THE GUN CLUB Fire Of Love LP RUBY 1981 US orig JRR102 CHRIS D-JEFFREY LEE PIERCE

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WARD DOTSON, JEFFREY LEE PIERCE, ROB RITTER, TERRY GRAHAM

plus TITO LARRIVA, CHRIS D., LOIS GRAHAM

Los Angeles alternative rockers whose uncompromising style drew from Delta blues, Southern gothic, and psychobilly. Tribal psychobilly blues is the best way to describe the Gun Club's energetic death rock, but the band's career seemed doomed from the get-go due to leader Jeffrey Lee Pierce's reputation as an unreliable wildman, and well-publicized bouts of drunkenness dogged him throughout his career. Formed in Los Angeles in the early '80s, the band was vaguely aligned with similarly roots-inspired groups like X and the Blasters, but later picked up and relocated to the Lower East Side, resting more comfortably around the New York downtown set and Pierce's mentors, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein. Their 1981 debut, Fire of Love, was a punk-blues hybrid -- intense energy fueled Pierce's exorcism-in-progress delivery and the band's (Ward Dotson, guitar; Rob Ritter, bass; and Terry Graham, drums) frenetic style......

"FIRE OF LOVE"

1981     LP     RUBY RECORDS     JRR 102  

PRINTED IN U.S.A.    ORIGINAL  FIRST PRESSING

[First pressing in pasteboard-style sleeve (brown cardboard-colored inside)]

THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE) BROWN INSIDE     SINGLE SLEEVE

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL: RUBY  - GOLD LABEL - RED TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) JRR 102 

Catalog on labels: JRR 102 (Side One / Side Two)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): JRR-102-A P.B. L-6516

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): JRR-102-B P.B. L-6516?X 

On labels: ? 1981 Ruby Records

(on Side A): All songs by J.L.Pierce except "For the Love of Ivy" by J.L.Pierce/Kid Congo Powers

 © 1981 Creeping Ritual Music BMI, "Preaching the Blues" by R. Johnson

© Horoscope Music BMI, arranged by  J.L.Pierce

(on Side B only): All songs by J.L.Pierce except "Cool Drink of Water" by T. Johnson,

traditional, arranged by J.L.Pierce

© 1981 Creeping Ritual Music BMI

On Back Cover: Produced by Chris D........or by Tito Larriva

Engineered by Pat Burnette at Quad Teck......or by Noah Shark at Studio America

Cover design: Chris D.

Bottle label drawings: Judith Bell

© Ruby Records 1981........a division of Slash Records/J. Ruby Prods., Inc.

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side A: SEX BEAT - PREACHING THE BLUES - PROMISE ME

SHE'S LIKE HEROIN TO ME - FOR THE LOVE OF IVY - FIRE SPIRIT

Side B: GHOST ON THE HIGHWAY - JACK ON FIRE - BLACK TRAIN

COOL DRINK OF WATER - GOODBYE JOHNNY

grading

RECORD NEAR MINT but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE NEAR MINT but (please, see pictures and read above description)

The Gun Club's debut is the watermark for all post-punk roots music. This features the late Jeffrey Lee Pierce's swamped-out brand of roiling rock, swaggerific hell-bound blues, and gothic country. With Pierce's wailing high lonesome slide guitar twinned with Ward Dotson's spine-shaking riffs and the solid yet off-the-rails rhythm section of bassist Rob Ritter and drummer Terry Graham, the Gun Club burst out of L.A. in the early '80s with a bone to pick and a mountain to move -- and they accomplished both on their debut album. With awesome, stripped to the frame production by the Flesh Eaters' Chris D., Fire of Love blew away all expectations -- and with good reason. Nobody has heard music like this before or since. Pierce's songs were rooted in his land of Texas. On "Sex Beat," a razor-sharp country one-two shuffle becomes a howling wind as Pierce's wasted, half-sung half-howled vocals relate a tale of voodoo, sex, dope, and death. The song choogles like a freight train coming undone in a twister. Here Black Flag, the Sex Pistols, Son House, and the coughing, hacking rambling ghost of Hank Williams all converge in a reckless mass of seething energy and nearly evil intent....

....Fire of Love may be just what the doctor ordered, but to cure or kill is anybody's guess...(AllMusic)