Short Lux Post

I was going to post this earlier – and with more but- well my computer is now buggier than a bee hive infected with fleas and bed bugs soooooo – we’ll take what we can get.

News comes over the transom that Lux Interior – lead singer of the cramps has passed away from what is called a pre-existing heart condition.

Damn.

Time is eating my heroes.

It’s pretty safe to say that without the cramps as a basic template the look and the tone of the band would have been vastly different. The Cramps rockabilly, twisted sex and trash culture – late night horror movies, b-movies, sleazy exploitation films , comic books, pulp novels, all tossed into a mix master and blended but good – that was good enough but their was an intelligence behind the embrace of garbage – there is a quote from Andre Breton in the liner Big Beat From Badsville – and they were never ironic about it the honestly loved this junk and wanted to share .

Kurt Loder said this about them on the liner notes for Bad Music for Bad People: “This is rock & roll the way it never really was on the radio, but the way you always dreamed it could be — drooling horrorama lyrics, great cheesoid guitar riffs, postlobotomy drum-bashing and a singer for whom inhibition is the dirtiest ten-letter word of all. Slurp it up, sleaze fans.”

Indeed.

On stage Lux was pretty much willing to do anything – and again that has had an effect on the band – some of the stuff I’ve done when we do the bondage song were inspired in some ways by Lux – but seriously what I did, he’d do on a slow day when he wasn’t really feeling up to it. This was, never really.

Some fave Songs just 10 –

Garbage Man
TV Set
Dames Booze Chains and Boots
Wighat
Psychotic Reaction – cover of an old Count five song
Fissure of Rolando – You must do what the thing says –
All Women are Bad
Goo Goo Muck
Bop Pills
Surfing Bird – different but no less classic than the Ramones cover.

He will be missed – for many many Psychotic reasons.

Peace Love Stay Sick