Gene temesy gun club biography sample

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PREACHIN' THE BLUES

The Gun Club Story, Part 3 (of 3)
by Stevo Olende

Over the next two years, Pierce went solo, recording the LP Wildweed with a band including ex Cure & Spear Of Destiny members. This record still stands up and on last checking was still available from Triple X records. This LP is the first one to feature Jeffrey Lee playing nearly all the guitar. He made claims around the time of the records release that he'd had to teach (or rather show) all his musicians every note they played. Researching this article leaves that looking seriously spurious.

The record shows the influence of Bob Dylan and Lou Reed (Pierce had been listening heavily to a pre-release tape of VU). Pierce says that he wanted to make the LP sound as 'city' as he possibly could. The record cover tells a different story- Pierce is standing with a shotgun over his shoulder in what appears to be a desert. To quote a Swedish interview from the time with Pierce, 'the picture is definitely not taken in a desert, quite the opposite. It's taken in England, on the south coast, next to The English Channel. But my idea was actually that it should look like Texas. Or Kansas. We just couldn't afford to go there only to take a photograph...'

Wildweed has a companion mini LP called Flamingoes

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I first heard from Cypress Grove, real name Tony Chmelik, back in January of 2010. I’d reviewed the first CD/volume of his Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project, a thrillingly thoughtful meditation on unreleased work by the late Gun Club singer (of whom Jack White once said, “why are [his] songs not taught in schools”) the month before in fairly hyperbolic terms, and Tony wanted to say thanks. So he tracked me down and sent me an email commending me “for so comprehensively getting the project.” (I realise, of course, how unlikely this sounds: artist seeks out reviewer to thank them for their writing. Absurd notion, until one factors in Tony’s uniquely generous sense of creative community without which, incidentally, the JLP Sessions would never have got off the ground. But I’m getting ahead of myself.)

What I’d “got” was Tony and his co-curator Gene Temesy’s vision of how the traditions of the tribute record and the restored “lost” song might themselves be reworked into something authentic and respectful, rather than mawkish and exploitative. The JLP Sessions came about because Tony found a tape containing “pencil sketches” of songs he’d worked on with Jeffrey towar