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The Cramps
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The Cramps were an American rockabilly band, formed in 1976 and active until 2009. The band split after the death of lead singer Lux Interior and their line-up rotated much over their existence, with the husband and wife duo of Interior and lead guitarist and occasional bass guitarist Poison Ivy the only permanent members. The addition of guitarist Bryan Gregory and drummer Pam Ballam resulted in the first complete lineup in April 1976 and they were part of the early CBGB punk rock movement that had emerged in New York. The Cramps are noted as influencing a number of styles, not only were they one of the first punk bands. Their music is mostly in form, played at varying tempos. An integral part of the early Cramps sound was dual guitars, the focus of their songs lyrical content and their image was camp humor, sexual double-entendre, and retro horror/sci-fi b-movie iconography. They also were influenced to a degree by the Ramones and Screamin Jay Hawkins, in turn, The Cramps have influenced countless subsequent bands in the garage, punk and revival rockabilly styles, and helped create the psychobilly genre. Psychobilly was a term coined1 by The Cramps, although Lux Interior maintained that the term did not describe their own style, Lux Interior and Poison Ivy met in Sacramento, California in 1972. In light of their artistic interests and shared devotion to record collecting. Lux took his name from a car ad, and Ivy claimed to have received hers in a dream. In 1973, they moved to Akron, Ohio, and then to New York in 1975, soon entering into CBGBs early punk scene with other emerging acts like the Ramones, Patti Smith, Television, and Mink DeVille. The lineup in 1976 was Poison Ivy Rorschach, Lux Interior, Bryan Gregory, in a short period of time, the Cramps changed drummers twice, Miriam Linna replaced Pam Ballam, and Nick Knox replaced Linna in September 1977. R. S. Their first tour of Great Britain was as supporting act to The Police on that bands first UK tour promoting Outlandos dAmour, once back to the east coast, they played the revamped 40s swing club The Meadowbrook in New Jersey, which had a huge stage and dance floor. The Cramps were the act, with opening set by Nozon. The Cramps relocated to Los Angeles in 1980 and hired guitarist Kid Congo Powers of The Gun Club, while recording their second LP, Psychedelic Jungle, the band and Miles Copeland began to dispute royalties and creative rights. The ensuing court case prevented them from releasing anything until 1983, mike Metoff of The Pagans was the final second guitarist – albeit only live – of the Cramps pre-bass era. He accompanied them on an extensive European tour in 1984 which included four sold out nights at the Hammersmith Palais and they also recorded performances of Thee Most Exalted Potentate of Love and You Got Good Taste which were broadcast on The Midsummer Nights Tube 1984. Smell of Female peaked at No.74 in the UK Albums Chart, the band appears in the 1982 film Urgh
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Psychobilly
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Psychobilly is a fusion genre of rock music that mixes elements of punk rock, rock and roll, rockabilly, and rhythm and blues. It is one of several subgenres of rockabilly which also include thrashabilly, punkabilly, surfabilly and gothabilly, merriam-Webster defines it as music that blends punk rock and rockabilly, another dictionary defines it as loud frantic rockabilly music. Psychobilly, while rooted in the twang of rockabilly, owes just as much to the sound of straight up three-chord punk, Psychobilly bands and lyrics usually take an apolitical stance, a reaction to the right- and left-wing political attitudes which divided other British youth cultures. Many psychobilly bands are trios of guitar, upright bass and drums. Psychobilly gained underground popularity in Europe beginning in the early 1980s, with the UK band The Meteors, the second wave of psychobilly began with the 1986 release of British band Demented Are Gos debut album In Sickness & In Health. The genre soon spread throughout Europe, inspiring a number of new such as Mad Sin and the Nekromantix. The evolution of psychobilly as a genre is described as having occurred in waves. In the mid- to late 1970s, as punk rock became popular, several rockabilly and garage rock bands appeared who would influence the development of psychobilly. The term psychobilly was first used in the lyrics to the country song One Piece at a Time, written by Wayne Kemp for Johnny Cash, the lyrics describe the construction of a psychobilly Cadillac using stolen auto parts. It wasnt meant as a style of music, nevertheless, The Cramps, along with artists such as Screamin Jay Hawkins, are considered important precursors to psychobilly. Their 1979 album Songs the Lord Taught Us is considered influential to the formation of the psychobilly genre, about. com calls The Meteors the first true psychobilly band and notes their blend of the themes of horror, punk and rockabilly. They were the first band to use the term Psychobilly as a description of their music, formed in South London in 1980, they are considered the first verifiable psychobilly band. Their albums In Heaven and Wreckin Crew are recognized as landmarks of the years of the genre. Starting in the scene, the Meteors were quickly shunned for being too different. Excuses for exclusion from rockabilly concerts varied from the band having too extreme of a sound to their drummer having green hair, the Meteors blended elements of punk rock, rockabilly, and horror film themes in their music. Another commentator argues that The Misfits American Nightmare may have been the first psychobilly song, the Meteors also articulated psychobillys apolitical stance, a reaction to the right- and left-wing political attitudes which divided other British youth cultures. Fans of The Meteors, known as the Crazies, are attributed with inventing the style of slam dancing known as wrecking. The short-lived Sharks, formed in Bristol in 1980, followed closely behind The Meteors with their influential album Phantom Rockers, Demented Are Go are a Welsh psychobilly band that was formed around 1982 in Cardiff
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Illegal Records
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Illegal Records was an independent record label, founded by Miles Copeland III with his younger brother Stewart Copeland and the manager of The Police, Paul Mulligan in 1977. The label released The Polices debut single, Fall Out, Copeland went on to sign more artists and start several other indie sublabels including Deptford Fun City Records, Step-Forward Records and Total Noise Records. He also launched the divisions, France & Netherlands, that released some of the same titles with different catalogue numbers. In 1979, after Copeland started I. R. S, Records, Illegal became its distributor in UK and Europe. It continued its operations until 1988, when it merged its operations with I. R. S, Deptford Fun City Records - Outlet for Deptford bands such as Alternative TV and Squeeze. Step-Forward Records - Sublabel for Punk bands such as Chelsea, The Fall & The Cortinas, list of record labels, I–Q Discogs page
