This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
It doesn’t get any freakier than this.
Believe it or not, back in the summer of 1978, New York psychobilly punks The Cramps really did put on a free show for the residents of the Napa State Mental Hospital in California. Lord only knows what the doctors were thinking. I’m just glad someone (hell, anyone) involved was thinking clearly enough to document the bizarro proceedings on video. The infamous result — grainy black-and-white footage of the band trying gamely to make it through an eight-song mini-set as patients cavort onstage, dance spasmodically right in the musicians’ faces and continually try to wrest the mic from singer Lux Interior — is arguably the weirdest and most compelling music video ever produced. Sure, the quality sucks, the editing is atrocious and it’s barely 20 minutes long. But trust me: It’s worth every penny.
