Veruca Salt scheduled
to rock Omaha show
■ Days of the New, an
alternative band, and Fig
Dish, a rock-centered
group, will open for the
‘Seether’ band tonight.
By Patrick Miner
Music Critic
Still don’t know who or what this
“Seether” is?
Find out when guitars run wild as
Veruca Salt plays tonight with rela
tively new rockers Days of the New
and Fig Dish. This Omaha show has
been moved from Sokol Hall to the
Ranch Bowl. Tickets are $15, and the
show starts at 7. Doors open at 6 p.m.
Veruca Salt is playing in support
of its latest release, “Eight Arms To
Hold You.” The album is much more
rock-centered than the band’s slower
debut release, “American Thighs.”
The band also acquired new drum
mer Stacy Jones for the latest release.
The first single from “Eight
Arms,” “Volcano Girls,” features The
Beatles’ reference in the Seethered
up interlude. Lead singer Nina
Gordon’s driving vocals are sure to
please, and will fill the Ranch Bowl
with the help of back-up vocalist
Louise Post.
Veruca Salt is known for hard
rocking shows, and the group should
n’t disappoint. Tracks from “Eight
Arms,” including “Volcano Girls,”
“Shutterbug,” “Earthcrosser,” and
the latest single, “Straight,” should
be included on tonight’s setlist.
“Seether,” “All Hail Me,” “Number
One Blind,” as well as a couple of
slower songs such as “Spiderman
’79” and “Forsythia,” are also proba
ble.
Days of the New, riding high with
the current success of the single
“Touch, Peel and Stand,” will play
before Veruca Salt. The band, fronted
by 17-year-old Travis Meeks, dis
plays a sound that is best described as
everything you’ll hear on KDGE-FM
(101.9), The Edge.
The band’s debut self-titled disc
is produced by Scott Litt, who is
well-known for his work with
Nirvana and R.E.M. However, with
Meeks’ tiresome vocals and the
band’s bland sound, the songs should
convert poorly into the live setting.
The album contains the usual
pessimistic ideals surrounding alter
native music, such as the ideas of
solitude in “Shelf in the Room,” and
life’s endless struggles, as dictated in
“Where I Stand.” Having
Silverchair’s and fellow 17-year-old
Daniel Johns’ whining, “I’m a freak,”
is enough to get rid of the phrase alto
gether without Meeks’ wailing to the
same tune.
Fig Dish, on a monthlong tour
with Veruca Salt, is a more-than-ade
quate opening band. The quartet’s
sound is comparable to Fountains of
Wayne, and its latest release, “When
Shove Goes Back To Push,” has a
good blend of hard and soft rock that
will surprise several in attendance
who will hear the group for the first
time.
Fig Dish’s first single, “Come On
(Don’t Come On)”, will probably be
a highlight of the show, as it features
a solid guitar hook and sing-along
chorus. Other songs, like “When
Shirts Get TighJ^’“Bend” and “Pretty
Never Hurts” should be played.
Lloyd applauds independent film
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roles and the kind of material that a
big studio would never let us.”
Lloyd will be working on an inde
pendent film in December with three
other principle actors. He said that
although the salaries were nothing
like the big studio prices, the oppor
tunity to try new roles were worth a
cut in pay.
Veneziano added that the role of
the independent film in the movie
industry would continue to increase
because of better profit margins.
“Take the ‘Full Monty,’”
Veneziano said. “It cost about four
million (dollars) to make, and it’s
already made 60 million,” she said.
“It’s not the ‘Waterworks’ and the
‘Titanics’ that are making money.”
Despite his list of credits, Lloyd
said he still felt lucky each time he
was approached on a project.
“I’m still astonished that anybody
comes to me for anything.”
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Simon’s musieal“The Capeman,” and it
tell? the sensational and true story of
New York City’s Salvador Agron.
On Aug. 30, 1959, an upper West
Side gang called the Vampires were to
fight another local gang, the Norsemen.
The Vampires were pumped up for the
fight, but when the Norsemen didn’t
show, the Vampires instead found some
innocent kids in the park. Salvador
Agron, then 16, stabbed to death two of
these individuals and fled.
A manhunt ensued, with the mur
derer described as wearing a black cape
with red lining — hence the name
“Capeman.” Agron was identified but
showed little remorse. He was sen
tenced to die in the electric chair. Nelson
Rockefeller, New York’s governor, later
reduced his sentence. Agron served 20
years for his crime. He died April 22,
1986, at the age of 43 of natural causes.
Simon had the idea of doing the musi
cal in late 1988 while he was working on
“Rhythm of the Saints.”
The Broadway musical, “The
Capeman,” opens in New York Jan. 8,
1998, and contains some 40 songs
Simon wrote for the project.
Simon wrote the musical from
Agron’s point of view at the end of
Agron’s life. The songs were written
with the combination of Latin rhythm
and ’50s style in mind. The music suc
ceeds in both facets in a blend of doo
wop, salsa, Caribbean, rock and gospel.
Most of the lyrics, written with the
help ofNobel Prize-winning poet Derek
Walcott, are sung by Simon; although
songs including “Sunday Afternoon”
and “Time is An Ocean” have actors
from the play singing their parts on the
record. Both collaborating on the songs
and writing for several different charac
ters are firsts for Simon.
The album’s first single,
“Bernadette,” is about Agron singing to
his girlfriend before going to the park.
The track features various tempo
changes, and it is Simon’s favorite song
since “Graceland.” “The Vampires” fea
tures some vivid, in-your-face lyrics, as
it empathizes with Agron’s state of mind
that dreadful night.
A separate, original cast recording
of “The Capeman” will be available
next year, and should be as gripping as
“Songs from the Capeman.”
Simon has already won three
Grammies for best album. Consider
him in the running for No. 4.
-Patrick Miner
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It’s easy to say that Paul Simon is a
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