monday, february 9, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 7
Forum features live rock of Star City Players
Review by Bob Crisler
If FM rock is what trips your trigger, then the Star City
Players, who were featured last week at the Forum, are
for you.
This solid sextet plays virtual carbon copies of such
faves of the airwaves as Bos Scaggs, Steely Dan and the
Doobie Brothers. Saturday night's opening set was a trip
down memory lane circa 1980, with easy -listening pop
(Josie, What a Fool Believes) dropping in on the ample
crowd's appreciative eardrums.
The Forum, previously known as Starship Fnterprise,
meanwhile, has tread a safe path in choosing ever-popular
rock music over any other of the more obvious ante
cedents to disco. The club's former dance floor has been
tastefully encroached upon with an arrangement of lounge
lurniture and hanging plants, while the center of attention
has been shifted upstairs to a new dance area and stage.
As the band segued into (.knem" MisumerstanJing, as
piring Arthur Murrays began to take to the floor to prac
tice the latest touch dancing steps.
The band itself is a synthesis of college-trained musi
cians who complement each other quite readily with their
overlapping vocal ranges and astute knowledge of their
instruments.
Band members
Lead singer Bev Jester leads the band with her excep
tionally clear, wide-ranged voice, and adds to that an
occasional outing on acoustic guitar on some country
derived numbers. Husband Ron Jester shares rhythmic
honors on drums with bass player Dave Battles, while
Jamie Krutz handles keyboards. Another married couple
in the band, Joyce and Woody Nelson, add background
vocals and lead guitar, respectively.
Band members see their classical training as not in
congruous to their present musical interests.
"Wt look at it like we've taken classical training to get
the basi:s, and once you've got that, then you can apply
those techniques to rock'n'roll," says Nelson, who teaches
classical guitar at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
The song selection, which resembles a KFMQ playlist,
is generally on the tamer edge or rock, which has a never
ending popularity among local audiences. An evening with
the Star City Players is an evening of innocuous escapism.
"We try to keep a certain amount of quality in our
material," said Woody Nelson. "There's a tine line
between good music and the music that a majority of
people want to hear. We don't want to do just anything,
only what is tasteful."
"1 think the songs we do pretty much reflect our
tastes. We all like Steely Dan and Michael McDonald of
the Doobies," said singer Bev Jester.
Nelson said the group's selection is "pretty commer
cial. Fverybody knows it and likes it."
Radio music
In the Players' live set, there is a tendency to think
you're listening to the radio instead of sipping a beer in a
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Photo by Mitch Hrdlicka
The Star City plays at the Forum Saturday night.
downtown nightclub. According to guitarist Nelson, some
similarity in styles is intended.
"We try and make it sound like the original composer
wanted it to sound, but whether we try to or not, our
own personal styles have a way of melting through in the
end result."
Nelson is pleased with the reception the Players have
had in Lincoln, but he sees the band as part of a much
larger area.
"The live scene locally is pretty healthy, although we
could always use more local support. I think the quality
of musicians in Lincoln is exceptional, and it's exciting
what's going on in town right now," he said.
Nelson says that the "women-in-rock" trend had
nothing to do with the lineup of the seven-month old
band.
"I think it's important to have good musicians in the
band. If they're women, then that's great, but they
aren't in the band because they're women."
The musicians' likes and dislikes in music certainly
run along relatively conservative lines. Keyboardist and
violinist Jamie Kurt, favors older, established rock group
Gentle Giant "and of course Steely Dan, of course Yes,"
he said. "As for new wave, since it's really not doing any
thing exciting musically, the lyrics really have to be good
for me to like it."
"Some musical style is definitely going to come out of
the eighties," bass guitarist Dave Battles said. "People's
tastes are definitely getting better."
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