Blame it on the 70's

Pictured above are, from left Henry Microfarad aka C-Baba and next to him A. Srnoda aka R. Srnoda aka Hans Castorp aka Nicholas Stavrogin (yes that was his real hair). They were members of the Omaha-based proto-punk band called “Chimbley’s Butt” which became “The Oxcart Creek Band” which begat “Evil Death” which recorded as “The Stench Band” which then could have morphed into “Plastic Ono Traveling Silver Wilberries” which subsequently mutated into something else entirely.

Rumor has it that their set lists included “Mr. Plaster,” “Be So Cruel,” “Holiday in Omaha,” “The Dead”, “Take Me to the Bughouse,” “Veteran’s Day Poppy,” “Split Endz,” “The Brain Police”, “Doggie Gardens,” “Disaster at C,” “Through It All,” “King Neptune’s Tapeworm,” Wildman Fisher’s “Merry-go-round,” “The Happy Leper,” “Cowboy Burt,” “A Wee Deoch-An’ Doris,” “Little Deuce Coupe,” “The Recent Future”, and their hit “Dry Heaves in Blair, Nebraska”.

The band once played at the Glenwood Home for the Mentally Insane, the Stockyards Ballroom, and Papillion’s world-famous Cabay Lounge all in the same week. In fact, when C-Baba started up the band at the Cabay Lounge, his first words were, “Do you mind if we’re louder than the TV?” Hey, what can I say? It was the 70’s.

P.S. Has anyone seen Roger?