On a night like this, you need the Cramps

From Dangerous Minds today... here are The Cramps live at the Mudd Club in July 1981.



Will warm you up before you can say "Goo Goo Muck."

And head over to Dangerous Minds to read what Richard Metzger has to say about this video.

So this time we went waaay over there

The Cramps in 1981 doing a cover of Hasil Adkins' "She Said."

Inside edition

The Cramps with "What's Inside a Girl?" circa 1986.

'Garbage' time

The Cramps circa 1980... with "Garbage Man."

Restless minds

The Cramps singing "The Natives are Restless" at the Mudd Club, 1981.

Life on Mars

The Cramps with "Weekend on Mars" circa 1978.

Evil eye hotshot

The Cramps, circa 1991.

Lux life

Third Avenue near Ninth Street. From the Times obituary (via Stupefaction):

Lux Interior, who introduced the excitement of deviant rockabilly to the punk era as the lead singer of the Cramps, died early Wednesday in Glendale, Calif. He was 62.
The Cramps were founded in New York around 1976 by Lux Interior (born Erick Purkhiser in Stow, Ohio) and the guitarist Poison Ivy (Kristy Wallace) with a distinct musical and visual style. As connoisseurs of seemingly all forms of trashy pop culture from the 1950s and ’60s — ranging from ghoulish comic books to Z-grade horror films to the rawest garage rock — they developed a sound that mixed the menace of rockabilly’s primitivist fringe with dark psychedelia and the blunt simplicity of punk.

Also at Stupefaction, Karate Boogaloo has a link to a podcast of a radio show Lux Interior did back in the summer of 1984.

Tear it Up

The Cramps. RIP Lux. Read more on Lux at Flaming Pablum and Stupefaction.