To honor the legacy of the Cramps‘ Lux Interior, this week’s flashback takes us to Chicago public access television circa 1997, with the Cramps stopping by a children’s dance show called Chic-a-Go-Go to get interviewed by a high-pitched puppet named Ratso. “I’m on drugs,” Interior tells Ratso and a home audience of Windy City elementary schoolers. “They’re good drugs.” Guitarist Poison Ivy also has some good advice for all the girls out there who want to be like her: “Stay bad… It’s too much, don’t bother.” “Grow up and be a juvenile delinquent,” Interior adds. Supposedly punk acts like the Dead Kennedys, the Misfits and Sonic Youth have all appeared on this Chic-a-Go-Go show, which is still on the air, so we’ll probably be revisiting Ratso and friends again.
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