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daily nebraskan
thursday, October 11, 1979
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By Bill Graf
After a 12 year on-'again-off-again love affair with blue
grass music, the Sandy Creek Pickers are almost back
where they started.
The members of the Sandy Creek Pickers, John and
Mike Paul, Steve Helronymus and Kevin Avey, have been
performing on the Lincoln music scene for more than a
decade. As 1 1 and 12 year olds, the Pauls and Heironymus
made their debut, playing some of' the same tunes they
play today.
"The Checkmates were the first band. That was in
1967," John Paul said. "We played mother-daughter ban
quets and church gigs. We even played on the City Recre
ation 'Show Wagon'."
Mike and John have had their roots in bluegrass, since
1966, resulting from the influence of their first music
teacher, John Sweeny.
"Sweeny was into Earl Scruggs and the New Lost City
Ramblers. But at that time no one was listening to blue
grass so we sort of drifted away from bluegrass and into
rock," Mike Paul said.
THE MIDNIGHT RIDERS was the next band and
again the members were the Paul brothers and Heirony
mous. "As the Midnight Riders we got our first paying job.
We played for a church social and they gave us to split
three ways. We were pretty excited, we had become paid
musicians," Mike Paul recalls.
In 1970, the Midnight Riders broke up. The Pauls soon
formed Oedipus with two friends from the neighborhood,
Vern Meints and Vern Kuhn.
Between 1971 arid 1972 Oedipus Went through some
changes. '
"We had been a guitar band for quite a while and we
thought it would be nice to have a keyboard player,"
Mike Paul said. "That's when m hired Bobby Marlette."
"NOW THAT we had keyboard, we started to do some
Brian Auger tunes and because of influence from our
cousin, Jim Cidlik, a member of the Heartmurmers, we
started to play the blues," Mike said.
About that time Steve Heironymus met Kevin Avey at
Dawes Junior High and they formed a "garage band,"
Heironymus said.
LATER HEIRONYMUS and Avey joined Iron Horse, a
rock band, he said.
"It was a lighter rock'n roll than what Oedipus was Iron Horse and Oedipus broke up and they formed the
doing. But like Oedipus we played a lot of frat parties and first version of the Sandy Creek Pickers in 1974. The Paul
high school proms," he said;
boys, Steve, and Russell Zierke used to come over to my
"Sean Benjamin (now a Heartmurmers member) joined earaee in the evenines. We'd tip some rinse and pick a
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our oana wnen ne nrst moved here, tie was a big influence little bluegrass, Avey said.
In getting Us to play some blues tunes.
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Skaters and regents miss chance to be cinema greats
By Peg Sheldrick
It's easy enough to complain about the films that come
out of Hollywood, but what about the ones that don't
make it? It's easier to understand and appreciate films like
Somebody Killed Her Husband after you rummage
through the press releases for some of the projects that for
one reason or another never reached the public eye. Here
- are few of those would-be classics destined to remain safe
in their cans where they can't hurt anybody:
GHQflOOD!?
'It Came from Beyond the Disco-Tht terrifying, true
story of a once-peaceful college town overrun by a
menace so mindlessly detructive, so awesomely powerful
that no one is safe from its rolling, relentless onslaught.
Puck into buildings, take to the roadways-you cannot
escape-the Street Skaters!
Wild freshmen on the loose and looking for thrills in
the teeming byways of Lincoln, Neb j See helpless citizens
tossed into gutters! See reckless rollers wreak havoc in the
intersection of 13th and 0 streets! See daring vigilante
pedestrians strike back with the only weapon they have--their
umbrellas! See It Came from Beyond the Disco-H's
hell on wheels!
1
f When a Stranger CwtfH-White-knuckle excitement
And bone-chilling suspense as a brave babysitter battles a
war of nerves with a demonic will more powerful than her
own-a five-year-old child determined to stay up and
watch "Alfred Hitchcock Presents."
Joggermit -The inspiring story of a dimwitted but
lovable athlete who absent-mindedly wears his under
shorts outside his sweatpants one day and changes the
look of. running forever. Written i directed, performed,
filmed, edited, produced, and enjoyed by Sylvester
Stallone.
The Other Side of the Ice Castle-A gutsy young
champion struggles her way back to the top after a tail
bone injury brings a painful premature end to her career
as an Olympic toboggan pilot. Farrah Fawcett stars.
Cries and Whispers, Titters and Sneers, Or Empty
Heads, Full Pockets -Ingmar Bergman's sensitive look
backstage with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.
Looking for Mr. Goodwrench-Thh searing contem
porary drama tells the harrowing tale of a young car
owner's neurotic search for an honest mechanic.
Jaws -Amity Island again fails victim to a mouthy
monster, this time an o"brtoxipus late night talk show host
who singlemindedly pursues and annoys Victims by blow
ing smoke in their faces and mispronouncing their names
Tom Snyder stars.
Airport 950-it's a struggle for survival for 360
plucky Califorrtians who find themselves stranded at the
Lincoln (Neb.) International Airport and Souvenir stand.
With supplies of Perrier running dangerously low and hot
a Gucci boutique in sight, passengers and crew face the
unnerving ordeal of a night in the Midwest.
My Shamna-TUe story behind the song.
tight is a Pain-lVs those lovable loons, the Regents
Brothers, at it again, raising tuition and raising Cain in
that zany, kooky way so uniquely their own.
Fans will appreciate the hilarious "Holiday Meeting
Scene" when our boys hold an extra secret confab to
cook up more fun for their hapless charges, the students
As longtime viewers will tell you, these guys really put the
loco in in loco parentis. If you like farce, you'll loVe
the regents.
Mr Peanut Goes to KWirwi-Whimsical but for
fetched account of a peanut farmer's meteor-like rise to
power and confusion on the strength of a smile and a
vague promise of honesty. Engaging fantasy, however, the
ending leaves many unsatisfied.
parting Over sexist, under par
Parade time changed
: The homecoming parade has been changed to
begin at' Harper-Schramm-Smith residence halls at
8:45 pjn; Thursday. It originally was scheduled to
" begin at 8:30.
By Itete Schmitz
The - "personal growth" movement which sought to
bring to individuals liberation from their seemingly repres
sed arid alienating existence has lately become the brunt
of social criticism and media satire.
A few people are starting to question the worth of
frequent trips to the shrink, weekly rap groups and work
shops on assertiveness training, sexual enjoyment and
job satisfaction.
This phenomenon of the quest for fulfillment and its
consequential 'ironies is the initial. concern of Alan J.
Paku a s new film called Starting Over, written by James
K .thc,man wph wtote many of the episodes for The
Mary Tyler M(xre Show.
While the credits are-presented on screen, we hear the
parting words of Phil (Burt Reynolds) and Jessie (Candice
Bergen), who wants her husband to leave her so she can go
on with her songwriting and be more than just "a shadow
of her man ," as her first hit song puts it . .
A MALE who never strongly identified with the macho
image I admit to taking sadistic delight in seeing Burt
2J?Sf fCt. f 'pondent (.nd doing a surprisingly
good job of it, too) because of the divorce that he did not
want.
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