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After Television avoids local-band sound By Lisa Donovan Senior Reporter Local, regional and national bands hitting the stages this weekend and next week may be a better antidote to cure Lincoln’s bitter cold blues than the usual hot chocolate and marsh mallows. Although the band organized in September 1988, After Television has found the spotlight in 1989. In fact, it will be grabbing the flood lights Saturday night at Bash Rip rocks, 238 N. 12th Sl The four-piece band includes lead singer, Brad Underwood, Kevin Kielian on guitar, percussionist Mike Daeges and Pat Friend playing bass. Although the band is young, they’ve scheduled lot of gigs this year, Friend said. “We’ve been pretty busy,’’ Friend said. “Right now* we need an agent.” . .. . . Besides playing, Friend said, band members have to juggle their sched ules to Fit in performances, advertis ing and keep up with school. All the band members attend the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln except Under wood, wfio attends Nebraska Wesleyan University. According to Friend, After T divi sion plays a lot of covers like U2, I he Cure, Led Zeppelin and The Cult. Friend said the band would even tually like to incorporate some origi nals with the covers into their set. “At the moment, we’re writing our own slulf,’ he said. “I think a band can really hurt itself by playing loo many covers.” Even if >ugh people enjoy hearing songs the) know, Friend said he hopes that some of the origitials will gain notoriety. The popularity may come from increased performances, and Ft icnd said they may record some of those originals. “We hope to put a tape together this summer, if all goes well,’ he said. If they do decide to enter the re cording studio, the group would be following in the footsteps of local cover bands like The Limit. Although he respects and admires local bands, Friend said the band’s style is different from others. “I think Lie Awake relies a lot on the keyboards and The Limit doesn’t at all,” he said. Friend claims his band’s acoustics have a nice balance. Although the band’s influence is mainly U2, Friend said he grew up listening to everything but Top 40. He said he started out in a punk rock band, moved to a rock band and now plays for After Television. He said tne college music mat ne and the band play is more current and mature. “When I was playing in other bands ... it (the music) was geared towards more adolescent bands,” Friend said. “Now 1 think people can relate to what we’re playing.” One of the most unusual dimen sions of the band is its catchy and rather unusual title, Friend said. Brad Underwood, band member, came up with the idea after many band-name brainstorming sessions, he said. “I had a roommate first semester and all I got was about 12 or 13 hours of television,” he said. “I’m a very anti-TV person any way. It’s kind of a statement about our culture and how life revolves around the little box in the living room.” Show time is at 9 p.m. and admis sion is S2. Also on Saturday evening, a three band benefit for the Latin American Solidarity Committee, will be at the Common Place, 333 N. 13th. Bands playing ihc benefit include Leafy Green Things, 13 Nightmares and Trout Mystery. Show lime is 7 p.m. and admission is $2. And for those bra in-dead from the long schopl/work week, Ihe Wild LQ.’s will be playing at Chester field’s Friday and Saturday nights. Show time is 9:30 p.m. and the cover charge is $2. Other bands in Lincoln-land in See LIVE on 13 Johnny Reno of the Sax Maniacs Students looking for speakers should take time to listen By Mark Lage Senior Reporter The best speaker to buy depends on the best sound at the right price, said Tony Lewandowskt, audio/ video consultant at Stereo West, 4011 OSl “Our philosophy is that there are no had sounding speakers,” he said. “We all like different kinds of sounds.” However, there are factors to con sider when shopping for speakers, Lewandowski said. First consider appearance, he said. Another obvious factor is size. Speakers don’t have to be a big deal. “A lot of great speakers come in small sizes,’ ’ Lewandowski said. Mike Spady, store manager for the Radio Shack at 1024 O St., agreed. Spady recommends a small shelf type speaker, especially for students in dorm rooms and small apartments. “They take up little room, and they can give you good sound,” Spady said. “And they’re fairly inexpcn sive, which is good since most stu dents are on a limited budget.” Both Spady and Lewandowski said speakers sound different at home, especially in a smaller room, than in a large, open showroom. The speaker will not