Plug pulled on electric guitarist
By Mark Baldridge
Staff Reporter
Things are a lot quieter down
town now that Jon Davis has been
unplugged.
Known to many simply as the
guitar guy, Davis has become so
much a fixture of the downtown
Lincoln experience that one radio
station uses him in their self-pro
motional spots.
“Even the guy who plays the
gu itar at 14th and 01 istens to (us),”
says the ad for KKNB, 104.1, The
nanei.
But not everyone is a fan of the
27-year-olcUtreet musician’s act.
Complaints raised by downtown
resident Jerry Powell resulted in
Davis receiving two tickets for dis
turbing the peace.
“I know there arc a number of
people who live downtown who’ve
complained about his playing,” said
Powell, owner of Powell’s Jewel
ers, 1317 0 St.
“Everyone knows the guitar
man,” he said. “The police told us
we were just the only people who
were diligent enough to get him
stopped.”
Powell said Davis’ amplified
guitar music often disturbed him.
“His sound penetrates the windows
of our residence, and we live down
town,” Powell said. “I don’t wish
this fellow any ill will; I just don’t
know why he should play so loud.”
According to Lancaster County
correctional records, Davis was
given two tickets during one week
in July for disturbing the peace. He
was fined $ 144 for failure to appear
on the first count and sat out a S60
fine in jail one day on the second
count.
However, police documents list
only the second ticket, dismissed at
the court cost of S21.
Davis’ story varies even more.
His fines totaled S380, he said, and
he sat both of them out in jail on two
separate occasions.
Jon Davis was cited twice for disturbing theVpeace
for his guitar playing at 14th and O streets.
une imng is certain: it nas sud
denly become a lot more expensive
for Davis to play the electric guitar
on O Street.
He can still be found on O Street
some evenings, strumming on his
battered acoustic, but he said he
was unhappy with how things turned
oui.
“Some guy just playing the gui
tar is boring,” Davis said. “The
acoustic is so quiet. 1 don’t mind
playing it, but things 1 can get going
with the amp arc beautiful.”
Davis said most ot his previous
experience with police had been
friendly.
“I always helped them out,” he
said. “There were always fights
and accidents, and I was there to
tell them what’d happened.”
Davis said although he wanted
to fight the city on the issue, he
didn’t hold a grudge.
“I’d be willing to turn it down—
but it’s rock and roll, you know? It
doesn’t pass if it’s going to sound
like elevator music.”
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Hohenstein of Dakota City, would
create collegiate license plates.
• LB324, would change the provi
sions of the Scholarship Assistance
Program Act, State Scholarship Award
Program and Postsecondary Educa
tion Award Act. The bill was pro
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R St., $800.
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stolen, Nebraska Union, $94.
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ed to detox.
8:07 a.m.—Car stereo stolen, 19th
& Q streets parking lot, $270 loss,
$150 damage.
12:51 p.m. — Door broken, Love
Library, $150 damage.
1:41 p.m. — Purse stolen,
Westbrook Music Building, $30.
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