The Cramps - Tear It Up (Live - Urgh! A Music War) 1980

from the DVD 'Urgh! A Music War' better picture than the vhs rips!
1980-08-15 Santa Monica Civic - California - w. Julien Griensnatch (Julien Hechtlinger) on the second guitar. She also went by the names Julien Fugelsnuss, Julien Bond and Julien Eaglebauer after she left The Cramps. Before The Cramps she did play with the New York Punk Band 'The Mad' known for the "eyeball b/w I hate music" 45 (1978) and the "fried egg" EP (1980)
the dvd release from Music War is not recommended as they just did copy it from vhs... without adding a menu, no bonus material, ugly artwork... but it is still the best version from the movie so far..
facebook fanpage with many great pics/concert posters etc:
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[@Lynwood_Jackson]

I have so much anxiety about his pants.

[@MouseGeist]

I thought low rise jeans of the 2000s were bad until I saw this.

[@stapeacia]

🤣

[@OutOnTheTiles]

🍆

[@ninarosebarber]

I’m not the only one then 😆

[@acbenepe]

@@ninarosebarber If memory serves we called that fabric "pleather"

[@fujifilm5127]

"Here's your mic back" "you know what? keep it."

[@elsolitario1741]

used to fuck it up

[@campreverbia]

This is your brain off Meds!

[@tambert3897]

@@campreverbia It's your brain on Rock N' Roll

[@Tucko1]

I'm somewhere in that audience, having my 15 year old mind BLOWN! Also on the bill that night was Chelsea, X, and Dead Kennedys.

[@AnnaLVajda]

Wow.

[@xYouthAttackx]

Never heard of Chelsea. I would have been happy just seeing the cramps but X AND Dead Kennedy's too?! Hot dog!

[@googoomuck6608]

Killer lineup

[@jackwhite03]

That sounds fucking incredible

[@frankjasutis6669]

fuck me!!!!

[@jotteria79]

just loving how ivy's face alternates from "aw shit here we go again" to "yeah that's what we do"

[@rockawayb1tch]

We lost Lux 15 years ago today. This clip will always have a special place in my heart for being my introduction to the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band of all time. Rest easy, Lux.

[@andreasbenning]

Geez, it's been 15 years already?? Sadly, I never saw them live, but some people I knew saw them on what I believe became their last gig here in Sweden. Lux smashed a bottle and cut apart his pants with the shards so his dick hung out! A couple of the females I knew who saw it were very excited having had their faces just a few feet from his wang. xD They were the last true rock'n roll band.

[@AudiophileTubes]

"The greatest"..... that's a stretch!

[@syc0tic]

they're great and everything but no

[@adamgorelick3714]

@rockawayb1tch I knew someone about 15 years ago who told me he had a friend who was very ill and in hospital. After his friend died I found out it was Lux. I don't know if he thought I'd run to a music magazine and give them a scoop if I knew who it was, but I was very saddened to hear of his passing. What a glorious neutron bomb Lux Interior and The Cramps were, and remain.

[@artturner2054]

My introduction to the Cramps was from Beavis and Butthead. Bikini Girls With Machine Guns

[@politicaltroll8920]

Funny that off stage Ivy and Lux are the most wholesome and heartfelt love story in the history of rock and roll

[@lahaza6515]

Not sure about the wholesome part, but they were surely great.

[@eastbaykidd8574]

@@lahaza6515 "Not sure about the wholesome part" 😆😅🤣😅🤣😅😆

[@cadillacblue3412]

Did you not see them LIVE? The story remained the same on stage. I was at their 30th anniversary show 10/31/06 in SF it turned out to be their second to last show. THANK YOU GOD FOR THE CRAMPS

[@claesvanoldenphatt9972]

I intuited their wholesomeness when I was a teenager, around the time this video was shot. Something so damn heartfelt and genuine about their love of American music and each other. It comes through in their music for sure, if you have an ear for those things.

[@tolbydamit]

Not really. You can be really into sex and dedicated to a single person.

[@spencerb9998]

Man, I always loved how Poison Ivy has this mixed look of bored and pissed on her face when she plays. A level of badass that most male guitars can't even get right.

