Lux

I never got to meet him.  I spent my rent money to see the Cramps play in Seattle once.  I still think of it as one of the best decisions I ever made.  Nobody approached music like he did.  Nothing comes close.  Found out during band practice earlier tonite, and we stopped practicing and learned a Cramps song.  So many amazing songs.  Human Fly.  Goo Goo Muck.  New Kind of Kick.  Bikini Girls With Machine Guns.  We ended up doing Garbage Man.  When we listened to it we realized it's all one chord.  One chord and a great riff.  Should have been the easiest thing in the world to learn, but it is so different from the way other people put songs togther.  No verses or choruses or bridges.  Just one part, and then another part that is kind of a solo.  And the first part doesn't seem to have any set length.  It's done when Lux says it's done.

So now everyone's asleep, and I am really really sad about Lux and there's no one around to commiserate with so I'm writing this.  What a messed up dude.  But he lived what he preached, and you have got to respect that.  The day I discovered The Cramps everything changed.  Everything.  Rock and Roll was different.  It was dangerous in a whole new way.  Man, you don't meet many people who can do that for you.  Wish I could have met him.