Arts & Entertainment
Fat-man Tad screams
tunes to moshing mob
By Michael Deeds
Senior Editor
Tad was huge, as usual, Wednes
day night at Duffy’s, not only in size
but in sound. The four-piece freight
train led by 300-pound vocalist/gui
tarist Tad Doyle had an elephant beat
and waged war on the crowd.
Leading off with “Helot.” the
Seattle-based grungers tossed hair,
guitars and feedback all over the place
before breaking into some new mate
rial to be released in October.
Tad, though a little tired, managed
to scream out his tunes, eyes closed,
as a mosh pit of crazy, drunken fools
thrashed below him. Guitarist Gary
Thorstensen provided his typical feed
back wall while eclectic bassist Kurt
Danielson did a constant, arcing,
headbang dance.
And then there were those drums.
The incessantly pounding hoofbeats
from hell, provided most graciously
by Steve Wied.
Since all the members of Tad had
taken Jell-0 shots before the show,
they were in top form. Though much
of the song list was new, Tad still
crunched out “Behemoth,” “High
on the Hog,” “Loser” and “Wood
Goblins.”
And of course, they played the
inevitable “Satan’s Chainsaw.”
“Yo, ho, ho, you never know,”
Tad said as he placed his guitar down.
' ‘Let’s see if you are really corn-fed.
Let’s see if you all can catch a fat
man.”
People backed up a little.
And Tad burst into “Satan’s Chain
saw,” feigning a stage dive once to
startle everyone. About a minute later,
he did jump, though it was pretty
pathetic because he knew nobody could
catch him.
The set was pretty short, probably
because Tad did not feel very good
before the show, but nobody cared.
Tad was hard, heavy and loud.
That’s all that mattered.
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Tad rocks while the Duffy’s crowd freaks.
“Art Center Artists Revue,” an
invitational group show featuring
new work by some 50 artists cur
I rently affiliated with the Univer
sity Place Art Ccnler/Weslcyan
Laboratory Gallery, 2601 N. 48th
St., opens with a public reception
for the artists from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Friday.
This is the fourth annual fall
season opening show to be held in
i the Art Center’s location, the old
University Place Hall. Both floors
of the Art Center arc being used for
the show, with each artist display
ing several works.
The show will include oil paint
ings, mixed media and watercolor,
woodcuts, drawings, photographs,
sculpture, pottery, blown and stained
glass, paperworks, jewelry and fiber
arts.
The show continues through Oct.
3.
I Deadline Jorpoetry contest draws near
The deadline for the American
Poetry Association’s contest is Sept.
30. The contest is open to everyone
and entry is free. The Grand Prize
is $1,000, and First Prize is $500.
There arc 152 prizes worth $11,000
in all.
Poets should send one original
poem, no more than 20 lines, name
and address on the lop of the page,
to American Poetry Association,
Dept. CO-84, 250-A Potrero St.,
P.O. Box 1803, Santa Cruz, CA
95061. Entries m ust be postmarked
by Sept. 30. A new contest opens
Oct. 1.
Each poem is considered for
publication in the “American Poetry
Anthology,” a treasury of current
verse.
Korean music students to perform
traditional concert at Kimball hall
By Robert Richardson
Staff Reporter
Offering much more than just an
exchange of music, 43 students from
Dankook University in Seoul, South
Korea will treat UNL to a traditional
Korean concert Monday at 8 p.m. at
Kimball Recital Hall.
As the result of a campuswidc effort
between the College of Music, Col
lege of Business and the Lied Center
for the Performing Arts, an exchange
agreement was signed last July be
tween the University of Nebraska
Lincoln and several universities in
Korea.
Larry Lusk, a professor in the school
of music, said that invitations of ex
change were expressed for simple
reasons.
“We have a very high quality
program, but I think the real reason
they came was because we simply
invited them,” he said. “It was our
way of saying we’re very interested
in more than Western music and
Western culture.”
Dankook University students of
fer traditional Korean string, wind
and percussion instruments as well as
traditional dance and colorful cos
tumes that Lusk called “something
new.”
“I think it?s going to be a new
experience and one which will be a
hopeful eye-opening for us,’ ’ he said.
While at UNL, Korean students
will be treated to some typical Ne
braska hospitality as they will attend
a hamburger and hotdog cookout and
visit the historical museum to explore
the roots of Nebraska.