[@onetimepeace]

Thank you 70s an 80s that started making music to where their is no limit it had to start somewhere,music is life.

[@supahdupahplayahmacknumbah7791]

She is so fucking hot for that

[@breedlove94]

Like "Yup that is indeed my husband fucking and fellating a microphone"

[@adriennetabakow8588]

She is so stone cold badass....she never shows even a flicker of weakness...I'm in awe...

[@Sidestepleft]

She was born like that

[@Notecrusher]

I can smell them over the internet.

[@LilRedRasta]

hahaha

[@heriatm2771]

Nasty summabitch...

[@MichaelGrey11]

Cigarettes and cheap perfume

[@jhonnycagexrage7458]

@@MichaelGrey11 Cheap perfume lol

[@RJCBprod]

@mike jim cheap perfume and sweaty leather

[@mikeshow2303]

I'm 62 years old and still enjoy the cramps

[@adamgorelick3714]

@mikeshow2303 If that's something to be ashamed of, there's a lot of shame going round.

[@adamgh0]

And that's why I don't use the house mics.

[@tyrekecantrell5941]

I love how different everyone in the crowd looks. Rock and roll has always brought people from different strokes of life together

[@ThreadBomb]

I think it's more that in 1980 Americans hadn't caught up with punk fashion.

[@gregbors8364]

What you talkin’ ‘bout Tyreke?

[@veritas4364]

@@ThreadBomb If you look at videos of Sex Pistols in England the crowd looked pretty regular too. It's the Mandela effect telling you the crowd at punk shows used to look like postcard punks.

[@jameshadfield5624]

Great Band name, "the STROKES"

[@michaelmalone7231]

@@veritas4364 Couldn't agree with you more. Spike Lee wildly exaggerated the CBGB's scene from 1977 for his movie "Summer of Sam." Looked like extras from a Billy Idol video. Yeah, you had a few chicks that were definitely rocking the Debby Harry look. Dudes were doing the Richard Hell scruffy look. But most of them looked like New York Street kids. Like the sweat hogs from "Welcome Back Kotter".

[@chubbygreyhound1198]

I showed this video to my granny and she said it was good.

[@DugEphresh]

Lux was a Queen before his time, I salute how artistic he was with his perverse attitude. Today he would be called passe and dismissed.

[@johnf8138]

I have been watching this film for 40 years and this shit never ceases to entertain. And those mikes had no Lysol wipes back then boys and girls.

[@melomane2010]

You can never unsee this performance - just epic.

[@Kingrob30]

True dat!

[@ML-nj4qi]

All I know, when I pass on from this world this is the last thing I want to see. It will remind me in the afterlife of how it felt like to be alive!

[@50sRocKabilly]

This is the most bizarre thing i have ever seen in my life, im in shock😮

[@jimwolfgang9433]

Reminds me a bit of Fuck the Pain Away

[@itzoccor]

I'm amazed his pants stayed up...

[@potatozhang]

Never seen a man singing so well with a mic in mouth like Lux. He is a real rocker and Ivy is a guitar goddess.

[@deweypug]

Rock 'n Roll needs to still be frightening and reflect something some people will never quite 'get'... Thank the maker for the Cramps carrying on that spirit.

[@nickdavila94]

deweypug You mean carried? Lux passed away 😭😢😢😢

[@armandoarrojo9841]

Sangye Pema music never passes away

[@deweypug]

Armando Arrojo Damn straight! Yessir!

[@AnnaLVajda]

People get it but Rock n Roll is supposed to be a bit dangerous and raunchy.

[@deweypug]

Anna Vajda I think that’s what I said

[@veerchasm1]

Saw this when I was 14 in the 80’s, was traumatized! Seeing it now I FINALLY understand 😊👍🏻

[@miguelsimoes5789]

😂

[@sublaimer]

The image quality is awesome. I could almost feel Lux's crotch in my face.

[@GlossaryTaiji-Forumcom]

Si

[@steven1822]

crotch..............

[@kiblerjuergen5247]

Film, that’s the secret. The few concerts from back in the day that were filmed (instead of video tape recorded!) are true gems. Film means they basically stored the photons that bounced off Lux’s physique for posterity.

