In the first video, The Cramps tear it up in Germany 1998. This was broadcast on German TV network Viva II. The audio sounds like a half dozen feral cats thrown in a blender. But watching Lux and Ivy in super fine form makes up for the deficiencies in sound quality. It’s amazing footage. Lux destroys the stage like a one man horde of Mongols. And Ivy and her man’s mating dance is bootlicious.

Harry Drumdini on drums and Slim Chance on bass in both videos.
 

 
This second video is The Cramps on Croatian TV also in ‘98.

Imagine being a kid somewhere in Croatia and seeing this on TV. Nothing’s goin’ on in your shitty life, you live in a country the size of West Virginia and just as polluted, heroin is everywhere, jobs are hard to find. So you turn on the TV to escape and bang there’s this band tearin’ things up and going wild and it feels real good and the two members of the band start talking about rock and they make it sound so liberating and beautiful and exciting and you decide maybe to get a guitar and you do end up getting one and you learn to play 3 chords but that’s all you need and suddenly you’re feeling free and you’re not as angry and you’re starting to dig life a little bit more yeah it’s not so bad and you start thinkin’ maybe I could do what The Cramps are doing going on the road traveling making music believing in something doing something real not just talk not just politics not just shooting the shit with your friends who are too fucking afraid to be real because they haven’t received the message from on high the gospel the teachings and that’s when it it hits you that’s when you realize that yes Lux and Ivy were talking to you and everything they said they were saying to you and that just makes you more determined more fucking driven to be a rock and roller, a punk whatever, a revolutionary for love and music and energy because fuck man you’ve been chosen rock and roll has chosen you!

“Rock and roll chose us.” Ivy Rorschach.