[kj] (OT) Cramps Singer Lux Interior Dead?

[Neil Perry]

Fuck it, another one gone.
Glad I saw them play in 2007.

N

2009/2/5 Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net>


>

> Just a huge, sad loss. And by all accounts, just a nice, genuinely decent

> dude with an amazing sense of humor.

>

> Sad day.

>

> Alex in NYC

>

>

>

> On Feb 4, 2009, at 10:50 PM, The Mighty TB wrote:

>

>  "B. Oliver Sheppard" wrote:

>>

>>  You know, another thing I realized is that they are one of the original

>>> wave of US punk bands from the 70s that just kept it up, never broke up

>>> (hence no cash-in reunions to big fanfare), and since they were not one hit

>>> wonders, and no one died early on, but they kept plugging away, they were

>>> easy to overlook. (Like KJ, even, maybe?)

>>>

>>

>> Well, they did lose Brian (Bryan) Gregory who was a major part of their

>> original rockabilly/fuzz twin guitar driven sound after their debut album

>> and EP and went through more drummers and bass players than Spinal Tap

>> throughout their career.  Kinda like The Cult's Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy

>> (and to a lesser extent, KJ's Jaz n' Geordie), it's the core members of Lux

>> and his wife Poison Ivy that was really the "band."

>>

>>  Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat/Fugazi said the first punk show he went to in

>>> the late 1970s was the Cramps. They don't neatly fit the punk category, but

>>> I'd also argue that The Cramps and the original Misfits ('77 - '83)

>>> pioneered the whole b-movie, creature feature aspect of punk that became

>>> psychobilly, gothabilly, horror punk, etc., etc.

>>>

>>

>> That's pretty much correct.  In fact, I think Lux stole the "psychobilly"

>> tag from an old Johnny Cash song to describe their type of music around '78.

>>

>> T.B.

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