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About the Gun Club....
The Gun Club were a rock band from Los Angeles in the 1980s and 90s, led by the flamboyant singer, ex-rock critic and Blondie fan Jeffrey Lee Pierce. They were one of the first bands to blend punk with blues, country, and other American roots musics.The band was formed by Pierce and Kid Congo Powers and initially called the Creeping Ritual. They went through several lineup changes before settling on "The Gun Club," a name suggested by Circle Jerks singer Keith Morris.
Kid Congo left before the first album to join The Cramps but would return for Las Vegas Story. Other notable members include bassist Rob Ritter and drummer Terry Graham, who had both previously been in The Bags. Rob left after the debut album to form 45 Grave, and changed his name to Rob Graves. Later, Patricia Morrison, then known as Pat Bag, one of the founders of The Bags, joined to play bass on two LPs Danse Kalinda Boom and Las Vegas Story before leaving to join The Sisters of Mercy and then The Damned.
Their first album, 1981's Fire of Love, is regarded as a classic by many rock critics. One critic has written that the "album's lyrical imagery is plundered from voodoo, '50's EC comics and the blues," 1 while another notes that "Nobody has heard music like this before or since."[1] Fire of Love sold well and arguably received the best reviews of any release from the band.
Along with The Cramps, X, Blasters, Tex and the Horseheads, Blood on the Saddle and other bands, they set much of the tone for the Hollywood rock scene in the 1980s.
In 1992, Pierce returned to his musical roots by recording an album of mostly pre-war blues songs with the British blues Guitarist Cypress Grove.
Pierce continued leading various incarnations of the Gun Club up until his untimely death in 1996, culminating in the brilliant last album, Lucky Jim.
Romi Mori and Nick Sanderson went on to found the band Freeheat, with ex-members of Jesus and Mary Chain Jim Reid and Ben Lurie, but are now defunct. They recently had a child together, Sydney.
Kid Congo continues to record and tour under various incarnations, the latest being Kid Congo and the Monkey Birds.
The Gun Club helped influence the so-called cowpunk or punk blues scene that developed in their wake and a wide variety of bands ranging from the Blasters, and Social Distortion in the 1980s to The White Stripes, 16 Horsepower, Flat Duo Jets, The Starvations and the Starlite Desperation today. And alot more.... their legacy continues.
Please read more about The Gun Club, as well as the upcoming movie "GHOST ON THE HIGHWAY"and about Jeffrey Lee Pierce and the band,at The Gun Club Official Site or http://www.myspace.com/thegunclub
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