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daily nebraskan
monday, april 6, 1981
Rockabilly puts white soul sound in music scene
By Pat Higgins
"We're just healthy American boys who wanted tb pick
up guitars," said Sprague Hollander of Safety Last, a rock
abilly outfit operating out of Minneapolis that just com
pleted a weekend stint at the Drumstick.
"Rockabilly is uplifting, just like reggae," added singer
Tim Mauseth. "It's music that celebrates life."
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Rockabilly as an art form began on July 5, 1954, when
Elvis Presley went into Sun Studios in Memphis and
proved definitively that white people could sing with soul.
Mythic figures such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, and
scores of lesser knowns, if equally inspired performers,
created a sound that thoroughly changed popular music.
Rockabilly was as wild and savage in its day as the Sex
Pistols were in 1977.
"We think the music is totally contemporary," bass
player Rusty Jones said. "We're not trying to be musical
archivists like Robert Gordon, who recreated the songs
note for note. There's a freedom for improvisation inher
ent in rockabilly."
Safety Last performed an eclectic mixture of tunes
ranging from George Jones' country weepers to low-down
and dirty Bo Diddely style rhythm and blues.
"I look at rockabilly as an honest way of being into the
blues," Mauseth said. "You can be technically very good
but it all comes down to being soulful. Rockabilly makes
you want to dance and that is what it's all about."
Safety Last certainly succeeded in its goal and the
crowd was in a dancing frenzy all night.
"English rock is great, but it's dominated for too
long," Hollander said. "It's time to bring it back home to
America. Let's face it, New Wave as a movement is dead,
but it has infiltrated the charts all of a sudden. Bands like
The Police are having No. 1 hits."
Minneapolis is considered to be the Midwest's premiere
musical scene.
"I think we're in a very fertile period for music right
now," Jones said. "Minneapolis has a lot of different things
going on. Heavy metal makes the grass grow, but then
people like Charle Burton and the Cutouts come up here
and do really well. It has really diffused compared to the
New Wave era," he said.
Safety Last will be making its vinyl debut soon with a
seven-song album on Twin Tone Records. Twin Tone re
ceived favorable notice last year with its Big Hits of Mid
America collection.
"We would certainly be interested in a major label,"
Mauseth said. "However, an independent label right
now may be the way to go with the record industry being
the way that it is. We just want to make enough money to
pay our bills."
"Rockabilly has a Hollywood image that is totally off
base." Jones said. "As great as the music is, people have
this tunnel vision view of it. It's a pure and honest form.
If the energy is there then we've done our job."
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Photo by Kent Morgan Olsen
Bass Player Rusty Jones of Safety Last
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"Good-bye, farewell, auf Wiedersehen,
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50 flutists to perform
The UNL School of Music's flute choir
combined with selected high school junior
and senior flutists, will cater its First
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Christmas carols." Van De Bogart said.
"The 'menu' for the performance will
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Choir performing Purcell's "Cluconne"
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Bonsel's "Divertimento for 12 Flutes" and
Scott Joplin's "Ragtime Dance," he said.
Flute graduate assistant Kimberly Neal
Lococo will be featured soloist in the
Kcnnan work, he sai d
The 'dessert' will feature the Flute
Feast Combined Choirs. They will per
form the well known "Air for a G-String,"
by J.S. Bach. Faure's "Pavane." and the
18th-century "Concerto in D" by Bois
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