[@heggy_69]

And it feels bloody marvellous, let me tell you

[@gangoffour6690]

AND YOU LIKED IT !

[@craigwin3685]

In '77 and '78 I would spend every weekend at the Whiskey on Sunset Blvd... it was one of the prime LA venue for punk and ska. The Police, The Clash, Misfits, Runaways, The Jam, Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo... It was The Cramps shows that I remember best.

[@whisky2roxy]

I was there with you my friend. But your list left out most of the great LA bands, Screamers, Weirdos, F-word, Dickies, Germs, Needles and Pins, Dils and of course Avengers from SF were there a lot. Great times from the end of the rock era!

[@craigwin3685]

And so many more... The Specials, Madness...

[@Johnnywhamo]

That is awesome dude! Seriously, the late 70's and early 80 was a golden era for music.

[@stevencastillo8914]

Lucky

[@cryptoslimer8589]

You saw the Misfits back then?

[@Brewzerr]

I was 15 the first time I saw this footage. I decided right there and then I was going to be a "singer". A few months later I was in my first band and we played our first ever gig at a Bar Mitzvah. I did the whole Lux thing, with the lewd grunting and shoving the mic down my pants, and next thing I knew they had pulled the plug on us and told us to get the hell out. I was all in after that. Thank you Lux. Hope to see you on the other side some day.

[@guardianobserver6593]

And what happened next? Do you still sing? Are you in a band?

[@guardianobserver6593]

@@randythomastheinsecures5404 Great man! Do more like this.!

[@Brewzerr]

@@guardianobserver6593 I'm 55 and still raising kids, so playing in bands is only a side thing for me anymore, and ever since Covid started it's a non-thing. I played in several bands over the years, mostly in the 80's, 90's, and early 2000's. Nobody big. Mostly punk and garage. I never wanted to "make it". I just had a shit-ton of fun and made a few records. Did the road thing for a while. I started as a singer, moved to guitar, then switched to bass. I still do a lot of home recording, but I'm done with the whole 'music for a living' thing. I had a blast back when I was doing it, but that lifestyle would probably kill me today.

[@guardianobserver6593]

@@Brewzerr But you still play guitar I mean. You didn't stopped at all.

[@biancachristie]

Yup. This changed my teenage brain and I’m still not right. Wouldn’t have it any other way either

[@tobyj4513]

One of the most original and essential rock n roll bands. There will never be another pair like Lux & Ivy. They were so straight and normal off stage, it was mind blowing! Not just kickass rockers but masters of illusion! RIP Lux!

[@Voyasermama]

Alien sex fiend

[@1984isnotamanual]

Artists I’d call them

[@ML-nj4qi]

One time my music teacher asked the class "The Beatles or The Rolling Stones", I replied, THE CRAMPS!!!

[@synthpunkdaddy619]

Now that the Cramps are popular due to Wednesday. I send beginners to this performance 🤣

[@marsoblivi0n945]

That stupid show. Now all the losers from Tik tok will pretend to get it. While never truly listening to it. It’s a Fing life style.

[@jeromedamian5740]

I wish more people would have been so lucky to see the CRAMPS live . So much energy. mind blowing power.

[@oldschoolpunkguy1]

They were a great live band indeed!

[@Chris3141592]

I saw them in the UK in 1986, Portsmouth.

[@ellenyanok5376]

@@Chris3141592 I saw them 1986 NYC 😸Lux coming out to the Elvis intro song in gold pants...perfection!

[@saulgoodmanshellokittyphone]

I had no idea who the Cramps were before watching this. I'm so glad I clicked on this video

[@whisky2roxy]

You will never be the same my friend

[@donkeydump63]

Fernanda Alaniz. And you will never see another band quite like them

[@spartan876]

Me too. I’m watching the whole “urgh a music war” movie that this is from... a playlist of it. Very surprised in a very good way

[@karinjeffrey7981]

Welcome, and as Cramps fans say... stay sick!

