The Gun Club
-Chronology (I)-

Los Angeles-San Fernando Valley 1972-1976. Jeff attends Granada Hills High School. At the time he really loves (Peter Gabriel-era) Genesis, Sparks, Roxy Music and David Bowie, until in summer '77 he discovers and becomes obsessed with reggae artist Bob Marley. While at Granada Hills, Jeff has several party bands with Steven Wolfe. Those 'bands' were mostly abortive, messing-around-in-the-living-room things, planning and practicing. Most were prog rock/Beatles like.

1976
US CA,Los Angeles,Steven Wolfe's home

Photo: Courtesy of Steven Wolfe.

Note: The Melted Orange Crayons line up: Bill Heatley (vocals)/ Steven Wolfe (guitar) and Jeff Pierce (drums). MOC never played out and only had four songs. In this photo they're (likely) playing a cover version of "Fever" [Elvis Presley].

14-Feb-77
US CA,Los Angeles,The Wilton Hilton,Valentine's Day party

Photo: Credit Jenny Lens.

Note: The 'Wilton Hilton' is Tomata Du Plenty and Tommy Gear's [The Screamers] house on North Wilton between Hollywood and Franklin. The G.T.O.s, the Girls Together Outrageously, the music group of groupies that Frank Zappa put together, were the tenants before the Screamers occupied the place.

16-Apr-77
US CA,Los Angeles-North Hollywood,Bomp! record store (@ 5230 Laurel Canyon Boulevard)

Photo: Credit Jenny Lens.

Note: Jeffrey Lee Pierce @ the store the day The Damned visited. Jeff then worked at Bomp!

23-Apr-77
US CA,Los Angeles-North Hollywood,Bomp! record store (@ 5230 Laurel Canyon Boulevard)

Photo: Credit Jenny Lens, published in UK Mojo music mag.

Note: (3 members of) The Weirdos, Debbie Harry [Blondie] and Jeffrey Lee Pierce.

23-Nov-77
US CA,Hollywood,The Masque

Photo: Credit Jenny Lens.

Note: Jeffrey Lee Pierce attending a show by The Germs, with Lorna Doom (aka Teresa Ryan) on bass.

Los Angeles early 1978. Jeffrey forms his first band The Red Lights, a power pop group with Anna Statman (later A&R for Slash records, Interscope and Geffen records).

1978
US CA,North Hollywood,studio,demoing 5 songs: "Debbie By The Christmas Tree", "Jungle Book", "Kisses for my President", "Kitty Ina Moonlight" and "Tiger Girl"

"By mid 1978 I'd known Back Door Man's [fanzine] Phast Phreddie [Patterson] for a couple of years, but only now started hanging out with him regularly. He knew this guy named Jeff Pierce, who had had a band called the Redlights, and at some point played me the Redlights' "Jungle Book". I was floored, and said "I gotta meet the guy that wrote this!" I did, and from late '78 through early '80 the three of us were inseparable drinking buddies."

"Jun 28, 1979 [The Last are playing Gazzari's on a Thursday night in front of 60 people]: 2nd set was pretty cool, and encore #1 is now history. We started into "Pushin' Too Hard" [The Seeds], bringing it down as Jeff Pierce hit the stage to go into a long fake James Brown-live-record type intro. Then Phreddie hit the stage & the joint went nuts. Everybody danced, people pogoed & twisted side by side. They did the whole crowd tease thing at the end, Jeff cajoling Phred to come back out, etc ... Lots of girls with stars in their eyes. Bill Gazarri had an orgasm. Randall had an orgasm. Mike & David [my brothers] had to clean up the dressing room. Jeff Pierce wrote me out the lyrics to "Jungle Book". He doesn't want to do it so I said "fuck it, the Last will do it."

Jul 12, 1979: Evidently Vitus [Mataré] was pissed 'cause I'd planned to put "Jungle Book" on the [Last's] 2nd album ["Look Again", as yet unreleased]. He [didn't want] to tell me, so he told [producer/band manager] Randall [Wixen]. Randall then called me & said that if we put it on the album, or I played in Jeff's band, I would probably make an enemy out of every Last member. I was pissed, but reluctantly agreed to cool it, Redlights-wise. Anyway, we proceeded to play "Jungle Book" throughout the fall of 1979, frequently with Jeff himself singing it. It was a hit, and the band finally relented, and we did indeed (obviously) record it for the ["Look Again"] album. Jeff's original is, of course, better." As told by Joe Nolte [The Last].

Much later, "Jungle Book" is recorded by The Amber Lights (Mick Harvey & JP Shilo) and also Tav Falco's Panther Burns for the "Journey Is Long" (Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project) album (2012). The Amber Lights record "Kitty Ina Moonlight" and "Kisses for my President" (with Debbie Harry) and also Andrea Schroeder records "Kisses for my President", all for the "Axels & Sockets" (Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project) album (2014). At the same sessions "Kisses for my President" is recorded by Cypress Grove (vocals/guitar)/ Mick Cozens (guitar)/ Mark Tomeo (pedal steel guitar) and Willie Love (drums,percussion), but this track remains unreleased.

On August 14, 2020 Spacecase Records/In The Red Records jointly released an EP "Red Lights" containing the above 5 demos, supplied by the Pierce estate.

14/15-Jul-78
US CA,Los Angeles-West Hollywood,Whisky a Go Go (@ 8901 Sunset Blvd)
[with X, Marbles, Germs, Middle Class, Consumers]
Lobotomy-zine weekend

Flyer: Photo of flyer, designed by The Germs' drummer, Don Bolles, for their part of this show.

Review: Review of show, taken from Flip Side fanzine #9, Sep-1978.

Photo: Photos credit Larry Hardy [In The Red records]. Photographer Theresa Kereakes also took pictures of this show, but they were destroyed during the development process.

Note: Two day benefit for the Lobotomy zine. On the 14th, The Red Lights play their first live show, adding Vitus Mataré [The Last]. Jack Reynolds [The Last] passed away in his sleep on December 1,2009.

"Lobotomy: The Brainless Magazine", was founded in Hollywood during the spring 1978 by Pleasant Gehman. Collaborators: Brad Dunning [Creeping Ritual/Gun Club], Brian Tristan (aka Kid Congo Powers), photographer Theresa Kereakes etc.

xx-xxx-78
US CA,Los Angeles-Culver City,Culver Arena bar

Note: The Red Lights' second live show. Pleasant Gehman [Lobotomy zine] was there.

09-Aug-78
US CA,Los Angeles-San Fernando Valley,Rock Corporation (@ 14310 Oxnard Street, Van Nuys)
[with Blow Up, The Weasels]

Review: Review of show, taken from Flip Side fanzine #9, Sep-1978.

28-Sep-78
US CA,Los Angeles-San Fernando Valley,Rock Corporation (@ 14310 Oxnard Street, Van Nuys)
[with The Bags and The Flesheaters]

Ad: Scan of advert from Slash magazine Vol 2 #1, September 1978.

1978
US CA,Los Angeles,Granada Hills,High School

Photo: Courtesy of Steven Wolfe.

