Archive for March, 2010

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Greetings Lip Servants, Todd Youth here, with my first attempt at doing a blog. Some of you might know me already and, if you don’t, here’s a quick rundown. I’ve been playing in bands since I was 12, my first band I was ever in was Agnostic Front way back in 1983. I spent many years in Murphy’s Law, D-Generation, and Danzig, did some shows playing guitar for Motorhead, Glen Campbell, The Chelsea Smiles, and most recently I’ve been playing guitar with none other than ACE FREHLEY!!!!

Anybody who knows me, knows what a big Kiss fan and more importantly what a big Ace fan I am. Ace is the reason I started playing guitar many years ago. He has been the biggest influence on my playing ever since my Dad took me to see Kiss on the Dynasty tour at Madison Square Garden, so when I got the call to tour with Ace in Australia a few months back I jumped at the chance. I’ve known the bass player, Anthony Esposito (ex Lynch Mob), and drummer, Scotty Cougan (Brides of Destruction), forever, so it was a no brainer.We had a great time down under so I decided to stay on board.

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Which leads us to our mini east coast tour. Flew out of Lax to NYC on St.Patty’s Day. Was hoping to go see my old band Murphy’s Law do their annual St.Patty’s show, but had to head on down I-95 to Connecticut for a day of rehearsal and then our first show at the Mohegan Sun Casino. Got a few hours sleep, headed down to the lobby of the hotel to score some coffee and ran into my old friend “Nitebob” who’s going to be doing sound for the run. Nitebob has been around a long time; he worked with the Stooges during the Raw Power tour, the Dolls, Aerosmith, the list goes on and on. We play catch up and he tells me about watching the Stooges rehearse for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, then it’s off to practice.

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I help the crew guys set up, run a few songs, and wait for Ace to show up. Seems he missed his flight the day before and won’t be getting to the rehearsal till about 7p.m. One thing I’ve learned working with him is that you are know operating on Ace time. Anthony, me and Scotty run a few songs we haven’t done live yet and, before you know it, Ace Frehley has landed on planet earth. We decide what the set is going to be for the run and add 2 songs we hadn’t done before, Into The Void, which is off of Psycho Circus and Pain In The Neck, off Ace’s new record “Anomaly”. (If you haven’t checked out, Anomaly yet, do yourself a favor and pick it up, it’s right up there with Ace’s 1978 solo record.) We do a quick run through of the set, pack up the gear and head to the Mohegan Sun for a night of r-n-r.

Friday 3/19

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After about 5 cups of coffee, I head on down through the casino to see how things are going with the set up and sound check, but I don’t have to look to far. Tonight’s show is free and there’s already about 200 to 300 fans waiting on line. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many Kiss shirts in my life. Ace isn’t coming to sound check, so we do Shock Me and I get to sing it. I never in my wildest dreams would have thought when I was a kid listening and staring at Kiss Alive II that I would be playing along side Ace Frehley. Ahh Rock and Roll has been good to me. The show goes off great and after I grab some dinner with my friend, John, who hosts “Talking Metal” on Fuse TV, then call it a night.

Saturday 3/20 House Of Blues Atlantic City

Meet up with everyone in the lobby for the ride to A.C. We stop on the New Jersey Turnpike somewhere near the shore for gas and coffee and, let me tell you, these people take that show “Jersey Shore” seriously. I swear, I think I saw Snookie standing on line at the Starbucks!!! Check into our rooms in Atlantic City,and off to sound check. My good friend Phil Caivano from Monster Magnet comes on down with a old Marshall amp for me to use – one of my Marshall’s wasn’t sounding right – so I owe Phil a big one!!!!

