Luwas born in Wichita, Kansas. The youngest son of Larry & Linda Large, he showed an early interest in the artworks of his mother, an oil painter, and became engrossed in literature. He later came under the tutelage of his older brother, Ray, who taught him form and line, and basic shading techniques. By the age of 5, Lu was beginning to show promise as an artist, though his environment was infused with bitter family conflicts and the hypocrisy of religion. Brought up in the Episcopal faith in Houston by his mother and adopted father, Harold "Hal" Hutchinson, Lu became closely involved with the church as an altar boy, which would mark his descent into spiritual turmoil and sexual repression.
1976 - 1978
By the time the family moved to Laramie, Wyoming in 1976, Lu was already beginning to settle into a pattern of scholastic inattentiveness and academic failure. "I could not concentrate in school when I was a child. My mind was constantly being filled with images that I could only attempt to transfer to paper.", he states. "During those days, I would use anything -- notebook paper, the desktop, the backs of assignments and even exams...I must have been a very frustrating student to teach." On his 8th birthday, Lu received a gift from his brother Ray that changed his interests forever. It was a copy of H.P. Lovecraft's The Shuttered Room. "I stayed up late that night and read the title story. I was so plagued by nightmares where a fishlike creature was scratching at my window..." he says. That experience propelled him into the worlds of horror and science fiction, which began to show in the subject matter of his artwork. He became obsessed with monsters and mythical creatures/characters, pouring over books of art, ancient mythology and cryptozoology. He began to study in detail the works of Michaelangelo, DaVinci, Frazetta and Vallejo.
1979 - 1981
Lu's art became more refined as he began to implement the techniques he'd gleaned from his art books. He began designing objects such as vehicles and buildings. This line of interest continued until his parents divorced in 1979, and Lu came under the guardianship of his mother and her new husband, Arlie Dunlap. A native Oklahoman with an 8th-grade education, Arlie subjected his own son, Lu and his younger brother Will to vicious beatings that occurred almost daily for 3 years. Arlie would "whoop" the kids with a supple leather strap imbedded with grommets, from which would often hang rivulets of skin after a beating. Arlie would not cease a beating until his victim's cries were exhausted or brought under control. Lu became both a sadist and a masochist under these conditions. Lu says, "I learned the close relationship between pleasure and pain during those whoopings. I found that I could convert a whimper into a giggle and sobs into laughter, which incensed my stepfather so much that he delivered a beating once from which I still bear scars. By the end of that occasion, I was rolling on the floor doubled over, laughing uncontrollably, bleeding from the lashes across my thighs and calves. He finally gave up in a fury and walked out. I'd received over a hundred "licks" that day."
During this period, Lu created his notorious Book of Death, into which he poured his hatred, malice, pain and all thoughts of revenge. Throughout Junior High School, this became his only sane escape from his insane home-life. He began hiding his signature numerous times in each drawing, after which he would challenge his classmates to find them all. His friends each day would eagerly await the creation of a new depiction of violence, madness and death so they could immerse themselves in the search for signatures.
Also during this period, Lu began taking guitar lessons, which would carry him through to more musical aspirations later in life. It was on his 13th birthday that Lu's older brother Kent gave him his first bass guitar.
Lu's artistic popularity was threatened, however when, in a rage, Arlie cleaned out Lu's room and locked all his belongings, including his art supplies, in a storage shed in the back yard. In the wake of such treatment, Lu attempted suicide twice unsuccessfully before running away from home at the age of 14 after a severe beating at the hands of Arlie. After three weeks of hiding out, Lu surfaced to have his wounds documented by the local authorities. He was removed from his mother's care and sent to live with his dad, his new stepmother and stepbrother.
