Halloween with The Cramps

I can’t resist one more Halloween post.

The Cramps used to play every year in San Francisco on Halloween (usually at The Warfield, but also at The Fillmore).  I usually ended up going alone, but a couple of times I was able to persuade friends to go and they ended up enjoying themselves.  (Why don’t people learn?  Miss Kim won’t steer you wrong!)

One of the funniest shows was at The Warfield when Lux Interior was drinking from a bottle of wine and scaled up to the balcony with a blow-up doll to put on a show up there.  He later threw his microphone stand down and almost hit Poison Ivy, but she kept playing while shaking her head at him.  Eventually, he broke the wine bottle so he could start cutting at his skin-tight body suit, but he accidentally cut himself and had blood running down his leg.

Unfortunately, Lux passed away a few months ago and The Cramps are no more, but I’ll never forget the energy and humor of their music and those shows.  Here’s a little taste of what they were like live!