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	Jeffrey Lee Pierce
		JEFFREY LEE PIERCE, founder of seminal '80s blues-punk band The Gun Club, died from a blood clot on the brain in Utah, Colorado on Sunday, March 31 1996.
		Pierce, a dynamic frontman and guitarist, was beset by drug and alcohol problems which, in time, took their toll.
		There was a self-obsessed, self-pitying and self-destructive side to Pierce that was unpleasant to behold, probably brought about by his years of heroin addiction, but he was also a ferocious and talented musician and when he applied himself wholly to the music, he transcended everything else.
	members.tripod.com /nihilismontheprowl/punk/id25.htm (217 words)

	Kid Congo Powers Oral History Pt. 9: THE GUN CLUB PT 4
		Jeffrey wants to be… cool.” We were listening to Captain Beefheart and David Bowie Low and the influence got a bit off-track again and mixed up and it became interesting for that one EP.
		Jeffrey was really into guitar playing so there’s a lot of soloing and stuff going on and we had a lot of interplay and pieces of things sliding together and going in and out of each other.
		She was like, “Jeffrey went into a coma and had a brain aneurism and he died yesterday.” And I was completely devastated and shocked.
	newyorknighttrain.com /zine/issues/2/kidgun4.html (2412 words)

	VIBE.com: Music Search
		Jeffrey Lee Pierce is best known as the hard living guitarist/singer who fronted one of the first and finest psychobilly bands, the Gun Club, who seemed obsessed with his own mortality (as evidenced by the lyrics he penned for the group).
		Pierce also managed to issue a pair of solo releases in addition to his Gun Club duties, 1985's Wildweed and 1992's Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee (the latter also credited to Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee), but the singer/guitarist would ultimately return back to his full-time gig.
		Pierce appeared to have returned back to form with such strong early '90s Gun Club releases as 1992's In Exile and 1994's Lucky Jim, while he also considered creating a new musical form, 'Rapanese' (which would have combined rap with the Japanese language).
	www.vibe.com /music/search/artist.html?id=UCAgIDExNDQ0Mw== (366 words)

	CMT.com : Jeffrey Lee Pierce : Biography
		Jeffrey Lee Pierce is best known as the hard living guitarist/singer who fronted one of the first and finest psychobilly bands, the Gun Club, who seemed obsessed with his own mortality (as evidenced by the lyrics he penned for the group).
		Pierce also managed to issue a pair of solo releases in addition to his Gun Club duties, 1985's Wildweed and 1992's Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee (the latter also credited to Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee), but the singer/guitarist would ultimately return back to his full-time gig.
		Pierce appeared to have returned back to form with such strong early '90s Gun Club releases as 1992's In Exile and 1994's Lucky Jim, while he also considered creating a new musical form, 'Rapanese' (which would have combined rap with the Japanese language).
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/pierce_jeffrey_lee/bio.jhtml (392 words)

	obitchuarys
		JEFFREY LEE PIERCE, founder of seminal '80s blues-punk band The Gun Club, died from a blood clot on the brain in Utah, Colorado on Sunday, March 31 1996.
		Pierce, a dynamic frontman and guitarist, was beset by drug and alcohol problems which, in time, took their toll.
		There was a self-obsessed, self-pitying and self-destructive side to Pierce that was unpleasant to behold, probably brought about by his years of heroin addiction, but he was also a ferocious and talented musician and when he applied himself wholly to the music, he transcended everything else.
	www.geocities.com /obitchuarys/gunclub.html (208 words)

	Something Old, Something New: The Gun Club
		JLP was becoming a difficult person to work with, as was evident in the constant changes in the band's line-ups and although both albums had received critical acclaim, the band were basically ignored at home and decided to pursue their music overseas.
		As the touring continued, JLP was becoming more difficult to work with, constantly drunk and with a growing habit and with yet more line-up changes continued to record, including the well received Mother Juno in 1987, but the growing self destuctive habits of Pierce affected his health.
		JLP remained in London until he was deported in 1995 for brandishing a samurai sword in a Kensington pub.
	somethingold-somethingnew.blogspot.com /2005/03/gun-club.html (394 words)

