The Gun Club were a rock band from Los Angeles in the 1980s
led by the flamboyant singer, ex-rock critic Jeffrey Lee
Pierce . They were one of the first bands to blend punk
with blues, country, and other American roots musics.
Initially called Creeping Ritual, they went through several
lineup changes before settling on "The Gun Club," a name
suggested by Black Flag singer Keith Morris.
Their first album, 1981's Fire of Love, is sometimes
regarded as a classic. One critic has written that the
"album's lyrical imagery is plundered from voodoo, '50's EC
comics and the blues." (1)
Along with X and other bands, they set much of the tone for
the Hollywood rock scene in the 1980s. (Vince Neil of
Mötley Crüe is rumored to have borrowed some of Pierce's
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