Over the next month, the UTUP foursome tours across the continental United States playing 27 shows in 25 cities.  The expanded set list now includes 14 original compositions -- including the anthemic "Flipper's Got a Gun (But I've Got a Tuna Net)" and the tender "Fuckin' Place" -- as well as the soon-to-be UTUP trademark covers of AC/DC's "Back in Black" and Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Uke."  With solid radio support behind them, the band is on top of the world when fate, their bitter mistress, decides to take her toll.

Heading back to New York City on Sunday, September 14, for a sold-out homecoming gig at McGovern's the following evening, the 1986 UTUP K Car strikes a possum in the middle of a road outside of King of Prussia, PA, sending the auto into a nearby cornfield. Derevlany and Moritz are rendered unconscious.  When they awake, Goldwasser and Kendall are mysteriously gone.

A new beginning (next chapter)