Wow – it’s truly the end of a goth-punk era… and time to comfort oneself with the memories and dig up mementos like this amazing bit of footage of the Cramps playing “Napa State Mental Hospital” in 1978 around the time of Gravest Hits. Crazeee…
Cramps founder and punk pioneer Lux Interior dies
By ANDREW DALTON Associated Press
Feb. 5, 2009, 11:29AM
LOS ANGELES — Lux Interior, co-founder and lead singer of the pioneering horror-punk band the Cramps, has died, the group’s publicist said. He was 60.
Interior — whose real name was Erick Lee Purkhiser — died Wednesday of a pre-existing heart condition at a hospital in Glendale, Calif., publicist Aleix Martinez said in a statement.