Saddest headline I ever had to write. I loved that band so much

the first time I saw them live (in 86 or 87), I showed up too early and decided to go to a bar down the road. And here they were. The whole band sitting at a booth, all in leather gears and dark sunglasses on. They sat there for about an hour, and not one of them uttered one word to each other. The epitome of cool

And they were still putting albums of worth, And he was an excellent showman


Guess he can finally have his date with Elvis now

Farewell and thanks for the memories.

The Cramps were a great band. I finally got to see them in Denver a few years ago. Lux was swilling wine from the bottle and was highly animated. This is a complete surprise.

I hoped it was a rumor, but MTV confirms (new window)

Roll on, rock on, yeah now bop, yeah rock on
Well, there's still a lot of rhythm in these rockin' bones

I wanna leave a happy memory when I go
I wanna leave something to let the whole world know
That the rock 'n' roll daddy has done past on
But his bones keep rockin' long after I'm gone

Roll on, rock on, yeah now bop, yeah rock on
Well, there's still a lot of rhythm in these rockin' bones

Well when I die, burried six foot deep
With a rock 'n' roll record at my feet
A phonograph needle in my hand
I'm gonna rock my way right out of this land

Roll on, rock on, yeah now bop, yeah rock on
Well, there's still a lot of rhythm in these rockin' bones

Well, when I die don't burry me at all
Just a-hang my bones upon the wall
Beneath these bones let these words be seen:
"The running gears of a boppin' machine"

Rol on, rock on, yeah now bop, yeah rock on
Well, there's still a lot of rhythm in these rockin' bones
Still a lot of rhythm in these rockin' bones
Still a lot of rhythm in these rockin' bones
Still a lot of rhythm in these rockin' bones

~ Ronnie Daswon

RIP....LUX thanks for the great music, and many memories.

Good night, punky man.

Can Your Pussy Do The Dog? (new window)

Bikini Girls With Machine Guns (new window)

Naked Girl Falling Down The Stairs (new window)

The Cramps at Napa State Mental Hospital.

One of the best damn rock and roll frontmen EVER. RIP.

Damn that is sad. I was a Cramps fanatic as a teen. I followed them on a UK tour after I saw them at a rock festival in Leeds in the early 80s.

RIP Lux, you were one awesome performer, thanks so much for all the happy memories and great, great songs.

My littlest sister is going to be so upset about him dying.

/RIP funny man.

Goddamnitsomuch. I have pissed away so many chances to see The Cramps over the years. This sucks. I just figured that they would continue to drop by Pops on the East side every once in a while, and I'd eventually catch a show. I'm so disappointed. Lux was an amazing performer.

I hope the Rev survives long enough for me to get off of my lazy ass and go see him. I got lucky and got to see Exene Cervenka play at a very small place last year. RIP Lingerieman.

Dammit. Now who's gonna teach me not to eat stuff off the sidewalk?

so how old was he?

pitchfork link said he was 60 but they retracted it out of the article

-WIKI ,interestingly enough , offers no date of birth

mtv's article says 62

now IMBD says: "Erick Lee Purkhiser, better known as his stage name Lux Interior was born on October 21st, 1948"

coontact music says 52 (but are wrong)


?

Dang.

RIP Lux. And thanks.

I was a teenage werewolf
Braces on my fangs
I was a teenage werewolf
And no one even said thanks
And no one made me stop

/RIP Lux
//Going to the bar now

He really was the Most Exalted Potentate of Love.

Sad. The Cramps were retro and way ahead of their time simultaneously. Not an easy feat.

Gonna play TV Set now.

HappyHarryHardOn:

Guess he can finally have his date with Elvis now

Thanks for the heads up Harry. Sad day I really loved these guys. The sound The Cramps were able to create is perfect. One part Elvis, one part punk, all parts cool. I love that old sound that some punk bands tap into. Another one of my heroes down. Throwing on 'Nazibilly Werewolfen' in Lux's honor.

RIP Punk man.

Fine, I will say it, over rated shiat music with an average stage show.

