Gun Club - Go Tell The Mountain

[ronaldvanderkleij]

No single day is gone before I play a gunnie song. Jeffrey RIP and God listen everyday.

[312chicagoadam]

Magic!

[felicer]

saw him play this live at Wetlands in NYC. It was brilliant.  Thanks for posting.

[RolandWieffering1]

I agree, I agree, JLP is one of the forgotten Black Jewels of the R&R scene.

R.I.P. Dear Jeffrey

Though your not the light of the world shine your light on me.

Roland

Netherlands

[EarlyLAPunk]

Also is is cool that on their last record JLP did a straight ahead blues song. It's like he came full circle or ultimately to the roots before he left us;

[EarlyLAPunk]

Near the end of his life the bass player, his girlfriend, hooked up with the drummer and Jeffery was alone in Japan, had his guitar stolen, and hit on the head. This from a fanzine for the gun club i used to get. The blues indeed!

[nilanx]

R.I.P. the poet laureate of white trash Amerika

[DAREALAndyRampage]

..Is this from: POCK-PALAST (Sp?)??

[Lrpesme48]

Sometimes I think that the only reason I bother drawing air is so I can listen to music like this.

[MikeIXWilliams]

What year is this?

[suzannelaubenthal]

Genius!

[EazyTim]

this piece is a true classic... on which album is it?

im trying to collect every studio- and livealbum from the club... couldnt get my hands on "Miami" and "Deathparty" here in germany so far... all the good music stores are dying out im my hometown... whats left are big stores that seem to have every electronic device ever made in stock, but no good music... it takes days to order it and i want to throw a bomb in there!!!.... peace(goddamnit!)

[Eroscosmos]

@EazyTim

This is from Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove with Willie Love

[EazyTim]

@Eroscosmos thanks a lot

[Eroscosmos]

@EazyTim no worries. . . its a great song!!!! and great artist!!!

[Lrpesme48]

@EazyTim I couldn't even get the LYRICS to death party in america, so don't feel bad.

[jasmoran66]

JLP, Hendrix, and Rory Gallagher. In whatever order.

[patjedub]

tell him jack;s on fire

[eddym78]

JLP is always there, somewhere around...

[11spike7]

Most people aren't aware he could play like this.

[lindaz12]

The godlike genius of Jeffrey Lee Pierce

[maulwurfje]

hoed af niks meer niks minder

[espritgender]

We love you JLP

[Efrenkal]

Fantastic!

I never had seen JLP playing the guitar like this.

Thnaks.

[TCBandage]

You were it JLP-

this is as good as it gets...

beautiful.

[480crman]

So great!!! IDIOT WALTZ from the LP lucky jim in 1994. JLP a great blue's man.

[480crman]

JLP a great blue's man. oh!!!!!!! idiot waltz from the LP lucky jim. So great!!!!!

[hairydysentery]

Awesome guitar work.

I just learned about Jeffrey recently through mark lanegan and did not know this is where they went. I like it it's cool and bluesy, damn.

but I must say I do know of musicians of this caliber still with us and to name them might be kinda tacky.

[ellaswoon]

It's so perfect you can'tn beleive it's live... who can play this way today, I wonder

[stefanochs]

Super JLP!

I first saw him in 1982 and then year after year again. He became the white Jimi Hendrix on guitar. A music-genius! What a loss!

[vergarihno]

I've only got there first album, Fire Of Love, on which album did they start changing momentum from there punk blues ways to this more mellow more electric blues approach?

[HendrixString]

actually, only on their last album "Lucky Jim"

[Gammarklar]

all their albums are completely different. even the 2nd album Miami i think had a totally different approach and energy then Fire of Love. Mother Juno is the first one that has that big rock 80s reverby kinda sound but parts of it still retain that punk energy (thunderhead is great). i would say starting in the 90s did they really get into the more melancholic, more guitar oriented blues.

