Dave Gahan, Nick Cave, Lydia Lunch, Jim Jarmusch and more discuss the late Gun Club frontman’s legacy with the release of the new tribute comp, ‘The Task Has Overwhelmed Us’
Social Distortion’s Mike Ness Gives Hopeful Cancer Update: ‘I’m Ready for the Fight’years between the 1981 release of the Gun Club’s first album and their frontman’s death in 1996, the bleached-blond rock & roll typhoon known as Jeffrey Lee Pierce touched the lives of, Lydia Lunch, and countless others. His music could be invigorating and/or mysterious, sometimes at the same time.
“When the Gun Club emerged, it was like the music was veering away from the formulas of punk rock and so-called post-punk and incorporating American blues, and his own kind of messy interpretation was really moving to me,” Jarmusch says on a phone call. “And I love [Gun Club guitarist] Kid Congo Powers as well. I thought it was an inspiring musical entity.
The project originated when guitarist Tony Chmelik, who’s better known as Cypress Grove, discovered an intriguing cassette labeled “JLP Songs” while cleaning out his attic in 2006. The British guitarist had first met Pierce in the mid-Eighties, when Pierce moved to England. “We frequented the same public house most evenings,” he says.
The guitarist next got in touch with Gene Temesy, who used to run the Gun Club fan club and worked on Pierce’s 1998 memoir,. Temesy, along with writer/DJ/musician Phast Phreddie Patterson and Pierce’s sister, Jacqui, who runs Pierce’s estate with their mother, provided him with more unpublished source material. Temesy also linked Cypress Grove up with Cave. “After that, it was kind of easy,” Cypress Grove says. “People were kind of queuing up around the block to get involved.”, came out in 2014.
Lunch, who has been involved with the Project since the first volume, didn’t know Pierce well; she’d gigged with the Gun Club once and knew the group’s guitarist, Kid Congo Powers, better than Pierce. She got involved with the Project when Jim Sclavunos, who played drums with her in the no-wave groups Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and 8 Eyed Spy and now plays with Cave as a member of the Bad Seeds, asked if she’d like to participate.
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