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| The Gun Club > Albums & Lyrics |
The Gun Club were a rock band from Los Angeles in the 1980s led by the flamboyant singer, ex-rock critic Jeffrey Lee Pierce . They were one of the first bands to blend punk with blues, country, and other American roots musics.
Initially called Creeping Ritual, they went through several lineup changes before settling on "The Gun Club," a name suggested by Black Flag singer Keith Morris.
Their first album, 1981's Fire of Love, is sometimes regarded as a classic. One critic has written that the "album's lyrical imagery is plundered from voodoo, '50's EC comics and the blues." (1)
Along with X and other bands, they set much of the tone for the Hollywood rock scene in the 1980s. (Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe is rumored to have borrowed some of Pierce's distinctive look for his own early career.)
They helped influence the cowpunk scene that developed in their wake and a wide variety of bands ranging from Social Distortion in the 1980s to The White Stripes today.
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