daily nebraskan
thursday, October 1, 1981
page 8
Musical 'jack-of-all-trades' fishes away the blues
By William Graf
Steve Hanson, Lincoln's musical jack-of-all-trades, just
played his last job with the Lincoln-based blues band,
Homecookin. But instead of staying with the blues or put
ting his time into bluegrass, as he has done for half his life,
Hanson said he's ready for something new.
"What I want to do, or what I'm trying to do, is I want
to get a country and western band together. I wouldn't
mind even doing straight country. You know, Merle Hag
gard, George Jones and also do some swing stuff too," he
said.
So far, Hanson said, Pete Blakeslee, former Bluegrass
Crusade guitar player, would play steel guitar and I lanson
would play electric guitar.
"And we're trying to get Renold Peterson, the old
singer from Sour Mash," Hanson, 31, said.
Hanson said switching styles has it's problems.
"The problem is, of course, that you become a jack-of-all-trades
and a master of none," he said.
"I think of this as kind of a culture shock. Til go from
playing bluegrass one night to playing with Chuck Pen
nington and sort of middle of the road stuff - standard
pop, jazz tunes. Then I go from that to Homecookin,
which is about 50 percent blues," he said.
"I've always had this problem deciding what 1 wanted
to play. So I've never been able to nail down any one
thing I wanted to play," he said.
"To have a band within a band would be the best. To
have a bluegrass band that played a set of country."
The band to be with, Hanson said, would be Hot Rize,
a bluegrass band on the Flying Fish label.
Hot Rize will play a set of bluegrass, Hanson said, then
make an excuse that they are too tired to continue, and
that they're going back to the bus to watch TV. After
leaving the stage they'll return in cowboy garb as Red
Knuckles and the Trailblazers.
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Outskirts no concern
to downtown managers
By Janice Pigaga
Two downtown movie theater managers say the open
ing of a new theater complex in East Park Plaza at 66th
and 0 streets, and the proposal for another in the Edge
wood Plaza at 56th and Highway 2 will have little effect
on their business.
Bruce Smith, manager of Cinema 1 and 11 at 13th and P
streets, said he wasn't concerned that his theater would
lose any customers, but rather that poorer quality movies
would be shown in Lincoln.
With a limited number of quality movies being made,
Smith said the theaters might have to resort to showing
films that otherwise might not be shown in first-run thea
ters. "We might have to play a movie because we can't get
anything else to play," Smith said.
Edward Sell, manager of the Stuart Theater, 13th and
P streets, said the three-theater complex at East Park Plaza
and the proposed three-theater complex at Edgewood
don't bother him at all. But he said he wished the compa
nies investing in the theaters had waited about five years.
Sell said waiting five years to build the theaters would
have reinforced downtown Lincoln's strength in the enter
tainment market.
When downtown areas begin to deteriorate, the first
thing to go is the entertainment, Sell said. In Omaha,
Sell's company, which owned the Astro Theater for 18
years, saw the downtown entertainment market go down
the drain, he said.
Lincoln has so few screens that the best theater gets
the best movies, Sell said. He said that if General Cinema
of Boston, the company interested in developing the
Edgewood theaters, wanted to move into the Lincoln mar
ket, the best place would be downtown.
Lincoln currently has 15 theater screens. The figure has
recently increased to 18 with the opening of the three
theater complex in East Park Plaza.
Sell said Lincoln is one of the few cities in the country
that has a thriving entertainment district downtown. But
with the development of theaters in the suburbs, that thri
ving district could become deserted at night.
Stores and restaurants gain revenue from the theaters
too, Sell said. He said people come downtown to shop and
stay to eat dinner and see a movie.
The theater complex in East Park Plaza is being deve
loped by Douglas Theater Corp., the same corporation
that owns the Douglas Theater in Lincoln, and the Cinema
Center, Cinema 4 and others in Omaha.
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ON STAGE
BJ.'s Hideaway: Bill llogan and Company, Thursday
through Saturday, no cover.
Boar's Head: Chuck Pennington, Thursday through
Saturday, no cover.
Chesterfield's: Wondersea, Thursday through Saturday,
no cover.
Downstairs: Robbie Manzel, Thursday through Satur
day, no cover.