1982 - 1984
In order to be allowed to live with his dad, Lu's stepmother Maureen (a devout catholic) insisted that he attend church weekly with the family. Eager to live any existence but the previous one, Lu hesitantly agreed. He had not been required to nurture any faith during the years living with Arlie, but now found himself trudging down the aisles of St. Matthew's episcopal church every sunday. Though he had no interest in religion at all, he was impressed by his dad's ability to sightsing from the hymnals, and the fervor with which this former athiest pursued his newfound faith. He eventually became an officer of the Wyoming Episcopal Youth Conference and began to consider entering seminary. Over the next year, Lu would audition for and become the bass player in St. Matthews' choir, and become an acolyte in the church. One day a guest lecturer at the church heard Lu playing his cheap bass guitar in the choir, and commented on how he needed a better instrument. Two months later, a package arrived for Lu which contained a royal blue 1969 Rickenbacker 4001 in mint condition! This would become Lu's main instrument until the early '90's. It was also around this time that Lu began studying Okinawa-Te Karate, which later would provide the foundations for his current warrior philosophy.
In 1983, tragedy befell Lu when Hal Hutchinson was killed in a freak electrical accident. Lu could find no comfort in either the scriptures or the words of his fellow parishoners. To make matters worse, Lu's stepmother transformed into a perpetually grief-stricken shell, needing constant sympathy and 'turning on the faucet' at the mere mention of Hal's name. This overwhelming grief was so oppressive that her own son had to move out to escape the heavy atmosphere, leaving Lu alone to console her, despite his own need to grieve. Filled with doubt and desperate for solace, Lu prayed to God for a sign of his existance and for relief, but received neither. In a rage, he renounced the Holy Trinity and swore his allegiance to Satan.
He began to research the occult, but to his amazement, found that the bulk of information available at that time was written from a strongly Christian bias, and provided no accurate accounts of rites, history or philosophy of those who rejected the Bible and its followers. He started his first band in High School, but had to quit after his stepmother found out they were playing heavy metal music. During this time, Lu's martial arts involvement came under the scrutiny of the church, who criticized such activities as being 'Satanic'. After an incident where Lu snuck into a bar to watch an older friend's band perform, and one where Lu was found to have smoked marijuana, his stepmother threatened to send Lu to military school. He retaliated by issuing his first prayer to Lucifer, wherein he cursed his stepmother's short-sightedness and stifled nature. Within a week of that prayer, Lu's mother separated from Arlie and asked him to return to live with her. He gladly accepted.
1984 - 1986
Without his wicked stepmother to dish out the daily dose of scriptural content, Lu's mind was free to explore other spiritual avenues, though in an aloof fashion, because his mother had raised her children to believe in God, even though they didn't go to church every week. He began playing in bands regularly, and also began drinking and smoking pot on a regular basis. After about a year, his suppressed grief finally reared its ugly head as Lu entered a vandalism phase which eventually landed him in jail and earned him regular visits to a psychotherapist. A close personal friend saw the self-destructive path that Lu was on, and recommended he read The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey. After acquiring a copy, he stayed up all night perusing its pages, and stayed home the next day to read it again. "I felt as if a tremendous weight had been lifted from me...here was an atheistic philosophy that included all of the random beliefs that I held, which were supported by a deep understanding of science, human/animal nature, and psychodramatic techniques. It was as if someone held a mirror up to my face. I'd found my true place in the world, and understood at that moment my purpose for existance: to enlighten the world." From that moment on, I knew that I was born a Satanist.
In the middle of his senior year at Laramie High School, another upheaval occurred in Lu's life when his newly-fashioned inverted cross pendant flopped out of his shirt as he reached across the dinner table for the mashed potatoes. His mother wept as she explained that she had not raised them that way, and ultimately responded by kicking Lu to the curb. He moved into his own apartment, became an emancipated minor, and set up shop dealing drugs to his friends.
1987 - 1989
At the end of his senior year, without enough credits to graduate, Lu dropped out and settled into a life of crime, which would last almost a year before he realized his own looming demise and moved to Hollywood, California, where he would audition for and be accepted into the Musician's Institute in 1987. While attending M.I., Lu became a registered member of LaVey's Church of Satan. Upon graduation as a Professional Bass Player in 1988, he returned to Laramie, where he founded the Alien Elite, an above-ground organization for Satanic study which attracted mainly minors into its ranks.