[@MrMick50]

Check out the meteors

[@lorigetz4489]

No one make love to a microphone like Lux

[@monsterenergyfiendd]

Poison ivy is so beautiful

[@jamieburnette2438]

One of my blood relatives is Johnny Burnette , a pioneer of Rockabilly . He passed away in 1959 but I'd say he is happily jamming with Lux up there in Rockabilly Heaven .

[@adrianbrun5229]

Your blood relative is a legend

[@SpeegBJ]

That's wow! Indeed, JB a pioneer. You are one lucky one. One of my first records was Burnettes, "You're 16". I commented up there that the Cramps on this video harken up Jerry Lee Lewis "Whole Lotta Shakin" on the low down and builds it up, if you know what I mean.kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZeZnmyKbtaaqs0

[@Topnotcher]

Johnny Burnette has died in 1964.Memphis based RocknRoll Trio recorded fantastic Rockabilly,the he and his bruv moved to L.A. and was friends with Eddie Cochran,Ricky Nelson and the Everly Bros .Succesful songwriter for Ricky .Sadly he passed much to early.

[@Maverick4023]

Johnny Burnette is a legend. He was my first ever rockabilly hero when I was 16 and I loved his version of Tear It Up long before I got into The Cramps. He has the strongest repertoire of any rockabilly musician in my opinion. That's so cool you're related to him!

[@johnbarry1965]

"Train kept a rolling" is the greatest "Rock n Roll" songs with "Honey Hush" a close second!! The Johnny Brunette trio were awesome 😎👍

[@johnhechtlinger9465]

this is one of the all time great rock videos...I may be a little prejudiced though...Julie is my sister!...my big regret is never seeing her play live...if you view other videos of this song you'll see that this one is by far the best....

[@Gentlem1]

John , I was very sorry to hear about Julien's recent illness. I hope she gets better, stronger , faster ! When The Cramps played in Dallas in '80 with your Sister on Guitar , it was , by all accounts , a defining moment. Reverend Horton Heat said it was the thing that made him want to go into a more Rockabilly direction. I have a Chicago show from Tuts' with Julien. Please leave a message here if you would like a copy , and we can get in touch about that.

[@DukatorDevanemn]

@Fernando Cunha The Girl on right is 'Poison Ivy' the Bride of the Singer! ...the Girl on left is 'Julien Hechtlinger' aka 'Julien Grindsnatch'

[@MichaelGrey11]

That’s awesome!

[@biancachristie]

That’s amazing! Another Dallas Cramps fan here❤️ I love that I don’t have to watch my ancient VHS copy of this anymore to get any Cramps fix.

[@planeandsimple431]

@@biancachristie ... Thanks for making me realize how old my DVD player is...

[@BioFluxTheDemonJackalSenpai]

I can't take him shoving that mic in his mouth seriously the way he does it is freaking hilarious. The Cramps were amazing wish I could have seen them live :c

[@kinseymilkbone]

He got really pissed when they had to follow Iggy Pop at some festival where Iggy had already shoved the mike down the front of his pants.

[@DenNEE]

Saw them only once. Best concert ever!

[@kieransmith1796]

@@DenNEE saw them once on acid. nuts lol

[@tvtitlechampion3238]

Yeah, you missed something special.

[@MrMick50]

Saw a date with elvis tour ubc war memorial gym

[@LenapeSF]

Once again, The Cramps deliver an unparallelled performance & it still sounds great in 2020.

[@onetimepeace]

Quality never dies.

[@miguelsimoes5789]

✌️✌️✌️✌️

[@mikeskinner7595]

know nothing about them do they still tour

[@supme7558]

It sound so dumb whats the draw

[@LenapeSF]

@@supme7558 It's fun & entertainment that only a true Cramps fan would understand.

[@kenrutkowski1270]

This is perhaps the most important band in defining and bridging my musical endeavors into adulthood.

[@rev.comradex3013]

Could not have said it any better, Ken

[@mikesims5273]

So you obviously voted for 🌽 pop!😥

[@tomriddle5564]

I rented this on VCR to try to explain to the Hicks I lived around what kind of music I was “ into” They really thought something was WRONG WITH ME I’m still listening to them almost Daily and had the HONOR of seeing them live at least 26 Times

[@xbmpr]

Everyone knows the best music is music you show your friends and family and they hate it.

