Thursday, February 5, 2009

High Cramp

A man died yesterday after a life of doing just what he was meant to do. Erick Lee Purkhiser, better known as Lux Interior. What made him tick?
"It's a little bit like asking a junkie how he's been able to keep on dope all these years," Interior told The Times some years ago. "It's just so much fun. You pull in to one town and people scream, 'I love you, I love you, I love you.' And you go to a bar and have a great rock 'n' roll show and go to the next town and people scream, 'I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.' It's hard to walk away from all that."

Rest assured, here's a guy guaranteed a place in Heaven. Hell truly is afraid he'll take over.

Brace yourself.

3 comments:

susan said...

This was a shock but you've done him justice with your elegant little post. We got to see them again out here a few years ago and they were still amazing.

numb said...

yeah, very nice post. don't know if you've stopped by here, but there're some nice clips (especially the 2 interviews)...

can't think of many things in my life that've been more fun than being at a cramps show - western civilization at it's absolute finest :) ...

Ben said...

That is a nice archive. I liked the interview excerpt where he says, "It's a nice planet. Good things can happen." Hell, living proof.

I should point out that I'm sad for Ivy. But they really seem to have done each other good for those years.