{"id":1994,"date":"2009-02-06T12:39:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T17:39:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-28T13:38:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T13:38:06","slug":"cramps-lux-interior-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/cramps-lux-interior-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Cramps Frontman Lux Interior Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n5OMuj4FpII?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI never became a fan of <strong>The Cramps<\/strong> and the whole shockabilly aesthetic, but I&#8217;m sure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-me-lux-interior5-2009feb05,0,5401736.story\" target=\"_blank\">recently deceased<\/a> frontman <strong>Lux Interior<\/strong> was loved by some of you. For that reason alone, Lux was a <em>great<\/em>&#8230;man.<\/p>\n<p>The first time I heard The Cramps doing &#8220;Surfin&#8217; Bird&#8221; I was intrigued, as might be expected of any teenage rock fan. Then I heard more; saw the whole Lux Interior schtick documented in a punk movie or two; and lived through my town&#8217;s local punk scene, which featured a singer for two related bands whose entire schtick was based on Interior&#8217;s Poor Man&#8217;s Iggy schtick. Kids, when your Mom tells you, &#8220;You don&#8217;t know where that microphone&#8217;s been!&#8221; it may not be out of the question to wonder if she was a Cramps fan in college.<\/p>\n<p><em>NEXT: Rock Town Hall&#8217;s Official Eulogy&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never became a fan of The Cramps and the whole shockabilly aesthetic, but I&#8217;m sure recently deceased frontman Lux Interior was loved by some of you. For that reason alone, Lux was a great&#8230;man. The first time I heard The Cramps doing &#8220;Surfin&#8217; Bird&#8221; I was intrigued, as might be expected of any teenage <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/cramps-lux-interior-dies\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}