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  • The Gun Club
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  • The Gun Club
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  • 45_Grave
  • Blondie_(band)
  • The_Cramps
  • The_Damned_(band)
  • Cypress_Grove_(musician)
  • Freeheat
  • Nick_Cave_and_the_Bad_Seeds
  • Tex_&_the_Horseheads
subject
  • Musical groups established in 1980
  • I.R.S. Records artists
  • Cowpunk
  • Swamp rock
  • American punk rock groups
  • Beggars Banquet Records artists
  • Musical groups from Los Angeles, California
  • Psychobilly groups
  • Sympathy for the Record Industry artists
  • 1996 disestablishments in California
abstract
  • Rock band from Los Angeles (CA, USA) formed in 1980-1981 by Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Brian Tristan (better known as Kid Congo Powers), Don Snowden and Brad Dunning. The band was initially called The Creeping Ritual.During their debut album %22Fire Of Love%22 in 1981, the band was comprised of Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Rob Ritter, Terry Graham and Ward Dotson. Rob Ritter left the band in 1982 just before their second album, %22Miami%22. Patricia Morrison joined and stayed until 1984. For their next album, %22Las Vegas Story%22 in 1984, the band consisted of Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Patricia Morrison, Kid Congo Powers and Terry Graham. After some successful tours, Jeffrey started to travel around the world and the band came to a halt for a period as he started to work on a solo album. In 1987 The Gun Club staged a comeback with Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Romi Mori, Nick Sanderson and Kid Congo Powers. Several releases followed, and in 1995 a new line-up was formed including Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Wayne Kramer, Mike Martt, Kid Congo Powers and Romi Mori. On the 31st of March 1996 the band sadly came to an end due the death of Jeffrey Lee Pierce.
dbo:abstract
  • The Gun Club was a post-punk/cowpunk band from Los Angeles, California that existed from 1979 to 1996. Led by flamboyant singer and guitarist Jeffrey Lee Pierce, The Gun Club merged the contemporary genre of punk rock with the more traditional genres of rockabilly and country 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 %22tribal psychobilly blues%22 band.
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  • Gun Club
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  • The Gunclub
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  • 1996
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  • 1979
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  • 9525
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  • 270779
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  • The Gun Club
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