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Sacred Cows
5a?zd combines musical styles
By Stew Llcnuson
When Pete Vandenberg, guitarist for
the Kearney-based band Sacred Cows,
was asked what kind of music his band
plays, he paused for a moment, then
said, "We just want people to dance
and shake, not shuffle around the
dance floor like they do at the cover
bars."
Indeed, there is some confusion
about exactly what kind of music the
Sacred Cows play. The Sacred Cows is
made up of Vandenberg on guitar and
vocals, his wife, Jane Hasty, on key
board, David Zikmund, who shares
vocals and plays bass, and Ron Volen
tine, drums.
Above anything else, the Sacred Cows
are stuck stuck between musical
styles and stuck in the middle of Ne
braska, playing for people who, Van
denberg said, "just sit there and stare
at us when we play."
The Sacred Cows formed late , in
1982. The band reached its present
size last summer after Zikmund joined
it. Vandenberg said the name "Sacred
Cows" doesn't have any religious con
notation. Rather, the name was taken
from the phrase meaning something
that can't be touched or altered, the
name actually is an anti-thesis of what
the band is trying to accomplish.
"Everything should be accessible and
open to change . . . There needs to be a
breakdown in rigid thought," Vanden
berg said.
The Cows started off as a hardcore
punk band, Vandenberg said, but as
the members became more proficient
with their instruments, the tempo
slowed down. Although the music is a
little slower, Vandenberg keeps the
same political and social message in
his lyrics.
For the most part, Vandenberg writes
the lyrics and Zikmund composes the
music.
Zikmund, a former member of two
Lincoln-based bands, Spawning Carp
and The Pepsi Generation, is 19 the
youngest member of the band. He lives
with his parents and makes T-shirts
and flyers He also did the cover art
work for the band's new EP, Separatist
Vandenberg, 26, is a geology student
at Kearney State College and Hasty, 25,
is a part-time nurse, specializing in
cancer treatment.
Drummer Volentine, 27, could be
Nebraska's only farmer who moon
lights as a new-music drummer. Volen
tine works on his family farm growing
corn and alfalfa.
Zikmund said the Sacred Cows is not
very popular in its hometown. The
music scene in Kearney is geared to
ward heavy-metal and Top-40 music,
making creativity difficult.
There aren't many places for the
Cows to play in Kearney.
The Cows play places like the Fort
Kearney Inn, a rollerskating rink and a
bar in neighboring Elm Creek. Zikmund
likes playing at Elm Creek despite the
heckling the band members sometimes
endure.
"They're there to drink and we're
there to make fun of them " Zikmund
said.
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