Just heard the sad news that Lux Interior, singer for the Cramps, has died of an existing heart ailment.
If rock and roll ever had a king, Lux was the man. L-U-X was another spelling for the word FUN. This man rocked. He defined psychobilly to it's core. He was bad ass and very, very funny. We'll never see another like him.
All I can add right now, the most fun I ever had in my life was my first Cramps show, at the Warfield in San Francisco, on the Summer Solstice in 1990.
Lux strode onto stage in his patent leather jump suit and black high heel pumps and announced, "I heard there were some BAAAAAAAAAAAD people her tonight!".
What followed was not a rock and roll show, but a full on pagan bacchanal, just a shit-kicking affirmation of life in all it's punk rock, hillbilly glory.
I jumped into the pit and lost my mind in an ecstatic, cathartic rumble. I lost my car keys and bruised my arm. Who cares? Maybe I was aided by a couple shots of Jack, but hell it was Lux, Ivy, Nick Knox and Candy Del Mar rippin' the joint.
Fare thee well, Lux, I'll miss you big time.
My condolences to Ivy and family. Ivy you are, hands down, one of the finest guitar players on the planet.
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Listening to the Cramps as I write this... 'Beautiful Gardens'. Burn on, Lux.
I'm spinning my compilation disc with Psychedelic Jungle and Gravest Hits. It's probably my jungle island disc.
Lot's of folks have sent me links to the Cramps videos they are seeing on You Tube.
Lux showed me how to live as an artist, just go for it straight out, no artifice, just.... HUUUUUUUUUUUU!
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*pee oh two partial press... sure of OXY JEHHN
"AREYOU...POISON? I WOULD GET SICK IF I ATE YOU.
i am wolven,,,,yoga naked in the snow,i delivered (redacted)the a.m. newspaper and the day of rest large size (keep the paper mill on the miskotonic solvent/keep the berkshires ....ahhtty....we must have art...shoot crank w/the witches of eastwick....sf of g patty n me tripp'n {ole schule /eff-umlaut-you-ahrrr/ urlab) though falling is valid trippn on vacation/or holiday in german it insinuates only workers of ill humor would chance fuck.n up the quality of their arbeit by not going on a volks march. deny death in reversetechnische vehicles on the spunbahn...steve...were the cramps hillbillian. RECORDBARHN'N TONIGHT! PS I MET ONE OF THOSE GUYS AT JUST ABOUT THE MOST ESOTERIC DEAD THING I EVER ATTENDED HOWARD WALES AND TOM WELZNIK. I DUG IT IT WAS REFRESHING TO BE REMINDED////BY PROXIMITY TO AND THE EXPERIENCE OF ,,,SACRED TRADITIONS...OUR WAYS....corpusKRISPIE ..I DIG BUTTHOLE SURFERS,,,but ve canna deny ......i quit every thang,budgets for infra/struch'r,,in many a state "zero por vous" iz all ya'all'l see w/so much bridgeimmolation. i am into the hippest i follow the SQUIDBILLIES they are always on tour,,,talk about twisted mountainwilliam music like all those bluebarrel trails in the woodslikeazillionskeeters...just stuff in daylight that escaped when ARTBELL went offthe air,,,hiswife was neat...hope you are alright art. "RAMONAandI are in the BUNKER.WE NEVER WORRY,WELL BESIDES ALL THE CREATURE THAT ARE NOW LIVING IN YOUR SKULL AND THE RETURN OF (REDACTED)..oh well the ass ended masters hid the amulet in the cake nebula of the BENB STARCLUSTER) BEMB WILL BE TAKING CALLS..GOTTA TELL YA, TRAILERPARKS ARE SLIDING OFF INTO SPACE,,,, ALWAYS READY TO USE:"THE C-CRANE" Z:12 PO2* ORGONE ENERGY ENVELOPE ...HAND CRANKED... ESCAPE VELOCITY REACHED ..NOW IN CONTROL "THEY USE NO SYSTEM NONE OF OUR INCREMENTS.." CHELSEA NAVAL HOSPITAL RAN CLINICAL STUDIES.INSIDE CHECKING DATA TO DAYTAH,AND CONDUCTED ALL FIELD STUDIES DURING THE SEVENTIES. ZOOMASS WAS WHERE THEY LEARNED, THAT.. JUST THE IDEA,NEXT ,,IMPLICATION*AWARENESS ..THINK/N THEN.... CONSIDERING..THEN FAST AS THAT "DEATH BY ONE'S OWN GUITAR" ICE CREAM DEATH...."THEY FORGOT US ALL..WE WERE THE EXPERIMENT: 57/75 THE DOMESTICATED PRIMATES LOVE TO WORK ON "57CHEVYS" I DID ALL THE WORK MYSELF ON 57 BODY MY 57 FLESHBONESPIRIT HATS OFF TO THE "GEEZERS" DID YOU NAME YOURSELVES INSTANTLY MIDDLE FINGERS HIGH? ME ANSWER HARD QUESTION ONE FINE MORNING WACTHING THE FINEST ANCHOR IS SEATTLE/ENVIRONS ..I WOULD SAY ..NEVER SEEN A TV ANCHOR/COMMMEMTATOR THAT WAS THAT SCRUMTIOUS. WHO PLAYED TOMMY IN TOMMY. AFTER I WON TWOTIX krang!! i Callled back to seee if i could give a report on the show the next morning she was way into it,,,,"people can't put US down,they're STILL talk'n BOUT.. "MY GENERATION". OLD SCHOOL..THATZ OOHWHEEAHHR! LAST NIGHT I SAW PETE SMASH HIS GUITAR"
*pee oh two partial press... sure of OXY JEHHN
"AREYOU...POISON? I WOULD GET SICK IF I ATE YOU.
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