Jeffrey Lee Pierce

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Jeffrey Lee Pierce (born June 27, 1958 in Montebello (California) , Los Angeles County , † March 31, 1996 ) was an American singer , songwriter and guitarist . He was a founding member of The Gun Club . In addition, he released several solo albums.

Jeffrey Lee Pierce

Life

As a teenager he devoted himself to music, attended many concerts and wrote articles for fan magazines. For the Slash magazine he took over responsibility for the world music section. He later became chairman of the Blondie Fan Club. In 1980 he met Kid Congo Powers, with whom he founded the band Creeping Ritual a short time later. In their music they combined delta blues , country and punk . At the suggestion of his roommate Keith Morris in Los Angeles , the band was renamed The Gun Club.

In 1981 the debut album Fire of Love was released , but without the participation of Powers, who had already left the band before. It was a success, although some critics classified the band's lyrics as sexist and racist. The album Miami , released a year later , with Debbie Harry as producer, was also well received in the music press. However, high alcohol and drug consumption led to many member changes in the band and after the album The Las Vegas Story (1984) it paused for the first time.

After moving to London , Pierce released his first solo album Wildweed in 1985 , which is considered commercially oriented. He then brought Powers back and started over with The Gun Club. This was followed in 1986 by the album Mother Juno , which is considered one of the best albums by the band.

In 1992, Pierce released an album with classic blues songs and their own compositions based on them under the name Ramblin 'Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove With Willie Love . A year later, The Gun Club's last record, Lucky Jim, was released . When his girlfriend Romi Mori, who had played bass in the band, left Pierce, he fell back into drug and alcohol consumption.

Pierce wrote his autobiography Go tell the Mountain in the following years , which was published posthumously in 1998, since he had already died on March 31, 1996 of a brain hemorrhage.

Discography

Albums (Solo)

  • 1985: Wildweed (Statik Records)
  • 1985: Flamingo (Statik Records)
  • 1992: Ramblin 'Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove With Willie Love (Solid)
  • 2009: Six String Sermon (released by Bang! Records)

Singles (Solo)

  • 1985: Love & Desperation (Statik Records)
  • 1985: Asesino Sexual 7 " (Victoria)

With The Gun Club

In addition, the albums We Are Only Riders (2010), The Journey Is Long (2012) and Axels & Sockets (2014) were released under the name The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project , with musicians such as Nick Cave , Debbie Harry , Iggy Pop , Mark Lanegan , Thurston Moore and Steve Wynn re-recorded old demo recordings of Pierce.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Robert Mießner: Jeffrey Lee Pierce . Website satt.org. Retrieved September 22, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c biography at laut.de. Retrieved on September 22, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Pierce, Jeffrey Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer, songwriter and guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Montebello (California) , Los Angeles County
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1996