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For all you gear heads out there, our backline with Ace is pretty big. Between me and Ace we have 12 4×12 Marshall cabs, 6 100 watt Marshal heads, 6 8×10 SVT cabs and 3 300 watt SVT amps … and all this stuff is live. When I played in Motorhead I thought that was loud, but onstage with Ace Frehley is twice as loud as Motorhead. Another killer show, got a great pic of me hold Ace’s “smoker guitar” during the Shock Me solo spot. After the show, hung out with a bunch of friends, my good buddy Jason Trioxin from Wednesday 13 had come down for the night. Did a little gambling and was up 100 bucks, so I called it a night. Want to be good and rested for the show in New York City.

Sunday 3/21 Nokia Theater Times Square New York City

There’s nothing like seeing the skyline when you’re getting close to the city and, as much as I love living in L.A., New York City will always be my home, which also means a big guest list. Between friends and relatives, I had over 25 people for the list but the tour manager was cool and made it work. I was so stoked to be playing in my home town with Ace Frehley, who’s also a home town boy. I just new this would be a special night and it was. From Eddie Trunk of That Metal Show introducing us and kicking into Rocket Ride to the last notes of Cold Gin, it was magic. I’ve done New York Groove with Ace in Australia and the other shows, but doing that song in New York was something else, one of the highlights of my career for sure!!! It was great to see so many old friends and family after the show. Jesse Malin, who I use to play with in D-Generation gave me a copy of his new record and all I can say is WOW, it’s some of his best stuff. Got to spend a great day off with my family and then back to L.A. to finish a record with my new band “The Royal Highness.”

Check us out at <a href=”http://www.myspace.com/theroyalhighness” target=”_blank”>myspace.com/theroyalhighness</a>, and be on the lookout for more Ace Frehley dates coming soon …

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Drew is celebrating his birthday this Sunday and you know what that means … presents for YOU! He is giving a 10% discount on ALL ORDERS at lip-service.com between 12:01 AM and 11:59 PM (Pacific) on Sunday (March 28). No codes needed … just place an order and save 10%. It’s that easy … 10% off on all domestic and international orders all day Sunday.

Happy Birthday to Drew and happy shopping to you!

Hey Gang,

Lots of fun stuff this past week! Rocked the house with TSOL at the Roxy for St Patty’s day! Hung out with Jess the singer from Agression, talked studios and, much to Angelic CBR’s Zombie dancer’s delight, Jack from TSOL wore her green feather boa after she tossed it to him onstage!!

Drove out to Pioneer Town CA out by Palm Springs for a gig at Pappy n Harriett’s, a fun kinda country rock bar great barbeque!! Had a blast playing The Dome in Bakersfield with my band Cold Blue Rebels. Hotrod Hillbillies were great, Voodoo glow Skulls put on a great Ska/Punk show, and the kids up there rocked out and reminded me what it was like to be a young punk looking to get rowdy!! We busted our coffin out from the stage to the merch area and let kids come take pictures in it with turned the whole area into a bit of a madhouse!! Also had a fun photo shoot with the CBR Zombie dancers in the backstage bathroom. And we debuted our new CBR t-shirts!! Then spent Sunday recuperating form Rockin’ and Drivin’!!

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Yesterday hooked up with the Plastic Hassle team and headed out for a location shoot for the new Service menswear line. It was a blast – hotrods, tools, and hunks!! (ladies watch out)!! Look out for Scotty, a new to LS model who played hooky from high school to come model the shoot! We all predict he’ll be the new girls’ wet dream! The idea was a kinda gearhead, working guy, lifestyle and we shot in a working backyard garage with hydraulic lift and a badass 1928 Model A Ford truck that has been featured in a few magazines and won many trophies at car shows.

The 6 new graphics for this year’s season entitled  “Riot Life” include Service of Hell, Valor, Vice, Pain, Ink, and Speed, and al the designs are sick!! Some of the spring Service styles are in stock and the rest are in soon, so look for them to be available on the retail site and get your order in to be the first on the block!!!