	Montreal Mirror : Film : Pop Montreal : Ghost on the Highway
		Like the Stooges, the Velvets, the New York Dolls and a zillion other class acts before them, Jeffrey Lee Pierce and the Gun Club—as brilliant as they were—rarely got the respect they were due back when they were in business.
		Slowly, that vision of the Gun Club is fading, and today, a decade after his demise, people are looking back at Pierce’s legacy and giving him props for being one of the few bright lights in the predominantly dire musical decade known as the ’80s.
		One needn’t be an über-fan to appreciate the good old-fashioned tragedy that was Jeffrey Lee Pierce’s brief existence on the planet.
	www.montrealmirror.com /2006/100506/film3.html (648 words)

	Eternally Is Here
		Jeffrey Lee Pierce was born June 27, 1958.....in Montebello, California (East of Los Angeles) and also lived in El Monte, and Reseda, California.
		Jeffrey started to investigate more Japanese bands and dreamed of touring with and bringing attention to these new bands that in fact were influenced by his own band and peers.
		Jeffrey spent a month or two in Japan in late 1995, making connections with new bands and even becoming friends with rap notable Dr. Dre and a few others,who were also hanging out in Japan.....he returned to L.A. in December, to perform at the yearly Ringling Sisters benefit.
	www.thegunclub.net /history.html (1732 words)

	Gun Club- Fire of Love
		Jeffrey Lee Pierce - reggae enthusiast, heroin addict, and former president of the Blondie fan club - upheld the confident predictions of many by dying a lonely and fairly depressing death over four years ago, on March 31st, 1997.
		Pierce's Johnny Thunders-esque holdout in the face of self-wrought bodily deterioration was oddly admirable, yet in no way was the man mistaken for a hero for it.
		Jeffrey Lee Pierce was far from a visionary or even a particularly outstanding musician, but he had the cajones to lead this fantastic band through the recording of an album of timelessly roughshod and unruly punk-blues, perhaps the first -- and easily the best -- of its kind.
	www.furious.com /PERFECT/gunclubfireoflove.html (1550 words)

	NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN - issue 1: Kid Congo Powers Oral History Pt. 2
		So we started rehearsing and Jeffrey and I started writing more original songs and they were really good players and we were like, “Oh my God, they can really play” because we had been playing with people who couldn’t play.
		So Jeffrey gave the band a tape of songs he was interested to influence the band.
		Jeffrey was getting very into this trying to get into this preacher man persona, very night of the hunter, bad preacher thing.
	www.newyorknighttrain.com /zine/issues/1/kidgun1.html (2056 words)

	: : : : : M U N S T E R R E C O R D S : : : : :
		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.
		Pierce was already a notorious drunk, exhibitionist, poet and fanboy.
		Pierce participated in the great blues singer tradition by cobbling together distinct lines from other people's songs to create new ones.
	www.munster-records.com /novedades/infos/gunclub/gunclub_ing.htm (503 words)

	Julian Cope Presents Head Heritage \| Unsung \| Reviews \| The Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story
		Jeffrey Lee Pierce established himself as American post-punk’s Gram Parsons; a musical prodigy undermined by heroin fueled bouts of self-hatred, paranoid jealousy and rage.
		Pierce’s Vegas is the seedy, twelve dollar a night motels half a block from the Greyhound terminal where busted gamblers hole up after coming up snake-eyes.
		Pierce sings a song written by one of the twentieth century’s best known white afficionados straight, accompanied only by piano with almost no variation.
	www.headheritage.co.uk /unsung/review/619 (1373 words)

	trakMARX - THE GUN CLUB
		Jeffrey Lee Pierce was born in El Monte, near downtown LA - the only part of that city to bear a resemblance to New York's funkier neighbourhoods.
		Jeffrey liked it because it was free from the constraints of record companies and press [although they would still slag him off for having a laugh].
		Jeffrey was deported back to LA in '95 after an altercation in the pub led to him brandishing a Samurai sword he'd picked up when he visited Romi's parents.
	www.trakmarx.com /2005_02/09_gunclub.htm (6066 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Go Tell the Mountain: The Lyrics and Writings of Jeffrey Lee Pierce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		pierce was grandiose at best and just plain crazy at the end, and it really shows here in the jumbled structure and absolute inanity of much of what is included.
		Pierce probably had it in him to be a decent prose writer, but it hardly shows here.
		I don't think it ever would have been Jeffrey's thing to give an account of "The Gun Club Recording Sessions" or, "What each song means", so this colourful, painfully honest, but steel-balled account of his journey through the dark side of show-business is a fine companion to his many recordings.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1880985608 (1011 words)

