Pago 10 Monday, April 20, 1982 Daily Nebraskan Arts & Entertainment Iff 1 T) 3&& Photo by Dave Bentz Danny O'Kane fronts the Ripcords as they deliver their rhythmic directive to a huge, rug-cutting throng at the Drumstick Saturday night. O'Kane's departure Sunday morning for France spells the temporary end of one of the area's most popular bands. Ripcords deliver grand finale By Bob Crisler In recent years, the Drumstick has be come a name synonymous with good, clean fun and the American Way of rock V roll. Its truck-stop decor has yielded time and again to some of the best rockdance bands in the area and the nation. The 48th Street tavern has hosted the likes of Joe "King" Carrasco and Joan Jett, but had never held a crowd as large as the mass of humanity assembled at the altar of the Ripcords Saturday night. The event was the popular Lincoln band's farewell (for now) performance, necessitated by bandleader and spiritual godfather Danny O'Kane 's exit from the flatlands to hang out and write songs in the vineyards of France. The remaining three band members have no immediate plans, although Wade Maurer and Jim Robson on bass and drums are proof that "the beat" is not an exclusive franchise of the Go-Go's. Dave Fee on guitar has shown that simplicity and subtlety needn't be detriments. Maurer has proven to be an able frontman in his nightly Eddie Cochran alterego. The re maining Ripcords have all the ingredients for a hot dance trio. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Ph.D. gown. CALL 472-1761 $2.50 minimum charge per day on commercial ads. Ten words included. $1.50 minimum charge per day on individual student and student organization ads. Students must pay for the ad at the time it is placed. Ten words included. NO REFUNDS ON PRE-PAID ADS. NO RESPONSIBILITY ASSUM ED FOR MORE THAN ONE INCORRECT INSERTION. FOUND ads may be submitted free of charge. DEADLINE: 1 p.m. day before publica tion (Monday thru Friday). An $8.00 service charge will be assessed for all checks re turned to the Daily Nebras kan and will be collected by Check Rite. Clean. Size 42, $95. 483 6221 after 6. Roller Derby roller skates (dance skate, black), like new, men's size 8, comparable to women's size 9Vi or 10. Reas onably priced. Also, 40 inch Hotpoint electric range, very reliable, $30 or best offer. 785-3095 Yamaha DT250 '78 low mileage, excellent condition, $800. Waterbed, 1 yr. old, $170,435-1322. KA 7100 Kenwood Am plifier 60 watts per channel, $150. Must Sell. 435-7609. Must sell BUNKBEDS! Call 475-3008 after 5 p.m. BICYCLES FOR SALE 20" Mixie, 20" Colnago, 21 " Windsor. Call 488-7984. Air Conditioners. Window units. 8,000 & 15.000 BTUs. Also wood storm windows screens. 472-1690. 489-0982. 1 976 Canary Formula Fire bird for sale. Call Tim at 475 0954 or Deb at 435-4890 af ter 5:30 pn. SURPLUS JEEPS, CARS AND TRUCKS AVAILABLE. MANY SELL FOR UNDER $200. CALL 312-742-1143. EXT. 3004 FOR INFORMA TION ON HOW TO PURCHASE. NOW OPEN BIGlittle GROCERY CLIFF'S SMOKE SHOP 12th & "O" St. IMPORTED C'GARETTES CLIFF'S SMOKE SHOP 12th & "O "Street The Fretz warmed up Saturday night's throng with a hit list of mid-460s British rock. After the Ripcords had boiled through a characteristically swinging final set, with the distinction between dance floor and stage becoming lost in the continuum of huddled masses, the consensus in the dress ing room was "That was just the Fretz crowd." The Ripcords have in past weeks been in the studio recording "Eddie Munster," a novelty dance song, and "Building," an adrenalated, irrepressibly optimistic rocker. Dave Snider, a graduate of the Institute of Audio Research in New York City, read a March 19 Daily Nebraskan article which quoted O'Kane as saying the Ripcords wanted to find a record producer. That morning, Snider called O'Kane, and the ball began rolling. The tapes were sent to the record press er last week, and the single should be on sale in four to five weeks, according to Snider. Clean-sounding, original dance bands are hardly a dime a dozen. O'Kane 's absence will leave a noticeable vacuum in the local entertainment scene. Classified 4721761 hood. cap. New 26 inch ten speed bike. Also a nice leather jacket. Call 475-3440. 1980 Yamaha Exciter 250. Excellent condition, $995 or best offer. Contact Chuck or Jim after 9:30 p.m. 474-0248. Yamaha 500 wfaring, cruise control and much more. $1250 or best offer. 472-8846, ask for Bill. Diamond Ring .57 soli taire marquis wide gold band. Paid $900 asking $375 483-6234 or 475-4161. 2 bedroom older home. Close to campus, carpeted, shower, lots of windows, heat paid. Call 477-3889. Summer on Campus Co-Ed Housing Chi Phi AC, kitchen, laundry. Double: $24week; Single: $36week. Call 476-7719 or 4356285. Three, four and five bed room houses six blocks from city; fully furnished: washer, dryer, range, ref., beds, desks, shower, central air, etc. 477 5049 leave message. U 'Bring the heroin?' Duncan Drumm's politics are cosmetic at best. He treats the super structure like it is found art. His front yard currently is a display of every political lawn advertisement available for the upcoming primary. Black-and-white photos, turning gray and yellow in the spring weather, of smiling hopefuls for city, county and state offices are skated out in simple David 7 Wood rows. An uncanny sense of memorializ ed death is achieved through the mini malistic mortuary effect. It is especially artistic and eerie when Drumm erects a candidate's sign for a headstone and lies down before it to sun, Nash Rambler thought as he cross ed the street toward the house. "Would you look at that, Gladys," Rambler said to his