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MIND 707LP
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The Gun Club, live on Broadway in San Francisco, CA on November 6th, 1981. Broadcast by KUSF FM.
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MKY 4500EP
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Last copies, RSD 2021 release. "Los Angeles independent label Minky Records is issuing two crucial, hitherto unheard slices of music recorded in the '80s by the late L.A. punk rock legend Jeffrey Lee Pierce and his band The Gun Club. On June 12, the company will release an exclusive single version of the Pierce original 'Bad Indian' and a cover of Jody Reynolds' 'Fire Of Love.' Versions of both songs appeared on The Gun Club's 1982 sophomore album Miami, but this 45 will feature the unreleased original studio recordings, produced by Chris D. (Chris Desjardins) for the band's debut album Fire Of Love, released on Slash Records' subsidiary imprint Ruby Records in 1981."
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BANG 107CD
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Yes! It exists! Here are the unreleased recordings of what would have been the very last album of The Gun Club. Recorded in the very last period of the band, between 1991 and 1993, here are the studio recordings that Jeffrey Lee Pierce did with The Gun Club, with maximum quality and excellence of sound and presentation. Jeffrey Lee Pierce exposes his highest vocal and guitar performing, from sounds reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix and Television, to truly intimate heart-breaking blues, going through soul and rock. Includes covers of The Who, Wilson Pickett, and more. Including lyrics, this release is a dream come true for all Jeffrey Lee Pierce/The Gun Club fans all over the world. Absolutely necessary.
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2LP
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BANG 108LP
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High-quality The Gun Club rarities compiled on a double album. Side A includes The Gun Club's very first demo from 1981. Side B has an on-air recording at a radio station in New York City in 1982. Side C has acoustic rarities from Jeffrey Lee Pierce, recorded in 1990. Side D features an absolutely killer live recording of The Gun Club in Europe on the "Lucky Jim" tour in 1993. All of it comes packaged in a deluxe gatefold jacket which will please all of the fans around the world of this legendary and unforgettable band. 150 gram vinyl; Edition of 500.
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BANG 107LP
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2023 repress. In My Room features the unreleased recordings of what would have been the very last album of The Gun Club. Recorded in the very last period of the band, between 1991 and 1993, the studio recordings that Jeffrey Lee Pierce did with The Gun Club, with maximum quality and excellence of sound and presentation. What Jeffrey Lee Pierce exposes here is the highest vocal and guitar performing, from sounds are reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix and Television, to truly intimate heartbreaking blues, going through soul and rock. Includes covers from The Who, Wilson Pickett, and more. A dream come true for all Jeffrey Lee Pierce/The Gun Club fans all over the world - absolutely necessary. Comes in a deluxe gatefold jacket; Includes lyrics; 150 gram vinyl.
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BANG 093LP
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150-gram LP. Remastered sound. Deluxe gatefold sleeve. Limited edition of 500. The Gun Club's 1985 live album Danse Kalinda Boom, recorded in 1984, is finally reissued on vinyl for the first time, with liner notes by founding member Jeffrey Lee Pierce. Featuring Pierce and Kid Congo Powers at their wildest, this record came to be for The Gun Club what Smell of Female (1983) was for The Cramps. A total must.
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BANG 094LP
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150-gram vinyl in gatefold sleeve; limited to 500 copies. Yes, it exists! The Gun Club with leader Jeffrey Lee Pierce and Kid Congo Powers on guitar (The Cramps, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Butcher Shop) made these recordings in Berlin in 1987, as part of the sessions that would become 1987's Mother Juno (BANG 082LP). These recordings are much more raw, aggressive, and intense in their original form, and they are now finally collected and mastered as they were intended. Alternate recordings and one previously unreleased track ("Country One"). Deluxe gatefold sleeve includes lyrics.
