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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How many of us can remember where we were when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded?
I flew up from Florida that morning to attend my father's retirement from Ford Motor Company, after his 40 years of service as an engineer in the Experimental Vehicles Department. I walked to his office and asked his secretary if he was in. She indicated he was and said I could go in. I walked into my father's office. His back was turned to me, and he was looking out the window. I cleared my throat, and he turned around, surprised to see me. He had tears in his eyes, and I assumed it was because it was his last day at a job he truly loved. He quietly said, "Of all the days for the space shuttle to blow up, it had to be on my last day of work."
My father was a true engineer and knew that the explosion was a result of an engineering failure.
