From Che Underground: The Blog:
The band, officially named The Sensational Big M.R. and his All Bitchin’ All Stud All Stars, made its debut performance on Saturday, June 7, 1980, at the Zebra Club with Canadian punk band the Subhumans. The All Stars muscled through the aforementioned songs, plus exuberant versions of Gene Vincent’s “Cruisin’ ” and Conway Twitty’s “Lonely Blue Boy.” The packed club jeered, shouted and sang along. Heffern remembers, “Dan told all the girls to start screaming — so they did! I think everyone either liked it or was confused by it, but it was a definitely a defining moment of the making of Country Dick.”
Call adds, “The band, 13 unwieldy punk-rock musicians, was anything but tight. But we played with pretend booze-fueled gusto and punk rock enthusiasm and it was obvious to all that we were having a grand time — most of all the Big M.R. himself.”