Gunny Highway: HappyHarryHardOn:

Guess he can finally have his date with Elvis now

Thanks for the heads up Harry. Sad day I really loved these guys. The sound The Cramps were able to create is perfect. One part Elvis, one part punk, all parts cool. I love that old sound that some punk bands tap into. Another one of my heroes down. Throwing on 'Nazibilly Werewolfen' in Lux's honor.

RIP Punk man.

Aww, man. It's a such a WTF?@#?# , but I guess now I have to start imagining that we are moving from 60s icon, to 70s icon and now seeing 80s icons going away....

/"BAD MUSIC FOR BAD PEOPLE" for the win, one of my all time best

steamingpile: Fine, I will say it, over rated shiat music with an average stage show.

You know, some people aint no good.

Well, that sucks.

HappyHarryHardOn: Aww, man. It's a such a WTF?@#?# , but I guess now I have to start imagining that we are moving from 60s icon, to 70s icon and now seeing 80s icons going away....

Gah Im not ready for that. I havent had a chance to see near enough of them.

/yea I love that album
//looks like it is shaping up into a Cramps weekend.

...breaks my damn heart......

From Urgh! A Music War, here's "Tear It Up." (vein poppin' goodness)

/first Cramps video I ever saw
//this is Joe Strummer/Joey Ramone type of sad

steamingpile: Fine, I will say it, over rated shiat music with an average stage show.

the Goo Goo Muck will get him........

steamingpile: Fine, I will say it, over rated shiat music with an average stage show.

I mean, really, would you show up and someones funeral and talk shiat about them? I guess you would... assfarkershiathead prick. I hope you get run over by a gas truck and taste you own blood.

steamingpile: Fine, I will say it, over rated shiat music with an average stage show.

I can understand that the music might not be to everyone's taste, but to call The Cramps' stage show 'average' is just plain wrong. Lux was a great front man


/listening to Psychedelic Jungle right now
//condolences to Ivy
///damn sad day

steamingpile: Fine, I will say it, over rated shiat music with an average stage show.

compared to your live show yeah.
so um, steaming pile, what have you ever done again besides waste my air again?

lets have a big round of applause for steaming piles accomplishments everyone! bravo!

doucherton....

steamingpile: Fine, I will say it, over rated shiat music with an average stage show.


Well, good for you -- very successful accomplishment, making yourself the center of attention here. That one-day "biggest asshole on Fark" award must make momma proud.

Now drag your worthless self out of here, sonny. That fork won't stick itself in an electrical outlet by itself now, will it? No. No, it won't.

blairdobson: steamingpile: Fine, I will say it, over rated shiat music with an average stage show.

compared to your live show yeah.
so um, steaming pile, what have you ever done again besides waste my air again?

lets have a big round of applause for steaming piles accomplishments everyone! bravo!

doucherton....

and here's the rest of us....



there's no reprieve on Fark, not even in death. That's ok. At your funeral, we'll take turns goosing your mom with a rusty knife

Saw this earlier,but didn't believe it 'til I saw it on Pitchfork. My sympathies go out to Poison Ivy. Good music for good people.

damn.. more "great" news today...

/one of the best bands ever.

And here we go, someone doesn't like the subject of the thread and expresses it, and suddenly they are the douchebag.

The way I look at it is, you are all giant douchebags. Seriously, I liked it better when the standard response was "that's like, just your opinion, man."

galactus5000: And here we go, someone doesn't like the subject of the thread and expresses it, and suddenly they are the douchebag.

The way I look at it is, you are all giant douchebags. Seriously, I liked it better when the standard response was "that's like, just your opinion, man."

In general I agree that there's way too much immature name-calling in the forums, but when someone disrespects the dead before they're even buried (and not someone like Idi Amin, Pol Pot, or other person who brought suffering and death to many people, just a musician), I can't say the troll don't deserve it.

Unfortunately it's probably just what the gentleman (I use the term very loosely) wanted. Some people just like to fart in the elevator.

It's not much of a sign of intelligence, maturity, or grace, but I suppose it's the best he can do.

soseussme: It's not much of a sign of intelligence, maturity, or grace, but I suppose it's the best he can do.

The guy didn't do anything worthy of being called a douche. He said he didn't like the music and that he thought their stage show wasn't all that - it's not like he said "I'm glad he's dead", which would have been worthy of the reaction he got.

