Lux Interior, musician, songwriter and founder of the pioneering New York City Horror punk band in convulsions, died Tuesday. He was 60 .Interior, whose real name was Erick Lee Purkhiser, died in Glendale Memorial Hospital of a heart condition, according to a statement from the publisher. With his wife, guitarist "poison" Ivy Rorschach, Interior formed convulsions in 1976, pairing the texts as expressions of his love for B-movie camp with sharper Rockabilly and surf-inspired instrumentation.
The band staple of late'70s Manhattan punk scene comes from the clubs as Max's Kansas City and CBGB, and was one of the first steps to realize the potential of punk rock as theater and spectacle. Often dressed in macabre, Gender-bending costumes onstage Interior evoked a lanky, proto-Goth Elvis Presley and his band quickly became infamous for volatile and decadent live performances. The convulsions of early singles recorded at Sun Records with producer Alex Chilton of Big Star and the band had its first major breakthrough in their debut EP.
The band is missing a bassist and antagonistic female guitarist quickly set it apart from its downtown peers, and upended the traditional rock band sexual dynamic of the flashy, seductive women and the mysterious man guitarist. The group was asked to open for the police on a larger tour in the United Kingdom in 1979 and reached their critical peak in early'80s with such albums as "Psychedelic Jungle" and "Songs the Lord taught us." While the attacks "More was constant Interior and Rorschach been the core of more than three decades. The convulsions never achieved much mainstream commercial success, but instead found a reliable fringe audience of more than 30 years - they even played a show notorious for patients Napa State Hospital in Sacramento.
Tour well into the last years of his career, pack up their latest U.S. tour in November. Interior was born in Stow, Ohio, the 21 October, 1948. A Times report in 2004 said that he and Rorschach (born Kristy Wallace) met in Sacramento, where they bonded over enrollment in an art and shamanism class and a shared affection for the welfare vinyl shop before the road to New York City. In 1987, there were widespread rumors of Interior, died of a heroin overdose, and a dozen funeral Garland was sent to the Rorschach. "At first, I thought it was just fun," Interior told The Times. "But then it started to give me a creepy feeling." "We sell many books, but something just to be heard that you have sold so many books, do not hit you quite as much as when many people call you, and are obviously very broken up because you are dead."
The Cramps, Lux Interior at Halloween-
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