Thursday, November 6, 1986 Pages Daily Nebraskan o on . Mae IF:EMI i , ' By J the late '60s, Andy of Amontillado around 1 Dave BcntzDlverslons Hn made an ex- droning vocals. Ifthis band H. Taylor, J. Taylor and Cosgrove epic called were in London, it get a perimental is "If we're Lin- "Empire" in which he full write-u- p in NME and banshee's discomforting love songs. Lincoln about anything, coln's version Re- filmed the Empire State be the next big thing frcm energy. In the garden of 30 miles away from where of the for an Britain a week later. bands, 13 Nigh- the husks of corn jut out placements." Building eternity, perfect "For from one angle, sans edits. tmares is the serpent, of the snow like bone and awhile my singing Yet there is something wind blows was alien from the The film was a study in about offering up lust, frivolity, the through band," and inherently foreign drunkenness and demonic river thickets like Cosgrove admits. "I was passionless objectivity For Against. There is such chapped ver-it- e. breath and the a parody of cinema a distance between the frenzy to the innocent a dying through being aggressive was who dream of the an old harmonica. With a rest of the band would be It rhythmless, band and this place. There angels seamless, unobtrusive, coasts. howl and then a sudden wimpy. I would get wimpy is nothing about the band and the rest of the band unanimated 16mm wall- "Wake Sometimes the band is moment of lyrical beauty, that screams Up!" defies would Now paper. because it sounds as if it a brawl of sound and 13 Nightmares and get aggressive. Welcome local this we're equal." to the comes from a place that's image. Jonathan Taylor's encompasses place scene. Cos-grove- 's all at once. Like an exor- Original songs that used band already awake. guitar fighting Greg "13 Nightmares is the out-of-contr- ol half-shrie-k, cism where the priest has to come offincomprehen- Sergei Eisenstein of local There are more exam- half moan; Heidi sort of come to like the sible at live shows be- bands, other bands are ples. Playground, Tel Quel. Taylor's harmony vocals demon, Cosgrove and 13 cause of the tension Hollywood films," says Greg Good bands. All from Lin- ever so slightly out oftune Nightmares take the whole between guitar and vocal Cosgrove, the motley lead coln. Lincoln needs bas- with Cosgrove's seriously thing as a joke with mon- or because of Cosgrove's singer of 13 Nightmares. tards. 13 Nightmares out-of-tu- ne lead vocal; strous implications. They flair for stage melodrama If you can get past the qualifies. drums ever-compensati- ng strum the Everly's "Bird are now clear as a bell. And modesty, an interview "We're different from for sudden, unpredictable Dog" wild, update CCR's beautiful. Songs like really picks up. other bands in the shifts in dynamics and "Fortunate Son" furiously "You Don't Even Know My The local band scene is area, until it's a cover. and people like Too Many tempo. you forget Name," "September" a lot like "Empire," an Daves who seem to be in But when everything They do Kiss's "Rock 'n' 'Thin Life" are devastat- will comes back into Roll All Nite" live and experiment you hope bands just because they crashing halfway ing completely be over soon. While trying to know how to reckless unity, it is a unity between liberation and comprehensible. "Dragging to Lincoln music out happen so and have the Elvis From the Grave" pull play instruments, says charged vivifying panic. They jun- (The of the geriatric slumber it Jonathan that it chills the spine. kie's perception that Ventures meet Shock-abilly- ) fell into when new Taylor, guitarist. And it's not is a mistake if it is still wild and punk, I guess modesty won't be boring. nothing wave and be- When it's which fills the need. out-of-contr- ol, rockabilly a problem. terrible, but every- came passe and drag it it can be, when the band "I don't think you're one in the band is push- into the '80s, local musi- "This is different from seems to be having more supposed to believe in ing it offthe edge together. how we it. We cians have produced a go at want fun brawling than per- anything when you're 21 "It's like Paul Wester-ber- g joyless cacophany that, al- sincerity and originality . forming, it still isn't bor- years old," says Cosgrove, says, 'If you could though it may be directly ing. A waste perhaps, but summing up religion, the play with anybody, play in line with what is pro- "We have blatant mel- never, ever boring. I hope sacred, the profane. with your friends." Cos- duced in real, sprawling odies," Taylor continues. I've made that clear. "You're supposed to defy grove waxes momentar- urban areas and not the Lincoln is about 30 miles ob- "We're not things." ily sentimental. It's usual five it just punk east of a where 13 is im- years behind, It's more region Nightmares vious friendship has a lot far removed from the thrash garbage. discussion of the weather The awful to do it. rhy- like sonic folk." proving. ungodly with What before thms of this place, the is not a pleasantry, where shows are fewer. REM was schrapnel is now a atmosphere and the de- 13 Nightmares is a wild KRVN spouts corn prices comparisons have fallen fully assembled lethal shell. tails that surround us. montage with a perfectly the way Ted Koppel tells by the wayside. And it's Lincoln's shell. One case in point: For brat sense of place. The of terrorist attacks and "We're not nearly as Bastards. Against. A fine band, as band counter boredom dilutes economic bad news wimpy as REM," Jonathan 13 Nightmares will be modern and fresh as one with irrefutable passion, with Hank Williams' bro- Taylor says. "You're not playing erratically when- could hope for. Effects-lade- n trend with vision and ken heart or Waylon Jen- going to see Peter Buck ever they can. A blow to guitar builds a Cask immaculateness with a nings' headdown mumbled cut his hand open on aguitar. the "Empire.".