To adapt a lyric from my old drunk friend, beat cowboy poet Kell Robertson, "Come on in, Lux, it's cool and dark inside."

He was a great one. All of us in here owe him a lot. Peace be upon you, Mr. Interior. And peace to all my friends in the Hideout.

Rock n Roll suffered a great loss. RIP Lux, gone but never forgotten!

His physical body can die, but the true essence of what Lux IS cannot die or be destroyed. Ditto for all the great men we have lost so recently.

I will never forget the first time I saw Lux and the Cramps - they opened my eyes to what could be in music. RIP Lux.

I was wishing this was untrue.
but alas, Lux is gone.

One of my top favorite performers of all time.

I only got a chance to see them once...
but it blew my mind...

Love you Lux.

Totally weakening, i can't believe it. Lux was a legend, the Cramps have been a huge influence to me, their early stuff especially.. R.I.P.

Thank you, Kopper... It's now corrected and uploaded... (if it hasn't changed: clear cache/history in browser) kopper said:

Great poster, but he was born in 1946, though (according to Wikipedia and the Cramps' website).

Psychotonic said:

Tonight, if you're in Los Angeles, Psychotonic at The Bigfoot Lodge will have a whole night dedicated to Lux Interior & the Cramps...
For more information, check out the events page (http://garagepunk.ning.com/events) for Thursday, February 5th.

When I heard this news last night, suddenly the whole damn world seemed a lot less fun.

Shit, crap, damn, bloody hell, what the fuck.
Just heard the news here.
Nearly all the Ramones are gone and now good old freaky Lux.
I feel a bit down now as everyone can imagine.
Say hello to Elvis from us Lux.

I think one of the best compliments I ever heard paid to Lux (& Ivy) was from Andre Williams at the Viper Room in LA about 10 years ago. Acknowledging Lux & Ivy from the stage he said "We may not be the same color, but we all came from the same pussy".

Great poster, but he was born in 1946, though (according to Wikipedia and the Cramps' website). Psychotonic said:

Tonight, if you're in Los Angeles, Psychotonic at The Bigfoot Lodge will have a whole night dedicated to Lux Interior & the Cramps...
For more information, check out the events page (http://garagepunk.ning.com/events) for Thursday, February 5th.

Wipeout! said:

Holy fuck...
It goes without sayin' that the Cramps are one o' the most trashy bands (and one o' my top favs of all time!) and without them turnin' me on this sleaze...well, shit I don't wanna think about that...fuckin' sad.

Does anyone have any other sources other than the Daily Swarm (which ain't the most journalistic)

Glad I got to see 'em live a few years back...sad I only got to see 'em once...

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-lux-interior5-2009feb05,0,5010776.story Poor Poison Ivy...fuckin' sad.

Tonight, if you're in Los Angeles, Psychotonic at The Bigfoot Lodge will have a whole night dedicated to Lux Interior & the Cramps... For more information, check out the events page (http://garagepunk.ning.com/events) for Thursday, February 5th.

My little memorial on Michael Kaiser's Haus.

i think im going to listen to all of my cramps records in his honor. Lux was a true rock 'n' roll legend.

The Cramps were without a doubt, the biggest musical influence in my life...i hate to think where i'd be today without the music of The Cramps. They influenced my record collection, my musical direction, even my clothing selection back in the day. In fact, we even named our youngest daughter after Ivy... This friday, at 5PM EST, i'm gonna play an hour's worth of The Cramps music on CHRW 94.9 FM in London Ontario as my little tribute to my hero, Lux Interior! You can listen live on the web at: http://chrwradio.com/listen/ The show will be archived for 1 week at: http://chrwradio.com/listen/ There's a facebook event set up at: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=75399253272&ref=mf Hey Man!......Fourth floor!!!.......Caveman.......Last Door!!!!! http://chrwradio.com/

This is really sad. Not only the Cramps have been one of the coolest bands ever, we have a lot to thank them for. If there was no Cramps, there would have been no Back From The Grave, no Crypt records, no Desperate Rock and Roll, no Garage revival in the 80's. They were some of the first people to re-discover so much coolness in music and culture from past eras. Obscure stuff form the 50's and 60's would probably still be in the hands of grey bearded collectors. Mike says some posts above "they owned any song they covered". I couldn't agree more with him. My pal Tutti from La Secta Violeta turned me on them back in 1983. I'll be always grateful for that.

Very sad news indeed, thankfully the music lives on.....

Very, very sad news!

I once drove from Lawrence, KS to Omaha, NE to see them. Then a year later, they played in Lawrence on the night of my birthday. Both times they put on an amazing show.

The Cramps have also turned all of us on to some of the most rockin' music ever, things we may not have even heard of if it weren't for them.

What else can be said? RIP Lux, thinking of Ivy.

We've pressed all our 45's through United & all have sounded great. Never had a problem with them. We also just pressed an LP with them & sounds great so far. Good people to deal with as well. -La Ti Da

I've just heard that there is pressingplant here in Sweden, does anyone have any info about it? Is it the same plant that was/is in Jönköping?

Some friends of mine has worked with Handle With Care in Germany and they have also been pleased with their work.

One thing about GZ is that they can press your records very fast, at least they have done that the times we have asked them that we need the records very fast (for a tour etc.). We received a 7" on 1 1/2 week a couple of years ago and that was really great.

The czech place did a good job on our (the interceptors) first single - that was a while back though - very popular amongst bands from the north east of england it seems...

We use GZ Digital Media in the Czech Republic for most of our stuff. We have been pleased with their work so far except for a couple of times. We have also pressed at Musicol Recordings in the USA and we are very pleased with their work: http://www.musicolrecording.com/ Andreas

Gosh, haven't they been though a lot of drummers in such a short time. Not a very busy night down STATTO.

Yes, yes you do. Same gig: