko was well-known in the Queen City as owner of X-Ray Records downtown. He was also a long-running columnist at CBC Saskatchewan and co-founded the community radio station 91.3 FM CJTR.
His daughters Ivy and Anastasia Kuzenko confirmed his death in an Instagram post Friday.
"We are so heartbroken to share the news of Dave's sudden and unexpected passing in hospital," the post reads.
"His family was by his side, and he went gently and with humour as was his nature. This community and the friendships you shared meant the world to him, and we know how much he meant to the music community in Regina. Our dad will be deeply missed and loved forever."
Kuzenko opened Records on Wheels in the Scarth Street Mall in 1987. By 2004, he moved to 11th Avenue and opened X-Ray Records.
Since Friday, friends and customers of Kuzenko's have flooded the internet with posts and tributes.
"Just seeing all the posts, I didn't realize so many people thought this way about him," said longtime friend Jeff "RedBeard" Corbett.
Corbett knew Kuzenko for about 35 years.
"I'm just devastated. It's been very hard. Dave was a really easy going guy to get along with," he said.
Corbett himself was in the record business for a long time, and worked on and off at Vintage Vinyl & Hemp Emporium downtown. He said Vintage Vinyl and Kuzenko's old store Records on Wheels had a very close relationship. Kuzenko would send customers to Vintage Vinyl when they couldn't find what they were looking for, and vice-versa.
"There wasn't a day that went by where I didn't send someone over to Records on Wheels," Corbett said.
He said that relationship continued when Kuzenko opened X-Ray Records.
Corbett said many do not know that Kuzenko co-founded community radio station CJTR.
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