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between. But they are in agreement on the occasion; it was a talent show held at the old Washington School to benefit Sursum Corda (now the Child Care and Learning Center).
And the name? Pure happenstance. “You’ve heard of the Offays [a band organized by another local musician], and you’ve heard of the Ojays [a nationally known group with Top-Twenty hits to their credit]. Neither of them are here tonight, but we do have the OKs,” the emcee announced at that long-ago talent show.
The name was alright with the boys: “That’s our message — every thing is just okay,” Barry Muthersbaugh explained.
In short order, the OKs became locally famous — maybe a little infamous, too. They played occasionally at the Cross Creek Cabin near Amissville and dance spots in Charlottesville and regularly at the Hideaway in Front Royal, the Community Center in Washington, and at scores of private parties in Rappahannock, Culpeper and Fauquier counties.
They were political activists of a sort, starring at the University of Virginia's Rock Against Reagan in 1980. “The Republicans went around campus tearing our posters down!” noted Barry Muthersbaugh, outraged still.
And they were media personalities of another sort, with a live interview on Warrenton’s now defunct
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