Lu became involved with a sixteen-year-old member, and was arrested in 1989 and charged with Indecent Liberties. This occured at the same time that Inside Edition taped an unforgiving segment about Lu and the Alien Elite, which aired nationally the day he was bonded out of jail. The local public outcry was such that Lu was blacklisted. In May of 1989, he married Sarah Smiley, who was pregnant with his child. Their son, Ian Luther Vaughan Hutchinson, is born on December 13.
1990 - 1994
Lu divorced Sarah after only a year of marraige and a passionate affair with Mary Berg, a coworker of his at Kinko's. He moved in with Mary and promptly reformed the Alien Elite as an underground organization, holding meetings at her house. Mary became both his muse and the primary source of frustration for him, as her disorganization would plague him for many years. In 1991, Mary would join Lu in Hangman's Jury, as the band's sound and light technician. In 1992, Lu left HJ to form Crying Tone Productions (with guitarist Jason Coomes) and its flagship Badstone, an all-original rock band which was eventually hired by the US Dept. of Defense to entertain troops stationed around the Mediterranean Sea. Badstone recruited Carl Gustafson, a local blues singer to head up the group for the tour and they changed the band's name to Bluestone. Upon completing the tour, the band returned to the US and changed their name to Blinddog Smokin'. They leased a local nightclub, which Lu proceeded to redesign and redecorate. The focal point of the club was the stage, the back wall of which Lu airbrushed a 25' mural depicting a vast city skyline at night. The club thus got its name: Blinddog City.
Lu departed Blinddog Smokin' after Carl Gustafson, an ex-minister, instisted that he either renounce Satan and accept Jesus as his personal savior, or leave the band and the partnership. Lu refused to let his hard-won beliefs be trod into the dirt by this con-man par excellence turned preacher and his hypocrital lifestyle. Disgusted with the music industry and the lack of support from his bandmates, Lu swore off playing in bands and took a job working in a local wood mouldiing factory, with hopes of earning enough cash to move out of Laramie. In his spare time, he began to develop his own individual songwriting/playing style.
1995 - 1999
Lu worked at Rocky Mtn. Forest Products for a year, when Mary became pregnant with his second child. After a brief separation, they reunited shortly before their daughter, Azrael Shea Hutchinson was born on March 9, 1996. Lu continued working at RMFP, ascending the ranks until acquiring a supervisory position. He assisted the sales staff in the creation of a unique trade show display and became the chairman of their ergonomics committee. In 1998, Lu recorded his first solo album: Lucifer Large, A Time For New Spiders. While working at RMFP, he met Ben Gibbs, who later would partner with Lu in Armageddon, Inc. The following year, an industrial accident nearly claimed Lu's first finger on his right hand, and after complete rehabilitation and reacquisition of his playing skills, Lu decides it's time to move on.
2000 - 2002
Lu accepted a job with Allsop, Inc., a major computer accessories manufacturer, as an injection-molding plastics process technician. He worked in this capacity for a year before being asked to head up their new printing department. On March 2, 2002 after having suffered a barrage of miscarraiges, Mary gives birth to Zoe Electra Hutchinson. After a year of printing products for many Fortune 500 companies with great success and acclaim, and undercompensated for his expertise, Lu departed Allsop and accepted a position as ASTEC Coordinator for the University of Wyoming, which marked his return to the entertainment world.
2003 - present
As the ASTEC Coordinator, Lu reestablished himself as a musical figure within the community. He has provided sound systems, stage lighting and technical support for world-class entertainers such as Bela Fleck and The Flecktones, The Wailers, P-Funk, Bernie Worrell, BB King, Keller Williams, Michael Gulezian, Derek Trucks, Art Alexakis and Henry Rollins, to name but a few.
He and Mary welcomed their youngest son, Legion Kane Hutchinson, into the world on December 7, 2003. He currently spends his spare time writing and recording music and studying to become a recording engineer, as well as developing his unparalleled artistic skills and interests in architecture and martial arts.