I am heading up to San Francisco on Friday for a week long sales trip through the Bay area. And after I return next Thursday I will head out to Vegas on Friday for 2 gigs with CBR for the Viva Las Vegas weekender (more on that next week). Always on the run.
Havin’ a ball and that ain’t all!!
Fashion+Music=Life
Mickey Finn

Cold Blue Rebels shows

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Service Fall photo shoot

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Whenever you get home from a tour, everyone begs to know what “really happened” out there. Your best friend down to your favorite bartender all ask for the inside track. They need the stories you’d rather take to your grave. They want a glimpse of the glory. Everyone craves just a little taste of the kill. They want to swing on the fringe with you for just a moment before landing back on safe ground. Want no more, fashion fiends I’m here to scratch your itch. I tempt you with a sneak peak into the filthy looking glass of the Rock Roll road. I will warn you, it can get a little messy.

I will first give a bit of advice to all of those out there sitting at home punching a clock while your better half is “god knows where” doing “god knows what” for little or no money. Your lover may come home crying “it’s so hard, I’d rather be here with you than living like an animal”. They may tell you they hate it on tour and rally your sympathy. Remember this: they are lying. This is how we ease our guilt for having too much fun. Is it tough out there? Definitely! Is it fun? More than you can fathom!!! Those of us who choose this life would rather be on the road than anywhere else. When Rock & Roll hunger is in your blood, you must feed. We ARE the animals. The road IS our home. The insanity IS our way. We ARE the circus and this big top just destroyed Texas.

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We headed to Austin to play the Texas Rock Fest during SxSW and from the moment we rolled into town, the mayhem began. Motorhead was playing Stubbs in honor of the premier of Lemmy: The Movie . Watch the trailer and watch the whole film when it’s released. There is a lot to learn from this man and what most don’t know how funny he is. I’m always a sucker for a good laugh and Lemmy was kind enough to invite us to hang out on the Motorhead bus for a while with him before taking the stage. I love listening to his stories, he truly is one of a kind and one hell of a kind!! Thanks Lem! The show was insane and the Motorhead fans were even crazier. The night spilled over into some bar down the street where we ran into friends from from all over the country. Even the lovely Miss Shannon Sleaze of Gasoline Glamour was there. There are parts of the week that were a bit foggy, but how could I forget the insane rock & roll jewels from GG?!

The next two days the festival was booked with early Lip Service comrades like Faster Pussycat and LA Guns and up and comers like Crank County Daredevils, Lady Jack, Dirty Pearls, TLV, Denko Jones and many more. It was great to hang with all of our friends we love and adore and all the new troublemakers that jumped on board. We took over the streets of Austin. Hell was definitely raised but don’t fret, we buried the bodies where they’ll never be found.

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The rest of the tales are left to be told by the pictures. They shall remain nameless to protect the guilty. After all there is a code of touring – “what happens on the road – stays on the road”! You didn’t really think I’d reveal ALL my dirty little secrets, now did you? However, I will leave you with one piece of advice. If you ever wake up in the middle of the night with your guitarist palming your face and screaming, just roll over and go back to sleep. She’s just having a bad dream and you can laugh about it over bloody mary’s in the morning. Until next time underground lovers & style freaks.
Love,
Rachael Rine
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PS- You may ask yourself, why Bloody Knuckles & Bruised thighs? Well, it is a lot of physical work and they just come with the territory especially when you’re clumsy like me. Broken hearts? Yes many were broken… mine by missing the Michael Monroe shows in LA and Austin. I’m going to go drown my sorrows in “Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks” now. Xxo

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All jewelry for photo shoot and ad by Forgotten Saints

Got to say, we here at Lip SerVICES love us some St. Patrick’s Day! What other holiday gives one the principal tradition of open, public drunken debauchery? … Well, except Cinco de Mayo (oh, yeah, there’s tacos and beating the crap out of piñatas, too. … Hmmm … beating the shit out of leprechauns …) … oh,  4th of July (but then we blow up shit, too. Hmm, exploding leprechauns? maybe…) … and Memorial Day (but then we barbeque, too. … Nope, not going there!). Oh hell, YES there are quite a few holidays that we’ve kind of made about getting ripped, but St. Pat’s is the king, the Mack Daddy of them all.