[@tomriddle5564]

@@xbmpr Don’t you know it. And if they Back up Several Feet from the Music source You know you Got Some Good Music

[@eyerock36]

I finally saw the Cramps in 2004 at the Trocadero in Philly. In 1979, I went to the Hot Club to see ‘em (with The Autistics and the Sick Kidz) but the schedule had been changed and I missed them. Then I got busy with education, career and family, but finally saw ‘em a quarter of a century after my first attempt!

[@benotherstate]

I saw this lineup in a small club in Houston TX called Rock Island Aug of 1980. Center stage , Lux dripping sweat everywhere , unbelievable .........

[@u.s.iacidj235]

iggy pop + elvis presley

[@Gentlem1]

Divided by Herman Munster.

[@Gentlem1]

x Herman Munster.

[@mournblade1066]

@U.S.I: You are far more correct than you might even realize. Elvis and Iggy were definite influences on Lux.

[@YodaZemunski]

You mean Lux + Interior = Lux Interior :)

[@TRUEiMPROrecords]

Frontman of the century!

[@alexc8123]

When he took a bow at the end, the drummer was like F this, I;m out, I've seen enough goo goo muck.

[@MustafarRecRoom]

And at the end of the night when Lux went to hand the mic back to the club owner, he put his hands up and said, “Keep it.” Awesome vid!

[@something_in_the_radiator1665]

RIP Lux Interior RIP Nick Knox awesome performance. tear it up on the astral plane!

[@justanotherspook447]

and RIP Poison Ivy

[@something_in_the_radiator1665]

@@justanotherspook447 unless i'm mistaken, i believe she lives! rad guitarist!

[@robertbikers9502]

@@justanotherspook447 She ain't dead yet, as of 2023. She is a major recluse and lives a quiet life in Glendale, CA.

[@mariosfirework]

Drugs are a hell of a drug

[@xxplosive656]

Stimulants by far

[@Goggin68]

Mostly strychnine according to one of their songs lol

[@rich_t]

On the drug train.

[@konapaddler2403]

The Cramps are a hell of a drug

[@lazlostrutz]

@@Goggin68 The Sonics "strychnine"

[@SpammerOvTheGods]

5 years tomorrow...the world needs you now more than ever, Lux. :(

[@cheekymescalito3249]

0:58 dude adjusting his glasses looks like his mind is blown completely

[@issaacxxx6202]

Looks like middle aged napolean dynamite

[@lindawhalen1325]

I wasn't there, but, I wish I had been.

[@Gentlem1]

If you love it , you were THERE.

[@lorenzazorzan1572]

Ivg0. N i8 Da inviare %9 6:00

[@ReisWorld]

Today's youth will never understand

[@brentmcintyre5529]

I can't find the words to give this performance the credit it absolutely deserves

[@xbmpr]

This performance will be 42 years old this year, jaysus and it’s still great.

[@MiLitAryFanatic91]

I feel bad for the Drummer, he got to see the full moon if you know what I mean

[@stevebermack4307]

Full Moon Fever

[@XXXEspio]

believe me, that drummer has seen a lot more than a fucking full moon :D

[@Gentlem1]

And, now , he sees all.

[@ChadVanHalen5150]

Well... He just has to look slightly to the left to get a view of Poison Ivy... So there's always that benefit

[@ottovongrubner3194]

More of a half moon. A sorta mega-plumbers crack.

[@Conn30Mtenor]

This is why I am sad for present and future generations who will never see the Cramps live.

[@BunkHarvestIII]

Poison Ivy's got to be the coolest person in rock! And Lux Interior's probably the hottest. 😆

[@SteveMorris-zb1ug]

if you like this you might like my brothers music. His name is Stu Morris

[@Chainon82]

They couldn’t film Elvis from the waist down at one point in the 50’s. This is the natural evolution of real Rock & Roll.

