Detroit band
brings punk,
ska to Omaha
SUICIDE from page 12
songs are definitely punk and the
ska songs are definitively ska.
“Within a song, it may switch
from punk to ska such as in a cho
rus,” Grant said. “Lately, we’ve
been playing more hard-core
though.”
The band has had two releases
before their Hollywood record de
but. The first was a Green World
cassette in 1994 that is now unavail
able. In 1995, they did a “bootleg
style” split album with the Rudi
ments called “Skank for Brains.”
The band hasn’t sold the latest
record at its shows for the past six
months.
“A not very nice man was sell
ing the CD for personal profit, not
giving anything back to the band,”
Grant said. “We stopped selling it,
not because we weren’t making any
money, but because we want to
make it worthless for him. We also
put several songs off of that album
onto the new one (Destruction by
Definition.)”
The Suicide Machines credit
touring, college and smaller radio
stations and the Internet as reasons
that the band name has gotten out.
The band has toured constantly
since last May’s release of “De
struction.”
Grant thinks the most memo
rable gigs they do are the nude
shows.
“We’ve done a few nude
shows,” Grant said. “One time in
Florida, we did a show inside a store
with our backsides facing a glass
window at the front of the store.
People just walking by would see
four naked guys.”
Expect anything to happen when
the Suicide Machines open for the
Descendants Sunday at the Ranch
Bowl. It probably-will. . _
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Descendents revisit roots,
take old-school punk on tour
DESCENDENTS from page 12
This scholarly front-man of the
Descendents repeatedly earned them
intelligent, alternative-dork accolades
way before Weezer ever hit the scene.
“Music and science are mutually
exclusive for me,” Aukerman said,
explaining that he continually had to
take time off from the band while he
was going to school at UCSD—pre
cipitating the necessity of the band All.
Finally in 1987, Aukerman decided
to do biology research with plants at
Wisconsin, thus placing the Descen
dents (xi extended hiatus.
“Science can satisfy something for
me that music can’t, but about a year
ago I got to the point where I began
writing music again and I gave Bill
(Stevenson) a call and things got
started,” Aukerman said.
After recording an album, the De
scendents hit the road and have done
about 15 shows.
“All has a lot to do with the suc
cess of our shows,” Aukerman said.
“They kept the fans and the spirit alive.
The arrangement with All works well,
we share audiences and share re
sources.” r
Aukerman also said the new De
pendents tour shouldn’t be pen as a
reunion.
“This trendy reunion thing doesn’t
really apply, the band has always ex
isted, just under a different name,”
Aukerman said. “I am just inprting
myplf again as vocalist.”
Aukerman denies that the Depen
dents will ever hit it as big as other
power pop succesps like Green Day.
“We don’t dress punk, we don’t act
punk. We’re not aware of the trends,
which are coming and going. We’re
just a rock band, and that’s why we are
still around,” Aukerman said.
The all-ages show starts at 9:00
p.m. Sunday at the Ranch Bowl.
Journalist rails r-1—; ghard
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been
25 years since Hunter S.
Thompson’s seminal “Fear and
Loathing in Las Vegas” was pub
lished, but he still remembers ...
well, remembering was always the
hard part.
“It took me about two years of
work to be able to bring a drug ex
perience back and put it on paper,”
the godfather of gonzo journalism
said in the Nov. 28 issue of Rolling
Stone.
“And to do it right means you
must retain that stuff at the same
time you experience it,” he said.
“You know, acid will move your
head around and your eyes, and
whatever else you perceive things
with. But bringing it back was one
of the hardest things I had ever had
to do in writing.”
Thompson, 59, hasn’t quite fig
ured out die present.
“God knows what the hell the
’90s are. They are just brazen with
rules. Rules are worshiped,” he said.
3-year-old chosen as new Oscar Mayer kid
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) —
Three-year-old Andrew Thompson
is the newest Oscar Mayer Wiener
kid, outdoing 65,000 other entrants
in singing the jingle.
The youngster from Smyrna,
Tenn., will get $5,000 for his gos
pel rendition of the wiener song, a
spot on an Oscar Mayer television
commercial that will air on Super
Bowl Sunday on Jan. 26, and a trip
to the Super Bowl.
He made his debut Tuesday at
Sea World and said the highlight of
his evening was getting kissed by
Shamu, Sea World’s killer whale.
But Andrew said that didn’t
compare with the reception he got
last week in Nashville, when he was
welcomed by Lorianne Crook on
the syndicated show “Crook &
Chase.” Crook, the boy said, is a
better kisser than Shamu.
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