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Tuesday, September 25, 1934
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By Chris Burbch
Daily Nebrask&n Staff Editor
A guitar, a bass and a drummer
Jbi cranking out music you can twist
JL JLto that's rock'n'roll, and Don
Leady plans to keep playing it that
way.
Leady, late of The LeroJ Brothers is
now lead guitarist and vocalist for the
Tailgators. They play rock'n'roll in the
tradition of Duane Eddy and Link Ray,
music that's as steamy as its label
swamp rock.
"It's a combination of Cajun and
xyddico, all with a rock beat. It's hard
rock with a Cajuny influence, maybe a
little more melodic than most rock'n'
roll," Leady said between sets at the
Zoo Bar Saturday.
"Xyddico is with those washing
boards; you know played with a
spoon handle. Cajun is also swamp
music, but with triangles instead of the
washing boards."
Swamp rock is the type of music
Leady likes to play, with a three-piece
band. The prospect of having to part
with that style is vhat drove Leady out
of The Leroi Brothers.
"I didn't like the direction the band
was going in," he said. "They were get
ting to be more of a show band than a
band I wanted to play in . . . they just
changed. I always liked a three-piece
format, always thought it rocked more."
After he left The Leroi Brothers,
Leady got together with drummer Gary
"Mud Cat" Smith and bass player Jack
Moore to form the Tailgators. The trio
has been together for about four
months.
"We play all around Texas and Loui
siana and a lot of the Midwest," Leady
said. "The crowds have really been
growing around Austin (the band's
base); we've got a pretty good following
down there already." 1
With the band's live success growing,
Leady hopes to get some vinyl on the
market. He said a couple of Texas lab
els are interested and he's confident
the Tailgators will be in the studio
soon.
Huey Lewis and the Ncv.'s is one
Texas rock'n'roll band that went into
the studio and made it big. Johnny.
Reno of Johnny Reno and the Sax
Maniacs, a popular bar band from the
same area, has said he would like to
take the same route to fame and for
tune. Although Leady isn't
averse to making the big time, hell do it
his way, without commercializing his
music or abandoning his style,
"I don't think you have to. I think a
band has to stick together and keep
playing its music," he said.
Leady writes most of the Tailgators
music.' He said they play about one
third originals during athree-set show,
and half originals when they play two
sets.
Lcady's musical idols were "..in gen
eral, anybody that could play guitar
well."
"I take into consideration the nea
test thing they do and try to remember
it. I don't learn it, I dont really learn
anything; I just try to remember it,
recreate the feeling, and maybe give it
a new twist."
N
ew television shows tru
strate terminal Trekkie
There are three things you can count
on in life: The wholesome goodness of a
fresh jar of Jif;. the reassuring lack of.
nutritional value in Wonder Bread; and
the perpetual popularity of "Star Trek."
Mark
Yes, I had 94 pounds of homework to
do, and yes, I waited until 10 p.m. to
begin, but what did I do with the latter
part of my valuable Sunday night instead?
I watched the last thing on my above list
and ate the first two, of course.
I'd seen it a hundred times. I knew
immediately who the enemy would be
and how many times Scctty would have
trouble getting power. I think I've seen
"The Trouble with Tribbles" so many times
I know what the tribbles are saying. It's
gotten to the point where my viewing
partner and I can usually identify the
subject and title of any given episode
before the dialogue starts. In the medical
world, this is probably what's known as
being a terminal Trekkie.
IVe got it. I'm proud of it. And I'm glad
there's no vaccine.
Why have I and so many other people
fallen under its spell? For the same rea
son "WKRP" and "MASH" are popular
and "Battlestar Galactica" and "Buck
Rogers" are corpses. Characterization.
The first two did it well, the second two
misread it as "explosion." Space shoot
outs, sultry co-pilots and cute robotic
sidekicks can cut it for just so long.
I'm always amazed when something
from the past outshines the new. The
aforementioned space bombs had their
fat-budgeted supernovas and realistic non
human antagonists, but none of them
could even begin to compete with the
brisk pace set by "Star Trek." I don't think
technology was supposed to work that
way. Things should get better. How are we
supposed to bring quality programming
to the outer reaches of the solar system if
things don't get better?
One of my favrite scenes of the series is
in the episode "The City on the Edge of
Forever." The Enterprise gang has just
completed a particularly distressing mis
sion and they stand in formation, ready
to be beamed up from the lonely planet.
"Let's get the hell out of here," say3 the
bitter Capt. Kirk.
That's often how I fed when I watch so
many of the shows that are on television.
But at least I can rely on Spock, Capt.
Kirk, Scotty, Sulu and the rest on board
the ship.
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