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Alex Chilton
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William Alexander Alex Chilton was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, best known as the lead singer of the Box Tops and Big Star. He is frequently cited as an influence by influential rock artists and bands, some of whose testimonials appeared in the 2012 documentary Big Star. Chilton grew up in a family, his father, Sidney Chilton, was a jazz musician. The new group recorded with Chips Moman and producer/songwriter Dan Penn at American Sound Studio, as lead singer for The Box Tops, Chilton enjoyed at the age of 16 a number-one international hit, The Letter. The Box Tops went on to have several other major hits, including Neon Rainbow, Cry Like a Baby, Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March. By late 1969, only Chilton and guitarist Gary Talley remained from the original group, the group decided to disband and pursue independent careers in February 1970. After deciding against pursuing an education at Memphis State University, Chilton began performing as a solo artist. His 1970 recordings and productions from that time frame were released later in the 1980s and 1990s on albums like Lost Decade and 1970. During this era, Chilton was considered as a replacement vocalist for Al Kooper in Blood, Chilton and Bell co-wrote In The Street for Big Stars first album #1 Record, a track later covered by Cheap Trick and used as the theme song of That 70s Show. Rosebrough would occasionally work with Chilton on later recordings, including Big Stars Third album, there he made the acquaintance of The Cramps, a formative psychobilly ensemble. He brought them to Memphis, to which he had moved back to by April 1978, in 1979, Chilton released, in a limited edition of 500 copies, the album Like Flies on Sherbert. Produced by Chilton with Jim Dickinson at Phillips Recording and Ardent Studios it features his own interpretations of songs by artists as disparate as the Carter Family, newman, Ernest Tubb, and KC and the Sunshine Band, along with several originals. While criticized by some as a mess, this album is considered by many to be a lo-fi masterpiece. The second show, at the Camden club Dingwalls, was recorded and he also continued to work with Tav Falcos Panther Burns on stage and in the studio during this period. The group played a string of shows in the fall in Chicago, philadelphia, New York, and New Jersey, this would be Chiltons last tour for three years. He resumed playing with Panther Burns in 1983 and he stopped playing regular gigs with Panther Burns and formed a trio with the groups bassist, Coman, and drummer Joey Torres to play his out-of-town bookings. Chiltons business relationship with Mathé would last the rest of his life, in the U. S. Chiltons solo releases were released by the Big Time, Razor & Tie, Ardent, and Bar/None record labels. In 1985, Chilton began working with Memphis jazz drummer Doug Garrison, six songs were recorded at Ardent Studios for the 1985 EP Feudalist Tarts, three originals joined by songs from the catalogs of Carla Thomas, Slim Harpo, and Willie Tee
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Smell of Female
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Smell of Female is the first live album by the American garage punk band the Cramps. It was also released by New Rose as a box set, with an additional track. It was later expanded to album length with three bonus tracks, all tracks written by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach except where indicated. The Cramps Lux Interior - vocals, harmonica, percussion Poison Ivy Rorschach - lead guitar, bass Kid Congo Powers - guitar Nick Knox - drums Technical Paul McKenna - engineer Da Lux - cover
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Bad Music for Bad People
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Bad Music for Bad People is the second compilation album of previously released material by the American garage punk band the Cramps. It was released in 1984 on I. R. S, all tracks written by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach, except where indicated. Lux Interior - vocals Bryan Gregory - guitar Kid Congo Powers - guitar Poison Ivy Rorschach - guitar Nick Knox - drums
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Anaglyph 3D
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Anaglyph 3D is the name given to the stereoscopic 3D effect achieved by means of encoding each eyes image using filters of different colors, typically red and cyan. Anaglyph 3D images contain two differently filtered colored images, one for each eye, when viewed through the color-coded anaglyph glasses, each of the two images reaches the eye its intended for, revealing an integrated stereoscopic image. The visual cortex of the brain fuses this into perceptive tion of a scene or composition. Anaglyph images have seen a recent resurgence due to the presentation of images and video on the Web, Blu-ray Discs, CDs, low cost paper frames or plastic-framed glasses hold accurate color filters that typically, after 2002, make use of all 3 primary colors. The current norm is red and cyan, with red being used for the left channel, the cheaper filter material used in the monochromatic past dictated red and blue for convenience and cost. There is an improvement of full color images, with the cyan filter. Video games, theatrical films, and DVDs can be shown in the anaglyph 3D process, practical images, for science or design, where depth perception is useful, include the presentation of full scale and microscopic stereographic images. Examples from NASA include Mars Rover imaging, and the investigation, called STEREO. Other applications include geological illustrations by the United States Geological Survey, a recent application is for stereo imaging of the heart using 3D ultra-sound with plastic red/cyan glasses. Anaglyph images are much easier to view than either parallel or crossed-view pairs stereograms, however, these side-by-side types offer bright and accurate color rendering, not easily achieved with anaglyphs. Recently, cross-view prismatic glasses with adjustable masking have appeared, that offer an image on the new HD video. Template, 3D Glasses The oldest known description of anaglyph images was written in August 1853 by W. Rollmann in Stargard about his Farbenstereoscope and he had the best results viewing a yellow/blue drawing with red/blue glasses. Rollmann found that with a drawing the red lines were not as distinct as yellow lines through the blue glass. In 1858 Joseph DAlmeida began projecting three-dimensional magic lantern slide shows using red and green filters with the audience wearing red, louis Ducos du Hauron produced the first printed anaglyphs in 1891. This process consisted of printing the two negatives which form a photograph on to the same paper, one in blue. The viewer would then use coloured glasses with red and blue or green, the left eye would see the blue image which would appear black, whilst it would not see the red, similarly the right eye would see the red image, this registering as black. Thus a three dimensional image would result, william Friese-Green created the first three-dimensional anaglyphic motion pictures in 1889, which had public exhibition in 1893. 3-D films enjoyed something of a boom in the 1920s, the term 3-D was coined in the 1950s
