Gun Club FIRE OF LOVE

Gun Club: Jeffrey Lee Pierce (vocals, slide guitar); Ward Dotson (electric & slide guitars, background vocals); Rob Ritter (bass); Terry Graham (drums).Additional personnel: Tito Larriva (violin); Chris D., Lois Graham (background vocals).Producers: Chris D., Tito Larriva.Engineers: Pat Burnette, Noah Shark.One of the truly original releases in the punk rock canon, the Gun Club's FIRE OF LOVE birthed cow punk in one furious blast. Combining the rave-up tempos and brevity of the Ramones with twisted rootsy affectations, FIRE OF LOVE still sounds remarkably fierce. The album introduced the world to the colossally talented Jeffrey Lee Pierce, a singer who spiked devil-haunted country blues with the sneering posturing of Richard Hell. Possessing a better vocal range than the average punk rocker, Pierce hitched a feral soul to uncompromising lyrical poetics in songs such as "Sex Beat" and "She's Like Heroin To Me"--the latter extolling a lover with the claim "she cannot miss a vein."