	The Gun Club story in detail
		Pierce later said in a mid '80's Sounds magazine interview that he had the idea that if he got a band together he could get free drinks etc. bought for him by the press/music business reps around town.
		Pierce was to say for years that the two main influences on The Creeping Ritual were the Marty Robbins LP Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs and Ornette Coleman.
		Pierce told an interviewer from one of the mid '80's British music papers that when the Gun Club first started, he came into one of the early band rehearsals with a copy of the Marty Robbins LP, touting it as the band's new direction.
	www.furious.com /perfect/gunclub.html (3744 words)

	Gun Club CDs, Vinyl Records, CD Singles, Used CD's and Music Albums - Buy at MusicStack
		punk blues outfit the gun club fronted by jeffrey lee pierce (one time head of the blondie fan club) made a big (and often controversial) splash back in the early '80s to mid-'90s prior to pierce's death from rock n roll excess!
		jeffrey lee pierce and his band were literally on fire.
		after touring for the 1984 release the las vegas story was complete, there was a two year hiatus until jeffery lee pierce and kid congo joined forces again to record.
	www.musicstack.com /show.cgi?find=gun+club&search_type=&genre=&media= (762 words)

	Jeffrey Lee Pierce - Wildweed: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Four months after the Gun Club frontman had passed away, the article labeled him as the true victim of what Engelshoven interpreted as "the American disease." Among the symptoms were a strong identification with violence and death and a clear notion of American society being imbued with it.
		Pierce's lyrics testified of his awareness of America's earliest history, a nation established at the barrel of a gun.
		The violence theme practically drips from the album cover, depicting Pierce with a dreamy look and a shotgun slung over his shoulder.
	music.com /release/wildweed/1 (465 words)

	The Gun Club Album Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Please allow me to introduce Jeffrey Lee Pierce, user of many substances, exorcist of countless personal demons, and only steady member of the nearly forgotten The Gun Club.
		Another example of relatively straight blues is the hypnotic Delta-blues “Cool Drink of Water” (originally written by a guy called Tommy Johnson) that has JL yodelling lazily like a drunken Phil Alvin, uttering lines like “I ask for water and she gave me gasoline,” and two climactic moments with soloing on the verge of chaos.
		This album is one of the most extraordinary and fascinating I have ever heard in the rock'n'roll field, with this Jeffrey Lee Pierce's voice, his tortured soul and his US Indian blood.
	www.angelfire.com /music5/guysmusicreviews/gunclub.htm (592 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Gun Club
		Jeffrey Lee Pierce, for all intents and purposes, was the Gun Club.
		The lack of a truly heated counterpoint allows Pierce to coast a bit too easily through some of the tracks, but the manner in which he replaces post-adolescent rage with full-blown adult emptiness is mighty impressive.
		Pierce's intermittent solo career was not nearly as distinguished as his work in the Gun Club.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=gun_club (1166 words)

	Salt Lake City Weekly arts & entertainment - Remember the Ammo, by Ben Fulton - May 31, 2001
		The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” William Blake’s well-worn and greatly misunderstood maxim is so badly abused in rock and roll circles that it ought to be banned from use.
		In terms of songwriting subjects, Pierce had near bottomless empathy for alcoholics, hurting war veterans, young women with mental illnesses and men so lonely and confused they feel like opening fire on the general public.
		Pierce and Powers relocated to Berlin, and in 1987 the album Mother Juno caught the band at its second-greatest peak, raging for and against the glorious detritus of Pierce’s mind.
	www.slweekly.com /editorial/2001/arts_2_010531.cfm (1172 words)

	Gun Club and Jeffrey Lee Pierce - NEWS and UPDATES
		On October 21st 2006, the ashes of Jeffrey Pierce Founder and lead singer of the Gun Club were spread in Kyoto, Japan.
		As many of you know, Jeffery Lee Pierce had become a believer of the Buddhist religion prior to his death, and that his remains are kept at the West Los Angeles Buddhist Temple on Corrinth Ave.
		Once, in biting circumstances in 1996, while Jeffrey was recuperating from Hepatitis C at his father's home in Utah, he suffered a brain aneurysm, fell into a coma, and passed away shortly after at the age of 37 in a Salt Lake City hospital.
	www.thegunclub.net /news.htm (1992 words)