[@frankhamilton8257]

I was at this show at the Santa Monica Civic. I saw the Ramones at the Hollywood Paladium several months before, but nothing could have prepared me for this show. The Cramps were the perfect opener, but then came the Dead Kennedys and X to name a few. This was when punk was at it's Zenith. Lux Interior and the Cramps invented Psychobilly, and there was no other act that quite compared to their bizarre circus act. Just to give you an example, Lux emerged from underneath the drum stand in a haze of fog like a slithering snake to start the set. Like I said, no one has done what the Cramps have done before or since. Here in L.A., it was Rodney Bingenheimer who hosted a show late on Sunday Nights called "Rodney on the Rock" that indoctrinated the youth to the counterculture punk movement of the late 1970s . On any other radio station in any other time slot in history, Rodney would have been a misfit, but on KROQ at 10 O'clock and beyond. punk infiltrated the homes of every god fearing WASP family in the Southland.

[@richardpearson8653]

Frank Hamilton also there ... change d my life I was 16

[@Gentlem1]

wow....Of course , no one topped the bill on those Urgh ! shows , or you'd think they'd have been first or second. I ONLY HEARD RODNEY LIVE ON THE RADIO ONCE , When I was in LA. BUT HIS INFLUENCE IS COMPARABLE TO ALAN FREED , JOHN PEEL , ETC. , IN HIS REALM , WELL OUTSIDE OF LA OR EVEN THE US.

[@eddiegonz8719]

Plenty of non WASPS also enjoyed "Rodney On The ROQ" It was my Junior High days and skateboarding was in fashion. It was a fun mix.

[@Tucko1]

I was there too. Chelsea opened the show. The Cramps blew away my 15 year old brain. Ruined for life in the best kind of way...

[@whisky2roxy]

Rodneys show was great because he not only played punk, but also "poppier" groups like the runaways, old phil spector stuff, and emerging "new wave" groups like the pretenders and blondie

[@flyingmerkel6]

Lux Interior. now more than ever.

[@Marklar-fg9sn]

Imagine this was your son performing on high school talent night

[@steve4nj]

I would be proud as fuck

[@shanecampbell7299]

This and alien sex fiend all time fav shows ever oh don't forget Jane's addiction man the 80s fuckin rocked

[@markkendrick7547]

I saw The Cramps and Motorhead at the Pomona Valley Auditorium (The Green Room) back in 1978....The Cramps were amazing and Motorhead was so frickin loud my ears rang for several days.....🎤🎸🔥👊

[@Caesar60]

Pure rockabilly!! One of the greatest bands of the world

[@myotiswii]

This is barely rockabilly. Like the background yeah (even though the guitars go a bit too hard sometimes), but not with these vocals. Slightly rockabilly maybe

[@josefk.122]

Easily one of the best performances in the history of music. MISS YOU LUXXX

[@jasontimperley9199]

I will never get over how great this is. Never.

[@nichbellizzi496]

Lux was such a cutie up on stage.

[@jwilkins642]

Lux is fuckin crazy poison ivy is beautiful playing with her guitar wish I could have seen them play and I'm a metal head the cramps are fuckin badass

[@snilloc52]

Come on little ma'ma' pull his damn pants UP!!

[@andrewkoastephens210]

The Cramps in general were amazing but can we take a minute to appreciate that Poison Ivy changed everything about the rockabilly guitar image? Even our beloved Billy Zoom was kinda square by comparison. Anyone else playing rockabilly was just a quaint country musician. It certainly didn’t have a dangerous look and attitude by the time the 70s rolled around. Then Poison Ivy kicked it all in the nuts.

[@psychobillynumbnuts1]

So pretentious 🙄 She wasnt doing anything new The Collins Kids were already doing

[@andrewkoastephens210]

@@psychobillynumbnuts1 Did you miss the last word? Image. The perception based on visual attitude and presentation. Rockabilly musicians in the seventies presented the same image as all country dudes at the time. Old guys in flannel or occasionally an Elvis impersonator in sequins. At worst their message was that normal people can let loose sometimes, get a little tipsy, and remain basically wholesome after the hangover. The Cramps made you think you might actually die because you’re can’t tell if these people are actually from Earth or if they’re just taking a vacation from hell and you may be tainted for life from having heard them. Comparing the Collins Kids image to the Cramps image is like comparing Lawrence Welk’s image to Alice Cooper’s image. The LW orchestra musicians were shockingly talented, monster players! But Alice Cooper helped create Shock-rock and bring actual monster imagery into music.

