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Title: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: hugman on February 04, 2009, 04:38:45 PM: You probably knew him as Lux Interior.

There is a big fat rumor going around that he died over the weekend. If this is true, it's a total drag that we're just barely hearing about it on Wednesday and he didn't get his Best Show due tribute.

I love the Cramps. I am sad.
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: fonpr on February 04, 2009, 05:54:35 PM: What rumor-mill are you subscribed too, Hug?

They said the same thing about Bryan Gregory way back in the 70s.

He's fine. Just changed his name to Kid Congo.
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: hugman on February 04, 2009, 05:55:54 PM: I really think this one's true, port.
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: <<<<< on February 04, 2009, 07:05:13 PM: I'm going to have to come down on the side of believing this is just a rumor.
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: hugman on February 04, 2009, 07:38:58 PM: I'm an idiot. This can't be true. I'm banning myself from the board for the rest of the day. I'm sorry.
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: Dan B on February 04, 2009, 07:43:51 PM: Unfortunately, it is true. http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/02/lux_interior_th.html
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: <<<<< on February 04, 2009, 07:47:48 PM: I wasn't buying it when it was all a bunch of sites all referencing one single site, but now Billboard is reporting it independently, so I guess it's probably true...

It's a shame. He was an AMAZING frontman.
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: yesno on February 04, 2009, 07:48:45 PM: Billboard is running it, too.

Sad. I was just listening to the Cramps last week, and I have a copy of Urgh! A Music War I was going to watch today.

He wore some scandalous pants.
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: daveB from Oakland on February 04, 2009, 07:50:49 PM: Bummer. I'm glad I took the opportunity to see the Cramps in the early 90s.

Reading the Brooklyn Vegan writeup ... oh geeze, did he really go out the same way as the INXS guy?
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: hugman on February 04, 2009, 08:33:22 PM: Jeepers Creepers. Being right never felt so wrong.
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: fonpr on February 04, 2009, 09:42:11 PM: Quote from: daveB! Oakland! on February 04, 2009, 07:50:49 PM
Bummer. I'm glad I took the opportunity to see the Cramps in the early 90s.

Reading the Brooklyn Vegan writeup ... oh geeze, did he really go out the same way as the INXS guy?

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: mike_b on February 04, 2009, 09:50:19 PM: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrbTkNwbUz8[/youtube]

Songs the Lord Taught Us is one of my favorite albums :(
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: masterofsparks on February 04, 2009, 09:54:34 PM: This makes me really sad. I'm a big fan, and not that it really matters, but I heard he was a super-nice guy in real life. RIP.

The Brooklyn Vegan article is the only one I've read that mentions the scandalous alleged cause of death. The Billboard article just says he had a heart condition.

Regardless of what happened, I don't want to besmirch the dead.
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: hugman on February 04, 2009, 09:59:57 PM: I think the worst thing people can do is to assign shame to whatever he was doing. If that is how he died, if that was his thing, so be it. Same with Michael Hutchence. It's not like he died fondling children or something.

I want so bad to make a Spike joke, but I can't bring myself to do it.
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: Ike on February 04, 2009, 10:47:36 PM: Quote from: hugman on February 04, 2009, 09:59:57 PM
I think the worst thing people can do is to assign shame to whatever he was doing. If that is how he died, if that was his thing, so be it. Same with Michael Hutchence. It's not like he died fondling children or something.

I want so bad to make a Spike joke, but I can't bring myself to do it.

Wikipedia is saying "Preexisting heart condition" and that he died at "4:30 AM".

At any rate, he's gone.

He made a lot A LOT of people very, very happy. That's a good life, right there.

Married for 37 years, too. Wow.

My best to his family.

RIP
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on February 04, 2009, 11:25:55 PM: Yeah, RIP. I also heard he was super-nice. And a former employee of the Strand Bookstore, which means that place had nice employees at one time.
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: <<<<< on February 05, 2009, 02:31:16 AM: Quote from: Ike on February 04, 2009, 10:47:36 PM
He made a lot A LOT of people very, very happy. That's a good life, right there.

Heck yeah, even at age 50+ this guy could get on stage and blow away kids half his age.

You'd think the big bad world of music would be full of people who could cast a spell on an audience like he could, but they're surprisingly rare.
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: A.M. Thomas on February 05, 2009, 03:15:06 AM: Bummer.
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: mcphee from the forum on February 05, 2009, 10:25:59 AM: Seeing the Garbage Man video on the UHF video station when I was a pre teen is probably the single most important moment in my life as a music fan. Sad sad sad.
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: Spoony on February 05, 2009, 10:57:36 AM: Quote from: Ike on February 04, 2009, 10:47:36 PM

Wikipedia is saying "Preexisting heart condition" and that he died at "4:30 AM".

I'm really sorry to hear about this, but stay off the junk, kids. Even if you manage to kick, your heart's going to be a wreck for the rest of your life.

He had a great life and left behind an amazing body of work. He'll be missed.
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on February 05, 2009, 04:31:44 PM: there's nothing i can say that hasnt been said, but im glad i had the opportunity to listen to the cramps when i had the closing shift during those greasy, fast food teenage years.
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: cutout on February 06, 2009, 01:14:59 AM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5OMuj4FpII
Title: Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
Post by: Kublakhan61 on February 06, 2009, 07:43:56 AM: Louie, louie, louie, lou-i, the bird's the word and do you know why?
Because Lux said so. Heartbreaking.