For the record, beyond Bikini Girls With Machine Guns, I wasn't a fan of The Cramps either, however they were pretty good at what they did. Never saw them live, so I can't talk on their stage show.

Aw, man... if I wasn't sad enough about this news, I just now read that another old favorite of mine, John Martyn, died last week. Here's a clip of him playing a rather remarkable cover of a Skip James song -- acoustic guitar split off through an EchoPlex and a wah pedal.

Anyway, double bummer.

I conceded years ago that there would never be a cooler name than Lux Interior... sorry, Poison Ivy Rorschach-Interior

/96 tears/96 eyes
//zombie Lux, anyone?

R.I.P.

My dream of getting to see The Cramps live is gone. I haven't felt like this since Joe Strummer passed.

El Freak

thanks for the link!

that intro Lux says in the very beginning of the song / the set, is all kinds of awesome/classic.
possibly one of the greatest concert intro's EVER ??

galactus5000:

soseussme: It's not much of a sign of intelligence, maturity, or grace, but I suppose it's the best he can do.

The guy didn't do anything worthy of being called a douche. He said he didn't like the music and that he thought their stage show wasn't all that - it's not like he said "I'm glad he's dead", which would have been worthy of the reaction he got.


Sorry, but coming into a thread when someone dies and saying their music was "over rated shiat" -- that's gonna get you douchebag status on most people's charts. Odd that you don't get that, yet you're so sensitive about them being butt-hurt over the abuse that they invited on themselves.

galactus5000: The guy didn't do anything worthy of being called a douche. He said he didn't like the music and that he thought their stage show wasn't all that - it's not like he said "I'm glad he's dead", which would have been worthy of the reaction he got.

I think calling it "shiat music" is a bit borderline. It's name-calling itself, so he kinda started that aspect. He could have said "The music is basic/simple/not particularly difficult" (which is true -- I love the sound but it's not particularly complex or challenging) or something along those lines.

Or really, he could just have chosen to not participate in a thread about a subject he has no interest in. It seems more a thread for fans to pay homage to the deceased.

There are plenty of times when expressing dislike of a musician or their music is appropriate -- this just doesn't seem like the time or place. It seemed every bit as inappropriate as someone calling somebody else a douche for disagreeing with their own musical tastes.

Ugh. Reading that back I sound so pompous. Feel free to call me a douche.

Goodnight, Human Fly....

DrBenway: yet you're so sensitive about them being butt-hurt over the abuse that they invited on themselves.

Not sensitive here, just didn't think that, in the wentzy comment scale, the response matched the comments. But whatever.

soseussme: Ugh. Reading that back I sound so pompous. Feel free to call me a douche.

Haven't you heard, we don't call each other douches anymore - it's wentzbag now.

galactus5000: And here we go, someone doesn't like the subject of the thread and expresses it, and suddenly they are the douchebag.

The way I look at it is, you are all giant douchebags. Seriously, I liked it better when the standard response was "that's like, just your opinion, man."


so.... we don't have as much right expressing our discontentment in any which way we want, the same way he trashed the band any which way he wanted? That seems one-sided

Dude didn't offer any argument, he just did the equivalent of putting his favorite pair of leotard and took a giant shiat in front of all of us.
/When Geddy Lee dies, Ill take AT LEAST a 24hrs on the RUSH SUCKS joke, or pretty much expect the same treatment or worse

For all the talk about Rock and Roll being dead, there is now a good reason to believe it.

Ladies and gentlemen, Lux has left the psych ward.

Stay Sick, Turn Blue

steamingpile: Fine, I will say it, over rated shiat music with an average stage show.

steamingpile, you always offer so much articulate, razor-sharp insight into these music threads.

Goddammit, baby.
I said Doggone.

HappyHarryHardOn: /When Geddy Lee dies, Ill take AT LEAST a 24hrs on the RUSH SUCKS joke, or pretty much expect the same treatment or worse

But what about if Amy Winehouse, Miley Cyrus or one of the Jonas Brothers trips on a hotel room soap, gargles their tongue and dies?

Will you be respectful then? No, no you won't - you'll be right there with the rest of us, making jokes and kicking their corpses around.