Sure, St. Patrick’s Day is about some other stuff … being Irish (or somthing like that …), silly green hats, wearing of green in general, the song Danny Boy … stuff like that. You know, here’s someone better equipped to tell you about the non-drunk part … Take it away, Coco!

Granted, we’re here to talk about drunk. Not just a little tipsy, not wasted, even. I’m talking about some liver-blasting, mind melting supersonic drunk! Well, kinda like this guy. Seriously, how champion degeneate is going for MORE beer when you’re that fucked up. And, awesome add, somebody’s given the video the epic score it richly deserves. Enjoy Drunk Guy!

Haven’t had enough of stumbling, embarassing public drunkenness yet? Okay, here’s a little more before we move on …

How does one achieve the good, olympic drunk? Unless you really like bloat and trips to the head a LOT, I’d avoid the beer unless you’re going Guiness (with some whiskey, perhaps).

Poteen:

The old school Irish used to head for a bit of the poteen (or poitíne). Think of it as Irish moonshine, with more kick than Sister Mary Francis on a bad day. It’s been said that poteen could cause blindness and even sometimes kill people who end up suffering from alcohol poisoning. It is, I shit you not,  also common from elder people to rub poteen on their skin to help with arthritis … well, at least that’s the excuse Gram used to use.

Not feeling quite so hard-core? Okay, ya wee lassie … here’s something a bit more dainty for your delicate constitution …

Whiskey!

First distilled by monks about a thousand years ago, whiskey is a definite go-to! Whether neat or on ice (whiskey buffs recommend just a wee splash of water, by the way), you can’t go wrong with the classics … Old Bushmills, Tullamore Dew, Power’s, Paddy’s and Jameson’s. Granted, the export varieties could never hold a candle to the real Irish stuff. But, let’s remember, since we’re only PRETENDING to be Irish, we can pretend we have the good stuff, too … Right? And … if you can get a leprechaun to pour it down your throat? Irish WIN!

Still too aggro for your poor little tummy?

Okay. Here are a few girlie drinks for you to enjoy …

Irish Kilt

2 oz. Irish Whisky
1 oz. Scotch
1 oz. Lemon juice
1 oz. Sugar water
3 dashes of Orange bitters

Combine all the ingredients in a shaker filled with ice, shake well and strain into a martini glass.

Leprechaun 





2 oz. Irish whisky
Cold Tonic water

Lemon Twist 



Pour whisky into a Collins glass filled with ice, fill with tonic water, stir gently and drop in the lemon twist.
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And, if you’ve had a few too many of these …

Morning (after) with Leprechauns 



1 1/2 oz. Bailey’s Irish Crème 

1 oz. Irish Whisky 

1/4 oz. Cherry brandy 

3 oz. Cold black coffee (strength to your likeness) 



Combine all the ingredients into a highball glass filled almost to the top with crush ice and stir well.

One last thing before you go … just a little drunk, Irish humor …

An Irish priest is driving down to New York and gets stopped for speeding in Connecticut.

The state trooper smells alcohol on the priest’s breath and then sees an empty wine bottle on the floor of the car. He says, “Sir, have you been drinking?”

“Just water,” says the priest.

The trooper says, “Then why do I smell wine?”

The priest looks at the bottle and says,
“Good Lord! He’s done it again!”

Oh, and, by the way … the priest didn’t get away with any and NEITHER WILL YOU! It may sound all not-so-degenerate of me, but … seriously … don’t drive if you’ll be drinking enough to be seeing leprechauns. You’d probably like to live to debauch another holiday.

Until the next time … keep it sinful!

