RIP: The Cramps frontman Lux Interior, dead at 60

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The Cramps’ Lux Interior (born Erick Lee Purkhiser) died this past weekend. My boss at the record store just told me and a few sites back him up.

I try not to get too sappy about death — because after a certain point it’s kind of expected; and it’s always inevitable — but The Cramps’ influence really hit me hard while I was in college. Their album Stay Sick is one that smashed me over the head and encouraged me to dig around in the psychobilly genre a bit. Lux was arguably the last in the line of Iggy Pop: frontmen who could make your jaw drop on stage as you fear for their safety, but then go home and write incredible, passionate and beautiful songs at home.

Here’s a video of The Cramps playing at the Napa State Mental Hospital, performing “Human Fly.”


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