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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Sounds magazine
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Sounds was a long-term UK weekly pop/rock music newspaper, published from 10 October 1970 to 6 April 1991. It was produced by Spotlight Publications, which was set up by Jack Hutton and Peter Wilkinson, who left Melody Maker to start their own company. Sounds was their first project, a paper devoted to progressive rock and described by Hutton, to those he was attempting to recruit from his former publication. Sounds was intended to be a rival to titles such as Melody Maker. It was well known for giving away posters in the centre of the paper and later for covering heavy metal, the papers editors realised the importance of its regional audience and had freelancers across the UK contributing gig reviews and articles about up-and-coming local bands. Keith Cameron wrote about Nirvana after Robb carried out the first ever interview with them. One of the trinity of British music weeklies, along with NME and Melody Maker, Sounds folded in 1991 after the parent company, United Newspapers, a legacy of Sounds was the creation of the heavy metal/rock magazine Kerrang. Which was originally issued as a supplement before being spun off as a separate publication, sutherland and Russ Carvells UT strip, Photographers Andy Phillips, Virginia Turbett, Paul Slattery, Ross Halfin, Janette Beckman. Comic strips that were published in Sounds by Alan Moore Reviews and features published in Sounds by Mick Sinclair Photos published in Sounds by Simon Clegg
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Lux Interior
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Erick Lee Purkhiser, better known as Lux Interior, was an American singer and a founding member of the rockabilly band The Cramps from 1972 until his death in 2009 at age 62. Born in Akron, Ohio, he grew up in its suburb of Stow. He met his wife Kristy Wallace, better known as Poison Ivy, Ivy Rorschach, in Sacramento in 1972, when he and a friend picked her up when she was hitchhiking. The couple founded the band after they moved from California to Ohio in 1973, and then to New York in 1975, where they soon became part of the flourishing punk scene. Lux Interiors name came from an old car commercial, having flirted with the names Vip Vop and Raven Beauty. Interior was known for a frenetic and provocative stage show included high heels, near-nudity. His speciality was the blow job, where he could get the entire head of an SM-58 microphone into his mouth. The Cramps gave their last show in November 2006, tom Kenny, who voices SpongeBob, attended his memorial ceremony in 2009. Interior was also a painter and visual artist, in particular he was a 3D camera collector and enthusiast with which he created artworks and collages. Lux Interior died at 4,30 a. m. on February 4,2009, the cause of death was aortic dissection. He is survived by his wife Ivy and two brothers, Michael Purkhiser and Ronald Skip Purkhiser, the memorial service for Lux was held on February 21 at the Windmill Chapel of the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine. Luxs brother Michael also provided insight into his relationship with Lux in a newspaper article, official Site of The Cramps Obituary Obituary Lux Lives – Long Live Lux Interior in Trebuchet Magazine
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Poison Ivy (musician)
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Kristy Marlana Wallace, known as Poison Ivy or Poison Ivy Rorschach, is a guitarist, songwriter, arranger, producer, and occasional vocalist who co-founded the American rockabilly band The Cramps. Ivy was born in San Bernardino, California and raised near Sacramento, in 1972, while attending Sacramento State College, Wallace met future Cramps singer Lux Interior. Two years later moved to his hometown of Akron, Ohio. In 1976, as part of the punk rock scene. They quickly gained a reputation for their unusual, rockabilly-inspired music, songs written by Poison Ivy/Lux Interior and performed by other artists include Human Fly, New Kind of Kick, and Thee Most Exalted Potentate of Love. Early on, Ivy used a clear plexiglass Dan Armstrong guitar, since 1985 she has mostly used a 1958 Gretsch 6120 hollow-body. She uses Fender Pro Reverb amplifiers onstage, and smaller Valco, throughout The Cramps career Ivy co-wrote with Lux Interior all of the groups original songs and provided the arrangements for songs they covered. She produced or co-produced several of their albums and singles, sang on the songs Kizmiaz and Get Off the Road and she was married to Cramps singer Lux Interior, with whom she had been for 37 years, until his death on February 4,2009. Official Site of The Cramps Media related to Poison Ivy at Wikimedia Commons
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Sam Phillips
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He was a producer, label owner, and talent scout throughout the 1940s and 1950s. He was the founder of both Sun Studio and Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, through Sun, Phillips discovered such recording talent as Howlin Wolf, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash. The height of his success culminated in his launching of Elvis Presleys career in 1954 and he is also associated with several other noteworthy rhythm and blues, country, and rock and roll musicians of the period. Phillips sold Sun in 1969 to Shelby Singleton and he was an early investor in the Holiday Inn chain of hotels. He also advocated racial equality and helped break down barriers in the music industry. Phillips was the youngest of eight children, born on a farm near Florence, Alabama, to tenant farmers, Madge Ella. As a child, he picked cotton in the fields with his parents alongside black laborers, the experience of hearing workers singing in the fields left a big impression on the young Phillips. Traveling through Memphis with his family in 1939 on the way to see a preacher in Dallas, he slipped off to look at Beale Street, I just fell totally in love, he later recalled. Phillips attended the former Coffee High School in Florence and he conducted the school band and had ambitions to be a criminal defense attorney. However, his father was bankrupted by the Great Depression and died in 1941, forcing Phillips to leave school to look after his mother. To support the family Phillips worked in a store and then a funeral parlor. In the 1940s, Phillips