Ian MacKaye and Henry Rollins to Release Unreleased 1977 Cramps Album Produced by Alex Chilton
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Tom Breihan
4d ago· 7 min readenNews
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Summary
The article recounts how a 1979 Cramps show in Washington, DC inspired teenage Ian MacKaye and Henry Rollins (then Henry Garfield) to start their own punk bands. It details how MacKaye formed Teen Idles and later Minor Threat, while Rollins formed State Of Alert and later joined Black Flag. The article also covers the discovery and upcoming release of a shelved 1977 Cramps album produced by Alex Chilton, which MacKaye and Rollins are now involved in releasing.
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The crowd was full of teenagers like young Ian MacKaye and young Henry Garfield, and they were inspired by what they saw.
Pretty soon afterwards, MacKaye started his band Teen Idles, and Garfield started his band State Of Alert.
In April 1979, New York punk-scene weirdos the Cramps played at a Washington, DC venue called the LBJ Club, and that must’ve been some show. The Cramps hadn’t released their debut album yet, but they were already pioneering a gothy, theatrical, knowingly
