The following is a brief list of week
end events. Please call the venue for
more information.
CONCERTS:
Duffy's, 14120 St
Sunday: Mary Tyler Morphine,
v' Armatron, Dr. Solo
Knickerbockers, 901 O St
Friday: L7 with Honky,
Blacklight Sunshine with Clever
The Royal Grove, 340 W.
Cornhusker Highway
Friday: Parliament-Funkadelic •
Saturday: Men of Playgirl
State Fair, Bob Devaney Sports
Center
Friday: Willie Nelson
Saturday: Chris LeDoux
Sunday: Creedence Clearwater
Revisited
Zoo Bar, 136 N 14th St
Friday and Saturday: Yabba
Griffiths
THEATER:
7th Street Loft, 504 S. Seventh
St
Friday and Saturday: “Sexual
Perversity in Chicago”
Mary Riepma Ross Film
Theater, 12th and R streets
All weekend: “eXistenZ”
Omaha Community Playhouse,
6915 Cass St, Omaha
All weekend: “Crazy for You”
Shelterbelt, 3225 California St,
Omaha ,
All weekend: “Three to Beam
Up”
DANCE:
Creighton Lied Education
Center for the Arts, 24th and Cass
streets, Omaha
Saturday: Troika Ranch
GALLERIES:
The Burkholder Project, 719 P
St.
All weekend: works by Bobby
Sward, Linda Rice and Tom
Sheppard
Gallery 9,124 S. Ninth St.
All weekend: Gallery
Competition
Haydon Gallery, 335 N. Eighth
SL
All weekend: “New Work” by Ed
Rumbaugh
Lentz Center, Morrill Hall, 14th
and U streets
All weekend: paintings by Shi Hu
Noyes Gallery, 119 S. Ninth St
All weekend: works by Tony
— Guido, Sheila Downey and Elmer
Holzrichter
The Sheldon Memorial Art
> Gallery, 12th and R streets
All weekend: Charles Rain’s
“Magic Realism”
FESTIVALS:
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Chris LeDoux, whose music career incfudes more than 30 albums, brings his rock ’n’ roll flavored country to the Nebraska State Fair.
ByDavid Wilson
Senior editor
A long stretch of open highway in
the darkness used to be all it took to
inspire Chris LeDoux.
Two decades, a record deal and
more than 30 albums later, LeDoux
now struggles to find any song-writing
inspiration at all.
The former rodeo standout, who
first made a name for himself writing
hard-core rodeo country, says he may
never write again.
“Anymore, I want to be outdoors,”
LeDoux said in a telephone interview
earlier this month. “Either tending the
cows or fixing the fence. I’ll let the
other guys sit inside and write.”
That doesn’t mean, however, that
LeDoux will quit recording albums
full of songs that relate to his life. And
that also doesn’t mean he plans to quit
his energy-filled touring anytime
soon.
The LeDoux tour makes a stop at
the Bob Devaney Sports Center on
Saturday at 8 p.m. - part of the
Nebraska State Fair.
LeDoux and his band have been
playing around 150 shows per year for
the last decade. In that time, LeDoux
has also put out 12 albums, including
his most recent “20 Greatest Hits.”
“It never really ends,” LeDoux
said. “You just get a break now and
then. But, shoot, we still enjoy it.”
LeDoux began detailing his rodeo
experiences in song during the 1970s,
eventually becoming the world cham
pion bareback bronc rider in 1976.
Soon after, though, LeDoux quit
rodeoing and decided to take his
underground-music career to the next
Concert Preview Ma
The facts PV
Who: Chris LeDoux
Where: Bob Devaney Sports Center
When: Saturday at 8 p.m.
Cost: $10
TIm Skinny: Former rodeo champ sings
about life on the road
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Revamped L7 makes noise at Knickerbockers
By Jason Hardy
Senior staff writer
In 1992, four ladies from Los Angeles gave
what was quickly becoming the generation of
slackers a battle cry.
“Pretend We’re Dead,” was one of 1992’s
biggest alternative hits, as was the album
“Bricks Are Heavy.”
The four women, who make up L7, have
definitely been around the block more than just
a few times over the last 10 years.
This year’s trip around the block finally fea
tures a long overdue stop in Nebraska. Tonight
at Knickerbockers, 9th and O streets, Lincoln
residents will get a chance to smell the magic of
Of cowsi.lhis time thet&nt might be&lit
tie uirterent.
The group has recently parted ways both
with former bassist Gail Greenwood and for
mer major label Warner Brothers. Not only that,
their latest release, “Slap-Happy,” is the first
album from L7’s own record company, Wax'
Tadpole Records.
Despite the changes, much of what has
always made L7 different is still there. “Slap
Happy” is typical L7. It’s a very heavy guitar
driven album, but the group seems to have a
new energy surrounding many of the songs.
The riffs are chunky as ever, but the hooks are
more catchy than most, if not all, of their past
few albums. “Slap-Happy” also has some
tracks that totally break from L7 style, such as
‘Livin’ Large,” which uses no guitar fuzz and
Pfease see L7 on 16
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