I couldnt do it any more; we had too many arguments and disagreements.. Sometimes hed be like Robert Mitchum in Night Of The Hunter where hed take a Bible on stage and throw it to the floor. Reflecting the singer's burgeoning interest in the blues, Fire of Love, Gun Club's debut album, included possessed covers of Robert Johnson's "Preaching the Blues" and Tommy Johnson's "Cool Drink of Water" alongside Pierce's own compositions ("Sex Beat", "She's Like Heroin to Me") which already reflected his unhealthy fascination for the seamier side of rock 'n' roll. In the end, he took me to Amsterdam and when we got there he asked me to wait in McDonalds. With the first line-up imploding, Pierce and Powers were joined by Rob Ritter (bass) and Terry Graham (drums) from LA band The Bags, whose contribution was instantly felt. Label:Retro Deluxe - RDBX004, Vibrant Records Ltd. - RDBX004: Format: 4 x CD, Compilation. The scourge, the deep scar tissue, of racism. There was very little funny about The Gun Club, certainly not intentionally (Although Pierces bitter comment about Cave attending a better class of rehab than himself could be seen as humorous if you squint hard enough.). He died on 31 March 1996 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The following year saw The Gun Club capitalise on Pierces Blondie connections by signing to Chris Steins Animal Records. By Gregg L. Friedman MD, I really miss the great musical groups of the 1960's. I believed in him as a songwriter and I knew the quality would be there but his health always dictated the situation. Jeffrey Lee Pierce Death: and Cause of Death On March 31, 1996, Jeffrey Lee Pierce died of non-communicable disease. When he formed The Gun Club, he wanted to destroy everything. He still made ends meet by working hard in a record store and contributing to music fanzines but, by 1981, he was at the helm of Gun Club, an impressive fourpiece (also featuring Kid Congo Powers on guitar, Rob Ritter on bass and Terry Graham on drums) who seemed to create their own brand of swampy, ramshackle, psychotic, blues- influenced music. It is revered by many. During his two-decade career, hes interviewed the likes of Keith Richards, Jimmy Page and Ozzy Osbourne, and has been ranted at by John Lydon. . He looks plain lost. Labeled by many as psychobilly, they repelled the punk dogmatists; as blues-punk, they lost the traditionalists; as country-punk-blues, pretty much everyone else who might have been sympathetic turned away it was the genre-war 80s after all. By this time, bassist Rob Ritter had taken as much as he could of Pierces self-centred behaviour and quit, with Ward Dotson following soon after. This is what The Gun Club and Jeffrey Lee Pierce at their best managed: they showed us that all the loneliness of the world can be if for only a song length, for a propulsive drum beat, for the wail of a slide guitar, for the few precious seconds it takes for a defiant and fleeting shriek to disperse into the night all that apparent abandonment by the world can be momentarily defeated by spirit, by the fire spirit, by Jack on Fire, by the Indian wind along the telegraph lines. (Shes Like Heroin To Me.).
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