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  • The Gun Club

    Location: Los Angeles
    Active: 1979-1996

    Fusing elements of punk, blues, voodoo, horror comics and a western atmosphere, Jeffrey Lee Pierce and Kid Congo Powers co-founded The Gun Club in Los Angeles in 1979 as Creeping Ritual until adopting the new name by early 1980. Their membership fluctuated on a regular basis around Pierce’s wild behavior, with Kid Congo joining The Cramps later that year. Their early lineups saw Terry Graham, Rob Ritter (45 Grave), both formerly of The Bags and Ward Dotson (Der Stab). Patricia Morrison, also a former Bag, would join in 1982.   

    After touring as support with Siouxsie and the Banshees and another headline tour with support band Sisters of Mercy, The Gun Club split up in 1985, leading Morrisson and Desi Desperate to form the band Fur Bible, while Pierce went on a solo career. They would reform in 1986 with Kid Congo Powers (then with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds) back on guitar. Lineup changes continued to occur during their next few albums. Jeffrey Lee Pierce died March 31, 1996 of a brain hemorrhage, leaving behind a legacy that his peers and new generations of musicians continue to revere.

    Related: 45 Grave, The Cramps, Tex & The Horseheads, The Bags, Patricia Morrison

    Links:

    Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gun_Club
    Discogs.com: https://www.discogs.com/artist/270779-The-Gun-Club

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  • Annie Anxiety

    ‘Annie and the Asexuals’, formed in New York, 1977 then Little Annie moved to the UK in 1981 to work with Crass’ Steve Ignorant and Penny Rimbaud as Annie Anxiety. She was also involved with Rubella Ballet, collaborated with The Wolfgang Press, Current 93, Coil, Nurse With Wound, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Bim Sherman, Swans, Kid Congo Powers, Fini Tribe and as singer for Adrian Sherwood’s label

    Related: New York, 1977, Crass, Steve Ignorant, Rubella Ballet, Wolfgang Press, Coil, Current 93, Kid Congo Powers

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  • The Cramps

    Formed in Akron Ohio in the middle 1970s, Lux Interior and Poison Ivy bonded over their mutual love of music and movie culture. They would relocate to New York City in the early days of the punk movement alongside fellow Ohioans The Dead Boys. Other members would include drummers Bryan Gregory (Beast) during their New York era, followed by Kid Congo Powers (The Gun Club, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Divine Horsemen, Angels of Light, Die Haut) who would join them when they settled in Los Angeles. Nick Knox served on the drums after Congo’s departure.

    Lux Interior passed away February 4, 2009.

    Links:

    Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cramps
    Discogs.com: https://www.discogs.com/artist/39779-The-Cramps

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