The Cramps (Bryan Gregory, Miriam Linna, Lux Interior & Poison Ivy) at he band’s 73rd street apartment and HQ in New York ca. 1976-77, as documented by Stephanie Chernikowsk.

“…I’d met up with Lux and Ivy and had stayed over at their place, a small, low ceiling walkup on East 73 rd Street. A cool old jukebox took up a good chunk of the living room– Lux said he paid a guy five bucks to carry it up the stairs, strapped to his back! There was only one window in the apartment, facing into a back alley. There was a mess of records on shelves facing the jukebox, a walk-through bedroom with a massive old bed that took up the entire room, a tiny bathroom with a sink and shower, and a miniscule kitchenette, but it was homey, and bits of velvety Victorian style bric-a-brac decorated what was in essence, Cramps HQ.

The first night, I met their soft-spoken new guitar player Bryan Gregory. The threesome had put it into first use in April, with a cool handbill (indicating a fan club—now that’s confidence for a band that existed in name only!)—it would still be still six months before the band would play live…”

Miriam Linna