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To: Skooz
I always get The Slits and The Cramps mixed up.
I'll make it easy for you . . . ;) . . . :

1) The Slits were an all-female band.

2) The Cramps were three gentlemen and a lady guitarist. (Ivy Rorschach, not coincidentally the wife of Lux Interior.)

3) The Slits were English.

4) The Slits actually had a bassist. The fact that she could barely play the instrument was a mere technicality.

5) The fact that the Slits as a band could barely play their instruments was a mere technicality.

6) The Cramps had absolutely nothing to do with Sid Vicious at any time, in any place. (The Slits came together after three of them had been in a pre-Sex Pistols band into which they invited him---as a drummer---only to get kicked out of that band by him.)

7) The Cramps actually could play.

8) The Slits wouldn't have had the imagination or the chutzpah to conceive of the Little Willie John/Peggy Lee chestnut "Fever" as a drive-in dirge. The Cramps did.

The Cramps respected rock and roll and its roots.

The Cramps were actually listenable as well as funny.

25 posted on 08/25/2009 11:36:09 AM PDT by BluesDuke (The waste is a terrible thing to mind . . .)
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To: BluesDuke
The Slits actually had a bassist. The fact that she could barely play the instrument was a mere technicality.

LOL, that sounds like the original Beatles!
"Here's a bass guitar, Stu. Just play with your back to the audience."

30 posted on 08/25/2009 11:43:45 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: BluesDuke

EXCELLENT!


37 posted on 08/25/2009 11:53:50 AM PDT by LibertyGrrrl ("First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Mahatma Gandhi)
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