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Hey Rockers,

I hope you all had a great weekend if any of you made it out to the Viper room to catch Michael Monroe’s band on Friday I’m sure you will agree that they tore the roof off that place!! Easily one of the best rock n roll show’s to ever hit that place! After a trip to the LS warehouse the band hit the stage looking good, and immediately began to destroy with songs from Demolition 23, Johnny Thunders, and of course Hanoi Rocks! Michael is a madman on stage and at points was begging the doorman to open the door to let some cool air into the sweltering oversold hotspot. Once he did Michael took the opportunity to talk to some passers by walking down the Sunset strip from the stage apologizing for the noise but explaining their was a rock n roll show going on, and inviting them to come in! The night did resemble a slight version of the glory days from the 80’s with lots of fabulous glammed out dudes and chicks, the kind of night where ya cant tell the band from the crowd!

Also this weekend I meet and had a rehearsal with the new bass Player and Drummer for my band Jetboy! Solid guys and amazing players if it all works out they will be the guys for this summers touring. Our new record just came out world wide on Itunes, Amazon, and all the best download sites. If you go to the Rock category on ITunes we are listed in the “New and Noteworthy” section, and we are climbing the most popular download charts fast! If ya like good raw rock give it a listen and buy it!

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Today I will be putting on my green Junkie fit pants and heading down to the Roxy for the Shamrock Tattoo party my band Cold Blue Rebels will play at 8:15, its $15 18 and up welcome and TSOL, and DI’s will play with Aggression and The Stains also on the bill! Then on Saturday we head to Bakersfield for a gig at the Dome with a bunch of bands 2 stages and the Mentors, and Voodoo Glow Skulls headlining!

I’ve been planning my next sales trip up to Northern California with stops in San Jose, Santa Cruz, SF, Oakland, Berkeley, and Sacramento, whew, I get tired just thinking about it. But as we say around Lippy land, its not just a job it’s an adventure!!!

Well gotta run, hope to see ya tonight, if not drink lots of green beer, and piss on a Leprechaun!!
Fashion+Music=Life
Mickey Finn

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Greetings Lippy fans!

Last month held a rather sad anniversary for the underground … the one year mark for THE CRAMPS front man Lux Interior’s death. (Oct.21st 1946 – Feb.4th 2009)  To say he was an inspiration is a gross understatement. For many of us he was the father of an incredible subculture.

So today Chad Cherry and I would like to delicate THE DEVIL INSIDE to some of the things that made THE CRAMPS truly great!
“Hey I’m on my way, on a journey outta this world”  -LUX-

CHAD:

“In the spring of 1976, The Cramps began to fester in a NYC apartment. With out fresh air or natural light, the group developed it’s uniquely mutant strain of rock-n-roll aided only by the sickly blue rays of late night t.v. While jackhammer rhythms of punk were proliferating in NYC, The Cramps dove into the deepest recesses of the rock-n-roll psyche for the most primal of all rhythmic impulses -Rockabilly- The sound of southern culture falling apart in a blaze of shudders and hiccups. As late night sci-fi reruns colored the room, The Cramps also picked and chose amongst eras – surf, instrumental rock, psychedelia, and 60′s punk.

And then they added the junkiest element of all…. Themselves”.

It would be almost impossible to have not heard of The Cramps. But there are those who live under candy coated rubble that love to get force fed whatever media says is cool at the watered down moment…. Which is mostly shit… This article is for you.. So you can learn.

Their career has been the stuff of legend. Dangerously bizarre but most of all cool, The Cramps represent everything that is truly reprehensible about rock-n-roll. Founding members Lux Interior ( The psycho-sexual Elvis/Werewolf hybrid from hellfire) and the guitar slingin’ soul-mate Poison Ivy ( The ultimate bad girl vixen that I still have a crush on. So sexy evil!) are the architects of a wicked sound that distills a cross of swamp water, moonshine and nitro down to a dangerous and unstable musical substance. (I’ll have a couple shots of that!!!) Their cultural impact has spawned a legion of devil cults and dance floor catfights, and created in it’s wake a cavalcade of cave-stompin’ imitators.

