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.
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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
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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. Suc
cesful development of monitoring
techniques will provide the means
to help determine the impact of
changes in these ecosystems on the
weather and climate of the earth.
Monthly seminars are held at
St. Mark’s-On-The-Campus at
13th and R streets at 3:30 p.m.
Refreshments arc served at 3
p.m. Students and the general
public are invited.
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