by Kurt Loder
(Special to kentsterling.com)
Boff Whaley (right) and his wife O'Londa perform recently at The Abbey in upstate New York. Whaley is the only remaining member of Kub & the Marshmen to continue to play music professionally.
Anyone who went to college in the mid-1980s remembers the rock anthems “Angelic Demon” and “Psycho Skank”, but few remember the band whose brief rise to the top of the charts and then steep plunge into the abyss of total anonymity render them a distant afterthought in the history of rock music.
Next Friday, the five men who formed Kub & the Marshmen, once thought to be the progeny of album rock gods Pink Floyd, will be reunited for an episode of VH1′s “Bands Reunited” at the Sammy Hagar owned Cabo Wabo Cantina in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
“Sam asked us to put the past aside, and play our only album start to finish, and I figured, ‘What the hell else am I doing?’” explained front man Kub Kaschman. ”I called the guys to make sure we were ready to put the past behind us, and except for (guitarist) Kent (Stark), no one could remember what the hell got things off track in the first place.”
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