worked as a DJ and radio engineer for Muscle Shoals radio station WLAY, according to Phillips, this radio stations open format would later inspire his work in Memphis. Beginning in 1945, he worked for four years as an announcer, on January 3,1950, Phillips opened the Memphis Recording Service at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. The Memphis Recording Service let amateurs perform, which drew performers such as B. B. King, Junior Parker, Phillips then would sell their performances to larger record labels. In addition to performances, Phillips recorded events such as weddings and funerals. The Memphis Recording Service also served as the studio for Phillipss own label, Phillips combined different styles of music. He was interested in the blues and said, The blues, it got people—black and white—to think about life, how difficult and they would sing about it, they would pray about it, they would preach about it. This is how they relieved the burden of what existed day in, the recording was released on the Chess/Checker record label in Chicago, in 1951
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Surfin' Bird
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Surfin Bird is a song performed by American surf rock band The Trashmen, and it is also the name of the album that featured this hit single. It was released in 1963 and reached No.4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and it is a combination of two R&B hits by The Rivingtons, Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow and The Birds the Word. The Rivingtons followed up their 1962 Billboard Hot 100 hit Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow with the similar The Birds the Word in 1963, the Trashmen had not heard this version but saw a band called The Sorensen Brothers playing it. They decided to play the song that night at their own gig, during this first performance, drummer and vocalist Steve Wahrer stopped playing and ad-libbed the Surfin Bird middle section. Despite not knowing The Birds the Word was a Rivingtons song, a local disc jockey, Bill Diehl, was at the gig and convinced the band to record the track. It was recorded at Kay Bank Studios in Minneapolis, Diehl entered it into a local battle of the bands competition and it won. It was then sent to a battle of the competition in Chicago where it also won. This led to the group being signed to Garrett Records with the single being quickly released and it reportedly sold 30,000 copies in its first weekend before going on to national success, reaching No.4 on the Billboard Hot 100. Wahrer was originally credited as the writer, but that was changed to the Rivingtons after the group successfully sued The Trashmen for plagiarism. The Cramps often end their concerts with the song, paul Reubens covered the song on the soundtrack of the film Back to the Beach. Surfin Bird was covered by the Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo on the maxi single The Bird in 1993, orbital sampled heavily from the original version on Tension from their 2001 album The Altogether. Surfin Bird was covered by The Ramones on their Rocket To Russia album, Surfin Bird was covered by Sodom on their 2001 album M-16. Surfin Bird was covered by Phil Streva in 1989, release on the EP Catahoula in 2010. A man lip-synchs his anus to the tune of this song in one scene of John Waterss 1972 exploitation comedy, the song is also featured in the I Dream of Jesus Family Guy episode, in which Peter Griffin overhears the song at a diner. He proceeds to annoy his family by playing the song virtually nonstop for the rest of the episode and it has since become a running gag on the show. In a subsequent episode it is revealed that Peter served as the inspiration for the song, having used Stewies time machine to travel into the past where he sang it for the Trash Men. In the movie The Big Year, Jack Blacks character Brad Harris has Surfin Bird as his cellphone ringtone, biography and discography of The Trashmen Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics surfin bird references Music video on YouTube. on YouTube
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The Trashmen
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The Trashmen were a rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1962. The groups original lineup was Tony Andreason on lead guitar and vocals, Dal Winslow on guitar and vocals, Steve Wahrer on drums and vocals, the group played surf rock which included elements from garage rock. They have been described as being, along with Colorado-based band the Astronauts, the Trashmens biggest hit was 1963s Surfin Bird, which reached No.4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the latter part of that year. The song was a combination of two R&B hits by the Rivingtons, The Birds the Word and Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow, early pressings of the single credit the Trashmen as composers, but following a threat from the Rivingtons legal counsel, that group was subsequently credited as composers. The early single was credited solely to the drummer, Steve Wahrer, the song was later re-recorded by artists including the Ramones, the Cramps, Silverchair, the Psychotic Petunias, Pee-Wee Herman, Equipe 84, and the thrash metal band Sodom. The track debuted in the UK Top Ten for the first time on December 19, the Trashmen went on to have other hit singles. In 1964, Bird Dance Beat reached No.30 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and was a top 10 hit in Canada, the group released a total of fourteen singles. A four-CD box set of their work was released by Sundazed Records, the group disbanded in 1967 but reunited in the 1980s, playing together until the death of Steve Wahrer, of cancer, in 1989. Tony Andreasons brother Mark replaced Wahrer as drummer, reeds son Robin joined as a touring member in 2009 on drums, filling in for Mark Andreason. In 1999, the Trashmen played at the Las Vegas Grind and have played gigs, including Chicago, Spain, Chicago, Wisconsin. They toured Europe 2008 with gigs in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Belgium, Italy, following up again in 2010, they added Norway, Sweden and Finland to the mix. The band went back into retirement in 2016, vH1. com, The Trashmen History of Rock – The Trashmen Birdland Revisited,35 years ago teen rock like the Trashmens Surfin Bird caught a wave across the prairies – and rode it into adulthood
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Fever (Little Willie John song)
