Lux Interior (born Erick Lee Purkhiser), the lead singer of the iconic group The Cramps is dead at 62. His death is related to a pre existing heart condition. According the bands pulicist, Lux dies Wednesday morning.
The Cramps began in 1972 with Lux and guitarist Poison Ivy who later became his wife. There fame began in 1975 when they moved to New York City and became part of the punk movement that surrounded CBGBs.
Wikipedia had this to say about the Cramps:
Their music is mostly in blues form, played at varying, (though usually fast) tempos, with a very minimal drumkit. An integral part of the early Cramps sound is dual guitars, without a bassist. The content of their songs and image is campy, trashy Americana (invariably in the style of filmmaker John Waters), sexual fetishism, clever bad jokes, and cheap, retro horror B-movie clichés.
Their sound was heavily influenced by early rockabilly and proto-rock and roll like Link Wray and Hasil Adkins, 1960s surf music acts such as The Ventures and Dick Dale, 1960s garage rock artists like The Standells, The Gants, The Trashmen, The Green Fuz and The Sonics,[citation needed] as well as the post-glam/early punk scene from which they emerged. They also were influenced to a degree by The Ramones and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, who is often credited for having pioneered their style of theatrical horror-blues.[citation needed]
In turn, they have strongly influenced subsequent punk and rockabilly revival bands, even creating a genre in their wake. “Psychobilly,” a style played by bands like The Meteors is a term coined1 by the Cramps, although Lux Interior maintains that the term does not describe their own style.[1] The Cramps also influenced or anticipated acts as varied as Black Lips, The Birthday Party, The Dwarves, Flat Duo Jets, The Fuzztones, The Gun Club, Spacemen 3, The Horrors, Inca Babies, James Chance and the Contortions, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Reverend Horton Heat, My Bloody Valentine, The Molting Vultures, and The White Stripes.
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