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Intense sound has Lincoln band grooving
Show: NORML Benefit with
Throttle, Love Cabal and
Think
At: Le Cafe Shakes, 1418 0
St.
Time: 8:00 tonight
Tickets: $3 at the door
By Jowl •traucfi
Senior Reporter
This Lincoln band approaches
their thrashin’ brand of music full
Throttle.
Former University of Nebraska
Lincoln student and vocalist for
the band Throttle, Dave Simoncic
said his band’s style of music got
out a lot of aggression.
“It’s not a happy bunch of crap,”
he said. ‘‘You want to feel bad after
you listen to it.”
Drummer Lee Zeman added,
“It makes you happy to feel bad.”
Simoncic said the music that
Throttle played helped set it apart
from other bands.
“We don’t do noisy crap and
feedback crap,” he said. “And we
don't dress in dresses like a lot of
local bands do.”
Throttle’s members were dem
onstrating their intense sound in a
basement when they were inter
rupted by a Lincoln police officer
window.
Kevin Gude, the band’s guitar
ist, said, “That’s usually our sign
for break when the cops arrive.”
Simoncic answered the door and
the officer told him that they “sound
pretty cool, but it’s too loud.”
The officer’s sentiments seemed
to echo that of downtown estab
lishments.
“Nobody lets us play down
Dave SI monel c, lead singer for the band Throttle, singe during e rehearsal while guitarist Kevin Dude pim behind N
Mm. The metal band will perform tonight at La Cafe Shakes, 1418 0 St.
town,” Simoncic said. “They say
we’re too loud.”
Throttle was banned from play
ing at Duffy’s Tavern after sta
pling a flyer to a tree.
“The bands that get gigs are the
ecogroovies,” Zeman said.
This band has a mature sound,
with great lyrics and really
thrashin’ instrumentation that be
lies its members’ youth.
“We’ve been around for about
one-and-a-half years,” Simoncic
said. “But about a year ago our
guitarist, Brent Wilcox, died in a
car accident up in Valentine.”
Bassist Andy McClung said,
“After the funeral there was a big
misconception that we’d broken
up.”
The band did not play any shows
for about three months.
“We each had to deal with our
grief in our own way,” McClung
said.
But Throttle is in high gear again
and has seven gigs in the next two
months, most of them out of town.
“We’re trying to get out be
cause nobody will let us play here
in Lincoln,” Simoncic said.
Zeman said that the concept for
the band came up at a party.
“We were all sitting around and
somebody said, ‘Letrs make the
heaviest band in town,’” he said.
That was then, but now Throttle
recently finished a demo tape and
is in the process of releasing a CD.
“The recording itself is basi
cally done,” Gude said. “We just
need to get them all pressed and
packaged.”
The songwriting on the new
album is a conglomeration of
everyone’s efforts, Zeman said.
“Somebody will get an idea and
then everybody will add to it,”
Simoncic said.
Courtesy of Qrsmercy Pictures
From loft, Suy Pearce, Terence Stamp and Hugo Weaving star as thro# drag queens
makliw tholr way across the Australian outback In thslr bus, Prisdlla, In *7110
Adventures of Prisdlla, Queen of the Desert.”
Drag trio dares Down Under
■yJoed frauch
Senior Reporter
The Queen of the Desert took a
slow, nomadic journey to get to
Lincoln, but now that she’s here,
enjoy this refreshing oasis in the
wasteland of mainstream movies.
The plot of the movie sounds a
lot like what was going on up in
Loma, but this film takes place
Down Under.
Three drag queens travel from
Sydney across the Australian
outback to perform their show at a
luxurious resort.
Their bus, Priscilla, breaks down
along the way, and they have to
perform at several small towns to
make enough money to fix their
transportation.
The responses that they get from
the locals range from reluctant
See PRISCILLA on 10
Two dimensions capture
fluid movement of dance
By Paula Lavlgna
Senior Reporter
The three-dimensional image
of the dancer combines the fluid
movement of limbs, torso and
head with the manipulation of
space and time.
This elaborate movement is
captured in a two-dimensional
form for“Inside the Dance: Draw
ings by Terry Rosenberg,” an
exhibit at the Sheldon Memorial
Art Gallery.
Sponsored by the Sheldon
Gallery and the Wagon Train
Project, “Inside the Dance” fea
tures more than 50 large-scale
drawings that span Rosenberg’s
12 years of capturing movement
on paper.
The majority of Rosenberg’s
drawings are representative char
coal depictions of a dancer or a
group of dancers. Color has
worked its way into some of
Rosenberg’s more recent works.
Daphne Deeds, Sheldon gal
lery curator, said Rosenberg’s de
pictions captured dancers within
the performance instead of the
more formal depiction where the
artists was removed from the ac
tion.
“It’s a more active, spontane
ous and intimate view of the world
of dance,” she said.
Deeds said she chose works
that represented the several
phases and compositions of
Rosenberg s drawings. His works
feature close-up and distant draw
ings of solo dancers, duets and
large groups.
Rosenberg has captured the
dance of the David Parsons Dance
Company, the Bolshoi Ballet, the
Ballet Theatre of Harlem and The
Omaha Ballet.
With a constant subject mat
ter, Deeds said Rosenberg per
sonalized his drawings by giving
them distinct titles that included
dancers’ names and performance
dates and locations. Each draw
ing has its distinct components,
she said.
Deeds said Rosenberg’s style
of capturing dance was a unique
twist on an ancient practice.
Capturing dance in two-di
mensions began in prehistoric
times, she said, and an emphasis
on depicting movement flour
ished with the Futurist movement
in the 1910s.
“Terry has an unusual confi
dence and presence with han
dling charcoal on paper," Deeds
said. “There is a kind of sensual
ity and evocative feeling that
comes out of that confidence."
A dance performance by visit
ing artists Marta Renzi and Marta
Miller will be presented at 6 p.m.
Thursday during a 5 p.m. to 7
p.m. reception in the gallery’s
Great Hall.
The exhibit will run until Jan.
29.