Several Korean businesses in Lin
coln and Korean students and profes
sors attending UNL will have lime to
meet with and interact with the musi
cians from Dankook.
“They’re going to have a little
sampling of what Nebraska is about
and they ’re also going to have the fun
of meeting a lot of their compatri
ots,” Lusk said.
Although Lusk said a program of
this magnitude takes a lot of time and
is difficult to arrange he was very
hopeful for future ties between
Dankook and UNL.
“I’m assuming that this is the
beginning of what wc we’ll sec to be
more and more international ex
change,” he said.
Tickets for the Dankook presenta
tion are $6.50 for adults and $5 for
students, available at the Lied Center
box office, 12th and R streets.
Smart seductresses bring show to State Fair
By Michael Deeds
Senior Editor
4 4 When we first came out with the
name ‘Seduction,’ they were expect
ing three stupid bimbos would be up
there like half-naked,” says Michelle
Visage, the pouty, blonde vocalist of
Seduction. “Then they came to see
our show and they talked to us. We’re
fully dressed with men’s suits on,
three college graduates, and they’re
like, ‘Wait a minute — these girls
have brains.’”
Visage, 20, is remembering early
music critics, those nasty, rotten sub
aficionados who never seem to under
stand what they’re hearing. But talk
ing by phone from a West Hollywood
hotel room, Visage is giving this writer
the benefit of the doubt.
4‘The press is great to us now,”
she says. ‘‘Now that they realize we’re
three smart women.”
Seduction, which will play at the
Nebraska State Fair Sunday night with
Young M.C. and Partners in Kryme,
has more going than smarts. The band's
debut release, 4‘Nothing Matters
Without Love,” has proven itself one
of the most consistently magnetic dance
albums to grace the charts in recent
years. The album, released last No
vember, produced four Top 20 smash
singles including “Two To Make It
Right,” which hit the No. 2 spot across
llie country.
Visage, April Harris and Sinoa
Loren have sung, rapped rocked and
synch-bopped across hordes of stages
this year. After a four-month tour
with Milli Vanilli and Young M.C.,
Visage says the band is still raring to
go. And unlike othcrail-female bands
like the Bangles, whose members all
play instruments, the vocalists of
Seduction have lime to concentrate
completely on their fully-choreo
graphed message.
“The Seduction onstage attitude
is happiness, complete fun, you’ll get
some comedy, you get major energy,
cor^erf
unbelievable energy ~ don’t ask me
where it comes from because I don’t
knew,” Visage says. “We preach no
drugs, stay clean, no drinking, unity,
no colorization in the world and just
to have fun and love life.”
Visage describes herself as a
“Marlene Dietrich meets (Marilyn)
Monroe kind of thing,” and admits
the band members consciously have
different looks, coming from differ
ent ethnic backgrounds.
“It definitely makes for mass appeal
because you’ll go to another concert
and see all white. And you’ll go to
another concert and see all black. We
always draw (a mixture) and I love
that,” she says.
Visage claims her only conscious
musical influence is Teena Mane,
and calls herself a definite rap con
noisseur.
“I’m the biggest rap freak that
walks the face of the earth,’ ’ she says.
“Our new single is ‘Breakdown’ and
that’s me rapping. People don’t ex
pect it, because I’m a little blonde girl
up there rapping my ass off.”
But don’t let her catch you calling
Seduction a rap band, or even a hip
hop group -- Visage can get a little
fiery a lot quick.
“There is no label for Seduction,”
she says. “On Seduction’s album we
have rap, we have funk, we have
Latin hip-hop, we have Caribbean,
two ballads. Can I continue?”
I named us ‘chrbopance,’ which is
crossover urban pop dance,” she
confesses finally. “Because there is
no categorization for Seduction.”
Seduction, Young M.C. and Part
ners in Kxyme will perform at 6:30
p.m. Sunday night. After4 p.m., there
is no gate admission to get onto the
fairgrounds. Tickets for the three
band concert arc $15, $14, $12 and
$10.
And Visage advises people to go.
“Fairs are usually the best,” she
says. * ‘Peoplearc real loose and ready
to party.”
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Members of Seduction are, from left, Sinoa Loren, Michelle Visage
and April Harris.