Founded in 1990 in the city under Bukulj. At the beginning,
a local teenage band, composed of ambitious boys worn by the effects of
original punk-rock sound without a pattern. At the very beginning, the band
presents its first hits on local stage throughout native Arandjelovac, so that later, through a
rich 16-year long tradition, they will continue the promotion of the band and
town of Arandjelovac all over the country as well as beyond the borders of
their homeland. As early as 1992, HUND performed in the capital promoting his
first album, "Who killed a dead man" in the release of the first
independent record label "Take it or leave it" from Belgrade. This
first major performance of the band brought great publicity and raised their
work to an even higher level. In the same year, at the music festival held in
its city, the group with the number "Dead Man" was awarded with high
recognitions for music and the lyrics of the author and frontman of the band
Z.Bogdanović-Kirija, as well as for the best guitarist of the festival
S.Pavlovic-Come now bands of the band HUND Composition For many years, the
staff changes in the rhythm sections (drum, bass), but only the backbone
managed to keep the band in the right direction. In the original line-up that
has been kept up to this day (Kiri, aki, Come, Crv), the band of '94 is
entering a studio with new material, but only in 1996 released its second
studio album "I can not explain it" and for the publisher NK
"Kontra kultura" S.Palanka. With this release she gets even more popular
and is one of the leading punk rock bands in and out of the country. Numerous
festivals at that time: YU rock fest (Mladenovac), FAR (Arandjelovac),
Kosjeric, First punk rock festival in the new Yugoslavia ... Puts the band into
the company of the best rock bands of that time. After that, there will be
numerous independent concerts: Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš, Kragujevac, Gornji
Milanovac, Kruševac, Smederevo, Kosovska Mitrovica, Zaječar, Užice, Prnjavor
... It is very important to note that after the breakup of the SFRJ and war
events that shook the premises HUND was the first group from Serbia that had
performances in the countries of the former SFRJ: Croatia-Beli Manastir 1997, Bosnia
and Herzegovina - Tuzla 2000. After a successful and well-known second album,
HUND entered the studio for the third time in May 2001 and for the first time
recorded a studio album in CD format in the Belgrade studio "Fabrika"
and in the independent edition of cd "Lekcija iz inostranstva" for
"Naše Records". This third edition of HUND shows its true maturity
and potential for large ranges. The title song "Arandjelovac" has
become an official anthem of the city from which they came out, luring the
crowd of audiences across other towns to accept it as the anthem of every city
where it has become popular. And other hits of this and previous albums:
Province, Zulu, Friend, Eternity, Dead man ... Sing to thousands of fans and
fans of HUND and solid Punk-Rock sound.Today Hund plays in a new composition. The old members are Caki and Crv, and the new strength of the band is Brx (solo guitar) and Pavel (bass guitar and vocals). In this band, the band has participated in several festivals and gigs, but has directed all the forces to record new material for the new album that is soon expected, because the guys are currently in the studio. The album is expected early next year ...
The Cramps were an American punk rock band formed in 1976 and active until 2009. The band split after the death of lead singer Lux Interior.Their line-up rotated frequently during their existence, with the
husband-and-wife duo of Interior and lead guitarist and occasional bass
guitarist Poison Ivy comprising the only ever-present members. The addition of guitarist Bryan Gregory and drummer Pam Balam resulted in the first complete lineup in April 1976.
They were part of the early CBGB punk rock movement
that had emerged in New York. The Cramps were one of the first punk
bands, and also widely recognized as one of the prime innovators of
psychobilly.
The saga of the Cramps begins in 1972 in Sacramento, CA, when LSD enthusiast and Alice Cooper fan Erick Purkhiser
picked up a hitchhiker, a woman with a highly evolved rock & roll
fashion sense named Kristy Wallace. The two quickly took note of one
another, but major sparks didn't began to fly until a few weeks later,
when they discovered they were both enrolled in a course on "Art and
Shamanism" at Sacramento City College. These two lovebirds were soon
sharing both an apartment and their collective enthusiasm for the
stranger and more obscure sounds of rock's first era, as well as the
more flamboyant music of the day. Their passion for music led them to
the conclusion that they should form a band, and Kristy picked up a
guitar and adopted the stage name Poison Ivy Rorschach, while future
vocalist Erick became Lux Interior, after short spells as Raven Beauty and Vip Vop. Ivy and Lux
hit the road for Ohio, and after living frugally in Akron for a year
and a half, they made their way to New York City in 1975 in search of
stardom.
