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The Frantics
REALLY excited about this latest pur-chase! It's a fantastic slab of 60's awesomeness. Not only is the A-side a killer mid tempo 60's garage gem, but the B-side is a Lux and Ivy Fave that was featured...
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Tale of Two Thunders!
One of my absolute favorite guitar instrumentals is Bob Taylor's Thunder on the Yucca label. It has been comped countless times (and even makes an appearance on one of the Lux and Ivy Favorites). The...
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Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume Fifteen
Here is Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume Fifteen!This volume is a mix of left over songs from that magical tape that came into my possession earlier this year and some other hold over songs that I've...
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The Cramps - City Gardens 6/26/81
It's 2 years today since the death of Lux (still feels weird to type those words). You can read my thoughts on what Lux and Ivy mean to me earlier on this blog, so I won't go into it again. Plus the...
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Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume Six (remastered)
Sorry for the delay in getting this finished!Part of the problem was the winter blahs setting in (sadly, the time when I have the most time to do stuff like this is also the time when I really don't...
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The Human Fly Film
In 1978 The Cramps decided to make a short promotional film using their song Human Fly as the back drop. Other than that I really don't know the history of the film at all. The first I heard about it...
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Human Fly Film Overview
The film opens with a countdown and a placard with: Vengeance Productions Presents a Film by Alex de Laszlo. It immediately cuts to a shot of Ivy walking down the street, transistor radio glued to her...
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The Ventures in Space
A friend of mine asked me to recommend a good Ventures album. You can't go wrong with 1964's IN SPACE!It's a great "space" themed album.Some songs of note: Man of Astroman cover War of the Satellites....
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Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume One (Remaster)
Here is the “remastered” edition of Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume One. It’s hard to believe that the Incredibly Strange Music book with the interview with Lux and Ivy came out almost 17 years ago! The...
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SAKI!
Well, Jungle Juice has been silent for too long. So, here's a recent find that I'm really digging right now. Side one has a great sleazy sax sound, whereas side two dispenses with the sax and adds a...
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Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume Sixteen
Here is Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume 16.This volume is based entirely upon the track listing for a tape called FLAMEOUT ON THE RANCHO GRANDE. It has become apparent over the years of making these...
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Cafe Bohemian
Here is the 2nd in a series of 45 anomalies. Collect records long enough and you stumble across these weird differences between 45's. The first of the series was the 2 different versions of Ward...
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Jungle 45's
Here is a Jungle 45 compilation that was originally posted over at WFMU's Ichi Ban Rock n Soul blog. I had been posting the 45's one week at a time, but at some point, I got totally derailed because my...
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The Blue Knights
I'm a sucker for moody/creepy instrumentals. Here's a great one I recently stumbled across. This is right up there with the Morgus Creep by the Daringers.I don't think it's ever been comped, and it...
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Lux Lives Commemorative CD 2012
Lux Lives is an annual celebration of Lux Interior's life that takes place in Scotland. Colin Duff, the curator of the event, plans to make it a yearly gathering of Cramps fans and hopes that events...
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Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume Two (remaster)
Well, here's the "remastered" version of Volume 2. I basically just cleaned up the mp3's used for this edition and fixed some quirks that have always bothered me (the way Jennie Lee used to cut off at...
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Psychotic Reactions w/ Pip
I think this is my fourth or fifth appearance on Pip's weekly 60's Garage show on WZBC (which is the radio station for Boston College in Newton Mass.). If there's a reason for me to ever be in Boston...
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Psychotic Reactions with Pip
Wow, the last post on this blog was back in April. Sorry! It has been a really rough year and I haven't had a lot of time to dedicate to the blog.I Deejayed last night at a bar/restaurant down in...
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Three Scorpions!
Here are 3 different versions of one of my favorite instrumentals, Scorpion!The original version of this song came out in 1960 by Jimmy Mcconville. A few years later he formed another band, The...
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