Sacramento, 1972
Het verhaal over The Cramps en over hun vroege carriere is al langer bekend, maar nu hoort er ook een polaroid bij. Deze foto duikt sinds een paar weken op op Facebook. Archive fun noemen we dat. Hier nog eens het verhaal én de allervroegste Cramps-foto.
Het verhaal:
The saga of the Cramps begins in 1972 in Sacramento, CA, when LSD enthusiast and Alice Cooper fan Erick Purkhiser picked up a hitchhiker, a woman with a highly evolved rock & roll fashion sense named Kristy Wallace. The two quickly took note of one another, but major sparks didn’t began to fly until a few weeks later, when they discovered they were both enrolled in a course on “Art and Shamanism” at Sacramento City College. These two lovebirds were soon sharing an apartment and their collective enthusiasm for the stranger and more obscure sounds of rock’s first era, as well as the more flamboyant music of the day. Their passion for music led them to the conclusion that they should form a band, and Kristy picked up a guitar and adopted the stage name Poison Ivy Rorschach, while future vocalist Erick became Lux Interior, after short spells as Raven Beauty and Vip Vop. Ivy and Lux hit the road for Ohio, and after living frugally in Akron for a year and a half, they made their way to New York City in 1975 in search of stardom.
De foto:
Lux en Ivy, Sacramento 1972
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