Cramps

My friend Howie Klein assigned me to photograph the Cramps and the Mutants at a free concert for patients at the California State Mental Hospital in Napa. Howie was a well-known rock journalist in San Francisco and would be writing the article for the New York Rocker magazine. I'd be supplying them with the pictures for the article.

That sounded like a crazy assignment, so I asked Jeff Good, my friend and fellow photographer if he’d like to join us. He agreed and soon we were off on our way to a mental hospital.