Kid Congo reminisces about his earl days in the Cramps:
The Cramps were a very spontaneous type of band live. It was all about creating an atmosphere of the wildest thing possible. Lux was the ringleader of all of that and Ivy held it down. They were some wild shows - especially the European shows. And it was in the era when (especially in the UK) where people spit on you if they liked you and so we were often covered in gob. We were really not going to back down…we were not the backing down type of band. They were some crazy magic voodoo shows and Lux did incredible things on stage that were so dangerous and crazy, from jumping off of speaker stacks, swinging a microphone with the lead so long that you thought he was going to decapitate you - but he never did. He would tie my legs together with the mic cord and drag me around the stage while I was still playing - during "Surfin' Bird" usually.
Fights would often erupt in the audience, girls clothes came off, and then Lux would be wearing them… and the audience would pull Lux in the audience and Nick would jump from behind his drum kit and jump in the fray. It was pretty wild. If something bad was happening, Ivy would snap her fingers and point and we’d have to go beat someone up. It was like being in a gang - like a juvenile delinquent band… and it was great! It was my juvenile delinquent fantasy come true.
"Ivy would snap her fingers and point and we'd have to go beat someone up."