As punk rock pioneers in the late 70′s they cut their teeth on the stages of CBGB and Max’s kansas City and recorded their first record at Sam Phillip’s legendary Sun Studios, funded mainly by Ivy’s income as a dominatrix  in NYC. They coined the now ever so popular term “psychobilly” on gig their posters. Their hair raising live performances where a total, no-holds-barred rock-n-roll assault. After a quarter centry of mayhem, they’re too far gone to even consider any other course.

The Cramps were the garage band that fueled everything nasty about the way my mind developed as a kid. I would skateboard for hours listening to my master comp that I put together via 7inch/12inch vinyl record to cassette. (old skool muthaf#@kas) I still have that tape… Somewhere…. I would destroy my body with my terrible skateboard tricks and The Cramps would be right there in my ears telling me that I’m suppose to be in pain and bleeding like a stuck pig . Now enjoy it punk………….. And i did.

Nos:

I was first exposed to THE CRAMPS somewhere around 15 years old at a Christian school. I had long since been obsessed with music of the late 50′s/early 60′s but hadn’t been properly introduced to the modern take on it. Needless to say it was love at first listen… Such rebellion! Such filth! And at the heart of it all was the ultimate rock and roll love story … Lux and Ivy.

There are countless Psychobilly bands in THE CRAMPS’ wake but none have even come close to matching the raw energy that dripped from Lux’s stage. This man was beyond committed to his bit! At 50 he was still touring and STILL cutting himself up in front of the audience. He wasn’t afraid to unleash his demons ….

Chad:

The band has had several line up changes but the whole deal was always Lux and Poison Ivy. The greatest couple to ever come from Hell. That is why I was crushed when I heard the news last year (while I was on tour with the Crue and partying in new Orleans) that Lux had died after suffering an aortic dissection. Out of nowhere.. He was 62. The first thing I thought about was Poison Ivy. He was her Frankenstein. Second thing I did was finish up the bottle of Jack with TLV as a toast to a great rock-n-roll monster who will be undead in my heart until I hit sunlight and as long as I keep blazing The Cramps evil groove to the rhymes of the devils blues.

Nos:

I remember reading an interview with Lux and Ivy just a few years before he passed. They still seemed so in love and still so in tune with each other. – That’s hard for “normal” couple to do after several decades together … let alone rock n roll pairing! Ivy was the first one I thought of too after I heard about his death…

But the legacy will always live on! And so will their passion for things bizarre and horror related.

One of my all time favorite concert videos is THE CRAMPS live at Napa State Mental Hospital. If you haven’t seen this yet you’re SO missing out! During a 1978 tour THE CRAMPS paid a little visit to a metal institute for a concert and someone captured the results on camera. The patients scream, jump around, and even sing along with Lux …. utter madness.

I’m sure you can pick up a copy via Amazon.

The music of THE CRAMPS was also no stranger to horror films (as Chad Cherry will get into in a minute) and they’ve even been known to make an elusive cameo or two in a horror film. FOR EXAMPLE: Did you know they dressed like zombies and ran around in tunnels for Romero’s DAY OF THE DEAD? It ‘s true … watch the behind the scenes on the DVD!

Chad:

Their music is in some of my favorite movies (Return of the Living Dead -”Surfin’ Dead” and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 – “Goo Goo Muck”) and they were in the greatest Halloween episode of Beverly Hills 90210. Look out Dillon! Lux comes out and say’s “Hey boys and ghouls, are you ready to raise the dead?” then they played “Mean Machine” and Strange Love.” Yeah! I’ll never forget that. I always wondered how the vibe was on the 90210 set having real Vampires around Kelly and Brandon……

Anyway…….. If you don’t have any of The Cramps music (your excused if you were born yesterday) and you love the creepy, then buy these record right now.

