Break out your brooms! Here come the Babushka Men! After The Dissidents played their last show at WRUW's second annual Studio-A-Rama. The band unofficially broke up (it was never verbalized among the band members). Paul and Scott went onto individual projects and Koz auditioned for Bob Sablack's newly formed Plague. Sablack inevitably went back to playing with Johnny Korosec (see Plague). When Scott, Paul and Koz regrouped they decided to create something new and leave the Dissidents behind. With several new instrumentals completed they decided to look for a new singer. They didn't have to look far, Mike Friend aka Crevo was a regular attendee at Dissident rehearsals, and had previously been the lead singer of the Basics. The sounds the Babushka Men created could best be described as Cramps/Ubu meet the Little Rascals. Crevo had a Dave Thomas/Jello Biafra kinda delivery that meshed well with the choppy out of tune songs Paul and Scott had written. Crevo's descriptive lyrics were the cherry on top. Unfortunately the Babushka Men disbanded shortly after there one and only show on Halloween night 1982 at the Lakefront. The place actually got packed with dancers when quite a few gay revelers filtered over from Traxx, the disco next store. Scott left for Las Vegas shortly thereafter only to return six months later... but band could not be revived.