That time I asked Poison Ivy what inspired the Cramps’ “Bikini Girls with Machine Guns”

By Steve Newton

Back in April of 1990 I did my first interview with Cramps guitarist Poison Ivy Rorschach, in advance of a show at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver.

At the time the band was touring behind its new Stay Sick album, which she produced herself, and which included the song “Bikini Girls with Machine Guns”, a Top 40 hit in the U.K.

Obviously I wouldn’t have been doing my journalistic duty if I hadn’t tried to learn what inspired that little ditty.

Have a listen:

 

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