Motorhead350
02-04-2009, 10:27 PM
Sorry for title, it was my reaction to the news I got tonight. If you don't care about music, then don't continue reading because this will bore you. If you moved on to here, thank you.
I was just informed the singer of my favorite band of all time died this morning around 4am. He went by the name of Lux Interior (taken from an add in a newspaper for a Chevy) and was the singer of The Cramps. Now a name like this sounds dumb even to me, but the music was everything I ever wanted in a band. Simple 3 chord Rock N' Roll with a twist of Psycho.
They took what was forgotten in the 70's and brought back Rock n' Roll and Rockabilly. Not only that, but on a different level. I have only come across a few bands/artist in my days that I would buy anything from even if I had five dollars on a debit card and the item was 50 I would get it.
I never got to see them live and that's what makes me angry more than anything. It's another band/artist on my list that I never got to see because I was born in the wrong era and stuck with sugar coated mindless garbage.. (100 points to whoever picks up on those words) If I knew about them even when I was a teenage it would have been a blast to see them and I probably would have set all of my crappy pop rock music on fire a little sooner than July 4th 2003.
The guy had a crazy voice and the band influenced me in many ways. Such as turning me onto Rockabilly because I never knew what that music was called in the first place. Reading a book on them last year I thought it was funny that Lux and I shared the same problem... with a love of old cars that sometimes leads to our girlfriend helping us push it around simply because we hate 99% of everything modern. :bigcry: So even in the 70s, that was still the wrong era for Lux.
I never had the chance to see them and now I never will.
First it was one of the fathers of Rock N' Roll Bo Diddley, now the bastard child of Rock n' Roll Lux Interior.
Here is what they were like... love it or hate it, it's still rock n' roll to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCQ4QLFl01g&feature=related
I have never seen an audience so happy and I really wish I could have been a part of it. :bigcry:
It also makes perfect since that he died a day after the music died, he was the 4th.
I was just informed the singer of my favorite band of all time died this morning around 4am. He went by the name of Lux Interior (taken from an add in a newspaper for a Chevy) and was the singer of The Cramps. Now a name like this sounds dumb even to me, but the music was everything I ever wanted in a band. Simple 3 chord Rock N' Roll with a twist of Psycho.
They took what was forgotten in the 70's and brought back Rock n' Roll and Rockabilly. Not only that, but on a different level. I have only come across a few bands/artist in my days that I would buy anything from even if I had five dollars on a debit card and the item was 50 I would get it.
I never got to see them live and that's what makes me angry more than anything. It's another band/artist on my list that I never got to see because I was born in the wrong era and stuck with sugar coated mindless garbage.. (100 points to whoever picks up on those words) If I knew about them even when I was a teenage it would have been a blast to see them and I probably would have set all of my crappy pop rock music on fire a little sooner than July 4th 2003.
The guy had a crazy voice and the band influenced me in many ways. Such as turning me onto Rockabilly because I never knew what that music was called in the first place. Reading a book on them last year I thought it was funny that Lux and I shared the same problem... with a love of old cars that sometimes leads to our girlfriend helping us push it around simply because we hate 99% of everything modern. :bigcry: So even in the 70s, that was still the wrong era for Lux.
I never had the chance to see them and now I never will.
First it was one of the fathers of Rock N' Roll Bo Diddley, now the bastard child of Rock n' Roll Lux Interior.
Here is what they were like... love it or hate it, it's still rock n' roll to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCQ4QLFl01g&feature=related
I have never seen an audience so happy and I really wish I could have been a part of it. :bigcry:
It also makes perfect since that he died a day after the music died, he was the 4th.