Note: Photo taken after a performance of some play. After he graduated, Jeff came to see his friend Steven Wolfe (left) and their high school drama teacher James Rawley (mid). Jeff is seen wearing his (24-7) favorite coat for many years.

late 1978/mid 1979
US NY,New York City-Greenwich Village,Thompson Street 211 - Apt 2C

Photo: Google Street View 2011.

Note: Jeffrey stays with his high school friend Steven Tash for about 5-6 months, checking out the CBGB scene and Blondie concerts. Steven gets Jeff a writing gig @ "Record Review" magazine, for which Jeff reviews records by the Alex Harvey Band, Blondie, The Stooges and writes articles about Punk rock and monster movies, etc..

New Jersey, Hoboken 1979. Jeffrey joins Glenn Morrow's band The Individuals (with Richard Barrone, Rob Norris and Peter Holsapple). They rehearse a lot @ the newly opened (in August, 1978) Maxwell's club.

By June 1979, Jeff returns to Los Angeles and starts writing for Slash magazine, something he will be doing until July 1980.

1979
US CA,San Fernando Valley,Reseda, practicing @ Jeffrey Lee Pierce mother's home on Hatton Street.
They cover songs like "Treat Her Right" [Roy Head], "Ooby Dooby" [Roy Orbison] and Summertime [Gershwin/Billy Stewart].

Note:"The germ for the band began in my living room when I was living on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood in 1979. Jeffrey Lee Pierce would come over quite a bit and we would drink beer and play old 78 RPM jump blues records by Wynonie Harris and Amos Milburn which we found in the thrift stores of South Central Los Angeles. Jeffrey thought it would be a good idea to start an R&B combo to perform jump blues, since no one else was. He had just broken up his band, The Red Lights, and was restless. We got a couple of our drinking buddies together and went to Jeffrey's mother's house in the San Fernando Valley. There, his sister Jacqui had a boyfriend who kept a set of drums in the garage. The bass player was our friend from Cleveland, Rodney Burns. The guitarist was Joe Nolte of the Last. Jeffrey played the drums. We learned Roy Head's "Treat Her Right" and played it for our friend Pleasant Gehman over the phone. That was as far as that version of the band got." Phast Phreddie 2019.

Excerpt from an article ("Phast Phreddie finds his calling") by Bill Bentley from LA Weekly 27-Feb-81.

12-Jul-79
US CA,Los Angeles-North Hollywood, Mars rehearsal studios (@ 665 North Berendo Street): the band are trying to record a single with own songs: "Faster Than You", "What A Friend I Have In Whiskey" and "When I Get My Cadillac". All three jointly written by Patterson and Pierce.

Note 1: "Then we decided to see how serious we could get. Jeffrey and I wrote three songs together: two rockers, "Faster Than You" and "What A Friend I Have In Whiskey." and a sort of junked-out ballad called "When I Get My Cadillac." Jeffrey moved to guitar, we enlisted our friend Don Snowden, a music writer for the L.A. Times, to play bass, and we went through several drummers—including Brendan Mullen, who used to book the punk club the Masque: Robert Newman, who was in the original Motels: KK Barrett, who was in the Screamers: and Robert Bryan, who lived in my building and was in the Silencers. Of all of them, Robert Bryan rehearsed with us the most, but he was never a permanent member.

Though very raw, "What a Friend I Have in Whiskey" is an early attempt at a jump blues sound for the modern world. This is the fourth take of the song. The vocal is way low because the studio's P.A. system was not great. Also, you can hear the space we saved for the saxophone player we were hoping to get. Anyway, the great thing about this is Jeffrey's guitar playing; it is downright wild--the saving grace of the recording. If it weren't for him, the band wouldn't have existed." Phast Phreddie 2019.

Note 2: The single never materialised then, but "What A Friend I Have In Whiskey" was released on a 7" single by Spacecase Records in 2019. Their third song, "When I Get My Cadillac" is later covered by Lydia Lunch/ Kid Congo Powers and Cypress Grove for "We Are Only Riders" - The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project (2009) and again by Cypress Grove for "Axels & Sockets" - The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project (2014).

1979
US CA,Los Angeles-East Hollywood,rehearsal space: doing covers of "In The Midnight Hour" [Wilson Pickett], "The End" [The Doors] and "Sloppy Drunk" [Jimmy Rogers], etc.. Also doing one of Jeff's songs "St. Mark's Place".

Note: "Midnight Hour" released on Phast Phreddie and Thee Precisions "Limbo" 2CD (Manifesto 2020). "St. Mark's Place" was later covered by Lydia Lunch and Cypress Grove for the "We Are Only Riders" album (The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project, 2009) and their joint "Fistful Of Desert Blues" ablum (2014).

1979
US CA,Los Angeles

Photo: From Fred -Phast Phreddie- Patterson's archives.
(l-r) Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Don Waller [founder of Back Door Man fanzine, together with Phast Phreddie], unknown, Muddy Waters and Phast Phreddie.

20-Sep-80
US CA,Hollywood,Club 88 (@ 11784 W Pico Blvd)
[support for The Blasters, with James Harmon Band]

Poster: Reproduction, taken from booklet with Phast Phreddie and Thee Precisions "Limbo" 2CD (Manifesto 2020).

Note: First official gig. By then Jeffrey Lee Pierce had long left Thee Precisions and Gun Club were well on their way. "Jeffrey left the band before we played our first show. He was always going to leave--he just wanted to give me a little push. Jeffrey [then] started The Creeping Ritual." Phast Phreddie 2019.

Thee Precisions went through several line-up changes before playing their last show on 26-Dec-85 @ the Club Lingerie.

02/04-Aug-79
US CA,Hollywood,Whisky a Go Go
(Pere Ubu show)

Ad: Scan of ad from Los Angeles Times 29-Jul-79.

Note: Jeffrey and Brian Tristan [later a.k.a. Kid Congo Powers] meet standing in line to get into a Pere Ubu show. "One balmy evening at the beginning of August 1979, I was standing in line outside the Whisky a Go Go to get into a Pere Ubu show. [...] I spotted somebody moving toward me out of the corner of my eye. I looked up slowly, not really wanting to engage with anyone at all, and saw this truly eccentric-looking individual standing directly in front of me.[...] He wore an oversized Debbie Harry badge on a white vinyl trench coat belted tight at the waist. He had ribbons and bows tied into his hair, and black-and-white saddle oxfords on his feet. [...] “Hi, I’m Jeff,” he said.[...] I’d seen him before, browsing through the racks of reggae imports at Bomp!, the record store gig I’d landed [...] Apropos of nothing and entirely out of the blue, he said, “You should be in a band with me.” [...] We went into the club. Pere Ubu blew our minds to smithereens. My brain was whirling with all the possibilities open to me, having taken the decision to form a band with my new friend. [...] the way it had been proposed, so matter-of-factly, and Jeffrey’s confidence in me, even though we were total strangers, made it seem entirely possible." from "Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir", book by Kid Congo Powers (2022).

Jeffrey Lee Pierce together with Johnny Nation [from The Bags, later in Lydia Lunch's 13.13] , Jon Oliphant (who owned an upright bass) and Brad Dunning form the rockabilly band The Cyclones. They rehearse a few times at Jeffrey's mom's house in Pacoima and perform live only once. Pleasant Gehman joins Jeff in writing songs for the band.

