a weak obit from the beeb
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7871971.stm
― stirmonster, Friday, 6 February 2009 10:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Morrissey gave a Lux shout-out last night during his performance on Kimmel.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't find out about this til today...so fucking sad. Best dream I ever had was when I dreamed I met Lux at a Cramps show. Gah.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 7 February 2009 05:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice appreciation from Cleveland.com here:
http://www.cleveland.com/music/index.ssf/2009/02/appreciation_akronborn_garage.html#more
Includes comments from Ohio contemporaries like Michael Weldon, of Psychotronic Video.
― Soukesian, Saturday, 7 February 2009 11:00 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.wfmu.org/special.php/FP :
Lux and Ivy of the legendary Cramps drop by for some Orangeade and a round of platter chatter. From October 23, 2004.Listen to the whole show. / See the playlist.download mp3
― StanM, Saturday, 7 February 2009 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I was doing some record shopping on Wednesday when someone announced in the store that rumours of Lux's death were a hoax (which was the first I'd heard anything about it) and then they played Bad Music For Bad People over the shop speakers.
When we got back to where we were staying I was saying to my wife how I'd never seen the Cramps live (she has) but I'd definitely make sure I would go if they ever made it over to the UK again just in case he did die soon. Fuck.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 7 February 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Good obit @ AMG: http://blog.allmusic.com/2009/2/6/the-mad-daddy-lux-interior-rip/
― StanM, Saturday, 7 February 2009 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Tear It Up (1990, Amsterdam) (up on the speakers, deepthroating the mic)
― StanM, Saturday, 7 February 2009 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Rollins remembers Lux.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 February 2009 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Great clip (x-post)..
I've got a video of a German concert where someone throws water/beer (presumably) at Lux during "Dames,Booze, Chains and Boots", there's a bit of Lux-crowd interaction, and some tremendously fat guy takes advantage of the confusion to do a brief lap of honour across the stage before being dragged off - and it's still only the first song of the concert.
― Bob Six, Sunday, 8 February 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Crap obit @ the Village Voice (read the comments too)http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2009/02/remembering_the_1.php
― StanM, Sunday, 8 February 2009 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link
aw the rollins thing was very nice and the story about the lil' rollins and minor threat boys being all scared to give lux his jeans back was very cute and sweet.
― Yah Trick Ya Kid K (M@tt He1ges0n), Sunday, 8 February 2009 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Lindsay Hutton, who used to run the Legions of the Cramped, has a good round-up of obits, and some cool early backstage snapshots, at his nextbigthing blog. Also news of a tribute event at Mono in Glasgow tonight, which sadly I can't get to.
― Soukesian, Sunday, 8 February 2009 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Crap obit @ the Village VoiceYou're not kidding, it's a fucking mess.
Right now, the track "Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?" is the most popular Cramps ringtone on iTunes.
ringtones - wtf?
― super shareaholic firefox add (onimo), Monday, 9 February 2009 12:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I wanna leave a happy memory when I goI wanna leave something to let the whole world knowThat the rock 'n roll daddy has a done passed onBut my bones will keep a rockin' long after I've gone
Roll onRock onRaw BonesWell I still got all the rhythm in these Rockin' Bones
Well when I die don't you bury me at allJust nail my bones up on the wallBeneath these bones let these words be seen"This is the bloody gears of a boppin' machine"
― StanM, Monday, 9 February 2009 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Wait, is the 15-year old story true?
― OldHamSweat, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 04:10 (fifteen years ago) link
banbanbanbanbanbanban
― dagmar at full power (contenderizer), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 04:14 (fifteen years ago) link
What is that guitar effect used on "Don't Eat Stuff Off the Sidewalk"? Is it tremolo? I've been trying to get that sound for a while now but don't know much about guitar pedals.
― Reatards Unite, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Yep, tremelo.
