New releases
towarmup
music lovers
By JimZavodny
Staff Reporter
With the area’s single-digit temper
atures and snow-clogged streets caus
ing headaches for everyone recently,
today’s new releases provide music
lovers another reason to stay locked up
afhome.
The Atlantic Records 50* anniver
sary collection is a two-disc sampler of
some of the label’s best artists, includ
ing Cream, Otis Redding, Led
Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones and Tori
Amos, just to name a few. The
“Gearhead Presents All Punk Rods”
compilation, in contrast, includes more
contemporary groups such as Gas
Hufifer, Man.,. or Astro-man?, and the
Donnas.
Virgin re-releases Ben Harper’s
“Will to Live” today, but this version
contains an extra five-song EP of live
tracks that were not found on the origi
nal.
Ihe Presidents of the United States
of America’s “Pure Frosting” appears to
be the last offering from the now
defunct Seattle-based group and
includes some rarities and other stuff.
“Live in the Tragic Kingdom” is a
collectors item of sorts for No Doubt
fans and, along with its orange-crate
packaging, comes with “The Beacon
Street Collection” compact disc, a
video, a poster and a sticker.
Eric Clapton and Aretha Franklin’s
new records, a remix album from the
Sneaker Pimps, a new EP from Yo La
Tengo, former Guns N’ Roses guitarist
Izzy Stradlin’s new solo effort, and a
reissue of Stereolab’s “Peng!” round
out this week’s new release notables.
New Releases: March 10,1998
American Music Club: “Engine”
and “Restless Stranger” (Warner Bros.)
Various Artists: “Atlantic Records
50 Years: The Gold Anniversary
Collection” (Atlantic)
Jim Belushi: “36-22-36” (House of
Blues)
Harry Chapin: “The Bottom Line
Encore Collection” (Bottom Line)
Eric Clapton: “Pilgrim” (Reprise)
John Coltrane: “Living Space”
(Impulse!)
Aretha Franklin: “A Rose Is Still a
Rose” (Arista)
Various Artists: “Gearhead
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Ben Harper “Will to Live” (Virgin)
Natalie Imbruglia: “Left of the
Middle” (RCA)
Jimmy Ray: “Jimmy Ray” (Epic)
Jughead’s Revenge: “Just Joined”
(Nitro)
The Mavericks: “Trampoline”
(MCA)
Anne Murray: “An Intimate
Evening with Anne Murray” (EPROP)
No Doubt: “Live in the Tragic
Kingdom” (Interscope)
Presidents of the United States of
America: “Pure Frosting” (Columbia)
Sneaker Pimps: “Becoming
Remixed” (Virgin)
Spacehog: “The Chinese Album”
(Sire/WB)
Stereolab: “Peng!” (Beggars
Banquet)
Izzy Stradlin: “117deg” (Geffen)
Trans Am: “The Surveillance”
(Thrill Jockey)
Keith Washington: “K.W” (MCA)
The Who: “Odds & Sods” (MCA)
Johnny Winter “Live in New York
Cily 1997’ (Pointblank)
Yo La Tengo: “Little Honda”
(Matador)
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Mueller Tower has evolved over time
By Jason Hardy
Senior Reporter
One hundred years ago Ralph S. Mueller gradu
ated from UNL and vowed to pay the school back
somehow. In 1949, Mueller did that by donating the
Mueller Carillon Tower to the university campus.
Today his legacy lives on as students march
through wind, rain, heat and snow to the consistent
chimes of the bell tower, which is located between
Morrill Hall and Bessey Hall on City Campus.
However, a mystery prevails. What’s in that big thing?
Most students probably imagine long slender brass
tubes that ring with angelic tones as a little man jumps
about jubilantly banging away with a rubber mallet
Nope. It’s just a machine.
Rich McDermott, assistant vice chancellor for
facilities management and planning at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, said the original setup in the
tower had actual chimes, but they weren’t what most
people probably imagined.
“This was a very small chime system,”
McDermott said. “I’ve heard it described as more like
a doorbell system. You wouldn’t go in there and see a
4-foot chime hanging there or anything.”
