Cramps Lux Ivy interviews early 1990s Toronto

Wow !

I was shocked to hear that Lux Interior of the Cramps had passed away this past week! Its hard for me to conceptualize that the same guy who stood straddling 2 speaker cabinet stacks per side like they were these gigantic high heel boots, 15 ft above the stage as he concluded his show twisting 3 mic stands together at the Opera House (Tuesday November 18th 1997 with Demoliton Doll Rods and Guitar Wolf) as I watched gob smacked from the balcony in awe,

this same super charged God --

an atomic bomb!--

A moment where it was like everything in the world that may have seemed important was just bull crap! Perhaps the best Rock show I had witnessed! That is how much of an impression this was! Just pure ROCK energy fueling the performance--

THIS GUY is not with us anymore? I find it hard to believe!

And I really wanted to see this again! Damn! And the jerk hipster taking photos of the show never got back to me on top of it! Come on! I gave him my email. Damned Hipsters are ruining music filling it with pretension.

Lux Interior passed away adjacent to the the Day the Music Died --50th anniversary (of the plane crash that claimed Buddy Holly/Big Bopper/R.Valens). The Cramps were a group that rolled themselves in early Rock lore and celebrated it with their own compositions as well as covers. True scholars of the art.

And The Cramps were, for me, a root that when pulled revealed to me this primal rich rock soil -- a wide variety of early Rock And Roll that seemed buried but for the cultists. I owe them a great deal of gratitude! If anybody is reading this, buy all the Cramps discography you can get including the Songs The Cramps Taught Us cd set. You will be a Rock expert.


This is a series of interviews from the early 1990s from Much and New Music sources with the the Cramps leadership of Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorshach as expertly edited by, thank you, TVGuido.
I like this set of interviews because it shows how Lux and Ivy, the influences, and how they were into each other as artists like a postmodern PURE rock version of a .Lennon /Yoko.

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[baiNEKO]

their love is unbelievable.  beautiful video

[toiroforcado]

I agree

[broilet]

Why Lux and not Liam Gallagher or one of that twats. This world is quite boring.

[toiroforcado]

Yeah. I miss seeing them again since I only saw them once and I will be honest, it was the best show I ever did see! Honest! 10/10 highest rating. If they did come to Toronto again I would have came and brought out everybody I know, because it could have changed them in some way

[thedudeabides2010]

I'm tired of all the great motherfuckers dying...rock 'n roll is almost not worth a shit anymore with Lux gone.....

[Hotelmotelkfc]

Ivy always smiled in Canada. Never saw her smile in Europe

[meeces13]

yeah Much Music banned one of their videos only after playing it for years - candyasses

[ladster3]

Pity John Lennon...he only got stuck with Yoko!

[jimgravesus]

Two of the sexiest people I've ever seen.

[Shine5757]

I am searching for my poison Ivy !!!!

[NegativeDee]

Anyone know if there is anymore of that live show would love to see more of it.

[ThisHear]

@MsNatakins sounds like him too, hah

[MsNatakins]

Vampire Bill from True Blood look's like him, especially in this video.

[pinz2022]

@baiNEKO

They are so fucking cute! They don't convince me for a minute that they're in the least bit bad!

[amnaki]

@trespasserw The song that the 45's record is spinning around is the "Garlic Bread" by Gary and Larry.Awesome.