O.L.P.B. is short for “oldest living punk band.” 

   This project was begun concurrently with the more polished “My True Story.” It has been stated that it was comprised of outtakes and songs considered not good enough for that piece; but this is not really true.  “My True Story” was recorded at an outside studio, in the classic way a recording was done then.  None of “O.L.P.B.” was recorded that way. It was almost all done in Gary Applegate’s and Mario Cicerello’s studios.  None of the songs were ever considered “MTS” material.  They were done alongside the demos for “MTS”, and that may explain some of the confusion about this.  

   The Clams were still a working, functional band at that time; and it was fairly easy for them to record their parts at leisure. As they gigged less and saw each other less, that became more difficult. The result was that while “MTS” was a finished piece, “O.L.P.B.” was no more than a half dozen very short songs.  It sat on the shelf as an unfinished joke for several years until some of the Clams began looking around for something to do.

   The Band attempted to finish it as a “real” project; enlisting Damien Cordisco and moving it to his studio.  But there was no consensus as to how to actually finish the project, or if it was really necessary to do so, and the Clams drifted apart once again. Eventually Gary and Richard Gelbstein finally added a few new songs and a few older unrecorded songs and called it finished.