Jim Klein, electrician for the UNL electrical
department, said today’s system is totally electronic
and plays digitally recorded tapes over a system of
speakers. There is a small keyboard that can hook up
to the system to play live music, but it hasn’t been
used yet
He said the digital tapes were more reliable, accu
rate and clear than the original version.
“One tape usually stays in for a couple of
months,” Klein said. “At 30 minutes past each hour it
plays a tune, and on the hour it rings the time.”
Though slightly less romantic than actual chimes,
Klein said, die new system sounds much clearer than
the old one. He said there was a variety of music
available for die system.
“We order the tapes, and there’s maybe 50 differ
ent choices,” Klein said. “It’s {Hetty much up to me. I
just wanted a decent selection.”
He said they had everything from Christmas
tunes and classical music to the Nebraska fight song
and other college anthems.
The system has been updated twice since the
original format, but McDermott said he didn’t have
any plans to update it any time soon.
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He said they had considered finding a system that
had actual chimes in it, but hadn’t pursued anything yet
“Because of die size of the tower it’s a little bit of
a challenge,” McDermott said. “But we’re not ruling
Music professor
beats adversity,
will play tonight
By Barb Churchill
Assignment Reporter
If dogs are indeed man’s best friend, Darryl White doesn’t need
any enemies.
Eight years ago, White, assistant professor of trumpet at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was attacked by a dog. The attack
left White with only half of his lip and, as a musician, a possibly
ruined career.
“I thought I was done,” White said.
But with the combination of his own determination, rehabilita
tion and a supportive private instructor, White, who at the time was
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made a full recovery both
physically and musically.
White will hold his first
recital at UNL tonight at
Kimball Recital Hall.
White’s brush with disaster
ultimately proved to be a posi
tive one, he said, as he became
an even better player and
teacher. He said he rededicated
himself to music.
“(The accident) helped me
appreciate even more what
(musicians) do for a living,”
White said, “ the ability and die
gift to make music.”
White will put his ability to
the ultimate test tonight.
He will perform three clas
sical works, and several jazz
pieces. White enjoys both clas
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The three classical pieces are Arthur Honegger’s “Intrada,”
Leopold Mozart’s “Concerto in D Major” for trumpet and orchestra,
and George Friederich Handel’s aria “Eternal Soured*’
White pointed to the Leopold Mozart “Concerto” as an excellent
example of a work not often performed, yet worthy.
“I thought it would be nice to play something that I needed to
learn and the audience would enjoy,” he said.
The remainder of the recital is devoted to jazz, featuring White’s
own Pretext Quartet. Based in Denver, the Pretext Quartet has per
formed throughout the United States.
White met two of the group’s members by playing gigs in the
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G. Love, Alana Davis
play tonight in Omaha
From Staff Reports
Music fans can expect a flavor
filled evening at Omaha’s Ranch
Bowl tonight when Alana Davis
(above) and G. Love and Special
Sauce take the stage for an all-ages
show.
Davis, whose debut album,
“Blame It On Me,” has received
widespread acclaim, is a confes
sional singer-songwriter in the
vein of Sarah McLachlan and Ani
DiFranco. Davis’ current single,
which has received considerable
airplay both on the radio and MTV,
is a cover of DiFranco’s song “32
Flavors.”
Bom and raised in New York’s
Greenwich Village, Davis is easily
recognized by her airy Voice and
gruff compositions.
In sharp contrast, main act G.
Love and Special Sauce will bring
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the noise with their blues and hip
hop hybrid.
Much in the same way the Jon
Spencer Blues Explosion blends
old-school blues techniques with
punk sensibilities, G. Love and
Special Sauce mix their love of the
blues with their hip-hop song
styles.
The band’s current lineup
includes G. Love on vocals, har
monica and guitar; “The
Houseman” Jeffrey
“Thunderhorse” Clemens on
drums; and “The Marshmallow
Man” Jimmy “Jazz” Prescott on
bass.
Their latest album, “Yeah, It’s
That Easy,” was released in 1997.
G. Love and Special Sauce and
Alana Davis will perform tonight
at Omaha’s Ranch Bowl, 1600 S.
72nd St Doors open at 9 p.m., and
tickets are $14.
