as many of you know from watching the Five, i've played the Cramps dozens of times in my intro's and outro's. I firmly believe they might be the truest incarnation of real rock and roll since Jerry Lee Lewis.
This review of their debut album, "Songs the Lord Taught Us" nails it completely. Produced by Alex Chilton, it was a brilliant fiery alien mess. I bought it 40 years ago, and I still play it almost every week. I even learned the song "TV Set" when i started playing guitar again (If you ever want to hear a great remake of this song, check out what Spoon did with it).
one of my great regrets: I spent an evening at Lux and Poison's house in southern california, getting drunk. I brought them a lamp as a gift. I took notes and recorded the evening. Less than a week later I was fired from my job as editor in chief for Stuff Magazine, so the article which was going to be called "My Dinner with the Cramps" never ran (and was never written). I have no idea where that micro-cassette went. I moved to LA for a bit, then to London. Somewhere that cassette is in a cardboard box, buried forever among other boxes. It crushes me.
So here's the article. It might get you to investigate a legendary band. if you're not used to "psychobilly," you might hate it. But any flippant dismissals, or any deviation from the topic to angry political rants, on this happy post, will earn you a flippant dismissal from me!
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-cramps-songs-the-lord-taught-us/
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Hey Gutter Miracles good afternoon. 2 things popped up. 1st Harold brought up that Joe Kent resigned from the DJT administration, to defend the Regressives position on the Iranian war. I didn't know who he was. They just announced on Larua that he's under investigation for leaking classified top security documents and showed hi picture! The guy has 3 inch sideburns! Simple Truth Anything over an inch means don't trust me!
2nd thing the leader of NATO said the European leaders are discussing how to protect the straits of Hurmos! Excuse me they have known that the straits have been vital to there security for frickin years! Your military leaders should have already created defensive plans to keep it open for years. Russia and China have gotta be has excited as hell to realize how frickin weak Europe is right now, they have been banking on the USA defending them so much that they don't even remember what it takes to protect there security to the point that they are as vulnerable as they were...
