Nick Knox (born Nicholas George Stephanoff; March 26, 1953 – June 15, 2018) was an American drummer for the

psychobilly Psychobilly (or punkabilly) is a rock music fusion genre that fuses elements of rockabilly and punk rock. It has been defined as "loud frantic rockabilly music", it has also been said that it "takes the traditional country rock, countrified rock ...

band

The Cramps The Cramps were an American rock band formed in 1976 and active until 2009. Their lineup rotated frequently during their existence, with the husband-and-wife duo of singer Lux Interior and guitarist Poison Ivy the only ever-present members. T ...

. He replaced

Miriam Linna Miriam Linna (born October 16, 1955) is a Canadian-American drummer who has run the Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York-based independent record label Norton Records since 1986, originally with her husband, the late producer and singer-songwriter Bill ...

in 1977 and left in 1991. Knox was with The Cramps during the peak of their worldwide popularity when they toured Europe extensively in 1986 with the '' A Date with Elvis'' tour. He drafted in his cousin, Mike Metoff (aka Ike Knox, ex The Pagans) during the preceding European tour in 1984. Knox was recognised as the drummer who brought a tightness to the Cramps sound,''The Wild Wild World of The Cramps'', Ian Johnson, Omnibus Press, 1990, and stayed longer than any other drummer in the band. Before joining the Cramps, he was a member of

protopunk Proto-punk (or protopunk) is rock music from the 1960s to mid-1970s that foreshadowed the punk rock genre and movement. A retrospective label, the musicians involved were generally not originally associated with each other and came from a variet ...

band The Electric Eels. Later Knox was the "senior advisor" to the

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-based punk band Archie and the Bunkers, and worked closely with the band on their 2017 single on Norton Records. Knox died of

cardiogenic shock Cardiogenic shock is a medical emergency resulting from inadequate blood flow to the body's organs due to the dysfunction of the heart. Signs of inadequate blood flow include low urine production (<30 mL/hour), cool arms and legs, and decreased ...

on June 15, 2018.

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1953 births 2018 deaths The Cramps members American punk rock drummers American male drummers American musicians with disabilities 20th-century American drummers 20th-century American male musicians American people of Russian descent {{US-drummer-stub