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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.)

"Some men make glory from a different condition"

All the people had their share of the glory
Looking out after you
It's just a story about winners and glory
And you know that it's true

Oh yeah, you're just a shooting star
Oh yeah, you're just a shooting star

Some men make glory from a different condition, of another car
And later persuasion would permit the arranging of an earthen bar
And to cause all confusion and to make this illusion
Would have gone too far
And it's my ambition, of a jacket ignition, a Cadillac metal car

Oh yeah, you're just a shooting star
Oh yeah, you're just a shooting star
Oh yeah, you're just a shooting star
Oh yeah, you're just a shooting star
You're just a shooting star