18-Sep-79
US CA,Hollywood,Gazzarri's (@ 9039 Sunset Blvd)
[with The Last, The Urinals and The Go-Go's]
A Rock 'n Roll Dance Party

Setlist: (a.o.) Walking After Midnight [Block/Hecht-Patsy Cline]/ Fever [John Davenport-Elvis Presley]/ Money Honey [The Drifters]/ .. and more

Flyer 1: Scan of flyer, designed by Pleasant Gehman, courtesy of Pleasant, from her private collection.

Flyer 2: Scan of flyer, designed by Pleasant Gehman, courtesy of Brad Dunning, from his private collection.

Poster: Scan of poster taken from "Punk: An Aesthetic", a book edited by Johan Kugelberg and Jon Savage. Another scan of the same poster. Another photo.

Ad: Scan of advert from LA Weekly 14-Sep-79.

Note: For this show, Jeffrey made Pleasant Gehman [Screamin' Sirens] the singer and Brian Tristan acts as 'manager'. This gig was to be The Cyclones first and only show. The concert ends with Jeffrey and Johnny having a fist-fight on stage, with Brad joining in. Then Jeff kicked over the drums, threw the mike stand and walked off. All were really drunk. Black Flag was there and they asked The Cyclones to open for them... but they never played again!

The Cyclones are renamed Creeping Ritual, replacing Johnny Nation with Brian Tristan (later a.k.a. Kid Congo Powers) and Jon Oliphant with Don Snowden [Thee Precisions], then also a music critic for the L.A. Times. During this period Jeffrey writes most songs that would end up on the Gun Club's debut album " Fire Of Love".

1979
US CA,San Fernando Valley,Reseda, practicing @ Jeffrey Lee Pierce mother's home on Hatton Street and @ Program Studios (aka "McCadden"),practice room (@ 6750 Selma Avenue) in West Hollywood. Creeping Ritual rehearses most of the songs which, in May 1981, would be recorded on the Gun Club's debut album "Fire Of Love".

Photo: Program Studios - Google Street view 2009, with thanks to Vitus Mataré [The Last] and Brad Dunning for identifying Program Studios' location. Brad Dunning: "There were no windows. It was dark and very very hot, but it was cheap."

Note:"We booked some time at a studio on Selma Avenue and McCadden in Hollywood that a lot of the other punk bands were using as a rehearsal space. It was close by my current job, at Peaches Records on Hollywood Boulevard. [...] Those first rehearsals brought a new meaning to the phrase "working it out." We started by tackling covers, like Bo Diddley's "Gunslinger" and Burning Spear's version of "People Get Ready". [...] We also worked up a very no-wave "Slipping Into Darkness" by War. We played around with a folk song recorded by Mack Self called "Willie Brown" [...] [Jeffrey] had some original songs already written. There was "Body and Soul", a sort of Mink DeVille slinky number; a song Jeffrey asked me to write lyrics to called "Going Down to the Red River" (which later became known as "Devil in the Woods"); and "Black Train" [...] We also attempted a ramshackle version of "Tombstone Blues" by Bob Dylan, which should have been left buried six feet under. Better was another traditional folk song, "Railroad Bill," we tackled at punk speed. [...] Then [Jeffrey] showed us this '60s garage-punk-type song he'd written called "Sex Beat." from "Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir", book by Kid Congo Powers (2022).

Much later, "Body and Soul" is recorded by Congo Norvell for their "Abnormals Anonymous" album (1997), by Astro-Unicorn (Michelle and Kris Needs) for the "Journey Is Long" (Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project) album (2012) and again by James Johnston for the "Axels & Sockets" (Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project) album (2014).

04-Dec-79
US CA,Hollywood,Club 88 (@ 11784 W Pico Blvd)
[with Catholic Discipline and The B-People]
No magazine benefit

Photo: Credit Philomena Winstansley, taken from Slash magazine December 1979.

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 30-Nov-79.

Note: Jeffrey Lee Pierce guests at a Top Jimmy show, who is backed by X (a.k.a. The Drunk All Stars), minus Exene. On May 17, 2001 James Koncek (a.k.a. Top Jimmy) died in Las Vegas from liver failure at the age of 46.

08-Mar-80 (or 23-Feb-80 or 05-Apr-80 )
US CA,Los Angeles-Chinatown,Hong Kong cafe (@ 425 Gin Ling Way)
[with The Blasters + Ray Campi and the Rockabilly Rebels]

Photo: Exterior of club. Scan from Slash magazine Vol2 #8, November 1979.

Note 1: First Creeping Ritual concert.

Note 2: From an interview with Dave Alvin [The Blasters]: "I gave them their first gig", Dave Alvin laughs. Back then he played guitar and handled bookings for The Blasters. "I got us a Saturday night residency at [Chinatown punk club] the Hong Kong Café for a month or two, then I got this phone call from Jeffrey. He was trying to scam me -'that was Creeping Ritual's gig, there was a fuck-up'- even though they'd never played a gig. I enjoyed that he was so brazen, so I said, "You can open." So he got what he wanted, but had a very dramatic way of getting it - which was very Jeffrey."

The Blasters started their 6-weeks Saturday residence at the Hong Kong Cafe on 23-Feb-80 [LA Weekly 22-Feb-80], but only played two more shows on 08-Mar-80 [LA Weekly 07-Mar-80] and finally on 05-Apr-80 (LA Weekly 04-Apr-80)). It's at one of these dates [most probable 08-Mar-80] that Jeffrey scammed Dave Allen into letting Creeping Ritual support.

"We played the show, made it through. Nobody booed or ran away. Our friends liked it. Keith Morris was there. [Jeffrey and Keith] had become friends and roommates. Keith asked us to support his new band, Circle Jerks, the following month, also at the Hong Kong. We were becoming regulars!" from "Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir", book by Kid Congo Powers (2022).

Note 3: The Hong Kong cafe (across the street from Madame Wong's) held its first rock concert on June 5th, 1979, headlined by Elton Duck. Its final show was held on New Years Eve 1980.

06-Apr-80
US CA,Los Angeles-Chinatown,Hong Kong cafe (@ 425 Gin Ling Way)
[with The Bags and The Circle Jerks]

Flyer: Design by Raymond Pettibon. Taken from "Fucked Up and Photocopied", a book by Bryan R. Turcotte and Chris Miller.

Note: The Bags include future Gun Club members Rob -Graves- Ritter, Terry Graham and Patricia Morrison (born Patricia Rainone). Some tension had been building up in The Bags after Patricia Rainone [later Morrison] disasterous performance in San Diego on March 15, 1980. Her last show with The Bags was @ the Hong Kong cafe in late March [with Monitor and The Urinals]. Patricia first joins Legal Weapon and later in June 1982, The Gun Club.

In April 1980, Creeping Ritual change their name to The Gun Club, upon suggestion of Keith Morris [Black Flag/Circle Jerks]. At the time Jeffrey was Keith's housemate @ his 'Pink House' on Simms Avenue South in Inglewood (CA). In return for the name the "Gun Club", Jeffrey gave Keith a song which became "Group Sex" for the Circle Jerks.

