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36 years ago today, girl power at the Bowery 🔥👊💥

L7 and Lunachicks at CBGB, May 25, 1990.

Photos by Chris Boarts Larson.

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The Damned play CBGB in 1977.

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Les monstres sacrés ➝ c'est : les nouveautés rock ✓ garage ✓ punk ✓ ciné ✓ BD et des articles et interviews

We might as well say it right away, for me the Cramps are 90% Lux & Ivy, above in 1975 and all the two at the age of 16.

Lux Interior takes its name from a car ad spotted in Ohio, after taking Raven Beauty or Vip Vop (a Marvin & Johnny song) as a nickname that he had on his driver's license. Just like Ivy had Poison Ivy noted on hers.

The Rorschach expansion came to him in a dream.

If Ivy has always stayed rather discreet about his life before the Cramps, we know that Lux was married to Joanne with whom he had a son, Mischa, and a little girl, Rachel.

The meeting between Lux, born in Stow, near Akron and Ivy, born in Sacramento, California, was then that she hitchhiked.

They then meet in the same class at the university, Lux comes to sit at the table of vy, they will not leave each other more. Initially record collectors, they dream that one of these days, they will will be able to carry out their own.

In the fall of 1975, the couple decides to emigrate to New York, it is there that they will be able to attend the shows New York Dolls or Alice Cooper, in particular, before creating their own group.

Ivy is hired as a dominatrix in a club while Lux finds a job in a record store, on the 20th February, Ivy's birthday. He befriends another salesman, a slightly weird guy, Bryan Gregory - big fan of Brian Jones, hence his first name, also born on February 20th.

A week later, Lux offers Bryan to be part of their group, even though none of the three Companions do not yet know how to play.

The next day, Bryan arrives with a Gianni guitar at $25. The Flying V (Ibanez), to which Bryan will add white polka dots – labels to display the price of the records (which were stolen from him in Bordeaux in 1980) and which he would then use originally belonged to Lux. Lux and Ivy don't have the heart to tell him that they were looking for a bass player instead. That's why early Cramps have two guitars and no bass.

In a dream, Ivy thinks of a name like Kinks. The Cramps were born.

They start by repeating each on their side

A drummer is missing. In June, Bryan Gregory brought his sister, Pam Balam, from Detroit. Rehearsals take place at the night, in the basement of the record store. The first piece repeated will be "Quick Joey Small" from Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestra Circus (Cf. the album "How To Make A Monster").

In November, the Cramps landed a small role (they castrate a guy) in the film The Foreigner by Amos Poe.

In September, Lux & Ivy meet Miriam Linna, on a walk in New York. Lux and Ivy approach him inside him saying "we know you, you're from our area, towards Cleveland. Do you know play the drums? ». Miriam replies that no, "it's a good thing Well, we're looking for a girl who can't play the drums." Miriam is says that if Moulty, the Barbarians' drummer, could play with only one hand, she should get there with two. She will stay with the group for a year.

The first concert takes place at CBGB on 1er November, opening of the Dead Boys. Disastrous concert, Ivy and Bryan having had the bad idea of putting new strings to their guitars.

November 1st

They will be grilled at CBGB for for a time (they would return as stars the following year) but found refuge in other New York clubs: Max's Kansas City, for a dozen concerts, between November 21 and the end of December, as well as at On The Rocks, for a concert.

These concerts allow them to to acquire a follow-up of fans who attend each concert. Among them the Young Howie Pyro. The local and national press also began to take an interest in them: Rock Scene, NY Rocker, Village Voice, ...

To my knowledge, the testimonies of repetitions 1976 were limited to the CD "How To Make A Monster" (summer and October) and the double bootleg single "Leaves" No Ugly Stubble ", released in the early 80's and reissued in 2001 on the LP "1976

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50 Years of The Ramones

I snapped the photo above about six weeks ago on my way to the Clem Burke Memorial. It’s been at the intersection of Bowery and East 2nd Street since 2003, and I guess I’ve seen it before, but it pleased me particularly on this occasion. It’s completely appropriate, I think: as appropriate as naming a street after Louis Armstrong or Bob Hope, anyway. (Unless you’re so square, you think THOSE are…

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