The Cramps - A Free Concert at the Napa State Hospital

Starring: The Cramps

RS: 3of 4 Stars

A legendary punk artifact: The Cramps, pioneers of the sleaze-rock sound, play a free 1978 concert for the patients at a California mental institution. The patients get into the act, hopping onstage and dancing to punk classics such as "Human Fly," "TV Set" and "The Way I Walk." The footage is technically raw, and so is the sound quality. But it's still a scream -- by the end of the show, you can't tell the patients from the band, and that's the whole point.

ROB SHEFFIELD
(January 29, 2004)