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merry i shall. and how!

Except for The Cramps. One of my most memorable shows was seeing them at the HOB a few years ago. Lux threw the mic stand way up in the air and it landed on Poison Ivy who, by the way, is still smokin' hot. Then they stopped the show twice because Lux kept getting into a fight with someone from the audience. He bit this crowd-surfing dude right on his bare head. They were a great live band, hope they come through again.

In my experience, I frequently bump into all the skins that I knew during adolescence, thoroughly reformed from that period in their life but now stomping about at the subversively-geared car/cycle/tattoo conventions that I occasionaly wind up going to/playing.
It's like, these kids were the same ones who i made fun of back in the day for their impressionability and outright acceptance of the blatant branding and marketing of "all things punk" (later "skin").

With that said, I bet if i went down to a busy street corner in Milwaukee and put up a big sign that said "ROCKABILLY: $5" with a nondescript deposit box underneath it, I'd probably make at least $10 and have a good laugh while a bunch of pompadours hung around underneath the sign for some time before realizing nothing overtly "rockabilly" was ever going to happen.