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The Cramps at the Napa Mental Hospital. Yes, it really happened. 1978. From MindHacks:

During a 1978 tour, psychobilly punk band The Cramps created one of the strangest moments in the history of both rock n’ roll and psychiatry when they played a gig inside Napa State Mental Hospital.

It’s hard to believe it actually happened. The story sounds more like an exaggerated rock legend than an account of a real concert, but no suspension of disbelief is needed. Someone filmed the gig.

We can only guess how the band got permission to play inside one of California’s biggest mental institutions, but play they did, to a few supporters and a fired-up crowd of psychiatric inpatients.

Everyone needs some live rock and roll every once in awhile, baby.



As a punk friend of mind quipped "There's no way anyone would let a band do this nowadays." Frickin' lawyers.

Here's the full video, if you are into this kind of thing. (Like I am.)