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Fever is a song written by Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell, who used the pseudonym John Davenport. It was originally recorded by American R&B singer Little Willie John in 1956, the song managed to top the Billboard R&B Best Sellers in the US and peak at number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was received positively by critics and included on several lists of the best songs during the time it was released. It has been covered by artists from various musical genres, most notably by Peggy Lee whose rendition became the most widely known version of Fever. Lees version contained rewritten lyrics different from the original and an altered music arrangement and it became a top-five hit on the music charts in the UK and Australia in addition to entering the top ten in the US and the Netherlands. Fever was nominated in three categories at the 1st Annual Grammy Awards in 1959, including Record of the Year, other notable cover versions of Fever include those by Elvis Presley, The McCoys, La Lupe, Beyoncé and Madonna. The latter released it as a single from her studio album Erotica in March 1993 through Warner Bros. It topped the charts in Finland and the Hot Dance Club Songs in the US in addition to charting in the top 50 in many other countries. Madonna promoted Fever by filming and releasing a video directed by Stéphane Sednaoui. Various versions of Fever by different artists were used in films, theater plays. The idea for Fever was presented to Otis Blackwell by an old friend, Eddie Cooley, who in 1956 had a hit song called Priscilla. Blackwell said, Eddie Cooley was a friend of mine from New York and he called me up and said Man, I got an idea for a song called Fever, but I cant finish it. I had to write it under another name because, at that time, Little Willie John reportedly disliked the song, but was persuaded to record it, on March 1,1956, by King Records owner Syd Nathan and arranger and producer Henry Glover. Fever is a soul and rhythm and blues minor key opus with an arrangement consisting of low saxophones played by Ray Felder and Rufus Nose Gore, the vocal style of Willie John is similar to moaning and he is backed by finger snaps. Bill Dahl from the website AllMusic noted a contrast between the songs arrangement and the vocals along with the finger snapping which marginally lightened the mood. Fever was released as a single in April 1956 and became a hit along with the top-ten R&B song Letter from My Darling. Fever reached number one for three weeks on the Billboard R&B Best Sellers chart in the United States, peaking at the top on July 21,1956 and it also made the pop charts, peaking at number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song has one million copies in the US
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Hasil Adkins
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Hasil Adkins /ˈhæsəl/ was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His genres include rock and roll, country, blues and more commonly rockabilly and he generally performed as a one-man band, playing guitar and drums at the same time. Adkins grew up in poverty in the midst of the Depression, the newfound popularity secured him a cult following, spawned the Norton Records label, and helped usher in the genre known as psychobilly. Adkins was born in Boone County, West Virginia on April 29,1937 and he was the youngest of ten children of Wid Adkins, a coal miner, and Alice Adkins, raised in a tarpaper shack on property rented from a local coal company. Born at the time of the Great Depression, Adkins early life was stricken by poverty and his parents were unable to provide him shoes until he was four or five years old. Some reports say he attended school for a brief time. Adkins given name, Hasil, pronounced Hassel, was often mispronounced, One of his brothers was named Basil, similarly pronounced Bassel. Hasil dated a girl named Hazel, and was given the nickname The Haze. As he explained it, the nickname came about cause Starlight records wanted something catchy, Hasil Adkins loved to eat meat, specifically poultry, the subject of many of his songs. Following the release of 2000s Poultry in Motion, Adkins toured with dancing go-go chicken dancers and his diet also reportedly consisted of as much as two gallons of coffee a day, and copious amounts of liquor and cigarettes. Aside from his fondness for meat, Adkins claimed to have, All three of got me into trouble over the years. One such incident occurred in 1957 when he and three friends drove a car off a mountain, a local newspaper reported the car tumbled 70 feet into nearby Pond Fork. While the driver died at the scene, Adkins survived, although he sustained a permanent back injury, in the 1980s Adkins again found himself in trouble with the law. In 1983 he was living with his girlfriend who was still a minor and her mother reported to police that she had been raped, and Adkins was subsequently charged with third-degree sexual assault, although the girl insisted the sexual acts were consensual. In October the same year, another relationship ended with jail time, no one was hurt, but Adkins was charged with felony illegal possession of a shotgun and spent five months in jail. Adkins was said to have suffered from depression and insomnia among other mental illnesses. On April 15,2005, Adkins was deliberately run over in his front yard by a teenager on an ATV, ten days later, on April 26, Adkins was found dead in his home, two days before his 68th birthday. Nicknamed The Haze, Adkins career began in the mid 1950s in a studio in his home near Madison
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Miriam Linna
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Miriam Linna has run the Brooklyn-based independent record label Norton Records since 1986 with her husband, the producer and singer-songwriter Billy Miller. Her skill as a drummer earned her a May I recommend, nod from Bob Dylan on his XM Theme Time Radio Hour program in January 2007. Linna is part of the collective of musicians emerged from the Cleveland, Ohio punk rock scene, including the Dead Boys. When the re-formed Rocket from the Tombs performed in Hoboken, New Jersey in 2003, Linna was the second drummer for The Cramps, a brief but curiously lingering association in the minds of many. Linna left The Cramps to join the rock and roll band Nervus Rex, after performing with the Zantees, Linna and Miller launched The A-Bones. The A-Bones released two 10 EPs, followed by four albums between 1991 and 1996. The A-Bones have regrouped in recent years and continue to perform, most recently in Spain with Little Richard, Andre Williams, Linna also played drums on Maureen Tuckers 1994 album Dogs Under Stress. In 2014, as Miriam, Linna released her first solo album on Norton, Nobodys Baby, the album features Linna singing over distinctly Phil Spector- and Jack Nitzsche-inspired arrangements of a selection of mostly obscure cover songs from the 1960s. Music journalist and blogger Lindsay Hutton wrote, Everything about Nobodys Baby is a triumph, the sound. Norton released her followup LP, Down Today, in 2015, Linnas past magazine ventures include Kicks, Smut Peddler and Bad Seed. Her lengthy liner notes for Norton and other labels display an unusual writing style of word play. In 1997, Linna and Miller published The Great Lost Photographs of Eddie Rocco, in 2004, Linna co-edited Sin-A-Rama, Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties, also contributing an article, Ron Haydock aka Vin Saxon, about the twisted career of novelist-musician Ron Haydock. In 2009, her paperback book company, Kicks Books, launched with the publication of Sweets, subsequent books have included This Planet Is Doomed, a collection of Sun Ras poetry, and Pulling a Train and Getting in the Wind, previously uncollected short stories by Harlan Ellison. Linna also co-authored a biography of Texas musician Bobby Fuller, I Fought the Law, Linna owns one of the worlds largest private collections of vintage paperbacks, including complete runs of Avon, Beacon, Signet and others. Her collection includes over 500 juvenile delinquent paperbacks, and she featured the covers of some of these in her book Bad Seed, A Postcard Book, published in 1992 by Running Press. However, Bangs and Linnas mutual friend James Marshall refutes this accusation, It was obvious the photo was a goof, in reality, Lester was pissed at Miriam because Kicks mag had rejected an article he wrote about No Wave. No way in hell is Miriam any sort of racist and Lester knew it
