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"We wanted something that had a nice 'ring' to it,
and that i3 why we chose to call ourselves The
Phones," said Jeff Cerise, a member of the Min-napolis-based
Phones.
"It's common and easy Jo remember everybody
has a phone," Cerise said. However, he said, "We try
not to abuse the name in promotion because it can
get to be real cheesy." ,
In describing their music, Cerise said, There fa
really no way to compare us." The synthetic drums
give them a modern sound end an electronic feel.
However, he said, they try to stay true to their roots
which lis in the old school of rock 'n' roll.
The Phones includes Jeff Cerise, vocals, saxo
phone, and percussion; Steve Brar.tseg, vocals, lead
and acoustic guitars; Jim Riley, bass and vocals; and
Rick Taves, guitar and vocals.
The band members started practicing together
while they were in college and, after about two quar
ters, they quit school to form The Phones. They have
been together five and a half years, Cerbe said.
: They play only originals, written mostly by Riley,
Cerise said..
There is a lot of taste and contrast in their music,
Cerise said. For instance, the saxophone and per
cussion help to add extra sounds not always heard
in rock 'n' roll music, he said.
Much of their appeal lies more in the musical
structure because The Phones dent have a trendy,
modern sound, Cerise said. "It's dance-oriented
music with lyrics not just mindless bop stuff," he
said. -
Cerise said they have been influenced by anything
and everything, but lately are listening to a lot of
Credence Clearwater Revival and Little Richard.
The Phones' performance on stage is high energy
at times, Cerise said. It's not totally raw energy, but
it's not completely polished "we dont hold back,"
he said.
"We have fun and it's contagious," Cerise said. "It's
not necessarily happy music, but it's delivered in an
attractively contagious way," he said.
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The Phones have recorded two singles and one Their next album, Blind Impulse, should be
album, Changing Hinds. The album features a lot of 1 released next month, Cerise said,
vocal harmonizing answered by various bending The Phones will appear tonight at the Drumstick,
guitar licks. It is at times reminiscent of late 1950s 547 N. 48th St. Lincoln's own Model Citizens Club,
psychedlia and at other times, the instrumentation who have been touring with The Phones, will open
and vocals blend in a manner suggestive of R.E.M. the show.
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Art in many media mads by Lincoln
women will be shown in the second
annual Women's Art Show in the Neb
raska Union Main Lounge today
through next week. The exhibit is spon
sored by the UNL Women's Resource
Center, the UPC Visual Arts' Commit
tee and the Dear Madames. a Lincoln
women's art group as part of UNL
Women's Week. A price list will also be
available.
Rebecca Ross and Cecile Broz, two of
the artists represented in the show
and its chief organizers, said most of
the works are by current and former
students. Broz said some of the art
which impressed her most was made
by recent graduates. The hanging and
display of the pieces is done by the
artists themselves. About 35 partici
pants are expected.
The show includes clay pieces, oils,
collages, textiles, fine prints, drawings,
acrylics, a papier mache mask, pho
tographs, pastels, water colors and one
work made by a photo process called
PMT.
Broz said she hopes the show will get
more attention since it coincides with
Women's Week, and that people inter
ested in the other workshops and
seminars will be drawn to the art
show, though she noted that most of
the works ere net directly polemical
Ross said part cf the reason for the
Women's Art Show is to allow women
to identify with thsir work and with
ether women. "People tend to think cf
men when they're thinking of artists,"
she said. Ross noted that a central
issue in discussions of feminist art is
whether art has gender whether the
art men and women created is in
nately different. "Can one tell by look
ing?" Ross asked. "N0...I don't think art
has gender as such. However, art is a
way of viewing our reality. I, as a
woman, have a different way of looking
at things than I would as a man in my
position."
Ross pointed out that the different,
value systems prevalent among the
people who generally control the means
of displaying art (males) ha3 made it
difficult for women to find ways to get
their art before the public. The discre
pancy between traditional male eva
luations of art and what women find
important in their artistic values is
what has created a problem. "For those
to hook together can be next to impos-
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For Broz, the most important thing
in artistic value systems is still the art
itself. "I don't think it's a lesser work
because a woman made it, and I dont
think it's a better work because a
woman made it," she said.
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Mary Albert's Ms. E's Tool Protector, currently on display in the main
lounge of the Nebraska Union as part cf the second asutial Women's Art
Show. ..... ... ... -
It s My Turn, a 1980 film about
a woman trying to balance her life
between career and family, will show
tonight at 8 p.m. on Channel 7. The
film, directed by Claudia Weill, stars
Jill Clayburgh and Michael Douglas.
In the Midnight Hours (12:30
a.m., KZUM, 89.5 and 99.3 FM) wih
feature new music from R.E.M.'s
new album, Redwning, as well as
new music by the Neats, Sacred
Cows and Teddy Boys. Joe Janecek
is the host.
At lite Sheldon
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's last
film, Querrcll, will wind up a five
day engagement in the Film Theatre
today. Screenings are at 7 and 9 p.m.
Admission fa $3.
