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“But we live in this day and age, we like all the things in this day and age, but we try to be a pure rock & roll band.” The lucky few who got to see the Cramps live know that the Cramps’ pure rock & roll was like nothing that came before or since.”
“Critics wrote off the Cramps’ middle years, alleging Lux wrote sexist lyrics (e.g., A Date With Elvis’ “Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?” and Stay Sick!’s “All Women Are Bad”), though Ivy always levied the sexism tag right back at critics for failing to notice she produced their recordings, occasionally recorded bass, and co-wrote the originals.”
“After all, this was the group that played a free show at a mental institution in 1978, the band whose frontman would wear kinky boots on Late Night With Conan O’Brien .”
“Kristy Wallace born in ’53, joined him in totally rejecting the British Invasion.”
“GODLIS* Gravest Gravy collects recordings from the same 1977 session with producer Alex Chilton and drummer Nick Knox that yielded their first singles (“Surfin’ Bird,” “Human Fly”), and on Gravest Gravy you can hear how they drafted their whole blueprint in their first year.”
“They almost called themselves the Bop Crazy Babies, Ivy once said, but opted for the Cramps since it sounded like a gang’s moniker.”
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““I still got all the rhythm in these rockin’ bones.” The session’s hiccuping version of Roy Orbison’s “Domino” and an off-the-hinges rendition of Sam Phillips’ “Problem Child” also capture the Cramps then — and who they’d be until Lux’s 2009 death ended the band.”
“But here’s what really happened: The Cramps staged a spectacle far wilder than we’d ever imagined.”
“Lux spent the rest of his life trying to top the lyrics, “I’m a human fly, and I don’t know why/I got 96 tears and 96 eyes,” and he came close time and again.”
“Artists from the White Stripes to White Zombie have cited the (often literally) stripped-down arrangements and the fact that Poison Ivy was a rare female band member in the Seventies and Eighties as blazing trails for them.”
“Lux said his hero was Ricky Nelson, and while it’s easy to point to the obvious big names who influenced the Cramps — Elvis, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Little Richard, Carl Perkins — there are likely thousands of others Lux and Ivy treasured more whose names never appeared in Rolling Stone .”
“My most vivid memory is of Lux stacking the stage monitors into a tower as the clock’s minute arm swirled toward oblivion during the band’s unhinged rendition of their first single, a cover of the Trashmen’s “Surfin’ Bird.” He scaled at least four of them to the top, whipped out a knife, and violently denuded himself — all the while hollering, Hollering, HOLLERING papa-oo-mow-mow papaoomowmow until he exhausted himself and released us into 2001.”
“But by that point, the Cramps had been bidding adieu to the 20th century for decades, remaking and rearranging trash culture in their own image like groovy Dr.”
““I always liked the Cramps a lot, and seeing Ivy made me think, ‘I can do that,'” White Zombie’s Sean Yseult told Rolling Stone in ’93.”
“They desecrated all the same New York stages as the Ramones, Talking Heads, and Blondie during the real year punk broke, but critics never counted them in the scene.”