30-Apr-80
US CA,Hollywood,Blackies (@ 607 N La Brea Ave)
[with Rik L. Rik, The Circle Jerks, and the Disposals]

Flyer 1: Scan of flyer, designed by Brad Dunning, from his private collection..

Flyer 2: Scan of flyer courtesy of Steven Rascoe. Another scan of same flyer.

Flyer 3: Alternative flyer ,taken from the booklet of the Jeffrey Lee Pierce "Six String Sermon" LP (Bang! Records 2010).

Flyer 4: Yet another version, taken from "Go Tell The Mountain",book (Creeping Ritual 2017).

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 25-Apr-80.

Note: First show as "The Gun Club". Blackies' existence was brief, spanning a period of only nine months between July 1979 and April 1980. Following many complaints for excessive noise a new Blackies opened in Santa Monica (the two venues briefly co-existed in early 1980).

09-May-80
US CA,Redondo Beach,The Fleetwood (@ 260 N. Harbor Dr.)
[with The Circle Jerks,The Urinals,The Alleycats and X]

Flyer 1: Photo of flyer courtesy of Steven Rascoe.

Flyer 2: Photo of another flyer, sourced from metallipromo.com

Note: In May 1991, The Gun Club would cover the Urinals' "Black Hole" (from their "Another EP") on the "Divinity" MLP. That same night The Cramps were playing @ the Whisky (May 9-11 residency). In November Brian Tristan would leave the Gun Club to join The Cramps, changing his name to Kid Congo Powers.

09-May-80
US CA,Los Angeles-Chinatown,Hong Kong café (@ 425 Gin Ling Way)
[with The Bags and The Offs]

Flyer: Photo of flyer sourced from @Punkrockgraveyard. Flyer 2, reproduction from "The Life And Times Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce" 4CD Box Set booklet (Retro Deluxe 2008).

Schedule: Photo of schedule for May.

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 09-May-80.

Note: Second show on the same day. That same night The Cramps were playing @ the Whisky (May 9-11 residency). In November Brian Tristan would leave the Gun Club to join The Cramps, changing his name to Kid Congo Powers.

10-May-80
US CA,Redondo Beach,The Fleetwood (@ 260 N. Harbor Dr.)
[with The Circle Jerks,The Bags,The Urinals,Fear,The Gears]

Flyer: Scan of flyer courtesy of Brad Dunning, from his private collection.

Photo: Credit Al Kowalewski, taken from Flipside magazine.

Note: At this show some filming took place for Penelope Spheeris' "The Decline Of Western Civilization" film. The Gun Club are not in the film. One of the last shows of The Bags."Jeffrey persuaded the Urinals, who he knew, to give up half of their 20 or 30 minute set, so we wound up doing a guerrilla-style, hit-and-run set of two or three songs. It was all a blur, set up, we probably did "Sex Beat" and "Heroin" for sure, maybe "Black Train", break down and get the fuck offstage. I don't remember the reaction, certainly nothing heavily negative."(from an interview with Don Snowden Bored Out.)

17-May-80
US CA,Los Angeles-Chinatown,Hong Kong café (@ 425 Gin Ling Way)
[with The Blasters and Sofa Music]

Flyer 1: Scan of flyer courtesy of Brad Dunning, from his private collection.

Flyer 2: Scan of another flyer courtesy of Brad Dunning, from his private collection.

Schedule: Photo of show schedule for month May.

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 16-May-80.

30-May-80
US CA,Hollywood,Club 88 (@ 11784 W Pico Blvd)
[with X and The Blasters]

Flyer 1: Photo of flyer, designed by Exene Cervenka [X], courtesy of Steven Rascoe.

Flyer 2: Alternative flyer ,taken from the booklet of the Jeffrey Lee Pierce "Six String Sermon" LP (Bang! Records 2010).

Note: Club 88 opened in July 1977 and active till early 1982. The owner of the club was Wayne Mayotte, a retired mechanical and structural engineer. Club 88 was a former strip club converted into a music club. Capacity of 250 and reportedly poor stage conditions.

05-Jun-80
US CA,Los Angeles-Chinatown,Hong Kong cafe (@ 425 Gin Ling Way)
First Anniversary party
[with The Bags and Fear]

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 30-May-80.

Note: Final live show for The Bags and possible last live show for the Gun Club's line-up #1: Jeffrey Lee Pierce (vocals)/ Brian Tristan (guitar)/ Don Snowden (bass) and Brad Dunning (drums).

June 1980. The Bags were formed in August 1977 and played their first live show @ The Masque in Hollywood on September 10, 1977. The first line-up was: Alice Armendariz (vocals), Patricia Rainone [later Morrison] (bass), Janet Koontz (guitar), Geza -X- Gedeon (guitar) and Joe Nanini (drums). The Bags played their last show & the Hong Kong Cafe, Los Angeles on June 5, 1980. The final line-up was Alice Armendariz (vocals), Rob Ritter (bass), Craig Lee, (guitar) and Terry Graham (drums).

By June 1980 Brad Dunning and Don Snowden decide to leave the Gun Club, they both had proper jobs and needed to make money to survive. The rhythm section (Rob Ritter and Terry Graham) of the now defunct Bags offers to take their places. According to Terry (in an email reply to me) this happened after a show @ the "Hong Kong cafe when Gun Club opened for the Blasters" [17-May-80], according to Don Snowden one of his last shows was a third-on-the-bill at Club 88, with X and the Blasters [30-May-80], and according to other sources this happened at Hong Kong Cafe when Gun Club opened for the Bags [05-Jun-80].

Palm Springs resident, Brad Dunning later became an aclaimed architectural restorator and interior house designer.

June 1980
US CA,West Hollywood,Program Studios (aka "McCadden"),practice room (@ 6750 Selma Avenue).
Rehearsing two times a week, for a month. Songs rehearsed are: Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Promise Me/ Ghost On The Highway/ She's Like Heroin To Me/ Walking With The Beast/ Black Train/ Keys To The Kingdom/ For The Love Of Ivy/ Fire Spirit/ Goodbye Johnny/ Going Down The Red River/ Seven Miles With The Devil/ Sex Beat/ The Devil and the Nigger/ Opelousas Love Magic.

Photo: Google Street view 2009, with thanks to Vitus Mataré [The Last] and Brad Dunning for identifying its location.

Note: The Last used to rehearse here before they rented the Lyceum Sound Recorders in Mar Vista.

xx-Jul-80
US CA,Hollywood,Club 88 (@ 11784 W Pico Blvd)

Note 1: "An early gig at Club 88: Jeffrey dressed in a black suit with a white shirt and a black string tie and a black hat, looking like something out of a Flannery O'Connor short story. He had chains in one hand and an old Bible in the other as he sang "Preachin' Blues." At one point he threw the Bible down and jumped on it. The owner of Club 88 promptly banned the Gun Club from playing there ever again." Fred -Phast Phreddie- Patterson quoted in "We Got the Neutron Bomb", a book by Brendan Mullen.