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Jim Sclavunos
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James Jim Sclavunos is an American drummer, multi-instrumentalist musician, record producer and writer. He is best known as a drummer, having been a member of two seminal no wave groups in the late 1970s and he is also noted for stints in Sonic Youth and the Cramps, and has been a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds since 1994. Sclavunos has led his own group the Vanity Set since 2000, Sclavunos, a half-Greek and half-Italian from Brooklyn, New York, was memorably described in the pages of The Wire as an infamous elegant degenerate. He has also toured with Lunch, Alex Chilton and Wreckless Eric, further to his work as a musician, Sclavunos has produced a wide range of bands including Gogol Bordello, the Horrors, the Jim Jones Revue and Black Moth. He has done several remixes, both on his own and as one half of Silver Alert, the composition premiered at the 2013 Sonica Festival in Glasgow. C. U. M. Nick Cave & Jim Sclavunos Of Grinderman Interviewed Lux Interior Obituary Twenty Minutes in Manhattan by Michael Sorkin So good, they made it illegal – The Guardian
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Sean Yseult
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Sean Yseult is an American rock musician. She has played various instruments with different bands over the years and she married Supagroup musician Chris Lee on January 12,2008, in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she lives. She once owned and ran a bar popular among artists and musicians, The Saint. Yseult played bass in White Zombie for 11 years before they disbanded in 1998, in 1996, she participated along with Jay Yuenger in the tribute band to the Germs called Ruined Eye. After the breakup of White Zombie in September 1998, Yseult started playing bass for the band Rock City Morgue and she formed the Famous Monsters in 1995 which also featured Katie Lynn Campbell, bassist for the Toronto-based Cmon. She plays bass in the band, Star & Dagger, which recorded an album at a studio in Joshua Tree, which was released in 2012. On November 1,2010, Yseult released Im in the Band, before her days as a bassist, Yseult attended North Carolina School of the Arts for high school where she studied ballet and piano. Yseult earned her degree in design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. It was there that she first met Rob Zombie after he had a friend ask her out for him in the schools cafeteria, recently, Yseult has begun a design line featuring hand drawn graphics with bold colors. Yseult has also recently joined artist Louis St. Lewis in forming the collaborative art duo of Lewis & Yseult, recent shows include exhibitions in New Orleans, North Carolina and Paris as well as CBGBs 315 gallery in NYC to benefit the ailing nightclub. Yseult has also been a member of The Rawk Show – Fine Art by Musicians, in Texas. Sean Yseults official website Rock City Morgue, The Boy Who Cried Werewolf Sean Yseult designs New York Times Vows Column, February 3,2008 RockBookShow interview about Seans Book, Im In The Band
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Gravest Hits
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It was released in July 1979 on Illegal Records and I. R. S. The tracks were all produced by Alex Chilton and recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis in 1977, the EPs liner notes were credited to Dr. J. H. Sasfy, Professor of Rockology, American RocknRoll Institute, Washington D. C. Gravest Hits is one of the first records of both the rockabilly revival and the psychobilly genres, the photograph on the back of the original sleeve, of the band in performance, was taken at the Palladium theater in New York. Human Fly appeared in episode 4 of the UK ITV comedy drama series Married Single Other as Clint scaled four floors of a block of flats in Leeds to try to recover his relationship with Abbie. A cover version of the song by Hanni El Khatib also appeared in a Nissan television advertisement, another cover version was recorded by the Serbian alternative rock band Supernaut on their 2006 album Eli. Lux Interior - vocals Poison Ivy Rorschach - guitar Bryan Gregory - guitar Nick Knox - drums
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Psychedelic Jungle
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Psychedelic Jungle is the second album by the American garage punk band the Cramps. It was released in May 1981 on I. R. S and it was engineered by Paul McKenna and recorded in January 1981 at A&M Studios. It was self-produced by the Cramps, the photo on the back cover of the album was taken by the noted photographer and director Anton Corbijn. Single Goo Goo Muck later appeared on the soundtrack to the 1986 film Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, all tracks written by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach, except where indicated
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A Date with Elvis (The Cramps album)
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A Date with Elvis is the third full-length studio album by the American garage punk band the Cramps, released in the UK on Big Beat Records in 1986. The title was appropriated from A Date with Elvis, the album by Elvis Presley. The album was recorded in fall 1985 and engineered by Steve McMillan and Mark Ettel at Ocean Way Studios in Hollywood, California. The album was first released in the US in 1990 by Enigma Records, with the bonus tracks Blue Moon Baby, Georgia Lee Brown, Give Me a Woman, the Cramps reissued the album on their own Vengeance Records in 2001. The original album was reissued in the UK by Big Beat in 2013 on orange vinyl, the album was dedicated to Ricky Nelson, whose version of the song Lonesome Town was a US hit single in 1958. It is also significant in that it is the only Cramps album that features Poison Ivy on lead vocals, all tracks written by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach, except where noted
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Stay Sick!
