Wow ! I was shocked to hear that Lux Interior of the Cramps had passed away this past week! Its hard for me to conceptualize that the same guy who stood straddling 2 speaker cabinet stacks per side like they were these gigantic high heel boots, 15 ft above the stage as he concluded his show twisting 3 mic stands together at the Opera House (Tuesday November 18th 1997 with Demoliton Doll Rods and Guitar Wolf) as I watched gob smacked from the balcony in awe, this same super charged God -- an atomic bomb!-- A moment where it was like everything in the world that may have seemed important was just bull crap! Perhaps the best Rock show I had witnessed! That is how much of an impression this was! Just pure ROCK energy fueling the performance-- THIS GUY is not with us anymore? I find it hard to believe! And I really wanted to see this again! Damn! And the jerk hipster taking photos of the show never got back to me on top of it! Come on! I gave him my email. Damned Hipsters are ruining music filling it with pretension. Lux Interior passed away adjacent to the the Day the Music Died --50th anniversary (of the plane crash that claimed Buddy Holly/Big Bopper/R.Valens). The Cramps were a group that rolled themselves in early Rock lore and celebrated it with their own compositions as well as covers. True scholars of the art. And The Cramps were, for me, a root that when pulled revealed to me this primal rich rock soil -- a wide variety of early Rock And Roll that seemed buried but <b>...</b>
Cramps
Lux
Interior
Poison
Ivy
Rorshach
interview
Toronto
Much
New
Music
toiroforcado
