I must confess, its been several days and I'm still rather bummed about this Lux Interior business. Besides the fact that never again can I set my Elgin movement by a Cramps tour (Much like the Hale-Bopp Comet & Brigadoon, it was only ever a question of 'When' the Cramps would come around again), I'm left w/ the lingering suspicion, given a litany of ham-fisted obituaries, that the Cramps cultural significance has already been reduced to a kitchy slurry of panties, pumps and pancake make-up. How soon we forget that a certain six-foot-four cross-dressing golem was, in addition to all those things (and more), a bonafied musical archaeologist.
Take Ronnie Cook's 'The Goo Goo Muck'. That this Bakersfield, California ode-dee-doo-dah-day would have disappeared down the toilet of obscurity is certain, had not some wax-dipped skeleton from Ohio uncovered in this singles grooves, a statement of the average nubile teen's more libidinous intentions.
Much has been made of the Cramps proclivity to 'borrow' chords and progressions from yesteryear (or in the case of the 'Muck', a flat-out cover), but as the Cramps never hid their influences, and in fact, have openly championed the re-discovery of erstwhile useless artists and genres of music, then that makes them some of the least selfish and indeed most self-less musicians to ever drink wine out of a stranger's shoe or otherwise shove their head through a bass-drum.
Cut in 65'on the left coast's predominantly soul-centered 'Astra' label, if you can find another record besides 'Muck' which so perfectly typifies the 'modus-operandi' of the American teen...well, then I'll eat my Wighat.
XOXO - RB
P.S. "I'll get you baby w/ a little luck..."
The Goo Goo Muck - Ronnie Cook & the Gay Lads
The Scotch - Ronnie Cook & the Gay Lads
6 comments:
I'm with you, Redboy. I really hate to see Lux go. Thanks for posting the original GOo Goo muck.
My pleasure. I only wish the 'Mucks' inclusion was under better circumstances. Still...I'd love to see St. Peter's face once Lux inevitably shows him his schlong.
you got a way with words but yer still a skinny leg prick and yes, i am drunk... foo you
Wagon? What wagon? Who said anything about being on a wagon?
you missed a really swell work meeting today where we all found out we are all going to be anally probed before and after work to ensure we worked hard enough....
you will be written up and or terminated if you do not comply. oh yeah, that and your lucky you have a job... hope friday the 13th treated you better?
oh yeah, and i love the fact that you dig music made by gay lads...
great googly moogly, get me outta here!
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