Wednesday, October 15. 1980 page 12 daily nebraskan

Charlie Burton and the Cutouts to debut Friday and Animal, of the Muppet show. I also really like the Cutouts' new member is lead guitar player By Pat Higgins The only Ramones and Elvis Costello, but there are so many people Phil Shoemaker. on the New Wave bandwagon that it is becoming Serious rock roll aficionados will be to learn jumping 'n' pleased ridiculous. A spike hairdo does not make you a rocker." that Charlie Burton and the Cutouts will be their making "This band has been a tonic for me," Shoemaker said. debut this in Malcolm, at the Branched Oak is avid record collector with a huge inven- public Friday 'The band I was in before was a glitter rock group. The Burton an Inn. all that broadened his taste. Charlie Burton experience has changed my life." tory of vinyl of genres

1 and Dave and A incarnation of the band was known as bass G. "Otto" Spalti added, "PhU is the "Right now like Iggy, Sam (country previous Steady player all the said Charlie Burton and Rock and a most fun I've ever worked with. He has a lot of re- artist) Ral Donner but it changes time," Therapy they enjoyed guy Wave and in a sense we're as the killer band in the Nebraska area. as the new member and he really has Burton. "I like a lot of New reputation greater sponsibility only not to 40 handled it well. Personally, the biggest change for me is New Wave in that we guarantee play any Top In addition to their exciting live performances, they doing back vocals, which I love." material." issued a series of independently-produce- d and released The Cutouts have only been playing together for a singles which garnered considerable favorable notice from Many influences short time. that the national publications including Creem, Village Voice, There is a variety of musical influences shape Trvuser Press and the New York Rocker, a rather impres- Cutouts' sound. Shoemakers' musical taste is slightly at Burton contends, "We're in a gestation period right for a long-ter-m sive track record for a band operating out of Lincoln. variance from the other band members. now, waiting to be bom. We're not looking record contract tomorrow, although we wouldn't "I love Eddie Van Halen," he claims. Robel can re- turn one down either. Rock Therapy also had the pleasure of being the open- member seeing Elvis on Ed Sullivan, which, he said, had ing act for Sire recording artists, the Ramones, and the an earth-shatterin- g effect. "We do on as soon as possible. ar plan recording again ever-popul- collegiate faves, the Talking Heads, where We're to to We want to be they rivaled the headliners in audience response. just going try keep improving. "1 was inspired a lot by the MC5 and the 60s garage fun and entertaining, but when we're ready, well push it band, and great drummers like Charlie Watts, Keith Moon, to the limit." However, they have been in a state of suspended ani- 1 mation since theii final as Rock Therapy on 1 ' 1 performance I S 1 cxi 1 I New Eve. show is as a tune-u- p for Year's Friday's planned ? I ' a Halloween bash at the Drumstick, which they guarantee f ' to be totally insane. Still rock V roll "It's the same but different," says plain-spoke- n drum- 'Ill mer Dave (Rebel) Robel, "We're still a rock 'n' roll band (il but you can't pin a label on us or limit us to any one mode of music. The key difference between the Cutouts and Rock Therapy is that in the old band we did about a

50-5- 0 mix of originals and cover tunes. In the Cutouts we're doing virtually all originals.

"Charlie has been coming up with some really great new songs. He is a great rock 'n' roll song writer and I think "Rock and Roll Behavior" (a Rock Therapy single release) is a classic of our time." Burton himself is a rather complex individual. Onstage, he is known for his primal, uninhibited rock 'n' roll in the Off- grand tradition of the savage young Elvis Presley. stage, he is self-effacin- g and articulate.

