From the Amazing WFMU comes another installment of incredible information:

Lux & Ivy's favorite records - They used to buy 45s at basement sales, from little old ladies - For 10 cents a piece !  And this wasn't the shittyshit you find today - they'd fill their car with the real gold ! - and FINALLY, here's the roster- DIG IN !!!

This collection goes waay beyond the BornBad, and SongsTheCrampsTaughtUs compilations. It ties in with the interview in the "Incredibly Strange Music" book, which has Always been influential in my appreciation of music, and the process of music collecting and discovery.  - I'd love to read that again, years later; If I find it online, I'll post a link.

And Listen to the Interview while you're at it: "Fool's Paradise with Lux & Ivy" - it's like hangin' out with'em, learning about the coool shit before you were born. Subversive !

and here: (X marks the spot)

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/02/lux-and-ivys-favorites-mp3s.html

Now, back to listening to this Treasure Trove of New (old) music !!!

Dig.

-J.F.A.

T. Tex Edwards passed this my way; thanks, Tex.

It's the real story from Miriam, first drummer for Rock'n'Roll legends The Cramps !

she writes:

Erick Purkhiser, better known as Cramps leader Lux Interior, died on February 2. Long ago, and for one year, he was my friend. I was the drummer in the first Cramps lineup which played forty-odd dates over an eight month period from the first show on All Saints Night 1976 through July 13, 1977, the date of the NYC blackout. With his passing came a mess of calls asking about the early days. After years of avoiding a backward glance, I was suddenly dropped headlong into the well. A moldering box of old stuff materialized from way back of the closet, and old friends began sending in decades-old snapshots, clippings, bits of correspondence. That first year in New York was my coming of age, at least in calendar years. It was also my first year behind the traps, on the flipside of fandom. It provided a hazing that alternately galvanized and confused my head, so these few words and pictures will seem sad and funny at the same time. I hope this helps clear the cobwebs for those who care. Walking through my dreams, like the Pretty Things would say. RIP, Lux.

"... throw that man outa your mind... Follow me babe, an' have a real good time... "

and listenin' to old blues rekkids.