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Tulsa World
June 18, 2002
by Thomas Conner
Wagner scores with solo gig,
performing with Nude Furniture
Coolest show I've seen in a while was Tuesday night
at Deadtown Tavern. I mean, it was groovy enough
when Sarah Wagner was opening the gig all by her
lonesome - sans her band, the Pop Adelphics - with
an electric guitar, but then she joined the featured
band, Nude Furniture, and son-of-a-gun if it wasn't
1982 all over again.
Nude Furniture is the one-man-band bedroom project
of Neil Dirickson, whose public face recently has
been as the bass player for Tex Montana's Fireball
Four. He's issued three Cds of his killer old-wave
pop on discs he burned at home. Tulsa-based Yawn
Records plans to reissue them all in proper factory
copies later this year, after the new one comes
out :
"Antidepressants."
For the gig - his first as Nude Furniture in about
two years (not counting a Mohawk in-store once upon
a dream) - Dirickson landed Wagner on guitars, singer-songwriter
and former Fireball Four axman Jeff Graham on bass
(also a compatriot of the Skeletons' Lou Whitney,
so he really fits into this scene)
and ex-Zigs drummer Karen Momme keeping the spirit
of Mo Tucker (Velvet Underground) alive and slamming.
I don't know which New Wave throw-back in the crowd
was smiling wider : me, the guys in Square Force
or ex-Zigs guitarist Tom Hanford. Dirickson's still
getting his sea legs on stage, but his material
is sharp, biting stuff. If John Belushi had copied
Elvis Costello instead of Curtis Salgado, we'd have
never gotten the blues and Dirickson wouldn't look
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