[@The_Helltones]

Lux's pants are the real MVP

[@richardcarruthers7932]

So many years ago, we were on our way to the club to see the Cramps. Missed the sound check, but as we approached the back door, out came the band. We were curious to see what a Cramp ate for a pre-show meal, so we followed from a discreet distance. Lux had a shwarma and a coke. Ivy had a salad and Nick Knox just stood in the corner and smoked.

[@PriapeBoudu]

Lux Interior is sorely missed in the age of corporate music.

[@tonysalas99]

yes

[@kamuelalee]

In the age of crap, unoriginal music, sadly

[@kamuelalee]

@@fredriksvard2603 NOOO! There was much more great music back in the day...and more kinds of music. Now, crap.

[@kamuelalee]

@@fredriksvard2603 Well, you make good arguments but I still disagree. First, things are getting pricier due to that pesky Pandemic, crime is going up too. And Climate Change IS threatening the state of things, especially the future of Mankind. I think there were so many forms of music -- jazz, Blues, reggae, rock, country music, hip-hop -- that emerged from the 20th century or before (just this huge emergence of creative music) that you do not at all see anymore. Humans are playing with the leftovers now...in terms ot types of music. I love hip-hop but even there the last great groups or acts -- like MF Doom or Wu Tang Clan -- came out like 20 years ago. And forget about rock music, the last great bands of rock blew away in the wind back in the mid-1990s.

[@evancohen1503]

I was there. Santa Monica Civic, 40 years ago, two days from now! On the bill were X and Chelsea, can't remember who else.

[@evancohen1503]

It was Dead Kennedys. Before Fresh Fruit came out! What a show.

[@chelseatoye848]

Lux is suuuuuch a genius performer and Ivy is just the coolest

[@Christopher1889]

Godz! I wish I was there!

[@charlenemack7040]

Christopher, you were there… Sitting two rows in front of me! 😮

[@whisky2roxy]

Every once in a while we need to come back to this clip. Good for the soul.

[@NachoHarris]

They're so weird, but I like it

[@geraldsucks]

if you like this you might like my brothers music. his name is Stu Morris and Murder the ghost is a good song by him

[@mosriteminioncause7741]

The True Face of ROCK N' ROLL....R.I.P......Lux

[@geraldsucks]

if you like this you might like my brothers music. his name is Stu Morris and Murder the ghost is a good song by him

[@mosriteminioncause7741]

@@geraldsucks I'll give it the 👁👁... Stay Hip....

[@cardiac71]

There has never been a performer that gives it all they got like this. I love this band! So under ratted! Why?!?!?

[@miguelsimoes5789]

Prejudices of the masses! ✌️

[@toddwiik4474]

They suck

[@Diesel436]

It’s kinda sad punk went from this to teenage love music and pop music

[@camerondodge2070]

Depends on what punk you listen to. Here's some punk from around 2000 to now that's not teenage love music/pop music: Hank Williams 3: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2HRqq1mfNKKedk F**ked Up: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5nKgKdtjquBZqs A Day To Remember (yes, they are a pop-punk band from the 2000's, but they're also a bit of hardcore and metalcore): kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGKohImMoJmVhM0 Some 2000's pop-punk that isn't just meaningless high school fluff: Sum 41: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZPKXnaPf9J-d7c or kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoWsfHqqiseFp7c My Chemical Romance: kzbin.info/www/bejne/foSkiYmMoZ51i7c or kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaXTo2B-rax9Zqc It all depends on where you look.

[@smashcapital372]

There were plenty of punk bands that were making "teenage love music" and pop songs a couple years before this. There is also plenty of punk music now that isn't "teenage love music" or pop.

[@johndoeiii6103]

Terrible list if youre trying to prove punk isn't lame any more

[@SalmonTouchty]

I got to see The Cramps at Sunset Junction circa 2006 and they rocked harder than all the other bands at the festival who were half their age. Rip Lux :(

[@robertcaffrey6097]

This is priceless, I was 14 yr old when I first seen this back in the day and it blew me away. If Lux could kill....... back in the days when Rock N Roll was still very dangerous. The entire Urgh! a music war, is very well worth checking out.

