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Cramps And The Mutants: The Napa State Tapes Blu-Ray

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Collection: Grasshopper Film
Format: Blu-ray
Year: 2023
Director: Joe Target Rees
Genre: Documentary
Cast: 0
Runtime: 45
Language: English
Release Date: 2023-07-18
Description

On June 13, 1978, The Cramps went to play Napa State, a psychiatric hospital in the small town of Napa in Northern California. Opening for them was The Mutants, an eclectic septet of art school punks from nearby San Francisco. Also there was seminal Bay Area art collective Target Video, to capture the show using one of the first video cameras available to the public, democratizing a medium controlled by mainstream media outlets. The resulting VHS tape of the show is one of the most legendary music documents in history and a cult classic tape.