The Cramps - Live at Napa State Mental Hospital (1981)

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The Cramps
Live At Napa State Mental Hospital
(Target Video / Music Video Distributors)

If you consider human wreckage an interesting anthropological find, this DVD is a purchase already made by your soul -- won't you allow your wallet to catch up?

As its title suggests, this is footage of the young 1978 Cramps playing rudimentary rockabilly up on stage in front of a group of INSANE people. Will anybody ever fall in love with the chubby young man in the suit who gets onstage and sings into his empty hand as if he is holding a microphone? Will any girl ever hold hands with the skinny weirdo jerking his body spasmodically before biting into his own arm? Will the world share a Sunday with the two lobotomized punk rock girls who keep grabbing Lux's mic and shouting close to nothing into it? Probably not, because even though Lux politely insists, “Somebody told me you people were crazy. But I don't think so! You look alright to me!,” this crowd is clearly not doing very well with certain important organs found in the skull.

The vacant stares and unnatural body movements -- it's creepy! Why on Earth did a mental hospital agree to let The Cramps play for its patients? Was the president of the hospital alerted that Lux was going to rip his shirt off and suck on the mic as if it were a male sexual organ? Was he told that Lux likes to unzip his pants and stroll through the audience? And did anyone warn him that the band wasn't any good at all?

Just a-kiddin' you! Heh heh, ah me. True, this 20-minute performance sounds like a repetitive boring mess, but who's watching it for the music anyway? I'm in it for the adorable young visual Cramps and their horribly out-of-it audience.

But there's MORE! Target and MVD made the DVD both longer and more exciting by including bonus footage of other great punker acts of the day, including Crucifix, Flipper (man, Bruce Lose was skinny!), Mark Pauline & Survival Research Labs, Toxic Reasons, MDC (Christ, Dave Dictor was ugly!), Throbbing Gristle, Crime (live at San Quentin in front of hundreds of confused-looking prisoners!) and maybe a little TOO much Z'EV (this “industrial” fellow who strung together pots, pans, boards, tubs, metal, etc., and then smashed them together rhythmically. Over and over and over and over and over.).

For several different reasons (none of which I will discuss here), this is a disc you really ought to buy. Don't ask me why there's nearly as much Z'EV footage as there is Cramps, but trust me when I tell you, you'll be showing this thing to your friends constantly. Which will be a nice break from that thing you usually show them constantly.

Oh, don't start crying. Of course I'm proud of your removable ball.
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review from : link
You've NEVER seen concert footage like this..., 23 June 2006
10/10
Author: scottistoxic from Hell

This is the most, for lack of a better word, INSANE concert footage I've ever seen. I can't understand how the Cramps were even allowed to play this hospital. I mean, it's not exploitive, it's not creepy, everyone involved looks like they're having the time of their lives...but it's, well, surreal.

It's totally lo-fi, black and white video from 1978, but the Cramps put on a hell of a show. There's no stage really...the patients are just right there with them, taking turns on the mic, hugging the musicians, dancing around randomly, having a blast while the Cramps are their weird, freaky selves playing the hell out of their famous early songs (Human Fly, TV Set, Garbageman, etc.).

If you're into the Cramps, punk rock, or any of its deviations, you have GOT to see this footage. You won't believe it.