Note 2: "We land our first show for the revamped, renewed and regurgitated Gun Club at Club 88. The stage is small and low, making it easy to see the big, white Bible Jeffrey hurls to his feet and slaps with five feet of chain he brought along for the purpose. [...] All is well [...] until we get to "For The Love of Ivy." Jeffrey slaps the Bible—preach it! "Gonna buy me a gun (slap!), as long as my arm (slap!), gonna kill everyone (slap! slap!), who ever done me harm (slap!)". But then, "I was huntin' for niggers down in the dark." [it] earned us a lifetime ban at Club 88. [...] One thing is for sure: Gun Club doesn't sound like any other band in town. [...] Our show at Club 88 confirms our status as the only blues band that plays punk and the only punk band that plays blues." from "Punk Like Me!", a book by Terry Graham. By December the Gun Club is playing Club 88 again.

12-Jul-80
US CA,Los Angeles-Watts,Jett's Café (@ 964 W. Manchester Ave)
[with Suburban Lawns]

Setlist: Black Train/ Walkin' With The Beast/..and more..

Flyer 1: Scan of flyer, designed (likely) by Jeffrey Lee Pierce, courtesy of Brad Dunning, from his private collection.

Flyer 2: Scan of another flyer courtesy of Brad Dunning, from his private collection.

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 11-Jul-80.

Note: Recorded live by Lois Kimmerle (Graham). Above tracks available on the "The Birth, The Death, The Ghost" album. Jett's Cafe & Arthaus, opened in January 1978.

13-Jul-80
US CA,Los Angeles-Chinatown,Hong Kong café (@ 425 Gin Ling Way)
[with Top Jimmy and Rik L. Rik]

Setlist: Bad Mood/ Not That Much/ Going Down The Red River / ..and more..

Flyer: Scan of flyer courtesy of Brad Dunning, from his private collection.

Note: Recorded live by Lois Kimmerle (Graham). Above tracks available on the "The Birth, The Death, The Ghost" album. "Not That Much" also available on the "The Life And Times Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce" 4CD Box Set (Retro Deluxe 2008).

xx-Jul-80
US CA,Hollywood,Whisky a Go Go (@ 8901 W. Sunset Blvd)

Setlist: Bo Diddley's A Gunslinger [Bo Diddley]/ Railroad Bill/ Seven Miles With The Devil/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Goodbye Johnny / .. and more..

Ad: Scan of ad from Los Angeles Times 20-Jul-80.

Note: Recorded live by Lois Kimmerle (Graham). Above tracks available on the "The Birth, The Death, The Ghost" album. Possibly on 24/26-Jul-80 as support for X. First time at the Whisky for The Gun Club.

02-Aug-80
US CA,Long Beach,California State University,Nugget A Go Go
[with The Last, The Blasters]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

10-Aug-80
US CA,Los Angeles,Burbank,Paradise studio
"New Wave Theatre" TV program
[with Blank Ensemble, Arsenal, Carl Stewart and the Connectors]

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 08-Aug-80.

Note: 10-Aug-80 is broadcast date. NWT (hosted by Peter Ivers) started in April 1980, broadcasting Sunday nights at 10PM on the local public access Theta Cable TV,Channel 3, moving to nationwide cable USA Network, part of "Nightflight". From April 1982, the show is broadcast on Channel 18 in San Bernardino, still on Sunday night at 10:30PM.

10-Aug-80
US CA,Hollywood,Whisky a Go Go (@ 8901 W. Sunset Blvd)
[with Fear and Suburban Lawns]

Ad: Scan of ad.

Note: Second time at the Whisky for The Gun Club. "Jeff Pierce and Lee Ving of Fear probably have something horrible in common, and enough of it to get us on the bill as Fear's opening band during a weekend show. I'm happy, yes, but for one thing —we have to set our equipment up in front of Fear's equipment, an arrangement typical at large venues where the headliner wallows in rock star excrement, but not in nightclubs. Okay, fine, we're a new band, can't allow such a snubbing to blunt the evening's real purpose: our second coming-out party at the Whisky. [...] The crowd is a little rough on us —they're here for Fear, after all— but we don't race through our songs; we let them breathe under the guidance of Jeff's spontaneous, ad-libbed inspiration.[...] " from "Punk Like Me!", a book by Terry Graham.

30-Aug-80
US CA,Los Angeles,UCLA/University of California, Los Angeles
Bruins Zeta Phi Fraternity @ 611 Gayley Ave

Flyer 1: Scan of flyer courtesy of Brad Dunning, from his private collection.

Flyer 2: Scan of flyer by Terry Graham, from his private collection.

Note: Fundraiser campaign ("Bruins for Anderson") for John B. Anderson, an independent Presidential candidate from California in 1980.

10-Sep-80
US CA,Los Angeles,The Whisky a Go Go
(The Falcons and The Blasters show)

Article: Scan of Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 19-Sep-80.

Note: In September, The Cramps had moved to LA from New York. Lux Interior joins The Blasters during their second set for a version of "Tear It Up".

"Speaking of the Cramps, Lux and Ivy are in town looking for a new guitarist, as Julien ['Griensnatch'/Hechtlinger], who replaced Bryan Gregory, didn't work out. If any of you out there are totally off your rocker, willing to take orders and think you can cut the mustard as the fourth ghoul, send a picture, phone number and short description of yourself to L.A. Weekly, in care of this column... " from Pleasant Gehman column. Two months later, Brian -Kid Congo- Tristan would be leaving the Gun Club for The Cramps.

13-Sep-80
US CA,Los Angeles-Watts,Verbum Dei Jesuit High School
(Clifton Chenier & his Red Hot Louisiana band)

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 12-Sep-80.

Article: Scan of Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 19-Sep-80.

Note: A Clifton Chenier show attended by Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Brian Tristan, Phill Alvin [The Blasters], Keith Morris [Circle Jerks], John Doe and Exene Cervenka [both X], Chris D and Don Waller. "I was talking to Phil Alvin [The Blasters], my guitar teacher, about [Cajun music] and he said we should all go see Clifton Chenier at his annual dance and gumbo dinner in Watts that month. So I phoned John Doe and Exene and God knows who else. Dave Alvin phoned Rosemary and Chris D., and we all got rip-roaring drunk and danced to Clifton Chenier. The only white people in the place. I still remember Chenier staring at us in disbelief. All of us, front of the stage - black clothes, rosaries, teased hair, dancing as if it were The Damned." Jeffrey from his "Go Tell The Mountain" book (2.13.61/Creeping Ritual)

18-Sep-80
US CA,Santa Monica,Madame Wong's West café-downstairs (@ 2900 Wilshire Blvd)
(2 sets)

Setlist: Willie Brown [Mack Self]/ Field Holler/ Sex Beat/ ..and more..

Article: Scan of Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 26-Sep-80.

Note: Recorded live by Lois Kimmerle (Graham). Above tracks available on the "The Birth, The Death, The Ghost" album. "Sex Beat" also available on the "The Life And Times Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce" 4CD Box Set (Retro Deluxe 2008). This was the only time that they played at Madame Wong's.

Madame Wong's West opened as an off-shoot of the popular Madame Wong in Chinatown, but lasted significantly longer than its parent venue (which closed in 1985), hosting a wide variety of bands from 1979-1991. The clubs were run by Esther Wong, the "godmother of LA punk", who died on August 15, 2005 at the age of 85.

