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by burun_Archive
I think the first song I ever learned to play was "Human Fly", and to this day if I see it on a jukebox in a bar* I will play it.
One of my very first photo gigs was to shoot the Cramps, back in 1988 or 1989. It was a blast, but a lot of my shots of Ivy were unusable because her skirt was so short that her leopard print underwear was visible. Hard to explain that one to the picture editor.
*for those of you who are too young to remember - and this saddens me to my core - Back In The Day a lot of drinking establishments had these things called "jukeboxes" where you could put in a dollar and choose four or five songs from a list of hundreds. Jukeboxes were a multipurpose item whose functions were indispensible for evaluating the "worthiness" of your date (if you had one) or the musical taste (or lack thereof) of your friends. If a bar had cheap liquor but a bad jukebox, serious discussions would be held about whether it was an acceptable place to spend your money.
In New York City, where I reside, there are still a lot of bars with good jukeboxes but they are rapidly disappearing. To my knowledge, there are only three bars in the five boroughs that actually have Wurlitzers with real, honest-to-goodness 7" singles in them.
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