The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, November 08, 1989, Page 10, Image 10
Banner week for live music 1 Alternative, blues bands to be featured! By Mick Dyer Staff Previewer It looks like another banner week for live music in Lincoln, especially for alternative and blues bands. Alternative: Tonight, Minds In Turmoil and the Walkabouts will play at Duffy’s Tavern, 1412 O St. Minds in Turmoil is a local three piece group making its debut per formance. According to one band member, Minds in Turmoil is heavily influenced by bands such as X, as well as Black Sabbath. That’s inter esting. The Walkabouts is a Seattle based, sub-pop band with a country twist to its sound. The music is really folksy and bluesy, but with a hard edge. The band features Carl Miller on the killer slide trombone and Jon athan Segel on the manic violin. For those who don’t remember, Segel was the old violin player for Camper Van Beethoven, before that band got a bunch cf easy-access hair cuts, cleaned up its innate and made it really big. This is finger-snapping-at the-Beatnik-party type music, good stuff. Friday, The Pixies and the Zulus, two of the leanest and most chaotic bands from Boston, will play at Agri culture Hall on the state fairgrounds. The Zulus have a tough and quirky sound. A foaming mixture of jagged drums, pulsing bass and guitars, gui tars, guitars swirls around odd, high pitched vocals. It’s a dense sonic cauldron perpetually on the verge of boiling over. The Pixies play an aggressive and fast brand of warped rock ‘n’ roll. With traces of Latin, gospel and punk elements in its music, the Pixies aim a heavily caffcinatcd auricular at tack at the groin level with songs like “Bone Machine” and “Break My Body.” Who can forget the band’s 1988 hit single “Giganue?” At best, the Pixies’ sound is terrifyingly simple and, at worst, it is menacingly beautiful. Sunday, the Cows will play noisy, bone-jarring good thrash music at Duffy’s. The Cows is a really nasty sub-pop band from Minneapolis, off of Am phetemine Reptile records (Helios Creed’s label), if that says anything about what to expect from the band. The Cows’ music features disturbing, scary lyrics and some dirty, grungy guitar work. Since Sunday is such a special day and all, bars have to close early, so the show will start at 7:30 p.m. Country: • Thursday, Scan Benjamin will play at 9th Street Blues,421 S.9thSt. Friday, Sean and Laurie Benjamin will play their outstanding acoustic folk music at the Mountains, 311 S. 11th St. Saturday, The Cheatin’ Snakes will play at th? Mountains. This good-time country music will really kick you in the ... jazz/Biues: Tonight, Magic Slim and the Tear drops will play fine South Side Chi cago blues at the Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St. Thursday night, Preston Love will play jazz at Julio’s, 132 S. 13th St. Thursday and Friday, Charlie Musselwhiteand His Blues Band will play at the Zoo Bar. One of the living legends of the blues, Mussclwhite and Paul Butter field, were two of the first white guys to break into the blues music scene, a genre of music which up to the mid 1960s had been almost exclusively played by black musicians. Musselwhite learned blues harp from the masters. He comes straight from the traditional school, but he also incorporates some jazz ele ments, which gives him his distinct Musselwhite sound, which is imme diately recognizable to blues fans everywhere. His uncanny sense of lyrics beautifully punctuates some powerful music. He’s quite a show man. Saturday, The Tablcrockcrs will play at the Zoo Bar. 1 The evening of music will feature songs performed by two exceptional blues singers. Earlcnc Owens, the I ablerockers old singqr wno now is working with Albert King, as well as Annette Murrell, the Tablcrockers’ new leading lady, will perform. A deep penetrating double dose of pas sionate and soulful blues. Sunday, The Monks will play jazz at Chesterfield’s, Lower Level, 245 N. 13th St. : Monday, The Tablerockers return to the Zoo Bar. Tuesday, Little Charlie and the Night Cats will play at the Zoo Bar. Little Charlie and the Night Cats is one of the finest bands playing jump blues today. Jump is a post-World War II blues genre with big band roots. Anyway, Little Charlie and the Night Cats play exciting and upbeat music that inspires all within earshot to dance. When the show is over and! the band leaves the stage, it leaves! behind an audience that is sweaty and! exhausted, but thoroughly satisfied. I DINING from Page 9 People whine about schoolwork, they whine about their social life and they whine about the future. The sound is soothing in a per verse sort of way. If you are expe riencing particularly severe ver sions of these preoccupations, all you need to do is swivel your head 180 degrees and you will see a couple hundred people suffering from the same worries. And you may feel the urge to stop feeling sorry for yourself. At 1:30 p.m. lunch officially ends, but the crowd has thinned considerably already. The post ’ .Bill ■niMIHlMIH H HI Idnch clean-up begins, and by 2:30 it is time to shut the huge tempo rary partitions. What waf once a wide-open smoking apa'becomes three claustrophobic little meeting rooms, and the Harvest Room proper has been chopped in half. The afternoon studiers take their places in the remaining open area, and don’t get any studying done. No one ever gets anything done between 2:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. Everyone is loo busy winding down from morning classes, or .winding up for the night’s study. The Harvest Room has been plagued by two specific *nnoy ances this semester: the cold, and the flies. Maybe it’s because the air con ditioning is stHl going fuli blast in there. The indoor fly population seems abnormally large this year, and everybody who spends any > lime in there is constantly praying for their speedy death. It’s atlts worst when there are few people in the cafeteria, because then each person gets about six flics all to themselves. On home-football Saturdays, the Harvest Room is just like any other eating place in the vicinity; it is overrun by one huge wave of jabbering and eating Red, and then left in disarray. The strange thing about the Harvest Room is that despite its bustling, vibrant atmosphere, many people have no idea what or where it is. Located on the main floor in the northeast comer of the Nebraska Union (next to the/ice cream store) the Harvest Room is die perfect place for the school aay. Go in, open up your bocks to ease your student's conscience, and then spend your day chatting about things of little or no impor tance. Store wide I Blues i and ! Jazz Sale I Ever/ Blues and Jazz ■ ' . album, cassette and compact disc on sale today through Sunday. • 1000's of titles. Nebraska's Largest Selection! . ' "J 14th & O St. East Park 477-6061 464-8275