shoulder. "The poor lad must've fallen out of a plane without a parachute. Ripped the shirt and pants right off him. Oh, don't look, Gladys. But I guess we're lucky he didn't impale himself on one of those signs. This lawn's a godawful hazard to people in freefall. I swear people have no decency anymore." Drumm rolled over and sat. The im prints the grass left made Win look like he was built from a ball of red string. "Eat lead, lackey," he barked, but noticing Rambler's bandaged arm, changed his tone. "Bring the heroin?" Rambler looked at the arm. The iodine the phlebotomist had swabbed on looked like spreading hepatitis. "Damn if I'm not on the hit list at Plamsa. I did good today to get out of there with just a hematoma the size of an egg. They were trying to make me the sacrifice in the initiation rite of new nurses. Three of them crochetted at my arm for an hour. Beer?" "Air?" Drumm said by way of yes. "Drink this beer, for it is my blood, and remember him who was nailed for it and is cross." "Oh, the supreme unction. Cheers." Cheers." "Plasma drives me to drink. Swilling bucks drives me to Plasma. I might as Unfurnished 2 bedroom ud- Summer Coed Living at Triangle Fraternity. All rooms AC and utilities paid. Laun dry facilities. Single $36week. Double $24week. Call Bob Bybee at 472-8546 or 472 1184. Two bedroom apt. lease ends July 31 woption to ex tend. Available May 7. Call Gayle 475-5596. per duplex, AC, off-street park ing. $225mo. Near East Cam pus. For sublease (May Aug. 15), two bedroom apt. North of East Campus. For more info, call 466-8895. SUMMER SUBLEASE 2301 "A" Two bedroom apt. AC, access to pool, off-street park ing. Sublease through Aug. 15 -$245 util. 477-5605. Spacious 2 bedroom apt., fireplace, dishwasher, laundry facilities. Available immediate ly. 3601 Baldwin. Call 464 9307. Need apartment to sublet for summer? Two bedroom apartment ciose to campus. Accommodates 3 easily. Call 467-5127. 2817 Holdrege. 2 bedroom. Available May 1. $200 . 2 bedroom. Available June 1 $220 . 1127 South 33rd! 3 bedroom, 2 bath. Available now. $290 . 2252 Sheldon. 2 bedroom. Available June 1 $165 elec. SUMMER SUB-LET 1315 "D" One bedroom, furnished, S220mo. AC, utilities paid' Call 435 1237. RENTAL Rent small room refrigerators, televisions, stereos, desks, dress ers, chests, living room furniture washers and dryers, bunk beds. ACE FURNITURE 2429 "0" Street 474-3444 Small 1 bedroom apartment Convenient to downtown area and campus. Nice carpeting, drapes, off-street parking, laun dry facilities. Call 477-3889. Large efficiency, swimming pool, low utilities. Available May 1 $160 474-4792 or work, 475-4081. Marty 3 bedroom duplex near 21st & C St. Carpet, drapes, appli ances. $285 plus utilities. 423 3482.4646140. 4 bedroom house - remodel ed inside. 477-9058, 477-2908, leave fiiessaqe. well be a lifer. When Armageddon comes, I might get a pay raise for my blood. I'll probably be drafted as a rank ing officer in the Plasma Corps, on the front line with a tube in my arm." "I plan to write fantasies for widows while the world ends." "Plasma's not enough. I've got a black hole in my checking account that obliterates deposits on contact. The shock waves spread forever, echoing. Checkritc's probably lured a special secretary to handle my account. I'm probably a celebrity on the bulletin board at the County Attorney's office. Wanted. Devastate on site." "Listen, youngster, you're jawing at an expert in the economics of bad-check writing. I was a regular tyro in my hey day. Debt's sound business in inflation ary times. The art is in caslung the humongous check. There's the smart money." Drumm's eyes listed leftward and up. "Discounting for 10 percent annual inflation," he went on, "a bad check for $85, left outstanding for a year, is good as a self-approved loan at an effective 10 percent per annum. Above $170, we're talking interest-free, straight-profit, here-now. That's figuring two bounces at $7.50 and letting the thing slide through Checkrite to the County Attorney, who has a $2 penalty charge instead of $8." Unwilling to follow Drumm's track, Rambler's thoughts' loitered elsewhere. He paraded old memories, which is a proper way to perceive things that are no more. "It was so easy before I started bank ing. I used to work my savings out of the back of a dictionary. When I had enough stashed there to buy a bill with a higher denomination, I did. When those accumulated, so that I could pro tect against rash withdrawals, I stapled them together 20 or 30 times. If I want ed any, I had plenty of time to think it over while extracting the staples. It was a faultless system. Why did I enter a bank?" "So you could get new loans to pay off old and become eligible for bigger ones and then bigger ones to pay those with. Life is good, Nash." They popped fresh beers in unison. BUCKINGHAM SQUARES Large 2 bedroom apartments Fully carpeted, dishwasher, laundry facilities, off-street parking. HEAT PAID - BAL CONY. Call 477-3889 COUNTY SHIRE Very spacious 1 bedroom, fully carpeted, heat paid, swimming pool and clubhouse. 464-0741 Large 1 bedroom apartments. Available now. $207month Heat Paid 1131-1141 So. 10th St. 435-6873, 477-8356 Three minutes north of City Campus, 3 bedroom townhouse. 1350 sq. ft., 1 & 1 baths, car port. Monthly lease. $318. 475 6144. Newer 1 bedroom semi furnished apartments. Available now from $187month. Heat paid. 877 No. 26th St. 477-9857. 477-8356 3540 Huntington For sublease, 2 bedroom apt. Available May 15-Aug. 15. For more information. Call 466 5141. Sublease, 2 beiroom apt. 20th & G. 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