The Cramps ‎– Booze Party
Label: Lux Records
Catalogue Number: LUX 1989
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Unofficial Release, Orange Vinyl
Country: US
Released: 1990

Cover says "The Ritz, New York 1989"
(No information found to verify location and date - see below)

Lux Interior - vocals; harmonica
Poison Ivy - guitar
Candy del Mar - bass
Nick Knox - drums

Tracklist:

A1 Muleskinner Blues (Jimmie Rodgers)
A2 Chicken (Lux Interior, Ivy Rorschach)
A3 Shortnin' Bread (Traditional)
A4 The Hot Pearl Snatch (Lux Interior, Ivy Rorschach)
A5 People Ain't No Good (Lux Interior, Ivy Rorschach)
A6 God Damn Rock 'n' Roll (Lux Interior, Ivy Rorschach)
A7 Strychnine (The Sonics / Gerry Roslie)
A8 Drug Train (Lux Interior, Ivy Rorschach)
B1 Bikini Girls with Machine Guns (Lux Interior, Ivy Rorschach)
B2 All Women Are Bad (Lux Interior, Ivy Rorschach)
B3 What's Inside a Girl? (Lux Interior, Ivy Rorschach)
B4 Booze Party (Three Aces and A Joker / Hal Schneider)
B5 Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon (Lux Interior, Ivy Rorschach)
B6 Aloha From Hell (Lux Interior, Ivy Rorschach)
B7 Goo Goo Muck (Ronnie Cook & The Gaylads / Ronnie Cook, Ed James)
C1 Primitive (The Groupies / Bobby Cortez, Norman Desrosiers, Peter Hindlemen, Gordon McLaren, Ronnie Peters, Steve Venet) [Cut at 1:13; possible tape flip]
C2 Sunglasses After Dark (Lux Interior, Ivy Rorschach, Dwight Pullen, Link Wray)
C3 Cornfed Dames (Lux Interior, Ivy Rorschach)
C4 Can Your Pussy Do the Dog? (Lux Interior, Ivy Rorschach)
C5 You Got Good Taste (Lux Interior, Ivy Rorschach)
D1 Psychotic Reaction (The Count Five / Byron Kelsey Atkinson, John Byrne, Roy Chaney, Kenn Ellner, John Michalski)
- encore break 1
D2 The Mad Daddy (Lux Interior, Ivy Rorschach)
D3 The Crusher (The Novas / Bobby Nolan)
- encore break 2
D4 She Said (Hasil Adkins)

Total time: 1:21:23

Identifiers:

Matrix / Runout: LUX 1989-A
Matrix / Runout: LUX 1989-B
Matrix / Runout: LUX 1989-C
Matrix / Runout: LUX 1989-D

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Lineage:

Vinyl to FLAC: Neon Kaiser, 2012/2024.
Lineage: 2x Vinyl LPs > Technics SL-1200MK2 Turntable > Ortophon NC2 Stylus > Denon PMA-2000IVR > M-Audio Delta 66 > Apple PowerMac G4 > Bias Peak 6 > 24bit-48khz AIFF > (Editing: Track breaks; Manual click removal; Waves C1 Dynamics; Waves S1 Stereo Image; Waves L1+ Gain) > 16bit-44.1kHz FLAC

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Lux makes a few references to New Year's ...

"I know this ain't New Year's Eve, but I'm going to pretend like it is" - Dialogue after "Muleskinner Blues".

"She looked up at me from the New Year's day Bloomingdale's stinky-sheet sale" - "She Said" improvised lyrics.

"1989 I'll buy you a diamond ring, I promise" - Improvised lyrics during "Cornfed Dames".

Based on these comments, it sounds like this show happened close to New Year's Eve.
The setlist seems to promote their 1990 album "Stay Sick", which makes 1989 likely.

Given the date and setlist, this recording might be from this show:

The Cramps + GWAR (Opening Act)
9:30 Club, Washington, D.C.
December 31, 1989

Setlist:

01. Surfin' Bird
02. Muleskinner Blues
03. Chicken
04. Shortnin' Bread
05. The Hot Pearl Snatch
06. People Ain't No Good
07. God Damn Rock 'n' Roll
08. Strychnine
09. Drug Train
10. Bikini Girls With Machine Guns
11. All Women Are Bad
12. What's Inside a Girl?
13. Booze Party
14. The Creature From the Black Leather Lagoon
15. Aloha from Hell
16. [The] Goo Goo Muck
17. Primitive
18. Sunglasses After Dark
19. Cornfed Dames
20. Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?
21. You Got Good Taste
22. Psychotic Reaction
23. The Mad Daddy
24. The Crusher
25. She Said








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