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daily nebraskan
monday, november 3, 1980
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Halloween night dances and sings Eastf est style
By Jini Garrett
Lastfest, this past Friday evening,
provided both UNL East and City campus
students an aJternative to the traditional
bell ringing, door shaking evenings usually
found Halloween night.
Starting the evening tour were two
ancient, but still captive films, Abbott
and Costcllo Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde, and a more appropriate feature
with the same duo in Hold that (,'host.
Passing on by the dance hall -complete
with what else but high stepping dance
hall girls -to the favorite wateihole for this
Eastfest-goer, I came by the busy but tame,
wildlife bar. Stopping to see if I could wet
the whistle, I picked up a few pointers on
rope twirling from that West Lincoln trick
twirler and roper, Il.D. "Tex" Nord.
Nord, or "Tex" as he likes to be called,
is a card-carrying member of the Inter
national Trick and Fancy Roppers Associa
tion, as well as a member of the National
Cowboy Hall of Fame since 1()75.
Tex, who grew up in Valparaiso, Neb.
says he got the name Tex from some of
his friends at an early age because they
thought he looked like a Texan. Asked if
he had ever been to Texas, he said, "Nope,
but I sure would like to go someday."
Tex, whose numerous tricks include
the Fancy Ship. Butterfly, reverse Butter
fly, Merry-go-round, and host of others
said, 'Tin always studying the new trick
books as they come so as to keep up with
all the rest of em."
'Bloomin Idiots'
Performing in the Barbershop Quartet
fashion. Fast test provided the audience
with a group called the "Bloomin Idiots",
a local UNL group composed of lead singer
Tom Blankenau. tenor Paul Canaday,
baritone Chick Hughes and at the bottom
end as bass. Steve Willats.
Canaday said the group formed with
three members first while in high school
in Bloom field, Neb., and then later picked
up Hughes while singing in the Young
Nebraskans. Canaday said the name of the
group is in part from the town Bloom
field and the rest in reference to the other
member that comes from Imperial Neb.
Canaday said they tried various names,
but the people stuck this one on us, "so
we kept it."
Blankenau said they arc pretty much
a low-budget group with their main invest
ment in a $0 pitch pipe. He said that the
group will fold at the end of the year,
because of graduation, after being together
for four years. Splitting up the group will
only require the skillfull dividing of the
pipe.
As the Idiots faded off stage, the
Magical Bccwars, a brother-sister duo of
magical comedy came on stage for the ul
timate performance of cut-the-newspaper-into-tiny-pieces-and-make-it-new-again
trick where brother robs sister of the lime
light as well as the audience.
Apple dipping
Leaving this, I proceeded onto the main
event of the night, stopping by the dip-your-own-apple,
for a short twirl and on
by the paint-your-face-for-a-buck-table to
the down home, old fashioned, foot stom
pin barn dance, featuring one of Lincoln's
newest rock groups the Star City Players.
The Players, made up of six highly
talented musicians, has the makings of a
group that won't be satisified with any
thing short of success.
With their purple marquis as a back
drop, the Players performed songs by
Linda Ronstadt, the Eagles as well as the
tried-and-true Orange Blossom Special,
featuring Jamie Drut. a UNL student, on
the electric fiddle.
Woody and Joyce Nelson, one of two
married couples in the group, generate a
lot of excitement while in the light.
Woody, who teaches classical guitar at Ne
braska Wcsleyan University, handles lead
Burrito business provides
daily meal, Spanish credits
By T. Marni Vos
It was midautumn. The evening was
cool and a bit brisk as I walked down the
broken sidewalk towards Taco Inn, my
place of employment for the school year.
Opening the door, I was greeted by a
small wind current and Frank, the mana
ager, "Vos, you're late!"
"Sorry Frank, I forgot to turn my
clock back, I found my goldfish belly up
and a friend of mine is having serious
emotional problems. Can you believe it?"
humor
"No, here's your apron, check the
tables."
"Frank, it looks like they're all here."
"Vos!"
Frank is a young guy, probably nine
teen or twenty. His brown hair is styled
and meets a full beard and mustache. He's
very thin and like most men, Frank was
created without a bottom. I've asked
him many a time, "Frank, what is it that
you sit on? You don't have anything but
pockets."
Tim, a fellow employee, will eventually
come out of the kitchen. He is a little
fuller than Frank, but seems to be tense
most of the time. I've never known Tim to
be happy about being at work. A night has
not passed when at one time or another,
he will announce his discontent, "I hate
Taco Inn." As far as Tim showing up every
night, the only conclusion I can come
up with is masochism.