19-Sep-80
US CA,Los Angeles-Chinatown,Hong Kong Café (@ 425 Gin Ling Way)
[with The Last, The Blasters, The Gigolos]

24-Sep-80
US CA,Los Angeles-Culver City,Culver Arena bar-upstairs
[Joy Rider, Avis Davis Band, The Toasters, The Shake Shakes)
"Ladies Night"

Ad: Scan of ad from LA Weekly 18-Sep-80.

September 1980
Rob Ritter temporarily leaves the band (to focus on the band he started with Don Bolles, 45 Grave) and is replaced by Anna Statman [The Red Lights] on bass.

Article: " Later on that night [25-Sep-80], at the Woman's Building downtown, Delta 5 and 45 Grave played. Rob Ritter of the Gun Club has left them to become fully entrenched (that's a joke, son) as bassist for 45 Grave." from Pleasant Gehman's "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 03-Oct-80.

Note: 45 Grave's [line-up: Dinah Cancer (vocals)/ Paul B. Cutler (guitar)/ Rob -Graves- Ritter (bass) and Don Bolles (drums)] first show was @ the Hong Kong café [supporting the Bush Tetras and with Human Hands] on 15-Sep-80.

xx-Oct-80
US CA,Los Angeles,benefit for Bill Bateman [The Blasters]
[with X, The Blasters and The Go-Go's]

08-Oct-80
US CA,Los Angeles-Burbank,Joey Kill's bar
[with 45 Grave, Diversions, Cage]

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 06-Oct-80.

Ad: Scan of advert from LA Weekly 06-Oct-80.

Note: "The Gun Club are resurfacing again with their organized rhythm & blues with an undercurrent of psychosis."

18-Oct-80
US CA,Los Angeles-Culver City,Culver Arena bar-upstairs
[with The Timmys, Textones]

Ad: Scan of ad from LA Weekly 17-Oct-80.

Note: Rob Ritter, who had been attending the show, takes over on bass mid set when Anna spots him in the audience and hands him the bass guitar. Kid announces his departure from the band (to join the Cramps). The Cramps attend the show.

06-Nov-80
US CA,Los Angeles-Burbank,Joey Kill's bar
[with Spittin' Teeth, Stepmothers]

Ad: Scan of advert from LA Weekly 31-Oct-80.

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 31-Oct-80. "the Gun Club, who play psycho-preachin' blues".

Line-up (special): Jeffrey Lee Pierce (guitar)/ Don Waller (vocals)/ x (bass) and Terry Graham (drums). According to Pleasant Gehman's "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" column from LA Weekly 31-Oct-80.

October/November 1980
The Cramps had moved from New York City to Los Angeles in September, after losing their apartment for not extending the lease while on tour. They are looking for a final replacement for Bryan Gregory (who left and was replaced for a few months by Julian Griensnatch, aka Julien Hechtlinger, from July till September 1980). After attending a Gun Club show [according to Fred "Phast Phreddie" Patterson the Cramps approached Brian after a show at Madam Wong's, according to others it was after a show at the Culver Arena bar], Ivy from the Cramps calls Brian to offer him the job as their guitar player.

Article: "In their search for a new guitar player, the Cramps, after extensive auditions, have chosen Brian "Kid Congo" Tristan from the Gun Club to fill the slot. The Gun Club will he playing the Arena on October 18 with the Blasters and the Textones. The Gun Club, by the way, are of course in need of a new guitar player. They're looking for someone who, preferably, knows how to play rockabilly. If anyone out there is interested, contact Jeffrey Pierce at (213) 996-6951." from Pleasant Gehman's "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 10-Oct-80.

Note: Brian had met Lux and Ivy in New York when he was 19 years old and visiting New York in April and November 1978, with Pleasant Gehman and staying with Kristian Hoffman and Bradly Field @ 240 Grand street and later at The Teenage Jesus and the Jerks loft @ 43-45 Delancey street. Brian discusses the offer with Jeffrey who supports him in joining The Cramps. Brian Tristan leaves the Gun Club early November and changes his name to Kid Congo Powers. His first show with The Cramps would be @ the Ritz on the 08-Dec-80 (the night John Lennon was assassinated) in New York City, followed by a London show @ the Lyceum on 14-Dec-80. He would leave The Cramps in September 1983 and return to The Gun Club.

12-Dec-80
US CA,Hollywood,Club 88 (@ 11784 W Pico Blvd)
[with Geza X and the Mommymen, Dred Scott]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Ad: Scan of advert from LA Weekly 12-Dec-80.

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 12-Dec-80.

Note: First show with line-up 2C, i.e. Ward Dotson. Rob Ritter returns to the Gun Club, at the same time starting a hectic live show schedule with 45 Grave from January 1981.

11-Jan-81
US CA,East Los Angeles,Rudy's Pasta House (@ 6047 East Olympic Blvd.)
[support for The Plugz, with Brat and The Undertakers]
(from 12noon to 7:00PM)

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Ticket: Scan of ticket.

Note: Free concert presented by Roadhouse Records store. These days it's the location of Betty's Pasta House.

20-Jan-81
US CA,Hollywood,Starwood club (@ 8151 Santa Monica Blvd)
[with Alley Cats and Gears]

Setlist: Devil In The Woods/ Fire of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Bad Indian/ Black Train(*)/ Jack On Fire/ Promise Me(*)/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Sex Beat/ Ghost On The Highway/ Goodbye Johnny/ Sleeping In Blood City.

Flyer: Photo of paste-up of flyer, courtesy of likeanelvisfromhell (Instagram). A photo of another flyer courtesy of Steven Rascoe. Third version of a paste-up of flyer, courtesy of likeanelvisfromhell (Instagram). Fourth version of flyer.

Ticket: Scan of ticket .

Ad 1: Scan of advert, from the LA Times 18-Jan-81.

Ad 2: Scan of advert from LA Weekly 16-Jan-81.

Review: Taken from Flipside magazine issue #23 (March 1981).

Note 1: Recorded by their sound guy Vitus Mataré [The Last] with his Dokorder 7140 4-track reel-to-reel home recording machine. Tracks (*) available on the "Sex Beat 81" semi legit LP album (Lolita Records, France) and the "Death Party" semi legit CD (Revenge, France). Full show released on "Sex, Murder, Drugs, and Bad Vibes - Live At The Starwood 1981" (Blixa Sounds, US November 2021).

Note 2: The Starwood was a West Hollywood club which operated as a venue for rock/new wave music between 1972 and October 1981, on a site which in the 60's was once a jazz nightclub known as PJ's, where the Standells recorded their live album, "In Person At P.J.s".

24-Jan-81
US CA,San Fernando Valley-Reseda,Country Club
[support for X]

Ad: Scan of ad from Los Angeles Times 11-Jan-81.

Note 1: "I had met a guitarist in a parking lot named Ward Dotson. He was kind of shy and a big Cramps fan. We gave him a tape of earlier gigs from 1980 and asked him to tune to open E, like Kid Congo, and play some slide on the solos. Rob, Terry and I already knew most of the songs and we soon did our first [sic] reformed gig at the Country Club in Reseda, opening for X in front of about a thousand people. It must have seemed as unreal to Ward as it did to me, neither of us having played to an audience that large. I was a bit afraid, since the only other large audience I had sung for was during the filming of [Penelope Spheeris'] "The Decline Of Western Civilization" at the Fleetwood in Redondo Beach [on 10-May-80], where we were booed and spat on." Jeffrey from his "Go Tell The Mountain" book (2.13.61/Creeping Ritual).

