Pago 10
Monday, April 20, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
Arts & Entertainment
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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.
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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.
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'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
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Summer Coed Living at
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AC and utilities paid. Laun
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Double $24week. Call Bob
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ends July 31 woption to ex
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per duplex, AC, off-street park
ing. $225mo. Near East Cam
pus. For sublease (May Aug.
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of East Campus. For more info,
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Two bedroom apt. AC,
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Spacious 2 bedroom apt.,
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ly. 3601 Baldwin. Call 464
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Accommodates 3 easily. Call
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Available May 1. $200 .
2 bedroom. Available June 1
$220 . 1127 South 33rd!
3 bedroom, 2 bath. Available
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2 bedroom. Available June 1
$165 elec.
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1315 "D"
One bedroom, furnished,
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Call 435 1237.
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Large efficiency, swimming
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May 1 $160 474-4792 or
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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.
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Large 2 bedroom apartments
Fully carpeted, dishwasher,
laundry facilities, off-street
parking. HEAT PAID - BAL
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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. AC, pool, water and
garbage paid. $259 electricity.
475-6452.