― StanM, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Google cache of an interview with Poison Ivy about her sound & guitars & effects & stuff: http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:33PGD5laMwwJ:www.geocities.com/jackyardbackoff/ivyguitarinterview.html
― StanM, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Cool! Now I should do some research about how Brian Gregory got that gnarly wall of distortion that I love so much.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Yep, that Voodoo Lab Tremolo has just the sound I want. Are there any pedals out there that are a better value or is that near the top of the list? I'm totally guitarded when it comes to equipment and brands.
― Reatards Unite, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 21:29 (fifteen years ago) link
stirmonster: big up for playing New Kind of Kick near the end on sat night, it was a special moment
― unaustralian (jabba hands), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 23:53 (fifteen years ago) link
god that village voice obit is the worst fucking thing i've read
― bleh (latebloomer), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:37 (fifteen years ago) link
for real
― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:41 (fifteen years ago) link
isn't that just some voice writer's blog post, though? not that it matters; inexcusable no matter what.
― get drunk and do legos (contenderizer), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:51 (fifteen years ago) link
it was a special moment
bemused 19 out of 20 people around me! great close though.
― I Was A Taoist Intellectual (sic), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Do people know that there are eleven volumes of Lux and Ivy's Favorites here?:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/02/lux-and-ivys-favorites-mp3s.html
"It started as a way to keep track of some of the songs Lux, and or Ivy, mentioned in THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC BOOK...As the years went buy, more interviews with Lux and Ivy kept popping up, and the list of songs they mentioned got longer and longer. This resulted in new volumes."
Um, yummy!!!
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Just DL'd one of these at random, and five songs in it is ruling SO HARD! Thanks much for the link!
― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
WoW. That's friggin' unreal. Thanks for posting.
― everything, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks! I need to find the Purple Knif Show again too, haven't heard that in years.
― Brio, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I posted the Purple Knif Show upthread, here it is again: http://salmagundisyncopation.blogspot.com/2009/01/purple-knif-show.html
― dad a, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks so much!
― Brio, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Soooo many gems already. "When My Pimples Turned To Dimples" came up on random and I ran to the computer to find out who the hell would sing something so goofy. Ginny Arnell maybe? Nope. Mad Magazine! Who knew they could ape girl group at its goofiest so well?
And I've never heard The Swamp Rats' lethal "Louie Louie" before. Ouch!
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Miriam Linna blogs about the beginning days of the Cramps when she was the drummer, and about even before that when she was in Oho and stuff and getting ready to move to NYC.
http://www.kicksville66.blogspot.com/
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 24 May 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Been playing the heck out of those WFMU downloads Kevin mentioned a few posts back. Might actually be the best way to tell somebody 'Look this is what the best of rock and soul from the fifties to the seventies *really* sounded like.'
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 July 2009 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
absolutely. it's been my little oasis of awesomeness during what has been a really bummer couple of weeks at work
― ^prizes the praise of the media, and the Europeans (will), Sunday, 12 July 2009 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az0W9VNDAt8&feature=youtu.be
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
Ooh! Eeh ! Ahh! I was on a huge Cramps youtube exploration a few months ago, but this is one I hadn't seen, thanks!
― Dan Peterson, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
You sent me on a search for Bryan Gregory clips--as falling-apart as it is, this one's amazing (w/Alex Chilton, too):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUwbo_7pCnA
― clemenza, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
this is one I hadn't seen, thanks!
full disclosure: link courtesy of Kind Congo Powers' twitterfeed
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
Lux & Ivy, 1972
http://www.oesquema.com.br/trabalhosujo/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/hippie-cramps-594x588.jpg
― we are not bemused (onimo), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
YES! Someone posted this photo on facebook a couple months ago, but when I went looking for it I couldn't find it. Thanks for doing the hard work, onimo!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
Man, so cool. That clip right above it to. Thanks, I needed that.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
lol awesome
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
kid congo powers is often working at the record store i frequent. he's really nice!
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrbTkNwbUz8
― frogsclovetofu (beachville), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
In 1979, at Toronto's Edge club, Lux drank water from my shoe. It's true--took a while, but I think that's what eventually killed him.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
that lux/ivy pic is very royal trux.
― tits or kitfo (get bent), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
circle of life
― THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link