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

[Alexander Smith]

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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