"Our goal is to get through to as many people as pos- sible," said Burton. "I'd like to think that we have the talent, but more than anything we want to maintain our self-respec- t. For instance, I love rockabilly and we did a lot of it in the. old band but there is absolutely no way that L would be part of any oldies revival. We're contem- porary performers. I would like to aspire to success be- Charlie Burton and the Cutouts debut Friday in Malcolm at the Branched Oak Inn. yond the local level, otherwise, I would feel foolish." Concert tour is reunion for Elton John's drummer

By Casey McCabe In those five years, Olsson has taken a "I wasn't sure about being able to hold rhythm and blues. Still, his niche has been stab at finding his own market. His second Elton John's audience, until I realized discovered in a category he said is over-looked-Ad- self-title- d released in Nigel Olsson, drummer for Elton John solo album, 1978, these were just people having fun," he said. Contemporary. Although and star in his own it's yielded him two encouraging hit singles, a Changing Tides consists of mater- pop right, says good As far as the music he like ot make, entirely be home. hit cover of Sam Cooke's "A Little Bit of ial from other Olsson plans to to is to and please songwriters, Soap," and his own composition "Dancin' Olsson's philosophy try do more for his next album. He Tides is a writing It's difficult to understand his thick Shoes." In the current show, John hands everyone. says Changing for him, more rock 'n roll and some Continued on Page 13 English accent via the telephone of his ho- the spotlight to Olsson to perform two change tel in Houston, Texas. It's one of many hopeful singles off his new album Changing rooms he has been in since Sept. 4, when Tides. the Elton John tour started in America. Olsson's new status shows up in the tour Frontier benefits from he still has face be- family And it's one of many to arrangements. Nigel has his own publicity is scheduled into December cause the tour people and road manager, his own equip- when the band closes out in Australia. ment, a different record label, and even his own dedicated fans. In several inner comfort in 'Heartland' "Home is with this band," said Olsson. Lincoln, young girls who clutched the railing behind "This tour is going great." By Jennifer Bauman the stage and spent the full 2Vi hours try- Heartland is told from Elinore 's point of The tour has been a reunion of sorts. In ing to get the diminutive drummer's view and focuses special attention on roles Heartland is based on the actual ex- 1975, after the platinum success Captain i of frontier women. Like many others who periences of widow Elinore Randall and Fantastic, John surprised many by releas- moved west in he"r seven-year-ol- d daughter Jerrine. In response to offers of cheap ing Olsson and bassist Dee Murray from land and available Elinore One more time 1910, they moved to Wyoming where Eli- jobs, knew little his band. The two longtime members had about what life "It doesn't feel like I'm a different ent- nore began work as a housekeeper for really would be like. Vast been with Elton for most of his finest harsh liv- in the band," explains Olsson. "Of Clyde Stewart, a cattle rancher empty spaces, weather, and crude and many argue that this was the be- ity operating work, course it's for promotion-wis- e on a homestead claim. ing accommodations greeted newcomers. a downhill slide for the 1970's good myself ginning of be able to reach this successful artist. to many people, In addition, Elinore found most pop I with this occupations but always wanted to tour band vere not open to her because of her sex. one more time. And she did Then, after being used sparingly for though want to farm her own land, she realized that her John's first album of the eighties, 21 at "Elton's very happy with the results, reunsuj farming experi- to ence in sheltered eastern climates 3S both Olsson and Murray were asked and we're planning on doing an album with didn't most exten- prepare her for solo work in join the entourage for John's him in June, but I'm still going to put out Wanting eventually to be her own boss, Wyoming. there was exist- sive tour in If any another solo album in Jan- Elinore filed claim a -' years. soon, probably on homestead adja- Like My Brilliant Career from Australia, it has disappeared because cent land. After a time dis- ing animosity, uary." to Clyde's they Heartland shows the ry it of a been like a tight-kn- attempts the band has playing covered they each had something the other rural woman to maintain some a bit of deja vu. nebulous family enjoying Still, his solo status was needed: Clyde would benefit from the ex- degree of control over her own life. The we've Olsson admitted to land for his cattle and Elinore "It's been five years since really enough that being tra needed protagonist of the Australian film is ' when he took over the micro- and about young been together;1 Olsson says. Wre going frightened liquid capital experience high and idealistic and chooses to follow a must say it feels John in the first shows of the to started. So ck to the basics, and I phone from plains farming get they pool- career instead of getting married. tour. ed their resources and got married. great." Continued on Page 13