Perhaps not their fever-dream best, but neither do I wish to damn it with faint praise any other band and wed probably be talking minor classic. He remained in a coma until his death from a cerebral hemorrhage on March 31 at the University of Utah Hospital. Jeffrey Lee Pierce Live at 2011 Pitchfork Music Festival", "Gallows stream new album 'Gallows' ahead of release listen", "Gallows Everybody Loves You (When You're Dead)", "Cave, Perkins Pay Tribute To Gun Club's Pierce", "Album: Various Artists, We Are Only Riders The JLP Sessions Project (Glitterhouse)", "Nick Cave and Blondie's Debbie Harry duet on The Gun Club tribute album", "Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project to release second album,", "Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, Thurston Moore and Jim Sclavunos play Nobody's City new music", "Nick Cave and Blondie's Debbie Harry duet on the Gun Club tribute album", "The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project", "Ghost on the Highway: A Portrait of Jeffrey Lee Pierce and the Gun Club", "The Gun Club Ghost on the Highway: A Portrait Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce & The Gun Club (Ballad of Jeffrey Lee Pierce told by former bandmates)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jeffrey_Lee_Pierce&oldid=1148319776, Articles with dead external links from July 2021, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles lacking reliable references from January 2022, Pages using infobox musical artist with associated acts, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2010, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2022, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2021, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 5 April 2023, at 12:57. They were deadly serious, for one thing. 1999-2021 PopMatters Media, Inc. All rights reserved. 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. He just needed somebody so badly, so I stayed with him.. He went and grabbed it; it didnt come to him. The scourge, the deep scar tissue, of racism. Terry, Jim and I looked at each other and went, Hmm. https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/02/arts/jeffrey-lee-pierce-rock-musician-37.html. Says Powers: The concert was great and at the end of the night, in a fit of inspiration, I suppose, Jeffrey said, Why dont we have a band together? So I said, Well, okay, but I dont play any instrument or do anything. So he said, Well you can be the singer and Ill play the guitar, and Im like, Im not going to be the singer. And hes like, I could show you how to play guitar. I was fortunate enough to catch them live at Loughborough University in late October, featuring if not their greatest line-up, certainly their most iconic Pierce on vocals and guitar, Kid Congo Powers on guitar, Patricia Morrison on bass, and Terry Graham on drums (Throughout the bands life, Pierces unpredictability led to constant disruptive personnel rotations.). Jeffrey Lee Pierce July 2, 1959 July 28, 1975 2023 Cond Nast. When he was a teen-ager, he was president of the Blondie fan club. Born in Texas in 1958, Jeffrey Lee Pierce later moved to the West Coast. Having somehow missed their sophomore effort Miami completely, I next encountered the Gun Club in 1984, with the release of The Las Vegas Story, an album as remarkable and as perplexing as anything in their catalogue.
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