words by Michael Todd | photos and interview by Chevy Anderson

Dave Hansen began to know Omaha through the Lynch Building at 20th and Pierce.

Living with his bandmates in Worried Mothers, he helped write two albums' worth of music and recorded the better part as his strange neighbors heard him screaming obscenities and strange poetry late into the night.

"Usually, I'm a hermit and hide out, and I'm boring," Hansen says. "But when I lived here, I was running the streets, being a madman. It was probably one of the funnest times of my life."

That said, he also notes, "The roughest time of your life is the best time of your life." Hansen had moved to Omaha from Sioux City, where, he says, "there's no culture except for the culture you create." 

"There was no way to be heard 'cause everybody's voice is the same volume there. We were just playing for our friends constantly. We needed to get out and see if we had any self-worth."

Since moving to Omaha, a city he knew nothing about except for that his drummer had lived there, he says his music has been well-received. Listen to those two albums written while Worried Mothers lived at the Lynch Building. Then hear Hansen's full interview and see more photos further below:

INTERVIEW

LOCATION

See Omahype's Weird Nebraska post on this building here.

PHOTOS

Chevy Anderson is a Hear Nebraska intern, and Michael Todd is Hear Nebraska's managing editor. Reach them at chevya@hearnebraska.org and michaeltodd@hearnebraska.org respectively.