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Stay Sick. is the fourth studio album by the American garage punk band the Cramps. It was released on February 12,1990 by Enigma Records, recorded at Music Finder in Hollywood, California, the album was self-produced by Cramps guitarist Poison Ivy and engineered by Steve McMillan. It was the last studio album to feature founding drummer Nick Knox, Bikini Girls with Machine Guns was the bands only UK Top 40 single, reaching No.35 in 1989. The Cramps reissued the album on their own Vengeance Records in 2001 and this edition contained four bonus tracks, Bikini Girls with Machine Guns, Beat Out My Love, Jailhouse Rock and Jackyard Backoff. All tracks written by Lux Interior and Ivy Rorschach, except where indicated, the Cramps Lux Interior - vocals Poison Ivy Rorschach - guitar Candy Del Mar - bass guitar Nick Knox - drums Technical Steve Macmillan - engineer Lux Interior - front cover photography
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Look Mom No Head!
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Look Mom No Head. is the fifth studio album and the 10th album overall by the American garage punk band the Cramps. It was released in November 1991 by Restless/Enigma, and licensed to Ace Records under Big Beat in the UK and it was recorded and mixed by Steve McMillan at Ocean Way Studios in Hollywood between June 21 and July 14,1991. It was self-produced by Cramps guitarist Poison Ivy, iggy Pop guested on the track Miniskirt Blues. The Cramps reissued the album on their own Vengeance Records in 2001, the reissue contained two bonus tracks, Wilder Wilder Faster Faster and Jelly Roll Rock. All tracks written by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach, except where indicated
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Flamejob
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Flamejob is the sixth studio album by the American garage punk band the Cramps. It was released on October 11,1994 by Creation Records and it was recorded and mixed at the engineer Earle Mankeys Psychedelic Shack in Thousand Oaks, California. It was self-produced by Poison Ivy and Lux Interior, a UK-only reissue in 2003 contained two versions of Ultra Twist. All tracks written by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach, except where indicated
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Big Beat from Badsville
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Big Beat from Badsville is the seventh studio album by the American garage punk band the Cramps. It was released in 1997 on Epitaph Records and it was recorded and mixed at engineer Earle Mankeys house in Thousand Oaks, California, in May 1997. It was self-produced by Poison Ivy and Lux Interior and it is notable as the only Cramps album to consist solely of original songs. The Cramps reissued the album on their own label, Vengeance Records, in 2001 with four bonus tracks, Confessions of a Psycho Cat, No Club Lone Wolf, I Walked All Night. All tracks written by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach
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Fiends of Dope Island
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Fiends of Dope Island is the eighth and final studio album by the American garage punk band the Cramps. The Cramps resurrected their own record label Vengeance Records to release the album in 2003 and it was recorded in Hollywood in August 2002. It was self-produced by Poison Ivy and Lux Interior, the album takes its title from the 1959 film, Fiend of Dope Island. Fissure of Rolando was dedicated to John Agar, all tracks written by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach, except where indicated
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Rockin n Reelin in Auckland New Zealand
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Rockin n Reelin in Auckland New Zealand XXX is the eighth album overall and the second live album by the American garage punk band the Cramps. It was released on the bands own Vengeance Records and it was mixed by Greg Heiter and recorded live on August 27,1986, at the Galaxy in Auckland, New Zealand. The track list was drawn from the album A Date with Elvis. It was reissued in 2001 with the bonus tracks Blue Moon Baby, Georgia Lee Brown, all tracks composed by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy, except where indicated The Hot Pearl Snatch –3,21 People Aint No Good –3,18 Whats Inside a Girl. –3,06 Cornfed Dames –4,49 Sunglasses After Dark –4,10 Heartbreak Hotel –3,35 Chicken –1,37 Do the Clam –2,43 Aloha from Hell –2,41 Can Your Pussy Do the Dog
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...Off the Bone
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. Off the Bone is the first compilation album of previously released material by the American garage punk band the Cramps. It was released in 1983 in the United Kingdom on Illegal Records, the original release had an anaglyph on the cover and a pair of paper red and blue 3D glasses inside the sleeve for viewing it. All tracks written by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach, except where noted, Lux Interior – vocals Bryan Gregory – guitar Kid Congo Powers – guitar Poison Ivy Rorschach – guitar Nick Knox – drums
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The Crusher (wrestler)
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Reginald Lisowski was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, The Crusher. In his obituary, The Washington Post described him as a wrestler whose blue-collar bona fides made him beloved among working class fans for 40 years. Lisowski was born and raised in the Milwaukee suburb of South Milwaukee, early on he was more interested in football, playing fullback for the South Milwaukee High School football team, but took up wrestling while stationed in Germany with the U. S. Army. His early career included wrestling three to four nights per week at a Chicago armory, typically earning $5 a night, to support himself and to stay in shape, Lisowski worked various blue collar jobs by day, from meat packing to bricklaying. Fred Kohler was the first promoter to put him on TV, decades before Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Sandman, Lisowski perfected the gimmick of the beer drinking tough guy. To