Arts ©Entertainment
Friday, January 13, 1995
Page 12
Road life
chaotic for
local band
Editor’s note: This is the final story
in a weeklong Daily Nebraskan series
exploring the eastern Nebraska rock
music scene.
By Jeff Randall
Staff Reporter ' ~
For Patrick Buchanan, guitarist/vo
calist of the Omaha band Mousetrap,
life on the road means many things.
Normalcy isn’t one of them.
“It’s chaos, just chaos,” Buchanan
said. “It’s the total destruction of ev
erything that is solid and normal in your
bleeping
and eating are the
only things that
you do both at
home and on the
road. Otherwise,
it’s kind of like
anarchy.
Mousetrap
is one of the few
bands from the
Omaha-Lincoln
area that has had
the opportunity to tour nationally.
Buchanan and his bafidmates, bass
ist Craig Crawford and drummer
Duncan Black, just completed a 30-day,
20-show tour of the East Coast, Deep
South and Texas to support their latest
release, “Lover.”
Being back in Omaha, if only tem
porarily, is a bit of a relief for Mouse
trap, Buchanan said.
“Here, we know the crowds will at
least be enthusiastic,” Buchanan said.
“They may not necessarily be big
crowds, but we know they probably like
us.”
Mousetrap is currently getting pre
pared to go into the recording studio in
late January, and will go on a tour of
the West Coast in February to continue
supporting “Lover.”
See MOUSETRAP on 13
Photo courtesy of Columbia Artists Management, Inc.
Nicolas Leriche, of the Paris Opera Ballet, performs “Etoile.”
Paris ballet to perform tonisht
By Charles Russell
Staff Reporter
The world-renowned Paris Opera Ballet
Ensemble will pirouette onto the Lied Cen
ter stage tonight with a unique blend of
traditional and contemporary dance.
The company traces its origins to 1661,
when Louis XIV established the “Academie
Royale de Danse” in Paris.
It continues to draw on this tradition, but
does not allow traditional classical ballet to
become a limitation. The company incorpo
rates more modem styles of dancing into its
repertoire, making it a model of diversity.
The ballet stays on the cutting edge of
dance partly because it uses many choreog
raphers. Because the ballet has never been
controlled by a single choreographer, it can
stay abreast of the changing trends of dance.
Tonight’s performance will include such
diverse pieces a suite from “Don Quixote,”
choreographed by Rudolf Nureyev, and “In
the Middle Somewhat Elevated,” choreo
graphed by William Forsythe.
There will also be two pre-performance
talks given in the Lied’s Steinhart Room by
Lisa Fusillo, director of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln’s dance program. The
talks will begin 55 and 30 minutes before
the performance.
Tickets for the Paris Opera Ballet En
semble are $40, $36 and $32, and are avail
able at half price for students. Tickets are
available at the Lied Center Box Office
today from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and 90
minutes before the show.
Fan: King as good as it gets
By Jeff Randall
Staff Reporter
When the King of Blues rolls
onto the Lied Center stage Sun
day, Jim Carlson plans to be right
there waiting.
Carlson, who describes himself
as a “sickeningly avid blues fan,” .
said concert-goers should view
B.B. King’s Lied Center perfor
mance as more than a treat. It’s a *
responsibility, he said.
“Any time we get someone this
good to come to Lincoln, we
should support it,” said Carlson,
a Lincoln resident. “If we don’t,
the good shows will stop coming.”
King will play at the Lied Cen
ter for Performing Arts Sunday at
7 p.m. All seats are $26.
King is legendary not only in
the blues world, Carlson said, but
in all types of music.
“He really is as good as it gets,”
Carlson said. “Everybody has tried
to imitate his style, but no one has
even come close.”
King was bom Riley B. King.
His current stage name is an ab
breviation of an earlier stage
name, Blues Boy King.
He began his musical career in
1947 in Memphis, Tenn., and has
since picked up a steady follow
ing of both music fans and fellow
musicians.
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“Just look at who some of his
fans are,” Carlson said. “Eric
Clapton, U2, they’re some of the
biggest musicians in the world, but
they look up to B.B.”
King’s guitar technique,
Carlson said, is an easily recog
nizable combination of “bent
tones, complex fingerings and a
real feel for rhythm.”
Although this isn’t the first
time Carlson has seen King live,
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he said he was still as excited as
he was the first time.
“You could go to every concert
he’s ever given and not see the
same show twice,” Carlson said.
“He’s a real artist; he’s always
changing.”
Tickets are available at the Lied
Box Office today between 11 a.m.
and 5:30 p.m. and 90 minutes be
fore Sunday’s show.
Weekend brings flood
of movies to Lincoln
By Gerry Beltz
Senior Reporter
New movies are flooding into
Lincoln this weekend like water
into Avery Hall. We’ve got four
—count ‘em, four —new flicks
showing up.
“Legends of the Fall” (Dou
glas 3) is a tale about jealousy
between brothers that lasts
through and beyond the years of
World War I.
Three brothers (Brad Pitt,
Aidan Quinn, Henry Thomas)
have extremely different person
alities, but their lives begin to
take very intense turns.
The patriarch of this family is
portrayed by Anthony Hopkins
(still recovering from “The Road
to Wellville”).
This one is being touted as an
other Oscar nomination for
Hopkins, but we’ll see.
Oscar also will be looking at
“Nobody’s Fool” (Lincoln 3) for
the performance of Paul Newman
as Sully, a 60-year-old construc
tion worker who is learning to
cope with life. Other strong per
formers in the film include Bruce
Willis and the late Jessica Tandy.
For horror buffs, check out
“Demon Knight” (Cinema
Twin), a “Tales From The Crypt”
episode extended and enlarged
for the big screen.
This one stars William Sadler
and Billy Zane, and has a horde
of demons attempting to attack
the residents of a boarding house.
Finally, we have “Far From
Home: The Adventures of Yellow
Dog” (Cinema Twin), the latest
movie of “child and pet try to sur
vive in wilderness.” The kids will
probably like it, but that’s about
it.