Drumstick: Tony Brown Band, Thursday through Sat
urday, $2 cover Thursday, S3 cover Friday and Saturday.
Green Frog: Highway Call, Thursday through Satur
day, no cover.
Hidden Valley: Reflections, Saturday, $5 per couple
with reservation; Sandy Creek Pickers, Saturday and Sun
day, $2 cover.
Kraus Korner: Revere, Thursday through Sunday,
$1.50 cover.
Little Bo's: Crossfire, Thursday through Saturday, $1
cover.
Mountains: The Excessives, Friday and Saturday, no
cover.
O.G. Kelly's: Cost of Living, Thursday, $1 cover; Little
Rock, Friday and Saturday, $1 cover.
Pla-Mor Ballroom: Orville Von Seggern, Saturday, $3
cover.
Reuben's: Steve Pejsar, Thursday through Saturday, no
cover.
Royal Grove: Destiny, Thursday through Saturday, no
cover.
Scoreboard: Spike and the Sputniks, Thursday through
Saturday, $1 cover.
Sidetrack: Joyce Durand, Friday and Saturday.
Tucker Inn: Free Ride, Thursday through Saturday, $2
cover with first drink free.
Zoo Bar: Guitar Junior and his Blues Band, Thursday
through Saturday, no cover.
MISCELLANEOUS
Kimball Hall: Houston Ballet, Thursday through Sat
urday, 8 p.m. Tickets $10 general admission, $5 students.
Lincoln Community Playhouse: Company, Thursday
through Sunday,
Mueller Planetarium: Starbound: A Space Age Fable,
2:30 Saturday; 2:30, 3:45 Sunday. Adults, 41.25, stu
dents 50 cents.
Sheldon Art Gallery: Kansas City art exhigition, 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sun
day. Studio 12: Bus Stop, 8 p.m. Thursday through Satur
day. Tickets $4 general admission, $3 students.
ON SCREEN
Cinema 1 & II: Kramer vs. Kramer (PG), 7:40, 9:40
Thursday; Superman II (PG), 7 p.m., 9:20 Friday: 2 p.m.,
4:30, 7 p.m., 9:20 Saturday and Sunday; An Eye for an
Eve (R), 7:20, 9:20 Thursday; 7:40, 9:40 Friday; 1:40,
3:40, 5:40, 7:40,9:40 Saturday and Sunday.
Cooper: Mommie Dearest (PG), 7:15, 9:45 Thursday
through Sunday.
Douglas 3: Raiders of the Lost Ark (PG), 7:20, 9:25
Thursday and Friday, matinees 1:05, 3:10, 6:15 Saturday
and Sunday; Arthur (PG), 7:15, 9:15 Thursday and Fri
day, matinees 1:15, 3:15, 5:15 Saturday and Sunday; So
Fine (R), 7:20, 9:20, matinees 1:20, 3:20, 5 :20 Saturday
and Sunday.
East Park: Only When I Laugh (PG), 1:10, 3:20,5:30
7:40, 9:50; So Fine (R), 1:20, 3:20, 5:20, 7:20, 9:20;
Kramer vs. Kramer (PG), 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30.
Joyo: Victory (PG), 7:30 Thursday through Sunday.
Embassy: Misbehavin' and Budding of Brie (X), 10
a.m. to midnight Thursday through Sunday.
Plaza 4: Escape from New York (R), 7:45, 9:45; Re
turn of the Seacaucus Seven (R), 7:20, 9:20; Body Heat
(R), 7:30, 9:40; Hell Night (R), 8 p.m., 10 p.m., Thursday
through. Sunday. Midnight movies: JimiHendrix, A Clock
work Orange, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
MA SHt Friday and Saturday.
Sheldon: Pioneers of Modern Painting: Fdvard Munch,
1:30 Thursday and Friday; Gone With the Wind, 7 pjn.,
Thursday and Friday; am My Films: A Portrait of Wer
ner Herzogt 7 pjn., 9:15 Saturday through Monday,
matinee 3 pjn. Saturday.
State: Continental Divide (PG), 7:3o, 9:30 Thursday
and Friday, matinees 1:30, 3:30, 5:30 Saturday and Sun
day. Stuart: Paternity (PG), 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30
Thursday through Sunday. Midnight movie: American
Gigolo (R), Friday.