[exeuroweenie]

I remember seeing them open for Siouxsie And The Banshees.I think it was Perkins Palace in CA.Almost a decade later I remember then at the 9:30 club in Washington D.C. Their style changed a lot,they mellowed and became so much more intricate and subtle.Regardless of whatever era it was,Jeffrey Lee Pierce and co's work could really wallop you over the head.She's Like Heroin To Me as well as Lucky Jim makes you wanna crawl out of your skin,as well as remind you why mammals have ears.

[ivebeenthere1]

I have the album & I had never seen this video till now....one of my all time favorite tracks by the late great Jeff....thank you so much

great video...Jeff cooks!!!

[ravb2101]

simplemente exelente

[JaEuerMeister]

Wow, this was definitely an eye opener. I always liked the Gun Club, but I didn't know he could handle a Strat like that. Man, he looks like a godamned college rocker on this track - so healthy. Too bad he had to go. He'd have his own Signature Fender by now... for what it's worth. What he'd be doing now.

[fafsa89]

What year was this? I'm guessing it's around 1991 or '92?

[amiriaf]

This totally blew my mind!! He held really pulled it together - what an inspiration - who knew his talent was this huge?!!

[crypttonite]

not only his voice,which is always perfect.

His guitar playing,and he took lessons ,all of the lead stuff he did here ,it's all familiar passages,but from his finger tips the blaze,seriously forget the legends of rock

JLP is the greatest,Frankie Fix and Johnny too.

[tasj0001]

@crypttonite

Always perfect?

Were you around in the early 80s?

He only came close to perfect when he was off the smack.

However this particular take is particularly hot.

[crypttonite]

@tasj0001 Jeffrey Lee is perfection in music, in rocknroll, this doesn't mean I like every song he wrote,

such a weak comment about smack, lots of people function on all kinds of chemicals, when did heroin start to get in his way? was he a teatotaler when gun club recorded fire of love, or miami?

next time I see kid I'll ask him. I doubt it, no one ever wrote words like those-doesn't matter he wrote those words, he sung the way he sung, untouchable, BITCH, fuck bob dylan, fuck eric clapton.

[tasj0001]

@crypttonite Nothing personal, Crypto. Jeffrey was a tragic guy because he got off the smack and had every thing going for him when died suddenly.

And yes he was using at the time when Fire of Love and Miami were recorded. Kid probably was too. Ask him.

[nephling]

Thank you for posting this. I really miss Jeffrey Lee. He used to come over and after he left half my blues albums would be missing. I have dreams about him often even after all this time. with love, neph

[JWGalusha]

Wow! That's incredible. You are lucky. I had some albums lying around for years, but then, I rediscovered him and feel the great loss...

Thanks for sharing that story.

[eddym78]

Jeffrey is incredible. And he's still there.

[WyattNight]

Wow. I never knew he could play guitar like that.

[crypttonite]

all us JLP fans should write his mother and Ward,the acoustic release on Sympathy,I have this wishful feeling that some tracks didn't get put out.Fair Warning? was great b/c you got to hear Rob's bass.I love how I haven't heard everything,and I've heard a lot-but I'm glad there's always more.

[JTerrible63]

YOU ARE RIGHT: LET'S UNITE! PRESSURE THE ESTATE TO START RELEASING THIS MATERIAL BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT WILL ROT, especially the films and video: this is the sickening result with much of Jimi Hendrix's stuff: it just sits, rots and no-one gets to hear it. EVERYONE NEEDS TO GROW UP.

WE fans never tire of Gun Club and its time the stupidity and greed end (though we'd of course PAY for new CDs, so they've even got greed wrong, how typical

Bad America..)

[crypttonite]

Jeffrey was just a natural,I'd love to hear the little wing cover,he always captured the spirit of a song,like Ain't that Peculiar,or Hee Bee Gee Bee's

[11spike7]

Stag...Many thanks for uploading this. I love JLP. I recently got a bootleg of his cover of

Hendrix's "Little Wing". WOW!!!

Jeff could make his Strat sing.

[gkneej]

totally agree on the voice,, so underrated!

[DylanRude]

some good shit right here

[molecularash]

fuck, his voice only got better and better....

[notchobaldius]

Sweet stuff indeed.Enjoyed this alot,great performance.Thanks man for uploading these Gun club clips!