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SV 054CD
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"Fire of Love is the no-nonsense debut from blues-punk legends The Gun Club. Formed in 1979--when singer Jeffrey Lee Pierce taught a young Kid Congo Powers to play guitar--the band injects the Delta blues, rockabilly and '60s garage with their own amplified fury. Originally released in 1981 on Slash's sub-label Ruby Records, Fire of Love features the classic second lineup with Ward Dotson on guitar (replacing Powers, who left to join The Cramps) and The Bags' rhythm section. Opener 'Sex Beat' shakes and stutters through a dynamic slab of American rock 'n' roll that reverberates throughout the album. 'She's Like Heroin to Me' is perhaps Pierce's most famous paean to modern love, elevating him to raucous demigod of the underground. Take it straight from Chris D. of The Flesh Eaters, who (along with Tito Larriva of The Plugz) produced these sessions: 'Fire of Love is probably the definitive record to come out of this roots revival movement. Several people have told me that record made them want to start a band and come to Los Angeles.' This long out-of-print CD release has been carefully remastered and features liner notes by Chris D."
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BANG 063LP
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2019 repress. Finally reissued on vinyl and properly remastered for the occasion, Divinity from The Gun Club features and compiles an extended version of the original double EP released in 1991. This record, almost impossible to find nowadays, features the classic line-up of The Gun Club including Jeffrey Lee Pierce and Kid Congo Powers (after his time in The Cramps and with Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds). During this period of his career, Jeffrey Lee Pierce advanced a complex, solid, evolutionary sound where his charismatic melodies mixed wisely with the swamp blues of the Mississippi Delta and the guitar majesty of Jimi Hendrix. The album includes lyrics in a deluxe gatefold jacket with an inner sleeve. Definitely another classic by this seminal band. Released under license from Creeping Ritual Productions.
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BANG 062LP
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2019 repress. Reissue of this classic featuring Jeffrey Lee Pierce and Kid Congo Powers, with a bonus track. Released in 1990, this record from The Gun Club once again sees the light, now reissued on deluxe thick vinyl, remastered, with a gatefold cover, full lyrics and previously-unreleased photography. Pastoral Hide & Seek is an album full of Gun Club's finest and most complex melodies, on which Jeffrey Lee Pierce developed his most complete songwriter skills. Includes a cover of a Jefferson Airplane song, previously-unreleased on other vinyl reissues. Housed in a gatefold sleeve.
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MR 256LP
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2024 restock; 2003 release. Jeffrey Lee Pierce -- reggae enthusiast, heroin addict, and former president of the Blondie fan club -- suffered a lonely, depressing death on March 31st, 1996 of a brain hemorrhage, after untold years of drug use and alcoholism. Why this event mattered much to anyone lay in a fantastic record his band, The Gun Club, recorded 16 years earlier: the masterful Fire Of Love. A visionary and fierce moment in time when The Gun Club took the raw, dripping meat of shopworn delta blues and infused it with the energy and fire of the LA punk rock scene. Inspired by bands like X, Television and the Cramps, he met Kid Congo Powers (who later played with Nick Cave and Cramps) and they formed the Creeping Ritual in 1979, soon to be renamed The Gun Club. Pierce was already a notorious drunk, exhibitionist, poet and fanboy. The Gun Club were quickly a dangerous new spoke on the spinning wheel of dynamic LA alt-culture. By 1980, Jeffrey Lee had moved into a deep reverence for Mississippi delta blues. The Gun Club paid more than passing homage: they wholeheartedly swiped complete riffs, words and attitude from the masters. Pierce participated in the great blues singer tradition by cobbling together distinct lines from other people's songs to create new ones. Snatches of Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Robert Johnson can be heard throughout this debut LP -- released in 1981 on Slash's Ruby Records. What makes Fire Of Love such a brilliant listen long after its time is that this blatant homage to the blues was amplified, energized and kicked into overdrive -- in a new style that combined the ghostliness of the original model with a FAST, unwound and supremely energetic beat. The engineering feats of Pat Burnette contributed to that sound: he wielded his Quad-Teck studios like a weapon, and mastered some of the greatest sides in LA music history (such as Germs' GI). Pure fullness of sound and the raw hot throb of records that were made to stand the test of time. From the immensely dark and aggressive sexuality of "Sex Beat," Gun Club's most recognizable number, to the fetishistic salute to fellow traveler Poison Ivy of The Cramps in "For The Love Of Ivy," including the hellfire classic "She's Like Heroin To Me," a 2:33 masterpiece in which everything comes together; Fire Of Love is pure perfection. It stands among the greatest classics of rock history, and shows the genius of the great Jeffrey, whose haunted singing has never been replaced. It proved out to be one of the most influential records of the '80s, with countless musicians declaring their love for the Club.
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