The Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story (LP, vinyl rip).1984.

   Tribal psychobilly blues is the best way to describe the Gun Club's energetic death rock, but the band's career seemed doomed from the get-go due to leader Jeffrey Lee Pierce's reputation as an unreliable wildman, and well-publicized bouts of drunkenness dogged him throughout his career. 

   They formed in Los Angeles in the early '80s, but later picked up and relocated to the Lower East Side, resting more comfortably around the New York downtown set and Pierce's mentors, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein.

   The line up of this third album features guitarist Kid Congo Powers (from The Cramps) and  bassist Patricia Morrison.    The screaming rawness at the heart of the band's debut, "Fire of Love" , had been replaced by a dry, moaning lonesome, percussion heavy desert sound, space and echo float through the mix like a ghost through Pierce's slide guitar playing. Bass drum and tom-toms fuel the attack with a basic, primitive nocturnal energy (from Allmusic). 

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