Tim also has a touch of the hypochon
dria in him, probably stemming from the
fact that he hates work. From time to
tune, hell limp or be short of breath. On
some occasions Tim will go into labor, or
suddenly start twitching on the floor,
depending on how badley he wants to
leave.
Billie, a new girl, is rather heavyset,
with short black hair. Whether she is aware
of it or not, she tends to project a
motherly image. She scoots around the fast
food restaurant cleaning off tables, picking
up garbage and continually scolding Tim
for not washing his hands after coming
from the bathroom.
I can't say I find the Taco industry
exciting but it's a definite "means to an
end." It pays a good deal of my rent, takes
care of one meal a day and if I had never
worked at Taco Inn I might have never
met Montezuma or Tim or for that matter
-Billie-Frank, "Frank, I'm tellin ya, all
the tables are here." "Vos!"
I would never have gained the medical
background and experience I have, "lim,
hold on, the pains are only five minutes
apart, blow, blow. . . ."
Not only that, I have an appointment
with my adviser. Seems I can pick up three
Spanish credits and or qualify as an
immigration officer.
So all in all my work at Taco Inn has
made me a better person than . . . than . . .
than . . . than some other people.
I come to work at 10: 14 or 15 pjn.and
leave at 1 :30 ajn. From about 1 1 to 12:30
pjn. business is steady, but from 12:30
to 1 ajn. it's hectic.
This particular night at work seemed to
go on forever and it was apparent that no
one would be going out of their way to
acknowledge my existence, let alone my
obvious talents in the world of burrttos.
No praise for my God given gift to deal
with the bar rush:
"Sir, can I take your order?"
"Yeah, I, a, yeah, 111 have a, a Runza
with fries."
Laugh, laugh, hugh.
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guitar and vocals with unusual skill
while wife Joyce switches vocals and key
boards with Bev Jester, wife of drummer
Ron Jester and composer of the "Players
song."
"On To You"
Dave Battles rounds out the Players
with vocals and a heavy bass guitar. Battles
said, "since we all came from leading
positions in other bands, we are able to
understand and discuss commercial group
music quite well."
Woody Nelson added, "right now we
want to concentrate on hard work,
developing a local following and polishing
up the act before trying for anything
bigger."
"We all approach music with a profes
sional attitude and take the Players very
seriously," he said.
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Blues legend Charlie Musselwhite wails on his harmonica for an appreciative
crowd at The Zoo Bar Friday night.
Considered by many to be one of the greatest living harp players, Musselwhite
returned to Lincoln with his five-piece band to display some of the material that
has appeared on more than a dozen albums, numerous recording sessions and
countless nightclub and concert hall stages.
Musselwhite. who has been playing the blues for 20 of his 36 years has been
featured on the pages of Rolling Stone, Downbeat, Variety, Newsweek and
Billboard. He recently released a book-record set entitled The Harmonica ac
cording to Charlie Musselwhite.
Miot Mid Ballet performs
The "Feld Magic" will be at Lincoln's
Kimball Hall when the Eliot Feld Ballet
performs Thursday through Saurday at
8 pjn.
The young dance company of 22
members has been dancing its way literal
ly to the top of the dance world through
the creativity and technical demands of
its founder, Eliot Feld.
Feld was 1 1 when he began his danc
ing career with George Balanchine at the
School of American Ballet. He was later
a member of the American Ballet Theater,
where he earned the title of the "angry
young man" of dance.
With the assistance of the Rockefeller
Foundation and some private donations,
the Feld Ballet was created in November
1973 and gave its first public performance
in May 1974. From that time on, the Feld
Ballet has won acclaim for its technical
precision and imaginative, somtimes ro
mantic, and often "razzle-dazzle"
choreography.
Besides forming the company, Feld
has also created. the New Ballet School,
a tuition-free, professional ballet tnin
ing program for gifted and talented
children in New York City public schools.
Now in its third year, the New Ballet
School has 175 students, some of whom
are used in Feld's pieces.
The Thursday and Friday night per
formances at Kimball will have different
programs, while the Saturday performance
will have two of the pieces from the
Thursday performance.
The Eliot Feld Ballet program is made
possible with the support of the Nebraska
Arts Council and the National Endowment
for the ArtsDance Touring program and
is coordinated by the Mid-America Arts
Alliance.
Tickets may still be purchased for the
Feld Ballet by contacting the Kimball
Box Office at 472-3375.