further his career he bleached his hair blonde and started to get over as a strongman heel. This eventually led to him winning the Chicago-area NWA World Tag Team Championship with partner Art Nielson, Lisowski continued to have tag team success throughout the remainder of the 1950s, often paired with his wrestling brother Stan Lisowski. By 1959, he was being billed as Crusher Lisowski, which came from a promoters off-hand comment that he just crushes everybody. Until early 1965, Crusher was a heel in the AWA, after meeting the team of Larry Hennig & Harley Race for the first time, the fans adopted Crusher and his wrestling cousin Dick the Bruiser as full-fledged heroes in AWA territory. His bluster was legendary, as he would threaten to maul opponents in the ring and afterward have a party, take all the dollies down Wisconsin Avenue and go dancing. Besides his impressive physique, The Crushers gimmick was to absorb an amount of punishment. Over the next 15 to 20 years Crusher and Bruiser were tag partners off and on, if Dick the Bruiser and Crusher felt they hadnt bloodied their opponents enough during a match, they would trade punches with each other afterwards. They won the AWA World Tag Team Championship 5 times, the WWA Tag Team Titles 6 times, and his most quotable and famous phrase though was, How bout dat. Doctors told him hed never wrestle again, but Crusher did strength training for two years while he was retired, returning to the ring in 1983. He also had a run in the WWWF in the early 1960s where he was a nemesis of Johnny Valentine. He drew very large crowds to Forbes Field with battles against each man, Lisowski claimed that he made more money working part-time for McMahon than he did working for the frugal Gagne on a full-time basis. In 1986, Lisowski occasionally teamed with The Machines as Crusher Machine, the Crushers last match was at a WWF house show in Omaha on February 15,1988. He replaced Billy Jack Haynes to team with Ken Patera and face Demolition, the Crushers last television appearance was at WWFs 1998 pay-per-view Over the Edge, In Your House where was shown sitting alongside Mad Dog Vachon in the front row
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Faster Pussycat
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Faster Pussycat is an American glam metal and glam punk band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1985. The group was most successful during the late 1980s with their debut album, their 1989 gold album Wake Me When Its Over. Faster Pussycat was formed in Hollywood by Taime Downe during the glam metal, the earliest incarnation of the band featured Downe and Greg Steele along with Brent Muscat. The name of the band is derived from the Russ Meyer film Faster, after multiple early personnel changes, Faster Pussycat consisted of Downe, Steele, Muscat, Kelly Nickels and Phil Wostrel. Just before they recorded their album, Kelly Nickels got into a motorcycle accident. Nickels was replaced by Eric Stacy, shortly thereafter, Nickels joined L. A. Guns. The band signed a contract with Elektra Records, which released their debut album Faster Pussycat in 1987. The band established a following among heavy metal, glam rock and sleaze rock fans, in November 1987, the band appeared on the cover of Screamer Magazines debut issue. In the United States the band toured with Alice Cooper, David Lee Roth, also in 1987, Faster Pussycat appeared in the rockumentary film, The Decline of Western Civilization part 2 - The Metal Years. The band was interviewed and performed versions of Cathouse and Bathroom Wall. Two years later, Faster Pussycat recorded their most successful album Wake Me When Its Over, the album earned Gold status from the RIAA. Sales were mainly driven by the hit single, House of Pain, music videos were produced for House of Pain and Poison Ivy. While the band were touring for the album in 1990, drummer Mark Michals was arrested in Omaha, Nebraska and fired from the band, frankie Banali of Quiet Riot filled in as their drummer for the remainder of the tour, after which Brett Bradshaw became the long-term drummer. Tours with Kiss and Mötley Crüe followed, in 1990, they recorded a cover of Carly Simons Youre So Vain for a compilation called Rubáiyát, Elektras 40th Anniversary and filmed a video. The song was included on the 1992 Belted, Buckled And Booted EP. In 1992 they released their album, Whipped. Which peaked at number 90 on the charts, in 1993, Faster Pussycat parted ways with Stacy and hired Aaron Abellira to replace him. They did a mini tour, a U. S tour
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How to Make a Monster (album)
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How To Make A Monster is the third compilation album by the American garage punk band the Cramps. Disc 1 contains 1976 rehearsal material, some 1982 studio demos with Terry Graham of the Gun Club on drums, disc 2 contains two historic live performances of relatively poor recording quality, both from very early in the bands career. All songs by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach, except otherwise noted Summer —19761. Quick Joey Small —2,082, sunglasses After Dark —1,166. Love Me —2,29 October 19769, I Was a Teenage Werewolf —3,0810. Cant Hardly Stand It —3,211981 Rehearsal 11, sweet Woman Blues —4,5412. Lonesome Town —4,131982 A&M Studio 17, five Years Ahead of My Time —2,1018. Call of the Wighat —4,3519, hanky Panky —2,551988 Rehearsal 20. Journey to the Center of a Girl —3,3521, everything Goes —1,531988 Home Demo 23. All Women are Bad —3,47 Live at Maxs Kansas City, dont Eat Stuff Off the Sidewalk —2,062. I Was a Teenage Werewolf —3,103, sunglasses After Dark —5,034. Im Cramped —2,33 Live at CBGB, 1/13/7810, the Way I Walk —3,2711. I Was a Teenage Werewolf —3,2515, sunglasses After Dark —4,4316. Cant Hardly Stand It —3,3417, whats Behind the Mask —3,0019. Baby Blue Rock —3,0120
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The Cramps discography
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American punk rock band The Cramps was active from 1976 until 2009. Its discography consists of nine albums, two live albums, four compilations, and 24 singles. The band also produced eight music videos, human Fly Garbageman Tear It Up - from the movie Urgh
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