Psychobilly

What are your musical influences, ’cause it’s a real interesting mix of kind of a punk attitude with the early rockabilly styles?

                    We have a lot of musical influences. Everything from The Sex Pistols to Charlie Feathers. Mainly rockabilly though—a lot of early instrumentals from the early ’60s. Stuff like that. But we have all kinds of influences. Hot rods. Non-musical influences. And the really good rockabilly from the ’50s, the lesser known, obscure rockabilly was very psychotic in its day, or even stands up to being psychotic by today’s standards. That’s why all good rockabilly was psychobilly originally.

The Cramps

MTV 120 Minutes

(circa 1990s)