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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 12:08 (7 years ago) Permalink
(Though my personal favorite's probably be Miami)
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― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 13 February 2006 12:54 (7 years ago) Permalink
I know there's a lyric or two on Fire Of Love or Miami (both records I love) but I'm listening to a great bootleg from 1982 and at the beginning of Jack On Fire he just says "N-Word".
Is this ok?
― derekerdman (Derek Erdmany), Sunday, 8 October 2006 20:27 (6 years ago) Permalink
To address the heart of the matter, Jeffrey Lee Pierce was not a racist; he loved and respected black people, and he was an avid follower of many blues and reggae artists. He certainly wasn't a bigot on account of his lyrics. In his music he used a device called a persona, which is to say he delivered his songs from the perspective of a fictional character whose views were not necessarily consistent with his own. If the line "I was hunting for niggers down in the dark" makes you uncomfortable, just pretend the narrator of the song is a deranged mid-20th-century Kentucky preacher whose wife just left him for a black woodcutter whose name is probably LaDerrick. And if you're offended by Jeffrey's casual use of the word "nigger" at the beggining of "Jack on Fire," just pretend he was hopped up on heroin -- and thuis deprived of his social conscience -- for the duration of the concert. [/prolixity]
― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:59 (6 years ago) Permalink
― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Sunday, 8 October 2006 22:04 (6 years ago) Permalink
"It is not an art statement/to drown a few passionate men"
Fire of Love totally beyond classic
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 22 May 2007 23:07 (6 years ago) Permalink
She's like heroin to me, she cannot miss the vein... Wow. Fuck "Miami", it's indeed all about "Fire of Love"... Oddly the GC is currently being revived here in Montreal by an up and coming band which regularly plays covers of their songs during their live sets. The Club's really another one of these obscure bands from which spring various cult figures... the Kid, Patti Morrison... It's a bit like Crime & the City Solution, confidentially yours...
And "Sex Beat"! What an album-opener!
-- Simon, Wednesday, April 4, 2001 12:00 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Link
i wonder what band this was/is
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 02:15 (6 years ago) Permalink
mother of earth (from 'miami') is one of my favourite songs of all time.
― estela, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 02:48 (6 years ago) Permalink
are the gun club really obscure these days? i remember tons of kids seeming to dig/ at least know about them -- goths, rockers, punkers, mockers...
but then i do speak of twenty-plus years ago.
and yeah i love them a lot, in small doses. best rev. gary davis cover, ever.
― Mike McGooney-gal, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 03:31 (6 years ago) Permalink
ohh wait that's son house, doh.
― Mike McGooney-gal, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 03:32 (6 years ago) Permalink
lol
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 03:34 (6 years ago) Permalink
Godspeed You Sex Beat
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 03:51 (6 years ago) Permalink
are the gun club really obscure these days?
yes
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 03:56 (6 years ago) Permalink
Waht! I thought they were pretty well known.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 04:00 (6 years ago) Permalink
I wouldn't have heard of them if not for the Left of the Dial comp which I only came across thanks to the internet. Even then they were still buried amongst 50 other artists.
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 04:00 (6 years ago) Permalink
I knew about them cause of the Guthrie production, apparently "Breaking Hands" is awesome tho I dont know if I have it/have heard it.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 04:14 (6 years ago) Permalink
I know their music from way back when.
Kid Congo's living in DC these days. He was in the row ahead of me seeing "the Fabulous Stans" movie at the Library of Congress a little while back.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 04:35 (6 years ago) Permalink
His new album's pretty nice, and there's ILXor involvement...
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 04:48 (6 years ago) Permalink
Yes.
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 07:22 (6 years ago) Permalink
Two Lone Swordsmen are doing their best to revive them.
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 08:39 (6 years ago) Permalink
My typo above--Kid Congo was seeing the "Fabulous Stains" movie. I am also trying to remember if I ever saw the Gun Club. I know I missed them opening for the Cramps at the Bayou in Georgetown (DC) because I was studying for a final. Hmmmm, I wonder if they ever came back to town.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:06 (6 years ago) Permalink
Lucky Jim's a bit crap though, IMO.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 29 February 2008 16:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
I wouldn't have heard of them if not for the Left of the Dial comp. . . . .
And what a fantastic -- utterly classic -- comp it is.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 30 May 2008 02:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
Original drummer Terry Graham has got a Kickstarter going for a book project on the time/place -- looks well worth it!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1417342148/its-a-book-punk-like-meliner-notes-for-a-revolutio
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 18:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Lucky Jim's a bit crap though"no it isn't. it is one of the great last albums. like nirvana's unplugged.
― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 6 August 2010 12:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
coming after pastoral hide & seek and divinity I thought lucky jim was a drop in quality for sure
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 6 August 2010 12:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
want to give some special extra shine since nobody seems to really talk much about it, but damn, the las vegas story is something else. totally engrossing, lynchian subversive america shit. i'll take that record over ANY psychobilly album ever recorded including the whole of the cramps catalogue
― you sleazy prostitute (jk), Friday, 7 January 2011 04:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
Jose Esteban Muñoz, "Calling Up Thunder: The Gun Club and the Punk Rock Commons"
EMP Pop Conference presentation scheduled for March 25th
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 15:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Calling Up Thunder: The Gun Club and the Punk Rock Commons"
What does that even mean?
Anyway, been listening to Miami lately and it's really good. I am new to this band.
― the box cutter killer from the calcutta gutter (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 06:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Google tells me that Munoz is an NYU professor who listened to the Gun Club, Germs and other LA bands when he was younger, and he writes about that in his book Cruising utopia: the then and there of queer futurity . I still do not know what the "calling up thunder" phrase refers to.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 13:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's a Gun Club song title. The "Punk Rock Commons" is what I don't quite get.
― the box cutter killer from the calcutta gutter (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 13:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think it just means punk-rock's tropes & shared values etc in this instancehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_commons
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 13:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thanks.
I guess drummer Graham has still not gotten his book published yet, although the kickstarter financing was successful.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 15:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
The lyrics to "Jack on Fire" (posted way upthread) reminds me of Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian".
― Mule, Thursday, 16 February 2012 09:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
I will fuck you till you die
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 16 February 2012 09:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Like the judge
― Mule, Thursday, 16 February 2012 10:10 (1 year ago) Permalink