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hugman

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RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
« 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.
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Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
« Reply #1 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.
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hugman

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Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2009, 05:55:54 PM »
I really think this one's true, port.
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Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
« Reply #3 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.

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hugman

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Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
« Reply #4 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.
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Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
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Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
« Reply #6 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.
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Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
« Reply #7 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.
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Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
« Reply #8 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?
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Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2009, 08:33:22 PM »
Jeepers Creepers. Being right never felt so wrong.
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Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
« Reply #10 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?


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Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
« Reply #11 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 :(
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Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
« Reply #12 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.
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hugman

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Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
« Reply #13 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.
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Re: RIP Erick Lee Purkhiser
« Reply #14 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

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