Folks Of Interest DAMN: Lux Interior Died!

I hate unrelated death posts on here, but for a lot of guys I know, including me, The Cramps go hand-in-hand with hot rods. I guess I didn't know he was sick. I sure didn't think of him as being 62!!!



Lux Interior, lead singer for the legendary underground punkabilly band the Cramps, passed away this week at age 62 from a longstanding heart condition. "Lux was a fearless frontman who transformed every stage he stepped on into a place of passion, abandon, and true freedom. He is a rare icon who will be missed dearly," the Cramps' publicist said in an official statement. Lux will be dearly missed, and we send our condolences to his bandmate and soulmate of more than 30 years, guitar-wielding vixen Ivy Rorschach. Their partnership was one of the great rock 'n' roll romances of the ages.

Bummer.


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The Cramps totally go with hot rods! Lux was awesome! His death just reminds me that I never saw Joe Strummer play live either...

 

DAMMIT!!!

To those who have no idea what Kirk's talking about, The Cramps are Crazy Awesome. RIP Lux.


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Sad news indeed

 

Lux was awesome,he was into rods and customs he used to attend the cruises in glendale,i loved the cramps and he is the only dude i know that could pull off wearing high heels!...He will be missed thats for sure.

 

As a side note,that footage of the cramps,live at the mental hospital is rare.Cash played at a prison,the cramps played a mental hospital,thanks for that footage KIRK,made my day.

 

Even though I don't remember them so well, I spent more than one Halloween at a Cramps show. First one was in 1988. Damn. Goodbye caveman.

 

Dude that news was sooooo 4 days ago,,, its been posted several times and some jerk keeps deleting it.... Hi Ryan

 

I searched and thought it was strange that nobody had posted it yet. I mean, shit, it seems like if a fucking roadie for some '80s hair band dies, 400 people get on here and act like the guy was fucking Rosa Parks. Great, now I'm one of those guys.

Now if my fish dies I'll have to ask for people to set up candle-lit shrines to it. Damn!

Lux was hot rod all the way!

 

R.i.p lux

 

<---- Setting up shrine for Kirk's fish. They never live too long.....

 

Maybe if he was a sick boy it would not get deleted. Lux rules. Forever live the cramps. He was a car guy and loved to talk cars .billy

 

Damn shame. R.I.P.Lux
Love their music. rockabilly meets surf music meets punk meets elvis with hilarious lyrics.

 

R.I.P. Lux

 

Lux was it man....There will be no one like him ever. RIP

Bad music for bad people

Kirk, were can I paypal you some money for your fish grief?

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Jeez! check out the crowd..... looks like they turned down the valium dose for the evening or perhaps there was bit of dose trading going on...

 

I listen to alot of this in the shed, route 66, whats inside a girl, lets get fu(&ed up, faster pussycat , surfin dead etc etc are frequently played loud in my street.

its amazing such a wild person lived to that age, i like the combo of rockabilly, surf and punk and the little acts between him and ivy in the video clips.

 

Ain't never gonna be another Lux...sad news.
Best kinda music to have blasting in your shed while you're grinding steel...LOUD!

 

To those who oversee please leave this up,,you have to admit this music was /is truly a part of the car culture due to all the threads about it.

 

Right on Kirk, I was not into the Cramps untill I realized Rockabilly was my first music passion, then The Cramps, Mike Ness, and others that were alternative but roots style came into my scope. Lux was a great showman who was as straight as an Alex Gambino metal finished car, but could get all jiggy and it seemed ok. R.I.P. brother-~Sololobo~

 

R.I.P Lux Does this mean were all getting old when our icons start dyin and you go "Wow he wasn't that old."

 

I encourage everyone that has posted here to join www.hideout.garagepunk.com

A few thousand like minded music fans paying thier respects without fear of getting deleted. Plus hours of kick ass raw rock and roll.

 

Kirk, maybe because you started this thread it will stay up. There were at least 4 previous ones that didn't last. But a thousand "what's it worth" and van, COE and mid '60's pick-up posts will be here forever. Sometimes I just don't get it. The Cramps owned cars, wrote about cars and revived rockabilly all by themselves. Nuff said...

 

cramps cassette tape. whats it worth?

 

But apparently Buddy Holly wasn't,going by the threads that got closed the other day
Still,R.I.P. Lux,madman extraordinaire
Paul
(this ain't a pop at you,Satanherself)

 

Rip. Thanks for the links guys. The cramps are hot rod. We are getting old.

 

So... How many of the young guys would have they're hair slicked back, and jeans cuffed without The Cramps? I've always described their music as punk if it had been created in 1957. We wouldn't ever had to here the F'in' Beatles! R.I.P. Lux, you will be missed in my shop!

 

Cried "like a bad girl should"

 

Gee I wonder if my cramps record is worth more than your cassette. Its got original scratches that were put there in the eighties!! Just kidding