When Johnny Rotten dies (assuming he doesn't outlive me), I am going to be devastated.
I never got into the Cramps much. Too much of a gimmic band, like the Ramones (ducks to avoid salvoes of incoming fire).
--- On Mon, 2/9/09, fcassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: fcassia <fcassia at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] New York Times obituary of Lux Interior of The Cramps
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 4:36 AM
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:45 AM, B.
> <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > [This so much better than the Henry Rollins piece on
> Lux in the LA Times. Sorry if I have posted too much about
> The Cramps lately. The loss of Bettie Page and Lux Interior
> is the signal of the end of some sort of phase of Americana,
> personally sort of devastating. -B.]
> >
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/arts/music/06interior.html?_r=1&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
>
> Maybe Lux and The Cramps were cultural icons North of the
> Rio
> Grande/Bravo, but at the Southern end of the Americas, Punk
> rock meant
> mostly The Ramones and The Clash for classic punk. Perhaps
> the Pistols
> for the earlier generations.
>
> Maybe it's an age thing, I was born ' 74 so I
> catched the last grasps
> of punk as an early teen. Or more probably, I don't
> know s*** about
> music. ;-)
>
> PS: I typed http://www.luxinterior.com/ and didn't
> quite get what I
> was looking for...
> [I will now hide behind a big rock]
>
> FC
>
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