Not since Johnny Cash have I felt such a loss in the Music world.
Just a couple Days ago was the 50th anniversary of the Day the Music Died. Yesterday it Died again. Music never Dies though, it carries on in our hearts, those who made it might never make or perform any more but thanks to Thomas Edison's Phonograph and every improvement since we can hear their voices forever. I have never been a fanatic about any particular celebrity I out grew the phase where I had to know everything about the bands I liked. So this Is what I know about the Cramps. They were fucking Awesome. Their music was Sick and helped inspire an entire genre that I love. They were pioneers in their field and they made a unique brand of rock that many have imitated and few have gotten right.
The Following is the News Release... Thanks Dave for Posting it for me to see.
LOS ANGEL..ES - Lux Interior, co-founder and lead singer of the pioneering horror-punk band the Cramps, has died, the group's publicist said. He was 60.
Interior - whose real name was Erick Lee Purkhiser - died Wednesday of a pre-existing heart condition at a hospital in Glendale, Calif, publicist Aleix Martinez said in a statement.
Interior met his future wife Kristy Wallace - who would later take the stage name Poison Ivy - in Sacramento in 1972.
The pair moved to New York and started the Cramps with Interior on lead vocals and Ivy on guitar. The group was a part of the late 70s early punk scene. centered at Manhattan clubs like CBGB, alongside acts like the Ramones and Patti Smith.
Their unmistakable sound was a lo-fi synthesis of rockabilly and surf guitar staged with a deviant dose of midnight-movie. camp. Some called it "psychobilly."
The pale, tall, gaunt Interior appeared shirtless with black hair and tiny, low-slung black pants, looking part zombie, part Elvis Presley as he crawled, writhed and howled his way across the stage
The group had the raw intensity of punk, but took the music in new directions by incorporating theatrical elements, often horror-themed, in songs like "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" and "Bikini Girls With Machine Guns." Their breakthrough debut notorious appearance at a California mental institution, Napa State Hospital, in 1978. The performance, whose video is still popular on YouTube, was a punk-era echo of the Folsom Prison concert of Johnny Cash, one of the band's influences.
Interior was widely rumored in 1987 to have died from a heroin overdose, and his wife received flowers and funeral wreaths.
"At first I thought it was kind of funny.," he told the Los Angeles Times at the time. "But then it started to give me a creepy feeling."
The Cramps' lineup changed often through the decades but Interior and Ivy remained the center. Their bluesy, trebly sound. - the group. didn't have a bass guitarist - resonates in modern minimalist groups.
The band's last release was the 2004 rarities collection "How to Make a Monster." They were still touring as recently as last November.
"Like a Bad Girl Should" By the Cramps, Lux and Ivy Frolicking together.
The Cramps - Like A Bad Girl Should
The Following is the News Release... Thanks Dave for Posting it for me to see.
LOS ANGEL..ES - Lux Interior, co-founder and lead singer of the pioneering horror-punk band the Cramps, has died, the group's publicist said. He was 60.
Interior - whose real name was Erick Lee Purkhiser - died Wednesday of a pre-existing heart condition at a hospital in Glendale, Calif, publicist Aleix Martinez said in a statement.
Interior met his future wife Kristy Wallace - who would later take the stage name Poison Ivy - in Sacramento in 1972.
The pair moved to New York and started the Cramps with Interior on lead vocals and Ivy on guitar. The group was a part of the late 70s early punk scene. centered at Manhattan clubs like CBGB, alongside acts like the Ramones and Patti Smith.
Their unmistakable sound was a lo-fi synthesis of rockabilly and surf guitar staged with a deviant dose of midnight-movie. camp. Some called it "psychobilly."
The pale, tall, gaunt Interior appeared shirtless with black hair and tiny, low-slung black pants, looking part zombie, part Elvis Presley as he crawled, writhed and howled his way across the stage
The group had the raw intensity of punk, but took the music in new directions by incorporating theatrical elements, often horror-themed, in songs like "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" and "Bikini Girls With Machine Guns." Their breakthrough debut notorious appearance at a California mental institution, Napa State Hospital, in 1978. The performance, whose video is still popular on YouTube, was a punk-era echo of the Folsom Prison concert of Johnny Cash, one of the band's influences.
Interior was widely rumored in 1987 to have died from a heroin overdose, and his wife received flowers and funeral wreaths.
"At first I thought it was kind of funny.," he told the Los Angeles Times at the time. "But then it started to give me a creepy feeling."
The Cramps' lineup changed often through the decades but Interior and Ivy remained the center. Their bluesy, trebly sound. - the group. didn't have a bass guitarist - resonates in modern minimalist groups.
The band's last release was the 2004 rarities collection "How to Make a Monster." They were still touring as recently as last November.
"Like a Bad Girl Should" By the Cramps, Lux and Ivy Frolicking together.
The Cramps - Like A Bad Girl Should