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Daily Nebraskan
Wednesday, August 27, 1986
Drumstick encourages truancy;
tell professor your mom died
By Charles Lieurance
Diversions Editor
You have lots of good reasons to
miss class.
The Drumstick is a real good one.
You educate yourself musically night
after night with bands like Get
Smart, Savage Republic, and the
Tail Gators and you miss math. Look
at that sentence. Get Smart, Savage
Republic, Tail Gators. . .math. Which
looks more important?
In September the Drumstick has
set your priorities for you. You go
see Get Smart next Tuesday, hear
their undergroundanthology hit
"Back into the Future." It's impos
sible to wake up the next morning,
you tell the professor your mom fell
into a grain auger, eventually you
flunk math. You'll catch up Thurs
day. Get Smart plays atmospheric funk.
There seem to be two major events
for youthful alternative guitar frus
tration. If the high speed riff is the
game, as it is with most new bands,
there's hardcore or white funk. Get
Smart goes for white funk, jagged
whips of guitar laid into your brain
and limbs the way construction
workers with biceps the size of your
average Daily Nebraskan reporter's
head lay in a major freeway through
a mountain range.
Got through math on Friday. The
professor even believed the grain
auger st ory. He said if things didn't
improve at home he'd do the folks'
taxes. Nice of him.
You weren't thinking about much
in class but the Tail Gators from
Austin. All day swamp rot's been
running through your veins, tepid
and slimy, a stagnant, mildewy
blackness akin to the Tail Gators
music. If you head deep into the
mighty Bayou you're in Creedence
Clearwater territory, all menace, evil
and reverberation, guitars swim
ming through fuzz and distortion
like alligators through green scarves
of swampweed. If you just ramble
round the edge of the swamp where
the roadhouses seem to move ever
downstream ahead of the law,
where John Fred and the Playboys
got their start, howling out Rhythm
and Blues to the Cajuns around
Shreveport, you hit the Tail Gator's
sound. It's part Cajun and part R &
B, fractured roadhouse rock'n'roll
from some expatriates from the Le
Roi Brothers.
Weekend. You think you're life
less, but you're not. You can get up
and you can dress. Don't look on
your desk. Your mathbook was lost
in the shuffle long ago. It's Savage
Republic and Live Skull for you.
Savage Republic is an asylum of
musical influences. It's fiddle, a
coustic guitar folk music if your
folks used to sit around ground zero
to warm their hands. It's experi
mental avant-gardism if you're a
spike-headed experimentalist who
listens to melodic, sappy Chieftains
classics.
As for Live Skull, it's pretty much
a poor, morbid imitation of the hell
and feedback that Sonic Youth have
used to prey upon the intelligentsia
of New York City.
Tell the math professor you're
sorry, you need "No Report" to
graduate.
Children 's theater
presents three plays
By Kim E. Karloff
Staff Reporter
Peaches, penguins, a man named
Popper, and apes.
You'll find them all during the 1986
87 season of Theatre Arts For Youth,
the Lincoln Community Playhouse
Children's Theatre.
"I'm looking forward to three great
shows," said Lenette Nelson Schwinn,
director of the Children's Theatre.
The season productions include
"James and the Giant Peach," "Mr.
Popper's Penguin," and "Tommyknock
ers." According to Schwinn, all three
productions will be presented in the
L.L. Coryell & Son Children's Theatre at
the Playhouse, 2500 S. 56th St.
"James and the Giant Peach," is the
adventure story of James Henry Trotter.
James escapes from his cruel aunts in a
giant magic peach. James' tale unfolds
as he and his band of human-size
garden insects travel across the Atlan
tic Ocean from England to the United
States. Their journey is filled with
sharks, angry beasts called Cloudmen
and, eventually, a warm welcoming
committee in New York City.
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