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The Gun Club was an American band from Los Angeles in the 1980s led by singer/guitarist Jeffrey Lee Pierce. The Gun Club injected with doses of and music. Along with X, The Flesh Eaters and The Blasters, they helped set the tone of the Hollywood rock scene of the 1980s and are cited as a “tribal blues” band.

The Gun Club was formed by Jeffrey Lee Pierce, former head of the Blondie fan club in Los Angeles. Joining him was Brian Tristan, who was later renamed Kid Congo Powers during his stint with The Cramps, Don Snowden, who was at the time a music critic for the Los Angeles Times, and Brad Dunning. Pierce played guitar and lead vocals, while Tristan took on lead guitar, Snowden on bass, and Dunning rounding out the quartet on drums. The band was originally a rockabilly band called The Cyclones lead by Pleasant Gehman on lead vocals, but Gehman departed after only one show. Adopting the name The Creeping Ritual, Pierce moved to vocals and they spent some time gigging at local venues. Eventually, the group grew dissatisfied with their name and switched to The Gun Club, suggested by Pierce’s flatmate, Black Flag and Circle Jerks singer Keith Morris.
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  • pinkpinkpink999

    early work was great

    13 May 11:37am Reply

  • strutterf

    this band wrote some of the best lyrics i've ever heard

    20 Apr 11:49am Reply

  • Skygazer1

    "Stand in the dark and fight like me..." - Promise Me (Fire of Love)

    11 Apr 8:31pm Reply

  • wild-gift

    All dressed up like Elvis from Hell

    26 Mar 3:04am Reply

  • jeemajamajimma

    Such a great band.

    24 Mar 6:01am Reply

  • shigsarecool

    SHE'S LIKE HEROIN TO ME SHE'S LIKE HEROIN TO ME SHE CAN NOT MISS A VEIN

    19 Mar 1:17am Reply

  • woohoo567

    Possibly my favorite band of all time, at least one of them for sure!

    15 Mar 1:57am Reply

  • vandaleyes

    one of the best bands ever.

    18 Feb 8:35am Reply

  • gummishark

    just got turned on the gun club cause of a dirtbombs cover.cool....very cool.

    21 Jan 2:26am Reply

  • helgaze15

    :-)) love it!

    8 Jan 8:29pm Reply

  • Nakkinak

    I'm now in a deep Pixies crisis

    14 Dec 2012 Reply

  • Ascisco

    fever hot... eat my heart...feverhott...eat my heart. pictures are spectacular except It cant possibly do a lion"s dance

    17 Nov 2012 Reply

  • GrimAxeman

    Genres are only narrow when people make them narrow and waste their time with this kind of discussions.

    12 Nov 2012 Reply

  • Namey

    but the guy's got a point The Gun Club was always well above and beyond such a narrow genre. so yeah do take it the fuck off

    6 Nov 2012 Reply

  • Riff55

    GreaserSteve probably doesn't even like The Cramps!

    25 Oct 2012 Reply

  • mattmacneil

    lol greasersteve you big goofball

    18 Oct 2012 Reply

  • Parabellum13x

    psychobilly fans are so cute in their ignorance of everything that isn't a Cramps tribute band.

    18 Oct 2012 Reply

  • GreaserSteve

    Can some one please take the tag psychobilly off of this group of panty wastes? no offense to any one who listens to or enjoys this, but tagging it as something other than crap to put you to sleep and make you way to gouge our ears till they bleed is in my opinion wrong.

    17 Oct 2012 Reply

  • Parabellum13x

    Lucky Jim is ridiculously underrated too.

    16 Oct 2012 Reply

  • Riff55

    Mother Juno is underrated 'round these parts.

    12 Oct 2012 Reply
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