The Cramps - Tear It Up (Live - Urgh! A Music War) 1980 

I have so much anxiety about his pants.

"Here's your mic back" "you know what? keep it."

We lost Lux 15 years ago today. This clip will always have a special place in my heart for being my introduction to the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band of all time. Rest easy, Lux.

I'm somewhere in that audience, having my 15 year old mind BLOWN! Also on the bill that night was Chelsea, X, and Dead Kennedys.

just loving how ivy's face alternates from "aw shit here we go again" to "yeah that's what we do"

Funny that off stage Ivy and Lux are the most wholesome and heartfelt love story in the history of rock and roll

Man, I always loved how Poison Ivy has this mixed look of bored and pissed on her face when she plays. A level of badass that most male guitars can't even get right.

I can smell them over the internet.

I love how different everyone in the crowd looks. Rock and roll has always brought people from different strokes of life together

And that's why I don't use the house mics.

I'm 62 years old and still enjoy the cramps

Now that the Cramps are popular due to Wednesday. I send beginners to this performance 🤣

Rock 'n Roll needs to still be frightening and reflect something some people will never quite 'get'... Thank the maker for the Cramps carrying on that spirit.

You can never unsee this performance - just epic.

In '77 and '78 I would spend every weekend at the Whiskey on Sunset Blvd... it was one of the prime LA venue for punk and ska. The Police, The Clash, Misfits, Runaways, The Jam, Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo... It was The Cramps shows that I remember best.

I showed this video to my granny and she said it was good.

Saw this when I was 14 in the 80’s, was traumatized! Seeing it now I FINALLY understand 😊👍🏻

The image quality is awesome. I could almost feel Lux's crotch in my face.

I have been watching this film for 40 years and this shit never ceases to entertain. And those mikes had no Lysol wipes back then boys and girls.

I wish more people would have been so lucky to see the CRAMPS live . So much energy. mind blowing power.

Never seen a man singing so well with a mic in mouth like Lux. He is a real rocker and Ivy is a guitar goddess.

One of the most original and essential rock n roll bands. There will never be another pair like Lux & Ivy. They were so straight and normal off stage, it was mind blowing! Not just kickass rockers but masters of illusion! RIP Lux!

I was 15 the first time I saw this footage. I decided right there and then I was going to be a "singer". A few months later I was in my first band and we played our first ever gig at a Bar Mitzvah. I did the whole Lux thing, with the lewd grunting and shoving the mic down my pants, and next thing I knew they had pulled the plug on us and told us to get the hell out. I was all in after that. Thank you Lux. Hope to see you on the other side some day.

One time my music teacher asked the class "The Beatles or The Rolling Stones", I replied, THE CRAMPS!!!

One of my blood relatives is Johnny Burnette , a pioneer of Rockabilly . He passed away in 1959 but I'd say he is happily jamming with Lux up there in Rockabilly Heaven .

When he took a bow at the end, the drummer was like F this, I;m out, I've seen enough goo goo muck.

I had no idea who the Cramps were before watching this. I'm so glad I clicked on this video

Poison ivy is so beautiful

No one make love to a microphone like Lux

RIP Lux Interior RIP Nick Knox awesome performance. tear it up on the astral plane!

Lux was a Queen before his time, I salute how artistic he was with his perverse attitude. Today he would be called passe and dismissed.

Once again, The Cramps deliver an unparallelled performance & it still sounds great in 2020.

Drugs are a hell of a drug

This is perhaps the most important band in defining and bridging my musical endeavors into adulthood.

0:58 dude adjusting his glasses looks like his mind is blown completely

iggy pop + elvis presley

Imagine this was your son performing on high school talent night

I feel bad for the Drummer, he got to see the full moon if you know what I mean

I can't take him shoving that mic in his mouth seriously the way he does it is freaking hilarious. The Cramps were amazing wish I could have seen them live :c

I saw this lineup in a small club in Houston TX called Rock Island Aug of 1980. Center stage , Lux dripping sweat everywhere , unbelievable .........

I rented this on VCR to try to explain to the Hicks I lived around what kind of music I was “ into” They really thought something was WRONG WITH ME I’m still listening to them almost Daily and had the HONOR of seeing them live at least 26 Times

this is one of the all time great rock videos...I may be a little prejudiced though...Julie is my sister!...my big regret is never seeing her play live...if you view other videos of this song you'll see that this one is by far the best....

I wasn't there, but, I wish I had been.

Today's youth will never understand

5 years tomorrow...the world needs you now more than ever, Lux. :(

Come on little ma'ma' pull his damn pants UP!!

Lux Interior. now more than ever.

Lux is fuckin crazy poison ivy is beautiful playing with her guitar wish I could have seen them play and I'm a metal head the cramps are fuckin badass

This is why I am sad for present and future generations who will never see the Cramps live.

This performance will be 42 years old this year, jaysus and it’s still great.

It’s kinda sad punk went from this to teenage love music and pop music

I finally saw the Cramps in 2004 at the Trocadero in Philly. In 1979, I went to the Hot Club to see ‘em (with The Autistics and the Sick Kidz) but the schedule had been changed and I missed them. Then I got busy with education, career and family, but finally saw ‘em a quarter of a century after my first attempt!