Note 2: The Country Club was opened in March 1980 by Chuck Landis (The Roxy club). Across the street from Bebop Records store. " [..] concert promoter Jim Rissmiller takes over operation of the 1,000-seat facility, which was opened early this year [1980] by Chuck Landis, in a long-term lease agreement. The arrangement is significant because it enables Rissmiller to work with bands that have graduated from the regular club circuit, but aren't ready yet for the 3,000-seat Santa Monica Civic level. He'll also use the club, which previously featured country acts, for established rock bands that are looking for an initimate setting." from LA Weekly 12-Dec-80.

27-Jan-81
US CA,Hollywood,Cathay De Grande (@ 1600 N. Argyle Avenue at Selma Avenue)
Phast Phreddie Invites You After Work

Ad: Scan of ad from LA Weekly 23-Jan-81.

Note: Jeffrey Lee Pierce (solo?) as Rambling Jeffrey Lea.

04-Feb-81
US CA,Hollywood,Whisky a Go Go (@ 8901 W. Sunset Blvd)
[with Fear]

Ad: Scan of advert from LA Times 01-Feb-81.

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

06-Feb-81
US CA,Hollywood,Club 88 (@ 11784 W Pico Blvd)
[with James Harmon + The Blasters]

Calendar: Photo of calendar.

Flyer: Photo of paste-up for flyer, courtesy of likeanelvisfromhell (Instagram). Day should have been 6th.

22-Feb-81
US CA,Hollywood,Whisky a Go Go (@ 8901 W. Sunset Blvd) - Folk night
(Tito Larriva + Geza X + Satin Tones + Phranc show)

Ad: Scan of ad from Los Angeles Times 22-Feb-81.

Article: Scan of Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 13-Feb-81.

Note: With guests (perhaps) Jeffrey Lee Pierce and Charlotte Caffrey [Go-Go's].

01-Mar-81
US CA,Hollywood,Cathay De Grande (@ 1600 N. Argyle Avenue at Selma Avenue)
[with Flesh Eaters]

Setlist: .../ encore Group Sex (with Keith Morris).

Flyer: Photo of flyer courtesy of Steven Rascoe .
Alternative flyer, taken from "Go Tell The Mountain",book (Creeping Ritual 2017).

Photo: Photo credit by Alan.

Ad: Scan of advert from LA Weekly 27-Feb-81.

Review: Scan of review from Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 06-Mar-81. "The Gun Club opened and literally tore the place apart. Jeff pulled down pieces of the decorations as he slammed around, muttering such quotable quotes as "Peace and eternal love — just don't try to steal my drink, you motherfucker!" Keith Morris of the legendary Circel Jerks joined the Club onstage for a rousing rendition of "Group Sex."

Note: Cathay De Grande (originally a Chinese restaurant), after the closure of several other punk rock venues, became in the fall of 1980, "the last haunt in Hollywood" for punk music, before it also closed on October 31, 1984, after a series of disputes with local authorities that centered upon concerns surrounding excessive noise and local crime.

03-Mar-81
US CA,Santa Monica,Blackies
[with Phast Phreddie and Thee Precisions, Sheiks of Shake]

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 27-Feb-81.

06-Mar-81
US CA,Hollywood,Club 88 (@ 11784 W Pico Blvd)
[with Dred Scott and The Urinals]

Setlist: Devil In The Woods/ Bad Indian (*)/ She's Like Heroin To Me (*)/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Keys To The Kingdom (*)/ Jack On Fire (*)/ Railroad Bill (*)/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Sex Beat (*)/ Ghost On The Highway/ and more...

Flyer 1: Taken from "Punk Is Dead: Punk Is Everything!" a book by Bryan R. Turcotte and Douglas Woods.

Flyer 2: Scan of another flyer courtesy of Brad Dunning, from his private collection.

Flyer 3: Photo of flyer 3, courtesy of likeanelvisfromhell (Instagram).

Note: All above tracks released as an extra disc with the re-release of the "Fire Of Love" album (Blixa Sounds, US 2021). Tracks (*) available on the "Sex Beat 81" semi legit LP album (Lolita Records, France), the "Death Party" semi legit CD (Revenge, France) and one track ("She's Like Heroin To Me") on the "The Life And Times Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce" 4CD Box Set (Retro Deluxe 2008). The recording date on these releases is listed as 07-Mar-81.

11-Mar-81
US CA,East Los Angeles,Vex's
[with The Gears, Keith Joe Dick, Jimmy & the Mustangs]

Flyer 1: Photo of flyer. courtesy of Steven Rascoe.

Flyer 2: Photo of paste-up for flyer, courtesy of likeanelvisfromhell (Instragram).

Note: The Vex opened in February 1981 and closed in 1984.

13-Mar-81
US CA,Huntington Beach,The Golden Bear
(Dick Dale and James Harman band show)

Article: Scan of Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 27-Mar-81.

Note: James Harman concert ending in a jam with members of The Gun Club, The Blasters, The Gigolos and Top Jimmy and the Rhythm Pigs.

24-Mar-81
US CA,Hollywood,Starwood club (@ 8151 Santa Monica Blvd)
[with 45 Grave, Adolescents]

Ad: Scan taken from the Los Angeles Times 22-Mar-81, courtesy of Steven Rascoe.

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Review: Scan of review from the Los Angeles Times, 26-Mar-81.

Review: Scan of review from the Flipside #24, June 1981.

Note: Rob Ritter is also member of 45 Grave.

25-Mar-81
US CA,Hollywood,Whisky a Go Go (@ 8901 W. Sunset Blvd)
[with The Plugz]

Ad: Scan of ad from Los Angeles Times 22-Mar-81, courtesy of Steven Rascoe.

Flyer: Scan of flyer.

April 1981
US CA,West Hollywood,Program Studios (aka "McCadden") - practice room (@ 6750 Selma Avenue). Recording 5 songs: Goodbye Johnny/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Watermelon Man/ Devil In The Woods/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]. Recorded by Vitus Mataré [from The Last] with a Dokorder 7140 4-track reel-to-reel home recording machine. "Devil In The Woods" ended up on the "Keats Rides A Harley" compilation LP album (September 1981).

All tracks later released on the "Early Warning" 2CD compilation (SFTRI 1997) and "Da Blood Done Signed My Name" 2CD compilation (Castle 2007). All but "Fire Of Love" also available on the "Sex Beat 81", semi legitimate LP album (Lolita Records, France) and the "Death Party", semi legitimate CD (Revenge, France). All 5 tracks available on the "Elvis From Hell" bootleg LP (Rancid Records, UK). All 5 tracks released as bonus tracks on re-release of the "Fire Of Love" album (Blixa Sounds, US 2021).

"Vitus [Mataré] showed up at the end of practice with a four-track reel to reel and we recorded four or five songs in an hour, right there in this shitty little rehearsal space. I always thought that was the best representation of the band. Simple, live, with no pretense. It was always a blast playing with the best rhythm section in LA (Rob and Terry). I thought at the time and still do. Those guys were a machine." Ward Dotson, liner notes to the "Keats Rides A Harley" compilation CD re-release (Warning Label 2005).