• Songs the Lord taught us-  80
• Psychedelic Jungle-           81
• Smell of Female-     -live-    83
• A date with Elvis-                 86
• Stay Sick-                              90
• Look Mom, No Head-           91
• Flame Job-                             94
• Big beat from Badsville-       97
• Fiends of Dope Island-         02

If you are looking for “best of”s and compilations… Here ya go.

• Off the Bone –  83
• Bad Music for Bad people- 84 (Still have my t-shirt from this record………….Smells awesome)
• How to make a Monster- 04
• The Secret of The Cramps- 06

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If you’re into high production and glossy fluff (who isn’t) then stick with American Idol stuff.
Enter at your own risk lovelies.

Another thing that is undeniable about THE CRAMPS is their impeccable fashion sense! Lux could make tights look hot on a man and he wasn’t afraid to wear lipstick with large sunglasses either. Ivy was the queen of animal print and reconstructed vintage … with a touch a dungeon gear added in for good measure. Even in their later years they looked fucking amazing and fashionable.

Lip Service has some very CRAMPS esc items and I’ve put together a list of my personal favorites …

[Ghost town cigarette fit jean] Time to channel your inner Lux with this fabulous jeans from the Ghost Town collection.

[Branch foil print leggings] It takes a bad rocker girl to pull these bitches off!

[Patent Vinyl bra w/o-ring details] ‘Cause who really wants to wear clothes on stage?

[Gangsta Pranksta Knee length dress] This little number has a real vintage appeal with an updated rock n roll edge!

[pocket hipster straight leg] Great for sweating yer balls off!

[Caged skirt] This Caged skirt is fucking crazy and would look wicked hot on both girls and boys.

Chad:

LONG LIVE ROCK-N-ROLL HORROR! The mold was broke when the B-movie sci-fi outer space neanderthal sex vamps called The Cramps landed back in the late 70′s. This is a one of kind rare band that you will never see the likes of again. You can still hear their music coming from graveyards in the evening, and I guarantee that they will keep you  rockin’ with the un-dead all night long……….

So I just got back from the middle of nowhere Michigan, a.k.a – no-mans land -………. The Last Vegas set up a recording studio in a lake house with our engineer and started flushing out song ideas that we’ve had floating around inside our wicked little minds from the last couple of tours (and some from a lot earlier as well). The location was so isolated that phone reception was non exsistant and there was zero internet the whole week we were up there. Creepy and beautiful, cold and very snowy. Picture the movie ‘The Shining’…. But replace the sweet shrubbery maze with a frozen lake. Very scary at night. It was so quite and peaceful too… Until we got there that is. “ALL WORK AND NO PLAY, MAKES CHERRY A DULL BOY”!!!!! Check out The Last Vegas on tour this March. THE TEXAS C.C MASSACRE is coming!!!!! Cheers from your favorite Vampire creep…. -Chad Cherry- xxx

Nos:

No doubt THE CRAMPS will continue to inspire generations … both musically and with their legendary style.

In the Nos world I’ve been busy shooting new content for my website: goddessofgorenos.com and posing for magazines! I’m gracing the cover this month of ST.LOUIS SINNER and two of my photos made it into issue 31 of GOTHIC BEAUTY … which will be on newsstands March 12th! I’ve also been cast in a new horror film called AFTER PARTY MASSACRE and I’ll be shooting in glamorous Ohio next month.

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Yes, that’s right! Lip Service is starting up a brand new lingerie line and is looking for hot models to fill out all the curves! Here are the details:

The shoot will be at the end of March (exact dates TBD)
Models MUST live in the Los Angeles area. THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS! We will need you around for pre-shoot fittings.
Models MUST be size Small or Medium, preferably with an awesome rack, and 5’5″ or taller (NO EXCEPTIONS!)
Prior lingerie experience is a definite plus
Please submit photos in lingerie or bikini, if you’ve got ‘em!

To send your submission, please go to the Model Submissions Form