The Cramps: Poison Ivy, photo by Stephanie Chernikowski

The Cramps: Poison Ivy, photo by Stephanie Chernikowski

The Cramps early lineup, photo by Stephanie Chernikowski, NYC 1976

The Cramps early lineup, photo by Stephanie Chernikowski, NYC 1976

The Cramps, Zig-Zag mag 1984

The Cramps, Zig-Zag mag 1984

The Cramps: Happy Birthday Poison Ivy!!

The Cramps: Happy Birthday Poison Ivy!!

The Cramps: Bryan and Ivy, 1980.

The Cramps: Bryan and Ivy, 1980.

suicidewatch:

Ivy and Lux by David Arnoff

suicidewatch:

Ivy and Lux by David Arnoff

The Cramps: Poison Ivy, ‘84.
The Cramps: Poison Ivy, 1984.
The Cramps: promo ad for Songs the Lord Taught Us, Illegal Records 1980.

The Cramps: promo ad for Songs the Lord Taught Us, Illegal Records 1980.

The Cramps.
“So, as the recipe has come undone over the years, the idea was doing original versions of gnarly, attitudinal old obscuros, things that Ivy could deliver a dangerous guitar line, that Bryan could fuzz blast away to, that I could pound around, that Lux could verbalize over with his well oiled vocal chords and seasoned imagination, stoked by hours of late night Creature Features on TV”
The Cramps: early line-up, 1976.
The Cramps, photo by Jill Furmanovsky.

The Cramps, photo by Jill Furmanovsky.

The Cramps, 1982.

The Cramps, 1982.

The Cramps: Poison Ivy, 1980.
The Cramps photographed by Anton Corbijn, NME 1981.

The Cramps photographed by Anton Corbijn, NME 1981.