Myers
Continued from Page 9
| harmonicas only cost 25 cents, but
I they were plastic and it was hard to
| find one with the appropriate pitch.
But Myers had a solution.
“I just went out and bought a
bunch of them to have to play along
with the records,” Myers said. “And
then I’d play till I found the right
one that the key the record was in.
And I just started from there.”
Although it’s obvious that Myers
loves music, it’s just as obvious that
he’s unhappy about its progression
and the way younger musicians are
playing it today.
“The younger generation today,
they are jusi more or less looking
for sound,” Myers said. “Sound is
not the most important thing.”
Overproduced sound, that is,
Myers said. Musicians shouldn’t
worry about duplicating their studio
sound on stage, he said. Instead,
today’s musicians should shoot for
simplicity, the fresh and raw sound
that’s played in the studio.
“When it’s overplayed, then you
add all these different ‘will you
help me gadgets’ to it,” Myers said.
“Well, you just look away from the
song that you were doing. It just
sounds so washed up and watered
down.”
But that’s not the kind of music
Myers does with the Rockets. They
have a sound that goes all the way
back to the early ’50s.
“The type of music that we’re
playing, well I hope it be a change,
I did this for about 35 years,” Myers
said.
“But the type of music that Anson
and the Rockets are doing now, I
did that back in the early 50s.”
The music they do is an old
style. They take their creativity and
apply it to music from Myers’ glory
days, music that clearly defines
blues’ purpose in music.
“That’s something that musically
nobody else has done,” he said.
Lighting another cigarette,
Myers reminisced about the start of
an era of music that he has devoted
his life to. His voice slowed to an
even rhythm as he spoke.
“Now I’m going to take you
back a few years,” Myers said.
“Slavery. That was blues then, and
then after that came gospel. And
then from that we moved to another
blues area, what is called Missis
sippi Delta Blues.”
Blues, for Myers, is a way of
life. For others, he said, it had the
same effect. Music like the delta
blues got its sound from real life.
“People working on the railroad,
people working in the cotton
fields,” Myers said. “Guys getting
up, heading out to the main line of
the track. Guy hitting his hammer
against the steel, you hear the steel
iinging, the ties dropping and then
they put the gravel down for the
train. Then they pul the track
down.”
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refrain, I think back to the old days when I lived
totally without structure or order, when my life
was not consumed by deadlines and tests and
papers and all the restof the things that now fill
my life.
I figure the best solution is to simply do it—
to relive, for a brief time, some of the glory of
youth, back when I took on the world and felt
that I could change it, that people would listen
to a ranting, angry, young man.
I want to launch another band. I want to
shout and scream again, to live without con
cern for responsibilities, to roam through the
streets after dark and make gloomy comments
on the demise of humanity.
I will, of course, be the singer again, partly
to live out the role of the lonely and pensive
writer, but mostly since I cannot play any
instruments.
Well, I did start violin lessons this semester
and, after five weeks, I can play a mean “Twinkle,
Twinkle Little Star” and two other little ditties.
But somehow a violin just would not be
right for this band.
We will be called the Dread Kennedys and
will do a few reggae-influenced covers of old
Dead Kennedys classics like “Kill the Poor,”
“Moral Majority,” “Stealing Peoples’ Mail”
and “Holiday in Cambodia.”
Yes, there is a band around called Dread
Zeppelin that does a similar thing with old Led
Zeppelin tunes.
But face it, which would you rather hear in
a reggae/ thrash mix, “Stairway to Heaven” or
“Nazi Punks Fuck Off”??
In fact, we will probably only do a few
reggae-type songs, since you probably have to
sound fairly good to carry them off.
We’ll mostly cover standard punk anthems
and hide our lack of musical acumen behind a
wall of distortion and speed. All the punk kids
will talk about how powerful we sound.
Besides, it is more fun to play thrash songs
than bouncing little reggae numbers. So I sup
pose we will end up as more of a cover band
than anything else, but a cover band unlike any
other, confining ourselves to thirty-second, three
chord blasts of romantic anger and hope.
So, anyone else out there who wants to
establish the premier punk cover band and
leech off the still potent name of the Dead
Kennedys, leave a message for me down here
at the Daily Nebraskan.
For that matter, we might even be able to
practice down here in the basement of the
union after the afternoon deadlines for the
paper.
Better still, after everyone has left the build
ing, we could hold concerts here in the Daily
Nebraskan office. They would be free and all
UNL students would be welcome.
We could invite the local punk kids in and
all do stage dives off the computer terminals
while playing a Greatest Punk Hits medley.
And once or twice I might look up and see
the face of one of my professors walking by
outside, and drift momentarily back to my old
days as a student.
Peterson Is a senior English, psychology and philoso
phy major and a Daily Nebraskan staff arts and enter
tainment reporter and columnist
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