[@SpecterSprite]

This video is 👌 I always watch until the end so I can get a good look at that Flintstones looking lady in the polkadot dress

[@mountainstartemple6041]

His pants are hanging on for all they're worth LOL

[@tjramone2053]

this is just awesome , you can feel the beat getting to you little by little and next thing you know you're just dancing like a maniac

[@maydenden1]

Love the Cramps since 1977. RIP Lux Interionr

[@GaryMalcolm]

The greatest piece of minimalist rock and roll ever made.

[@geraldsucks]

if you like this you might like my brothers music. his name is Stu Morris and Murder the ghost is a good song by him

[@kimhansen8615]

Best lyrics I've heard in a long time....

[@dripdried]

I was there as a 16 year old!! Sadly the only time I saw The Cramps, X or the Dead Kennedy's though I had ample opportunities back then. All the bands played short sets that night (5 or 6 songs I'm guessing) Alas, the great Santa Monica Civic is no more.

[@69flop]

Lucky bastard

[@corbettmalenfant2539]

Love the ending when Nick Knox kicks his set and sends that cymbal flying

[@sauluribe7082]

At least Lux Interior left his mark in punk history. Rest In Peace.

[@ashleybrown4484]

So we found the punk rock Jim Morrison! I’m obsessed

[@geraldsucks]

if you like this you might like my brothers music. his name is Stu Morris and Murder the ghost is a good song by him

[@death4metal201]

Isn't that Joy Divsion?

[@TheMysteryMachine]

MY SWEET LORD. I was 11 when i first saw this. It scarred me. And i liked it. Became a freak from that point precisely.

[@Executioner_of_Time]

Saw this at 10 years old when it first came out. Out of all the acts in Urgh! A Music War, The Cramps really captured my attention. Got to see them a few times in the 80's and 90's. Top 3 live bands ever for me.

[@flashingarrows]

WHY oh WHY are The Cramps not in the Rock & Roll hall of fame???? Abba and Madonna are in first? Or at all? Wtf!

[@0therun1t21]

Incredible version of this song! Lux was such a sexy panther, he's the epitome of everything I want in a frontman, they're all so fantastic I couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw them way back when, life changing!

[@kylabotting]

what a fucking performance!

[@Johnny3968]

joydivisiongirl Worra bag o' BOLLOCKS more like!

[@lemonsqueezermunich]

it's funny that this still does upset the purists :D

[@davidmurray5399]

I count myself lucky that between 1986 and 2002, I saw the Cramps four times. Every time they hit the Twin Cities, I would see them play. It was a "can't miss" for me. RIP Lux.

[@Trex100]

This is a masterpiece.

[@jeromedamian5740]

So , ill say hands down, the most incredible performance of a band in my lifetime. The Bird, was.20mints of hanging and, da , da da, da, da, da, da, they were trying to pull him down.

[@CrimCrim]

I want someone to love me the way Lux loves his microphone

[@RicoAlessandro]

COME ON LITTLE MAMA...TEAR THIS DAMN PLACE UP!

[@vargaso]

I was never the same after seeing this on TV at age 14. You just can't go back after The Cramps.

[@Gentlem1]

That's right. I'd read a little about them and seen their pictures in Rock Scene before I finally heard "Human Fly", and that was in '81 , and I've never looked back. Actually , a friend sang it to me , acappella , first. That was enough.....

[@rydenbrook]

THIS There is nothing else quite like it. 😊🎶✌🏻

[@DukatorDevanemn]

Lux and Ivy, the true Rock'n Roll Lovers! RIP Lux!

[@TheCougarHasSpoken]

I always thought this band originated in Texas as what they called psycho-billy back in the day. But they were thrown in with the general PUNK movement . One of my favorite bands of all time.

[@geraldsucks]

if you like this you might like my brothers music. his name is Stu Morris and Murder the ghost is a good song by him

[@michaelmalone7231]

The Cramps got lumped in with a lot of things. Goth, included.

[@OmisoXXX]

That performance blew my mind in the 80´s.. still does.