Arts & Entertainment
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The Wild Seeds
I The Wild Seeds sow great songs
By Charles Lieurance
Staff Reporter
Most of the bands involved in the
roots revival of American music wind
up hawking some underdog ale in
star-spangled leather fringe jackets,
looking like bargain-basement Buf
falo Springfields. It’s not a pretty
sight.
One can only hope that one day
they’ll gnaw through their buckskin
arms free of the PR trap and sprint for
the wilderness to live off bee pollen
and cactus milk.
But Austin’s level-headed Wild
Seeds have quietly circulated their
simple, effective sound throughout
the bars of America. The Wild Seeds
peddle a derivative but passionate
blend of the original Seeds’ sonic
garage grime and Byrds/Springfield/
Sir Douglas Quintet American guitar
pop. It’s nothing new, but it’s no fraud
either.
The band, which will perform at
both the Zoo Bar and Omaha’s Ranch
Bowl this week, was founded by rock
critic Michael Hall during the heyday
of the Austin music scene. Bands like
Zeitgeist, the True Believers, Glass
Eye and the Butthole Surfers were
weaving a versatile and influential
national reputation off hard work and
regional loyalty, and Hall saw his
chance to start the band of his dreams.
In 1984, the Wild Seeds recorded
their debut EP, “Life is Grand (Life in
Soul City)” which met with unbridled
critical acclaim, the sort that rock
critics mete out liberally to other rock
critics. Because most of the Wild
Seeds’ sales volume consisted of
albums they gave to rock critics free,
the band suffered a period of diffi
culty that saw them disbanding and
reforming again in 1985 to perform on
MTV’s “Cutting Edge” program and
record a new LP, “Brave, Clean &
Reverent.”
Last year, the band, with Hall on
guitar and lead vocals, Joey Shuffield
on drums, Bo Solomon on guitar and
Paul Swift on bass, signed with Pass
port Records and recorded “Mud,
Lies & Shame.” The band’s newest
guitar player, Randy Franklin, and
co-vocalist Kris McKay both add
substantially to the LP’s diversified
roots-pop sound.
The Wild Seeds may not wear their
buckskin on their sleeves, as it were,
but it’s hard to imagine them trying to
pass Old Sphincter Stout off as
America’s beer of choice either. The
Wild Seeds are just great songs and
perseverance. Try to get more Ameri
can than that.
The Seeds will play at the Ranch
Bowl in Omaha Tuesday and at the
Zoo Bar Wednesday.
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