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JEFFREY LEE PIERCE

Jeffrey Lee Pierce is best remembered as the hard-living guitarist/singer who fronted the Gun Club, a band that fused the fury of punk with the melodic structures and lyrical obsessions of the blues. Born on June 27, 1958, and raised in El Monte, California, Pierce discovered punk rock during his teenage years while working at Bomp Records, writing for such L.A.-based punk magazines as Slash, and serving as the head of Blondie's fan club. By 1979, he was ready to front his own band. First called Creeping Ritual, the group soon changed its name to the Gun Club (supposedly at the request of Circle Jerks' frontman Keith Morris).  Pierce also managed to issue a pair of solo releases in addition to his Gun Club duties, 1985's Wildweed and 1992's Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee (the latter also credited to Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee), but the singer/guitarist would ultimately return to his full-time gig...

"WILDWEED"

1985      LP     MEGADISC / STATIK RECORDS     MD 7991

MADE IN THE NETHERLANDS   ORIGINAL PRESSING

SINGLE SLEEVE     

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LABEL: MEGADISC + STATIK - YELLOW LABEL w/STATIK LOGO - BLACK TEXT

Label Code: none

Catalog on cover: MD 7991

Catalog on labels: MD 7991

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched):MD 7991-A

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): MD 7991-B//57044-1

On labels: rim text reads "All Rights.......prohibited"

STEMRA

All songs written by Jeffrey Lee pierce..............Licensed from Statik Records

On Back Cover: Produced by: Craig Leon

Recorded at Brittania Row Studios and Jam studios, London

Mixed at Air Studios, London February/March 1985Marketed by Megadisc Records and Tapes......

Distributed in the Benelux by CBS Records.

Manufactured in the Netherlands.

tracklisting

Side A: LOVE & DESPERATION - SEX KILLER - CLEOPATRA DREAMS ON

FROM TEMPTATION TO YOU - SENSITIVITY

Side B: HEY JUANA - LOVE CIRCUS - WILDWEED - THE MIDNIGHT PROMISE

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 Wildweed was the first of two solo albums Pierce made in between his Gun Club albums. Following in the footsteps of remarkable statements like Miami and The Las Vegas Story, the material presented here isn't all that different. The violence theme practically drips from the album cover, depicting Pierce with a dreamy look and a shotgun slung over his shoulder. Standing amidst what could be the last true vestige of an unspoiled, rural America, it's a fair bet that he's ready to shoot anything even slightly disturbing -- upon which he probably will utter one final howl before putting himself "to rest" as well. Plenty of those howls are scattered through Wildweed, which opens with a strong threesome of "Love and Desperation," "Sex Killer," and "Cleopatra Dreams On." In more than one way, "Love and Desperation" is the twin to The Fire of Love's "Sex Beat." Apart from the infectious driving beat, one only has to compare the lyrics of the latter ("I, I know your reasons/And I, I know your goals/We can f*ck forever/But you will never get my soul") to the former ("Somebody hurts you, so you hurt me/So I hurt somebody else, who I have never seen/Who hurts somebody else, why on down the road/Who hurts somebody else who goes on home/With you") to conclude that Pierce's world is one in which love takes a wrong turn most of the time. Halfway through the album things get a little awkward when, during the nursery rhyme of "Hey Juana," Pierce starts name-checking a colleague ("Now Nick the Cave/He spent all his pay/On a bottle of gin/And a shark without a fin"). Luckily, "The Midnight Promise" makes a beautiful closing piece...(AllMusic)