The Gun Club
Led by eccentric frontman Jeffrey Lee Pierce, The Gun Club created a gothic punk
take on rockabilly and blues that made them one of the great underground bands
of the 1980s and inspired the likes of Nick Cave, Kurt Cobain, the White Stripes
and The Horrors. Pierce was head of the Los Angeles branch of the Blondie fan
club, before forming the band in 1979 with lead guitarist Brian Tristan (later
renamed as Kid Congo Powers) and started out gigging around Los Angeles,
initially under the name The Cyclones. Raw, dangerous, sexy and primitive, their
ragged mix of twanging country rif...