sound as good in one large room as it will in a small room, Spady said. The bass sounds more muffled in a large, car peted showroom, and some high-end sounds will be absorbed, he said. “It’s hard to know until you take it home,” Lewandowski said, which is why Radio Shack has a program al lowing any speaker to be traded in for full value within one year of pur chase. The sex of the listener may play a role in the selection process, Lewan dowski said. Males tend to lose a lot of their hearing around age 25. Musical preference is another deciding factor, he said. Rock ‘n’ roll fans usually prefer a more durable speaker - one that will take a little abuse -- while those who listen to jazz or classical music may lend towards more delicate, precise speakers, he said. Overall, the single most important factor in choosing speakers is to spend a lot of lime doing your own shopping. Don’t listen to too much specific advice from other people, because everyone has individual preferences, Lewandowski said. * ’Just lake your time, and listen to lots of different speakers,” he said. Af1&2- ^ rtMEfcMt, fgeseuT ~fcui2 4»Tc4& F&Z-: | loo IrtPOSR. uMieucvnae! IFtoP • Pt>4- 8**^' frUN*4Ys BU3| THANKS to everyone who took time last week to give the gift of life at the annual Campus Red Cross Blood Drive. The Blood Drive was a great success with over 300 students, faculty and staff par ticipating. Thanks to you, 247 pro ductive units of blood were col lected. This translates into lifesav ing blood and blood products which can helo nearly 750 Datients. A special thank you to the health aides, the volunteers who gave their time during the day, and fraternities and sororiLies who encouraged their members to donate. Phi Gamma Delta and Kappa Kappa Gamma were the winners of the Greek challenge, with a total of 38 membersdonating. Hope to see you all again next year. THANKS! CAMPUS RED CROSS BLOODMOB1LE Andy Manhart/ Dally Nebraskan Man’s theory extreme, professor says PeMAN from Page 11 Erlich cited a quote from de Man “There is only language, even il language masquerades as wars anc revolutions - there is still only text. ’ This, according to Erlich, i< where the 30-year-old theory fails, a least as far as de Man is concerned. Originator Jacques Derrida, a French philosopher, laid the founda tions of deconstruction. But accord ing to Erlich, de Man look it loo far. 1 “De Man carried Derrida’s ideas to a logical extreme,” he said. “The logical extreme is really for 1 the world of living experience to dis appear in the face of textual experi ence,” Erlich said. The way to erase living experi ence, Erlich explains, is to treat it just as words. A lot of deconstructiomsts and admirers of de Man say that it is unfair to compare a people’s lives with their work. “I don't think its possible to sepa rate ideas from the way you act,” Erlich said. “The literary theory which he eventually developed is a direct con tinuation of what he did as a Nazi collaborator,” he said. According to Erlich, once a person denies there is a real world of fact apart from text, then the person has made it impossible to tell the differ ence between truth and laisehixxJ. “In theory, you don’t talk about facts - words talk about other words,” Erlich said “Once you cannol tell the differ ence between truth and falsehood, then you cannol tell the difference between nood and evil,” he said. “I see the old Paul de Man as a direct continuation of the young Paul de Man,” he said. Because of this, Erlich said, de Man s theory should be discounted. “I think the theory is fake,” he said. “I think it’s untrue about what (decobstructionists think) language is and how it works... with regards to the relationship between words and reality.” Two movies show in Lincoln Sunday Two movies will be in Lincoln for a one-day engagement Sunday. “Law of Desire," a Spanish film by Pedro Almodovar, is the latest in the University Program Council’s Foreign Film Series at the Sheldon Film Theater. The Film is about sex, intrigue, passion among homosexuals, transexuals, bisexuals, hctcro sexuaJs anti almost everybody else. It turns into an outrageous, comic, flamboyant and even tragic depiction of jealousy and love. 1 ickcts arc $3 for University of Nebraska Lincoln students, and S4 tor the public. The screening times arc 3, 5, 7 and 9 p.m. C amille” will show 2 p.m. at the State Museum of History, 15th and P streets. The classic Metro-Gold wyn Meycr film stars Nebraskan Robert Taylor, and Greta Garbo. Lincoln musician, Russ Gibson, will introduce the film. Gibson performed in a singing group with him before Taylor’s departure to Hollywood. There is no admission charge.
