[lbo-talk] Vampira r.i.p.

[B.]

One of the tragedies of Maila Nurmi/Vampira is that
there are no extant recorded copies of her TV show!
Truly a huge loss, like the film _London After
Midnight_ being forever gone.

Vampira was a huge fascination for early punks -- The
Damned had a song, "Plan 9, Channel 7" from 1979 that
alluded to her. (The piece Dennis Claxton forwarded
notes her show appeared on KABC-TV Channel 7). And the
original Misfits (1977 - 1983) wrote a tribute song to
her, "Vampira," and also tracked her down in 1981 or
so and to have this photo taken with her, she in full
makeup:

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j101/ronnietheripper/misfits.jpg

Pretty cool! That's a young Glenn Danzig on the right,
still punk, before he became an egomaniacal metal
head.

-B.

Dennis Claxton wrote:

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-nurmi16jan16,1,315378.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california>http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-nurmi16jan16,1,315378.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california