	Fire of Love: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		This features the late Jeffrey Lee Pierce 's swamped-out brand of roiling rock, swaggerific hell-bound blues, and gothic country.
		Pierce's songs were rooted in his land of Texas.
		On "Sex Beat," a razor-sharp country one-two shuffle becomes a howling wind as Pierce's wasted, half-sung half-howled vocals relate a tale of voodoo, sex, dope, and death.
	www.music.com /release/fire_of_love/1 (499 words)

	Go Tell The Mountain: The Stories And Lyrics Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce \| The A.V. Club
		As leader of The Gun Club, Jeffrey Lee Pierce preached the blues in a variety of guises: stripped-down punk-blues, lush, ethereal blues, slick guitar-wizardry blues.
		Pierce was a good songwriter and musician, but his prose left a lot to be desired—although, from a music fan's perspective, Go Tell The Mountain is often fascinating.
		The main problem is that Pierce talked and wrote a whole lot of shit.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/19648 (614 words)

	Cargorecords.co.uk: Jeffrey Lee Pierce - Wildweed
		It's been eight years that have been slowly building and adding to the legacy of Jeffrey Lee Pierce and his infamous band, The Gun Club.
		Pierce's lyrics testified of his awareness of America's earliest history, a nation established at the barrel of a gun.
		Standing amidst what could be the last true vestige of an unspoiled, rural America, it's a fair bet that he's ready to shoot anything even slightly disturbing upon which he probably will utter one final howl before putting himself to rest as well.
	www.cargorecords.co.uk /release_zoom.php?item=1566&tab=1 (270 words)

	Jeffrey Lee Pierce
		A few days ago Jeffrey Lee Pierce, the lead singer, sometimes guitarist and creative force of the Gun Club, suffered a blood clot to his brain while he was in Utah, where he was visiting his father.
		I have known Jeffrey since about 1977, when he worked behind the counter at the Bomp Records store in the San Fernando Valley.
		For the last several years, Jeffrey didn't seem to be himself.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /dante/last/jlp.html (524 words)

	Gun Club, The Music Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Goodbye Jeffrey Lee - Discography, tape trading information, lyrics and sound files for The Gun Club and the late Jeffrey Lee Pierce.
		The Gun Club and Jeffrey Lee Pierce - Includes history, discographies, photo galleries, mailing list, and message board.
		Jeffrey Lee Pierce and The Gun Club - Guitar chords and lyrics.
	www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Bands_and_Artists_G_Gun_Club,_The.html (1907 words)

	Punk Bands Of The 80's: The Gun Club
		From TheGunClub.net: "Jeffrey spent a month or two in Japan in late 1995, making connections with new bands and even becoming friends with rap notable Dr. Dre and a few others,who were also hanging out in Japan.....he returned to L.A. in December, to perform at the yearly Ringling Sisters benefit.
		I recall there was a lot of buzz about Jeffrey Lee Pierce and The Gun Club, which is probably why my camera lens apparently never strayed far from him.
		Some of these photos are now part of Kurt Voss's film about Jeffery Lee Pierce, Ghost on the Highway.
	www.mediaspin.com /thegunclub.html (314 words)

	Midheaven Mailorder \| Browse by Artist: GUN CLUB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A strange and unholy record that includes the songs "Death Party"--rumored be co-written by San Francisco's FLIPPER and Pierce and the apocalyptic preaching of the haunting and beautiful "The House on Highland Avenue." Includes seven previously unreleased bonus tracks from a live radio broadcast from Geneva, Switzerland in March 1983.
		A strange and unholy record that includes the songs "Death Party"--rumored be co-written by San Francisco's FLIPPER and Pierce and the apocalyptic preaching of the haunting and beautiful "The House on Highland Avenue." Includes four previously unreleased bonus tracks from a live radio broadcast from Geneva, Switzerland in March 1983.
		*Although JEFFREY LEE PIERCE** would reform and reignite THE GUN CLUB up until his death, this release from 1984 marked the end of the original era.
	www.midheaven.com /artists/gun.club.html (541 words)

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