You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment. Pierce is mentioned in the Gallows song, "Everybody Loves You (When You're Dead)", from the 2012 self-titled album. [66] Some fans also felt the narrow spectrum of contributors gave the film a limited and somewhat slanted view of Pierce. Jeffrey was full of digressions. He was very hard work. Pierce was one of the founding members of the 1980s punk band The Gun Club, and also released material as a solo artist. Now I don't know how many of you were at the Bowery Ballroom [New York City] last night? As a teenager, Pierce moved from El Monte, a working-class industrial suburb east of Los Angeles, to Granada Hills, at the time a white working- and middle-class suburb in the San Fernando Valley. Grove uncovered a collection of three songs that had been recorded onto a cassette marked "JLP Songs" and subsequently realized the recording was from sessions he had worked on with Pierce for an album project that they had been planning—the album was originally slated as a country-style album but eventually transformed into a blues recording. [8], Jeffrey Lee Pierce and The Gun Club Documentaries, "Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Rock Musician, 37 – New York Times", "Obituary: Jeffrey Lee Pierce – People – News", "Preaching The Blues: Remembering The Gun Club's Jeffrey Lee Pierce", "Returning to the supposedly troublesome 'Miami, "Rockbrat Remembers: When Spencer Jones played with The Gun Club", "NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN - issue 1: Kid Congo Powers Oral History Pt. Jeffrey's Obituary. The phone calls that I got from him there, he seemed really well. The most insightful comments on all subjects will be published daily in dedicated articles. In a reflection on Pierce's death, singer Mark Lanegan stated in an August 2004 interview for Loose Lips Sink Ships: "In early 1996, he went to Japan, and right before he left, he and I were at his Mom's in LA [Los Angeles, US] writing songs. Photo by Ed Colver The Gun Club became the seminal swamp-blues / post-punk band that had come screaming out of the LA club scene during the 1980s. Powers recalls; "The song that didn’t make it on the album, “Secret Fires,” that’s in all the reissues, is an absolutely beautiful folk song. [34][35][36], Blondie paid tribute to Pierce in its song "Under the Gun", from the 1999 album No Exit. [29] at the University of Utah Hospital.[30]. [56] The discovered recordings were too rough to release and Glitterhouse Records, the label responsible for releasing the recordings of the project, has explained: This would have been impossible without digital technology, with artists adding their parts all over the world – London, Melbourne, Glasgow, Barcelona, Los Angeles, etc. But, just as Gun Club seemed about to capitalise on this early critical acclaim, the Cramps pinched the guitarist Kid Kongo (ne Brian Tristan) to replace the departing Brian Gregory. Then he went back to the States. The singer lived for a time in London and gigged fitfully around Europe, doing strange versions of jazz standards (John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme", Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit") and releasing disappointing albums of past and recent concerts on many labels (Two Sides of the Beast on Dojo for instance). The label clarified that the third album has become the "penultimate" full-length release of the Project, but did not name the final album, or its release date. He was one of the founding members of the 1980s punk band The Gun Club. Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Pierce's life is the subject of the documentary, Ghost on The Highway: A Portrait of Jeffrey Lee Pierce and The Gun Club, directed by Kurt Voss, and produced by Voss and editor/composer Andrew R. T-shirt colors are available in the best-selling black, the classic white, and many others. While touring with OFF! It was the end of my collaborator; the person who taught me how to play guitar; the person who for years I had done stuff with and can only communicate in a certain way with—a brother. He remained in a coma until his death from a cerebral hemorrhage on March 31. Kisses for My President - the Amber Lights & Debbie Harry 3. 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