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^-— m * u _1_ ' ^utia Mikolajcik/DN Bob Popek scrapes off the finish on the neck of a bass that belongs to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He said the professor likes it without the finish because it is nicer for ariDDina. Guitar Continued from Page 9 the earth where they have no repair shop, and they want to make sure that for the next four or six weeks when they’re out in the middle of nowhere, that their gear will hold up.” Besides working for local and regional musicians, it’s not unusual for the shop to get a repair call from a national band scheduled to play at the Pershing Municipal Auditorium, he said. Band contracts and endorse ment policies prohibit Popck from naming names. But he did mention the Farm Aid concert. When Farm Aid was held in Lin coln, the entire store helped out, he said, and Popek was designated as the guitar technician. However, he said, he was unable to attend the concert because his wife was ex pecting their first child. During his years at Diclzc, Popek said he had seen th<T Repair Shop transformed from a refinishing shop to a restoration shop. “We’re more into trying to refur bish an instrument back to what it should be.” Basically, they run a repair shop, he said. The real challenge, he said, is to make a non-traditional repair blend in a traditional manner, “so it doesn’t become a radical thing to the instru mcnt,” Popck said, looking a bit non-lraditional himself with his long hair and beard. “Some of the work Jon’s done around here has really taken things beyond the limit, such as replacing the partial head slock and making it come out to look like it’s all origi nal,” Popck said. Taylor’s quick to return the com plimenl. “Bob can play the Andy Griffith theme song on every instrument,” he said. M Popck grinned.' “That’s true. I use that tunc to test all the instruments.” Imagine that — a whistling gui tar. Book lacks originality “Lost Souls” Poppy Z. Brite Delacorte Press By Shannon Uehling Senior Editor “Lost Souls” is any book in Anne Rice’s “Vampire Chronicles”—only not as well-writicn. Poppy Z. Brite seems to have taken every premise of Rice’s well-known trilogy and called it her own. Every thing, including the vampires’ abili ties and the homosexual and psychic elements, was fair game for Brite. Basically, there is very little new material here. . Even the setting—most of Britc’s story takes place in New Orleans— is a blatant rip-off of Rice’s novels. The onTy original ideas in this novel are the story line and the premise that Brite’s vampires procreate in the same way humans do. “Lost Souls” begins slowly with what seems to be three unrelated sto ries. First, there are Zillah, Molochai andTwig—three hard-partying vam pires. They travel from place to place in a black van. They spend their time drinking (alcohol and blood), eating junk food and using any form of drug they can gel their pale white hands on. This doesn’t seem a very healthy lifestyle, but when you’re immortal you don’t have to worry about a dete riorating liver. During the prologue, the reader also is introduced to Christian, a New Orleans barkccp and vampire friend of Zillah, Molochai and Twig. Then there arc Ghost and Steve, who make up a band called Lost Souls in a nowhere town called Missing Mile, N.C. They are long-time best friends, even though they are very different from each other. Ghost is a “sensi tive” — he can read minds and has prophetic dreams. Steve seems constantly to be one step away from a breakdown. He has broken up with his girlfriend, Ann, and spends most of his time in a drunken stupor. Finally, the reader is introduced to Nothing. Nothing is a vampire who is bom in Christian’s bar to a young girl named Jessy. Zillah is Nolhingrs fa ther, but the traveling trio leaves be fore Jessy finds out she’s pregnant. Jessy dies when Nothing is bom, and Christian takes him to Maryland and leaves him on a doorstep — hop ing Nothing can escape his bloody legacy and have a normal life. » But Nothing doesn’t feel as if he belongs and runs away from home when he’s 15. He decides to go to Missing Mile tomcctSlcvcandGhosl after hearing their music. Along the way he is picked up by Zillah and company, and Nothing is finally “home.” Due to more coincidental circum stances, everyone meets up in Miss ing Mile, after which they all go to New Orleans where events (including Ann’s pregnancy and Jessy’s father’s attempt to kill Nothing) lead to the novel’s tragic end. The novel is filled with unbeliev able coincidences, trite descriptive passages and shallow cha.aclcrs. It’s amazing that, under these conditions, the novel still remains interesting. 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