Divine Horsemen, Reivers to play at area nightclubs By Charles Lieurance Senior Editor The Fleshcatcrs were one of the most deliberately arty L.A. punk bands at the turn of the decade. Histrionic lead vocalist and visionary Chris Desjar dins, better known as Chris D., detailed bizarre, shocking talcs of personal degradation and masochis tic ecstasy against an ever-changing backdrop of clangorous musicians. Band Preview Drawing on such notorious poetic personalities as Rimbaud and Baudelaire for intelligence, and on such East Coast notorious musical personalities as Patti Smith, Alan Vega and Richard Hell for sheer nerve, Chris D. concocted an occasionally unlistenablc and usually unpleasant resonance all his own. In 1984, Chris D. jumped aboard a bandwagon he had inadvertently pioneered. Forming the Divine Horsemen, who will play tonight at Chesterfield, Bottomslcy and Potts in the lower level of the Glass Menagerie, around an illustrious band comprised of members of X, the Blasters, Gun Club, and Tex and the Horseheads, Chris D. made the essential dark and arid roots-rock album, showing his guest stars the true cesspool from whence they came. The album, “Time Stands Still,” is still a masterful predecessor for the L.A. alternative scene to come. All efforts at combining the myste rious evil found in ancient Robert Johnson recordings, the Slones’ “Exile on Main Street’’ and the essence of punk rebellion, pale in comparison. Although the music has lamed some on the ensuing SST album re leases, probably because of the lack of a truly epithetic band, the Horsemen still have Chris D.’s divinely macabre sense of minor key musical history. Cover for the show is S3 for adults, $5 for minors. Zeitgeist — one of the finest bands to emerge from the Austin, Texas, music mecca— has sacri ficed a good portion of its potential fame by never being a particularly prolific band. Zeitgeist was forced to change its name to the Reivers last year due to a lawsuit by a Euro-disco band also called Zeitgeist. The Reivers perform tonight at The Ranch Bowl in Omaha, with guests the Clique. As Zeitgeist, the band garnered significant attention from the music press, including plaudits from Rolling Stone, which proclaimed them one of the new young bands to watch in 1985. The Faulkner title that gave the band its new name better defines its sound than the old nod to Germanic philosophical angst, although there is certain'v an element of the “ghost of the times” in the band’s first album. Combining the aural blur the Fcclics pioneered with strong male/ female vocal harmonies, Zeitgeist’s debut LP induced a cheerful trance. “Translate Slowly,” “Cowboys,” “Freight Train Rain” and a rhythmic cover of Willie Nelson’s “Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain” all received sub stantial college-radio air play. The imagery is Texan and all-encom passing but the sound derives more from the myriad of bands from Athens, Ga., and North Carolina. Thickly textured guitars, acoustic and electric, weave a complicated web in the album’s ghostly mix. The Reivers may have a greater vinyl output than Zeitgeist did, ful filling the promise shown on that first LP. The cover for the Reivers is S3. The performance starts at 9 p.m. Friday the 13th lucky for film buffs By Joeth Zucco Staff Reporter At times the public seems to be plagued with bad movies, but on Fri day the 13th it will be for a purpose. University Program Council American Films will present its first annual “Bad Movie Festival” in Avery Hall Auditorium. The first film, “Plan Nine From Outer Space,” was Bela Lugosi’s last film. Lugosi died during production and was replaced by an unemployed chiropractor. The second, “The Terror of Tiny Town,” was made in the tradition of spaghetti westerns with one differ ence — all the actors are midgets. And the third, “Bad,” an Andy Warhol film, has something to offend everyone. Admission will be like bail: stu dents will pay as they leave. If they leave during the first film it will cost $3; during the second, $2; and at the end, $ 1. Free posters will also be given away. Jeff Rueter, chairman of the UPC American Film Committee, said the films were chosen because they’re “really unusual.” “They’re really trashy,” Rueter said. “They ’re some of the worst films made. They’re so bad, they’re funny.” The festival will start at 6 p.m. Michigan art critic to deliver lecture at Sheldon Michael Hall, director of the graduate program in sculpture at the Cranbrook Acadamy in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., will visit the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln art department today through Saturday. Hall has had numerous solo exhi bitions. His sculpture has been in eluded in group shows in museums throughout the United states, includ ing the Whitney Museum, the Art institute of Chicago, the Walker Art Center, the Detroit Institute of Art and the Los Angeles Institute of Contem porary art. Hall, a critic and collector of Americana, will give a public lecture - —— — 1 " ~ i concerning his work at 5:30 p.m. today at the Sheldon Art Gallery. Admission is free. Financing Hall's visit was pro vided by the UNL art department, the Nebraska Art Association, the Shel don Memorial Art Gallery and the UNL Research Council. "Mother Nature in Space" will be St. Mark's discussion The Center for the Great Plains Studies seminar will discuss “Monitoring Mother Nature from Space” hosted by Blaine Blad, interim director for the center for agricultural meteorology and cli matology and Shaski Verma, pro fessor of agricultural meterology and climatology. Scientists from the University of Nebraska played a major role in a research project conducted dur ing the summer of 1987 on the Konza Prairies in Kansas. The research effort, sponsored by the National Aeronatutics and Space Administration, involved 35-40 groups from universities and gov ernmental agencies. The aim of the research was to develop and test techniques for the montitoring of surface conditions and land sur face processes (heat transfer, eva poration and photosynthesis) us ing data collected by instruments on aircraft and satellites. 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