Debris'

Emerging from Chickasha, Oklahoma, the short-lived experimental proto-art-punk outfit Debris' nevertheless attempted to expand rock's frontiers amid widespread apathy and occasional redneck antagonism. Charles Ivey and Oliver Powers, who had already performed on multiple instruments across several ensembles, recruited drummer Johnny Gregg during summer 1975 to form the group. Debris' assembled rapidly and delivered the first of its four concerts by September. The band's turbulent stage approach and shadowy, eccentric sound—shaped by the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, Captain Beefheart, and English glam rock—failed to resonate with listeners throughout the Oklahoma City region. In one instance, a Battle of the Bands contest pitting fifty groups against one another for a new sound system, Debris' finished last while a cover act claimed the prize. Concurrently the musicians purchased a 1,590-dollar promotional package from a studio that supplied ten hours of tracking time plus a 1,000-LP pressing run. Hoping to "cut the ultimate record of the decade," they laid down tracks across two mid-December sessions; the resulting album appeared several months afterward and was later reissued on CD as Static Disposal with additional material. Copies were then mailed to record labels and rock publications in pursuit of a contract and fuller realization of the project. Negative early notices combined with absent local backing prompted the band's dissolution, an effort both premature and geographically misplaced. Within twelve months, more positive coverage surfaced and CBGB extended an invitation to perform amid the rising New York punk movement, yet the opportunity arrived after the group had already ended.