I can't find the words to give this performance the credit it absolutely deserves

Lux was such a cutie up on stage.

what a fucking performance!

His pants are hanging on for all they're worth LOL

Easily one of the best performances in the history of music. MISS YOU LUXXX

Pure rockabilly!! One of the greatest bands of the world

Lux Interior is sorely missed in the age of corporate music.

Every once in a while we need to come back to this clip. Good for the soul.

Love the ending when Nick Knox kicks his set and sends that cymbal flying

Godz! I wish I was there!

I was there. Santa Monica Civic, 40 years ago, two days from now! On the bill were X and Chelsea, can't remember who else.

Lux is suuuuuch a genius performer and Ivy is just the coolest

At least Lux Interior left his mark in punk history. Rest In Peace.

So many years ago, we were on our way to the club to see the Cramps. Missed the sound check, but as we approached the back door, out came the band. We were curious to see what a Cramp ate for a pre-show meal, so we followed from a discreet distance. Lux had a shwarma and a coke. Ivy had a salad and Nick Knox just stood in the corner and smoked.

I was never the same after seeing this on TV at age 14. You just can't go back after The Cramps.

If someone asks 'what's rock and roll?' This is what you show them.

I was at this show at the Santa Monica Civic. I saw the Ramones at the Hollywood Paladium several months before, but nothing could have prepared me for this show. The Cramps were the perfect opener, but then came the Dead Kennedys and X to name a few. This was when punk was at it's Zenith. Lux Interior and the Cramps invented Psychobilly, and there was no other act that quite compared to their bizarre circus act. Just to give you an example, Lux emerged from underneath the drum stand in a haze of fog like a slithering snake to start the set. Like I said, no one has done what the Cramps have done before or since. Here in L.A., it was Rodney Bingenheimer who hosted a show late on Sunday Nights called "Rodney on the Rock" that indoctrinated the youth to the counterculture punk movement of the late 1970s . On any other radio station in any other time slot in history, Rodney would have been a misfit, but on KROQ at 10 O'clock and beyond. punk infiltrated the homes of every god fearing WASP family in the Southland.

So we found the punk rock Jim Morrison! I’m obsessed

Brian was obsessed with elderly women, in their 70s and 80s. When he wasn't a madman he was the boy next door.

I saw The Cramps and Motorhead at the Pomona Valley Auditorium (The Green Room) back in 1978....The Cramps were amazing and Motorhead was so frickin loud my ears rang for several days.....🎤🎸🔥👊

And at the end of the night when Lux went to hand the mic back to the club owner, he put his hands up and said, “Keep it.” Awesome vid!

Love the Cramps since 1977. RIP Lux Interionr

Lux's pants are the real MVP

COME ON LITTLE MAMA...TEAR THIS DAMN PLACE UP!

The True Face of ROCK N' ROLL....R.I.P......Lux

this is just awesome , you can feel the beat getting to you little by little and next thing you know you're just dancing like a maniac

They couldn’t film Elvis from the waist down at one point in the 50’s. This is the natural evolution of real Rock & Roll.

There has never been a performer that gives it all they got like this. I love this band! So under ratted! Why?!?!?

I will never get over how great this is. Never.

Poison Ivy's got to be the coolest person in rock! And Lux Interior's probably the hottest. 😆

They're so weird, but I like it

The Cramps in general were amazing but can we take a minute to appreciate that Poison Ivy changed everything about the rockabilly guitar image? Even our beloved Billy Zoom was kinda square by comparison. Anyone else playing rockabilly was just a quaint country musician. It certainly didn’t have a dangerous look and attitude by the time the 70s rolled around. Then Poison Ivy kicked it all in the nuts.

I got to see The Cramps at Sunset Junction circa 2006 and they rocked harder than all the other bands at the festival who were half their age. Rip Lux :(

The greatest piece of minimalist rock and roll ever made.

WHY oh WHY are The Cramps not in the Rock & Roll hall of fame???? Abba and Madonna are in first? Or at all? Wtf!

Here's hoping 'The Wednesday dance' brings them a huge new audience.

How I wish this entire performance was available to see! The whole dang concert.

That performance blew my mind in the 80´s.. still does.

Cramps! The best Show of Urgh! We joined the Show in 1995 in Hamburg! He shows how the Elvis-Shows shocked the guys in the 50s! They transformed it to the 80s.! Awesome!

I want someone to love me the way Lux loves his microphone

This is priceless, I was 14 yr old when I first seen this back in the day and it blew me away. If Lux could kill....... back in the days when Rock N Roll was still very dangerous. The entire Urgh! a music war, is very well worth checking out.

Lux and Ivy, the true Rock'n Roll Lovers! RIP Lux!

I always thought this band originated in Texas as what they called psycho-billy back in the day. But they were thrown in with the general PUNK movement . One of my favorite bands of all time.

This is a masterpiece.

Best lyrics I've heard in a long time....

3:07 I think about this woman at least twice a week

Why am I only discovering this musical magnificence now?????? what have I been doing for the last 48 years????🙄🤔😜

Incredible version of this song! Lux was such a sexy panther, he's the epitome of everything I want in a frontman, they're all so fantastic I couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw them way back when, life changing!