The Gun Club, Part 3 (Patricia Morrison Interview)
Patricia Morrison
Gun Club Bass Guitarist, June – December
Though she only recorded their third studio album, The Las Vegas Story, with the band, Patricia Morrison will forever be associated with The Gun Club, as much if not more for the female yang and gothic visual impact she brought to the band as for her bass guitar contributions. She’d already been turning heads in her Los Angeles hometown’s punk scene prior to joining The Gun Club as a founding member of The Bags and Legal Weapon. Post-Gun Club, she and Kid Congo Powers had a short-lived project called Fur Bible before she joined The Sisters of Mercy (then operating under the name The Sisterhood) in She appears, in some capacity at least, on The Sisterhood’s album Gift and Sisters of Mercy’s goth-rock masterpiece, ’s Floodland, whose song “Lucretia My Reflection” was written by band leader Andrew Eldritch about Morrison. She left that group as came to a close. A solo album, Reflect On This, was released in , and in she joined The Damned, marrying lead singer Dave Vanian a year later. After giving birth to their daughter Emily in , she retired from music.
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The Gun Club/Jeffrey Lee Pierce
Tracklist: for my President ()/ (Ina Moonlight) ()/ Book ()// By The Christmas Tree ()/ Girl ().
Recording info: Recorded @ a studio in North Hollywood (CA), during Spring/Summer
Note 1: Five demos of Jeffrey Lee Pierce's first band. The 3 photos on front and back cover of the 12" were taken by (In The Records label chief) Larry Hardy @ the Red Lights first live show at the Whisky a Go Go, West Hollywood on July 14,
Note 2: First pressing has an incorrect tracklisting on the side A of both back cover and label: 1."Kisses for my President" is listed as "Jungle Book", 2."Kitty (Ina Moonlight) is listed as "Kisses for my President" and 3."Jungle Book" is listed as "Kitty". The second pressing has corrected tracklisting.
Line-up: Jeffrey Lee Pierce (vocals,guitar,keyboard,piano), Anna Statman (bass) and Jack Reynolds [The Last] (drums).
- Spacecase Records SCR (US,Aug) Ltd red vinyl, copies.
- In The Red Recordings ITR (US,Aug) Black vinyl.
- Spacecase Records SCR (US,Aug) Ltd purple vinyl, copies. Second pressing.
Remembering Jeffrey Lee Pierce: &#;He Was an Exorcist of His Own Demons&#;
In the 15 years between the release of the Gun Club&#;s first album and their frontman&#;s death in , the bleached-blond rock & roll typhoon known as Jeffrey Lee Pierce touched the lives of Nick Cave, Blondie&#;s Debbie Harry, Depeche Mode&#;s Dave Gahan, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, Lydia Lunch, and countless others. His music could be invigorating and/or mysterious, sometimes at the same time. With the Gun Club and as a solo artist (sometimes billing himself cheekily as Ramblin&#; Jeffrey Lee), he recorded revved-up punk, Delta-style blues, brooding folk, and Americana all punctuated by his husky moaning and primal howls. His lyrics could be sharp, emotional, and dreamlike; his artistic vision was both singular and eclectic.
If you were to ask all of the artists he inspired why they liked Pierce&#;s music, each would give a different answer. &#;The first time I heard the Gun Club was when I was living in L.A. in maybe or ,&#; Gahan says via email. &#;I remember the music being pretty vibrant; it reminded me a lot of when I was a teenager, growing up in east London and living in the punk scene. Then
The Gun Club
-Chronology (I)-
Line-up #2A (Los Angeles: June - September ):
Jeffrey Lee Pierce (vocals)/ Brian Tristan (guitar)/ Rob -Graves- Ritter (bass) and Terry Graham (drums).
June
US CA,West Hollywood,Program Studios (aka "McCadden"),practice room (@ Selma Avenue).
Rehearsing two times a week, for a month. Songs rehearsed are: Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Promise Me/ Ghost On The Highway/ She's Like Heroin To Me/ Walking With The Beast/ Black Train/ Keys To The Kingdom/ For The Love Of Ivy/ Fire Spirit/ Goodbye Johnny/ Going Down The Red River/ Seven Miles With The Devil/ Sex Beat/ The Devil and the Nigger/ Opelousas Love Magic.
Photo: Google Street view , with thanks to Vitus Mataré [The Last] and Brad Dunning for identifying its location.
Article: Scan of article from Slash magazine Volume 3,Issue #5, September
Note: The Last used to rehearse here before they rented the Lyceum Sound Recorders in Mar Vista.
xx-Jul
US CA,Hollywood,Club 88 (@ W Pico Blvd)
Note 1:"An early gig at Club Jeffrey dressed in a black suit with a white shirt and a black string tie and a black hat, looking like something out of a Flannery O'C
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