Happy Birthday ♎️ to and remembering Erick Lee Purkhiser a.k.a. Lux Interior (October 21, 1946 - February 4, 2009) R.I.P. 🖤🥀💔 The king of trash who was inspired by B-movies, cheapjack horror icons, 1950s radio personality and shock-jock Pete “Mad Daddy” Myers and 1960s horror host Ernie “Ghoulardi” Anderson fused together his own ghoulish and colorful persona. His name came from an old car commercial. 1950s rockabilly like Hasil Adkins, lascivious R&B and 1960s garage and surf played a big part of The Cramps’ musical influences. For obvious reasons they have widely been credited for being the progenitors of psychobilly and gothabilly and de-facto curators of bizarre American pop culture. Psychobilly was taken from a Johnny Cash song and The Cramps also described their music as “rockabilly voodoo” on their early concert flyers. They however did not want to be associated with the term psychobilly later and explained, “We weren’t even describing the music when we put ‘psychobilly’ on our old fliers; we were just using carny terms to drum up business. It wasn’t meant as a style of music.” I’ve had the opportunity to witness several performances. Always a consummate, rambunctious and dynamic showman, he never disappointed his audience. Often times performing scantily clad in a thong and high heels while howling. 🖤🔥🔪 🏴☠️ 🏴☠️ 🏴☠️ #LuxInterior #ErickLeePurkhiser #TheCramps #Pschobilly #Gothabilly https://www.instagram.com/p/CGnZ7AZB7ip/?igshid=ij99jhodnk0u
