The Cramps were frustrated by the fact that they were sometimes taken as a parody band due to their throwback sound and spooky aesthetic. We had a good time with them," Lux remarks in the book, looking back. I loved the Ramones and Talking Heads and Blondie. "We never did fit in there, except that every place we played they had to turn people away. Sometimes bands who had dominated the CBGB scene earlier in the 1970s would stop by as well. Visiting artists from out of town, such as the Runaways, the Dickies, the B-52s, X-Ray Spex, and Squeeze helped keep the scene lively. There's a million sides to Ivy and I just love all of them."ĭick Porter writes about the Cramps' CBGB days in his book " Journey to the Centre of The Cramps." The Dead Boys, Richard Hell, and Suicide were just some of the acts who regularly shared the stage with them. Lux sings her praises in turn: "She's really courageous and she's really smart. , I thought: 'Oh boy, what's gonna happen now? Something exciting!' It's still happening," Ivy says in the interview. 'Til the end, they only spoke of each other kindly. Lux and Ivy seemed just as enamored with each other in the '90s as they were in the '70s. Soon Ivy was suggesting they start a band - and Lux was game. Lux took the empty seat next to Ivy, and their romance began. He would have these pants and each leg of the pants was a different colour." Yet they didn't truly connect until they took a class called "Art and Shamanism" together. Ivy thought Lux was a stunner, too: "He was extremely exotic. "She was walking down the street, hitch-hiking, and she was wearing a halter top and short shorts," he recalls. According to a 1998 interview with the Independent, Ivy was trying to hitch a ride to her apartment when she caught Lux's eye. When Lux and Ivy first crossed paths, they were college students at Sacramento State.
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