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title: "How to Make a Monster"
brand: "cramps"
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# How to Make a Monster

**Brand:** cramps
**Price:** € 65.89
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- **What is this?** How to Make a Monster by cramps
- **How much does it cost?** € 65.89 with free shipping
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Cramps, How to Make a Monster

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## Customer Reviews

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    RIP Lux 2/4/09
  

*by T***M on Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2009*

Lux Interior passed away yesterday - from the AP:  Lux Interior, co-founder and lead singer of the pioneering horror-punk band the Cramps, has died, the group's publicist said. He was 60.Interior -- whose real name was Erick Lee Purkhiser -- died Wednesday of a pre-existing heart condition at a hospital in Glendale, Calif., publicist Aleix Martinez said in a statement.Interior met his future wife Kristy Wallace -- who would later take the stage name Poison Ivy -- in Sacramento in 1972.The pair moved to New York and started the Cramps with Interior on lead vocals and Ivy on guitar. The group was a part of the late '70s early punk scene centered at Manhattan clubs like CBGB, alongside acts like the Ramones and Patti Smith.Their unmistakable sound was a lo-fi synthesis of rockabilly and surf guitar staged with a deviant dose of midnight-movie camp. Some called it "psychobilly."The pale, tall, gaunt Interior appeared shirtless with black hair and tiny, low-slung black pants, looking part zombie, part Elvis Presley as he crawled, writhed and howled his way across the stage.The group had the raw intensity of punk, but took the music in new directions by incorporating theatrical elements, often horror-themed, in songs like "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" and "Bikini Girls With Machine Guns." Their breakthrough debut EP was 1979's "Gravest Hits."The band made a notorious appearance at a California mental institution, Napa State Hospital, in 1978. The performance, whose video is still popular on YouTube, was a punk-era echo of the Folsom Prison concert of Johnny Cash, one of the band's influences.Interior was widely rumored in 1987 to have died from a heroin overdose, and his wife received flowers and funeral wreaths."At first I thought it was kind of funny," he told the Los Angeles Times at the time. "But then it started to give me a creepy feeling."The Cramps' lineup changed often through the decades but Interior and Ivy remained the center. Their bluesy, trebly sound -- the group didn't have a bass guitarist -- resonates in modern minimalist groups like the White Stripes and the Black Lips.The band's last release was the 2004 rarities collection "How to Make a Monster." They were still touring as recently as last November.

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    Cramps is as the Cramps were
  

*by T***A on Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2017*

Variable sound quality on this one, but the poor audio quality of some of the live stuff cannot hide the fact that this is the Cramps and is therefore The Cramps and I am going to love it even if it sounds... not so good. but there is also good sounding stuff here too. I enjoy the audience banter as well even though I bet that one guy got thrown out of clubs quite often. Musically -- Great! Sonically -- Hit and Miss. a fascinating document of early live Cramps along with studio out-takes and some other oddities (love the birthday song for Nick). If I tell Cramps fans to buy it I am preaching to the converted; if you are newer to the Cramps skip this one for some others first and come back for this after you can't get enough. Remember Don't Eat stuff Off the Sidewalk. RIP Lux.

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    lost track, but back on ...
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2008*

i lost track of the cramps somewhere around a date w/ elvis. it is *great* to hear this again. they defined a time. i used to play in a secondary band, called the junkie sluts, that started out doing nothing but cramps copytunes (yes, i probably owe them some money). but that band, me on guitar and gary indiana on drums, created the flat duo jets, who in turn, created the white stripes.you *need* songs the lord taught us before this. maybe nothing else. well, maybe a guitar.

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