the Cramps (gothabilly /punk culte )

Groupe culte!!! Jai aussi eu la chance de les voir en concert il y a quelques années ...

C'est tout à fait culte !


Du chef d'oeuvre à l'état pur !

mais quelle année de merde ...

Lux Interior, the awesomely ghoulish frontman for sleazed-up New York rockabilly OGs the Cramps, died today in Glendale, California, as the Daily Swarm reports and an official statement confirms. He suffered from a heart condition.

Interior, born Eric Lee Purkhiser, formed the Cramps with his wife, Kristy "Poison Ivy" Wallace, in 1976. Although the band played CBGB a lot and was a part of the whole NYC birth-of-punk thing, but they didn't really fit in with pummelers like the Ramones and the Dictators or art-school types like Television and Blondie. Their sound was a slow, deranged, almost sensual take on 50s rockabilly: lots of guitar fuzz, no bass, tempos slowed to a slithery crawl. Before even the Misfits, the Cramps jammed their songs full of allusions to trash culture and long-forgotten B-movies.

The chemistry between Interior's halting, insinuating growl and Ivy's snakey surf-informed guitar lines remains one of the great iconic pairings in American underground rock. The Cramps even coined the term "psychobilly." Their 1981 sophomore album Psychedelic Jungle is a very serious must-have.

Onstage, Interior was always a proud member of the Iggy Pop school of self-sacrificing showman: climbing all over the stage, stripping down, rolling on the ground, generally showing no regard for his physical well-being. But he also had absolutely nuts timing and some truly great, theatrical facial expressions. He was a showman, not a performance-artist. And no less an authority than Ian MacKaye has often named a late-70s Cramps gig at a DC college as a hugely formative influence on the DC hardcore scene, even though those bands really couldn't have sounded more different than the Cramps' greasy throb.

Over the Cramps' three decades years of existence, Interior and Ivy plowed through a small army of supporting musicians, always remaining as the band's center. Against all odds, the band remained active up until very recently, though they weren't playing live shows too often anymore.

mais pourquoi vous copiez tjs tous vos textes - en anglais en plus - sans citer vos sources ??!!

& tout le monde n'est pas fluent reader en anglais.

dernière photo au festival de Lokeren

Devilred a écrit:

mais pourquoi vous copiez tjs tous vos textes - en anglais en plus - sans citer vos sources ??!!

& tout le monde n'est pas fluent reader en anglais.

parceque ça m'a foutu les boules et que j'ai copié/collé l'info ...

promis je traduirais désormais, ça me fera bosser pour le CAE ...

cool la tof ... c'est aussi la dernière fois où j'ai vu ce grand cinglé (pour la 10ème? 13ème? je sais plus )

The Cramps @ Deinze en 86 reste un de mes meilleurs souvenirs de concerts (et j'en ai vu qq uns ... )

Je suis juste venue ici pour annoncer la triste mort de Lux.
Et je constate encore ce pathétique amusement de critiquer ou de s'empoisonner les uns aux autres.
**


R.I.P. Lux.
"Human Fly".

elrnmtr a écrit:

mais quelle année de merde ...

Lux Interior, the awesomely ghoulish frontman for sleazed-up New York rockabilly OGs the Cramps, died today in Glendale, California, as the Daily Swarm reports and an official statement confirms. He suffered from a heart condition.

Interior, born Eric Lee Purkhiser, formed the Cramps with his wife, Kristy "Poison Ivy" Wallace, in 1976. Although the band played CBGB a lot and was a part of the whole NYC birth-of-punk thing, but they didn't really fit in with pummelers like the Ramones and the Dictators or art-school types like Television and Blondie. Their sound was a slow, deranged, almost sensual take on 50s rockabilly: lots of guitar fuzz, no bass, tempos slowed to a slithery crawl. Before even the Misfits, the Cramps jammed their songs full of allusions to trash culture and long-forgotten B-movies.

The chemistry between Interior's halting, insinuating growl and Ivy's snakey surf-informed guitar lines remains one of the great iconic pairings in American underground rock. The Cramps even coined the term "psychobilly." Their 1981 sophomore album Psychedelic Jungle is a very serious must-have.

Onstage, Interior was always a proud member of the Iggy Pop school of self-sacrificing showman: climbing all over the stage, stripping down, rolling on the ground, generally showing no regard for his physical well-being. But he also had absolutely nuts timing and some truly great, theatrical facial expressions. He was a showman, not a performance-artist. And no less an authority than Ian MacKaye has often named a late-70s Cramps gig at a DC college as a hugely formative influence on the DC hardcore scene, even though those bands really couldn't have sounded more different than the Cramps' greasy throb.

Over the Cramps' three decades years of existence, Interior and Ivy plowed through a small army of supporting musicians, always remaining as the band's center. Against all odds, the band remained active up until very recently, though they weren't playing live shows too often anymore.

Putain... La pire nouvelle musicale de 2009 vient de tomber...

Citation :

Lux Interior, le chanteur de la formation The Cramps, est décédé mercredi le 4 février, à Glendale, en Californie. Il avait 60 ans. Le chanteur, de son vrai nom Erick Lee Purkhiser, souffrait d'une maladie du coeur.

Formé en 1973, le groupe a été un pionnier de la scène punk new-yorkaise. Le son du groupe, un mélange de rockabilly et de punk (psychobilly), a influencé plusieurs artistes et groupes comme The White Stripes, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion et des groupes plus récents comme The Horrors.

La formation The Cramps a compté plusieurs membres au cours des années mais Lux Interior et sa femme, Poison Ivy, sont toujours restés au cœur du groupe.

The Cramps a fait paraître 13 albums en carrière, le dernier ayant été «Fiends of Dope Island» paru en 2003. L'année suivante, ils ont fait paraître «How to Make a Monster», une compilation de matériels inédits ou enregistrés en concert.

Pour moi l'image, le son et la formation que je que je garderais toujours des Cramps c'est ça :