Target Video

This interview originally ran in Razorcake #133 by Razorcake Familia members Mike Plante and Jason Willis. They asked Razorcake to do a special, 44pg. zine as part of their bonkers, deLUXe, bonus-laden edition Blu-Ray of The Cramps and the Mutants: The Napa State Tapes which ships by July 18, 2023. This stand-alone zine version includes more exclusive photos than the original layout. Target Video Hearing a band for the first time could change your life. Seeing a band play live for the first time takes it to a different level—seeing them in motion, the incredible energy of the band, the crowd interacting. Before the internet, if a band didn’t put a photo on the album, you might have not even known what they looked like until you saw them live. And for punk rock in the ’70s and ’80s, you had better live near a city where the bands lived or had a club that would accept the transgressive scene.  Video does not replace the power of a live show, but for those of us who lived away from both