Gene temesy gun club biography books

  • Novelist Marc Sastre tells the story of the Jeffrey Lee Pierce and his band The Gun Club.
  • In March 2012, Nick Cave gave an interview to Gun Club biographer Gene Temesy, researching for a book on the history of the Gun Club, which was published on.
  • This article couldn't have started without him, compiling Jeffrey's attempted autobiography Go Tell The Mountain.

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    The Gun Club/Jeffrey Lee Pierce

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    GO TELL THE MOUNTAIN - by Jeffrey Lee Pierce (Aug-98)
    GO TELL THE MOUNTAIN
    The Stories And Lyrics Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce (Book)

    Content: Jeff did not manage to finish the book before he died in 1996. Gene Temesy did his most to bring order to what was available. The second half of the book has all Jeff's lyrics. Also contains 8 pages of B/W photos (22) and reproductions of concert ads (3). Forewords by Kid Congo, Keith Morris and Gene Temesy.

    Format: Softback. Matte cover. 300 pages.

    • 2.13.61 -ISBN 1-880985-60-8 (US, Aug-98)

    GO TELL THE MOUNTAIN
    The Stories And Lyrics Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce (Book)

    Content: Jeff did not manage to finish the book before he died in 1996. Gene Temesy did his most to bring order to what was available. The second half of the book has all Jeff's lyrics. Also contains 8 pages of B/W photos (34) and reproductions of concert ads (8). Forewords by Kid Con

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    Go Tell the Mountain: The Stories and Lyrics of Jeffrey Lee Pierce.

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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 t

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