To me Lux Interior will really be missed as a person who was extremely knowledgeable about records.Apart from his career as front person for the Cramps,he was an expert on Rockabilly,Psychobilly and just plain weird records.He was often I'm afraid laughed off in much the same way as Tiny Tim was.Their public/stage personas caused people to overlook what incredible fountains of knowledge they were.Tiny Tim had a near encyclopedic knowledge of early twentieth century pop music,but people couldn't see past the surface.Long before Amazon or Elusive Disc Lux was poring through copies of Bim Bam Boom searching the ads of Val Shively and others when record collecting was in it's infancy.The Cramps will always have a place in Rock History because Rock is the arena for individual expression.I was a fan from the first time I heard them.When you heard them you felt the respect they had for the artists who perservered to make their own statement regardless of how weird or twisted it may have been.This man will be missed.