While working at a record store, Interior made the acquaintance of fellow employee Greg Beckerleg, who had recently arrived from Detroit and also wanted to form a band. Beckerleg transformed himself into primal noise guitarist Bryan Gregory, and even persuaded his sister to join the nascent combo as a drummer. However, Pam Beckerleg didn't work out on traps, and so Miriam Linna, an Ohio transplant who had gotten to know Lux and Ivy during their sojourn in the Buckeye State, finalized the first proper lineup of the band they called the Cramps. Between Ivy's twangy single-note leads, Bryan's shower-of-sparks reports of noise, Lux's demented banshee howling, and Miriam's primitive stomp, the Cramps
didn't sound like anyone else on the budding New York punk scene, and
the foursome soon began attracting both crowds and buzz with their shows
at CBGB's and Max's Kansas City. After about a year of gigging in and
around New York, Linna
left the group (she would later co-found frantic cultural journal Kicks
Magazine and exemplary reissue label Norton Records), and another
former Ohioan, Nick Stephanoff (known to his fans as Nick Knox and previously a member of infamous Cleveland noise terrorists the Electric Eels) took over behind the drums, and this version of the Cramps released the group's first recordings, a pair of 7" singles recorded in Memphis with Alex Chilton as producer and issued by the band's own Vengeance Records label.
photo: Danny Hole 1976
photo: Rocky Schenck 1976
In 1979, Miles Copeland signed the band to his fledgling new wave label
I.R.S. Records, and their first 12" release was an EP featuring the
material from their self-released singles, entitled Gravest Hits. That same year, the band traveled to Europe for the first time, playing as opening act for the Police and stealing the show from the peroxide-addled pop stars many nights. The Cramps returned to Memphis with Chilton to record their first full-length album, 1980's masterful Songs the Lord Taught Us, but what should have been a triumphant U.S. tour following its release was scuttled when Gregory unceremoniously quit the band by leaving unannounced with a van full of their equipment; at the time, a story circulated that Gregory left the Cramps to pursue an interest in Satanism, though in later interviews Lux and Ivy said there was no truth to these rumors and his actions were more likely the result of his addiction to heroin. Lux, Ivy, and Nick opted to move the band to Hollywood, CA, and recruited Gun Club guitarist Kid Congo Powers to take over as second guitarist in time to record their second long-player, Psychedelic Jungle.
The Cramps in 1982
In 1981, the Cramps
filed suit against I.R.S. Records over unpaid royalties; the court case
prevented the band from recording new material for two years, and when
they returned to America's record racks, it was with a live album,
1983's Smell of Female, recording during a pair of dates at New York City's Peppermint Lounge. Kid Congo amicably parted ways with the band shortly afterward, and the search for the right record company kept the Cramps out of the studio until the U.K.-based Big Beat label released the ultra-lascivious A Date With Elvis in 1986; while several guitarists had come and gone since Kid Congo,
for these sessions Poison Ivy ended up overdubbing herself on bass. In
1987, the group finally found a simpatico bassist in the form of tough
gal Candy Del Mar, whom Lux and Ivy met in the parking lot of a liquor store. Del Mar made her recorded debut on the live album Rockin n Reelin in Auckland New Zealand, and she was still on board when the Cramps finally signed a U.S. record deal with Enigma Records and recorded the fine and full-bodied Stay Sick! in 1990.
Poison Ivy performing with the Cramps, 1991, Tokyo
Only a year later, the Cramps were back with a new studio album, Look Mom No Head!, but in a surprising move Nick Knox had left the band, and was replaced by Jim Sclavunos; after Jim's short tenure with the group, Nickey Beat (aka Nicky Alexander, former timekeeper with the Weirdos) took over the drum throne before one Harry Drumdini signed on. Less startlingly, Candy Del Mar was also out of the lineup, replaced by Slim Chance, a one-time member of the Mad Daddys. Harry and Slim joined Lux and Ivy in 1994 for the Cramps' first major-label album, Flamejob,
released by the Warner Bros.-distributed Medicine imprint. As usual,
much touring followed, and the band even made an appearance on the
popular youth-centric soap opera Beverly Hills 90210 in 1995. The
Cramps' major-label period proved to be brief, with Cal-punk indie label
Epitaph inking a deal with the group to release 1997's Big Beat from Badsville, which featured the same lineup as Flamejob.
In 2001, Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Cramps
by taking the matters of record-making into their own hands; they
revived the long-dormant Vengeance label and reissued their entire
post-I.R.S. album catalog (except for Flamejob) on expanded and remastered CDs and colored vinyl LPs. A new Cramps album followed in 2003, Fiends of Dope Island, which (of course) featured yet another personal change, with Chopper Franklin becoming the band's latest bassist. And with the Cramps continuing their unholy mission well into the 21st century, they offered their fans a look back with 2004's How to Make a Monster,
a collection of rare live material and demos. They performed live for
the final time in November 2006 at the House of Blues in Anaheim,
California, before a relative period of inactivity for the band. Then,
in February 2009, the sad news came that Lux Interior
had passed away, aged 62, at the Glendale Memorial Hospital after
suffering an aortic dissection. Tributes were plentiful for such a
singular figure and 2011’s File Under Sacred Music: Early Singles 1978-1981
acted as a timely reminder of the passion, prescience and originality
that was inherent in the music of The Cramps.
