BRECKENRIDGE – Breckenridge cranks up its Spring Massive with Opie Gone Band – one of Denver’s top club draws.Breckenridge’s Spring Massive, an action-packed end of the season celebration that began Friday and runs through Sunday, April 17 with live music, slopestyle, superpipe and rail jams. Today, funk-based band Opie Gone Bad plays a free show from 4:30-6:30 p.m. at the Riverwalk Center.The Denver-based band has pounded out in-your-face pop, soul and rock with edgy guitar riffs for about eight years.But Opie (aka lead singer Jake Schroeder) first started the boys-gone-bad 11 years ago. Originally, the band covered soul tunes, like Otis Redding hits. Then it got into rock. And then it got a little funky.Now, the band plays mostly originals.Each of the four players bring a different slant to the music.Schroeder slides old soul tunes into the full-on, funk that bassist Windall Armour lays down. Guitarist Randy Chavez steeps himself in avant-guarde jazz, while drummer Scott Davies pounds on the skins with the fury of the 1970s rockers he worships.”They’re all skilled, gifted back-beat style players,” Schroeder said. “You don’t find many bands with every position being as talented as they are.”And that’s not just Schroeder’s biased view. Denver’s Westword newspaper, 5280 magazine, The Denver Post and Denver.City.Search.com have taken turns praising Opie Gone Bad with best-band honors from 1998-2002.”They are the very best (musicians) in Colorado at what they do,” said band manager Kristin Nolan. “They appeal to a wide variety of people because their music is so energetic and based in funk – you can’t help but move around when you hear them. When they play in Denver, they pull huge crowds at the Soiled Dove, Little Bear and Herman’s. Everyone should come see them.”Kimberly Nicoletti can be reached at (970) 668-3998, ext. 245, or at knicoletti@summitdaily.com.