Photo: Google Street view 2009, with thanks to Vitus Mataré [The Last] and Brad Dunning for identifying its location.

13-Apr-81
US CA,Hollywood,Whisky a Go Go (@ 8901 W. Sunset Blvd)
[with Alley Cats, Unclaimed]

Ad: Scan of ad from Los Angeles Times 05-Apr-81, courtesy of Steven Rascoe .

14-Apr-81
US CA,Hollywood,Starwood club (@ 8151 Santa Monica Blvd)
[with Suburban Lawns + The Brat]

Ad: Scan taken from the Los Angeles Times 05-Apr-81, courtesy of Steven Rascoe.

Calendar: Scan of club's April calendar.

16-Apr-81
US CA,Los Angeles-West Hollywood,The Roxy Theatre (@ 9009 Sunset Blvd)
[with X]

Ad: Scan taken from the Los Angeles Times 12-Apr-81.

Listing: Scan of listing from the LA Weekly 10-Apr-81.

Note: X are supported by The Gun Club 16/17-Apr-81 and by The James Harman Band 18/19-Apr-81. The show on Thursday the 16th, may have been cancelled.

17-Apr-81
US CA,Los Angeles-West Hollywood,The Roxy Theatre (@ 9009 Sunset Blvd)
[with X]

Setlist: Bad Indian/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Black Train/ Jack On Fire/ Goodbye Johnny/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Sex Beat/ Sleeping in Blood City/ For The Love Of Ivy.

Listing/setlist: Photos courtesy of likeanelvisfromhell (Instragram).

18-Apr-81
US CA,Los Angeles,The Brave Dog (@ 418 East First Street)
[with Nervous Gender]

Flyer 1: Photo of flyer.

Flyer 2: Photo of flyer.

Note: Private party. The Brave Dog was two doors from the Atomic Café, in the Little Tokyo area of downtown LA. It was owned and run by Clare Glidden, assisted by Jack Marquette. It ran at weekends, from late 1980 until March 1982.

24-Apr-81
US CA,Los Angeles-West Hollywood,The Roxy Theatre (@ 9009 Sunset Blvd)
[with The Cramps]

25-Apr-81
US CA,Los Angeles-West Hollywood,The Roxy Theatre (@ 9009 Sunset Blvd)
[with The Cramps]

Photo: Kid Congo with the Cramps, photo credit Larry Hardy [In The Red Records].

Flyer: Scan of flyer.

Article: Scan of Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 01-May-81.

Note: First Los Angeles show of the new Cramps line-up, with Kid in the band. The Cramps put candles on stage and Kid Congo's hair inadvertently catches fire, going up like a torch because he put on so much hair spray [New York Rocker Sep-81]. Bradly Field [Teenage Jesus], who was tour managing The Cramps, ran out from the wings and showered Kid's hair with beer.

30-Apr-81
US CA,Hollywood,Whisky a Go Go (@ 8901 W. Sunset Blvd) - All Acoustic Night
(Phranc, Tito Larriva, Geza X, Circle Jerks, Richard Meltzer, Craig Lee, Pleasant Gehman, Top Jimmy, and more..)

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Article: Scan of Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 08-May-81.

Photo: Photo credit Gary Leonard, reproduced in booklet with "The Life And Times Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce" 4CD Box Set (Retro Deluxe 2008).

Note: Jeffrey Lee Pierce joins the Circle Jerks for some songs.

02-May-81
US CA,Anaheim,Disneyland Park - Surf Day
[The Ventures, Jan and Dean, The Surfaris]

Article: Scan of Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 08-May-81. "Saturday was Surf Day at Disneyland with the Ventures, Jan and Dean, and the Surfaris playing. Amongst those who trekked to Anaheirn were the staff of Flipside fanzine and members of 45 Grave, the Gun Club, the Boneheads and other punkeroos. But even though head cheese Kid Congo got in, fellow Cramps Ivy and Lux were denied admission as were several other new youth. Once again, the dread Disney dress code was being used to discriminate against those people who might tend to think and dress for themselves. Ironically, the last people to have major problems with Disney fashion do's and don'ts were those considered the antithesis of the new movement: hippies. Times change and remain the same, don't they?"

Note: The Gun Club and The Cramps go to Disneyland.

May 1981
US CA,Pasadena,Studio America,recording sessions (2 days) for the "Fire Of Love" album. 6 songs recorded: Promise Me/ She's Like Heroin To Me/ For The Love Of Ivy/ Black Train/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Goodbye Johnny. Engineered by Noah Shark [Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers]. Produced by Tito Larriva [from the Plugz].

Note: Initially these tracks were intended as an EP to be released on the Plugz' Fatima label. Because of money problems at Fatima the album is released on Ruby, a subsidiary of Slash records established by Chris D(esjardins) [from The Flesh Eaters]. Slash records is headed by the publisher of Slash magazine, Bob Biggs.

May 1981
US CA,Los Angeles-Central,Quad Teck studio (Hank Waring's studio @ 4007 West Sixth Street),further recording (a Sunday afternoon/evening) and mixing sessions for the "Fire Of Love" album. 5 songs recorded: Sex Beat/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Fire Spirit/ Ghost On The Highway/ Jack On Fire. Engineered by Pat Burnette. Produced by Chris D(esjardins) [The Flesh Eaters]. Also recorded at these sessions are "Bad Indian" and "Fire Of Love" which remained unreleased until 2021 when Blixa Sounds (US) added them as extra tracks to their "Fire Of Love" album reissue.

Photo: Google Street view 2017.

Note: "The Gun Club has finished mixing their recent studio efforts. Assisted by producer Tito Larriva the recording was financially assisted by Chris Desjardins and could possibly be released on Slash Records or its subsidiary Ruby Records." from Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 22-May-81.

10-Jun-81
US CA,Hollywood,Starwood club (@ 8151 Santa Monica Blvd)
[with Rik L Rik + Top Jimmy and the Rhythm Pigs]

Ad: Scan taken from the Los Angeles Times 07-Jun-81.

19-Jun-81
US CA,Hollywood,Al's Bar (@ 305 South Hewitt Street at Traction Avenue)
[with Dred Scott]
(2 sets)

Setlist: Walking The Beast(+)(++)/ Goodbye Johnny-Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson](+)/ Bol Weevil Man (aka Ghost On The Highway)(+)(++)/.. and more..

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 19-Jun-81.

Note: This bar was owned by Marc Kreisel since 1979 and closed down in August 2001 for good. (+)Tracks 5,7-8 on the "Love Supreme" semi-legit LP album (Offense, France). (++)Track 19 on the "Death Party" semi-legit CD album (Revenge, France).

10-Jul-81
US CA,Los Angeles-Eagle Rock,Bit-A New York
[with The Unclaimed]

Ad: Scan of ad from LA Weekly 10-Jul-81.

Note: Bit-A New York opened on April 30, 1981.

24-Jul-81
US US CA,Hollywood,Cathay De Grande (@ 1600 Argyle Avenue at Selma Avenue)
[with Top Jimmy & the Rhythm Pigs]

Flyer: Reproduction taken from "Go Tell The Mountain", book (Creeping Ritual 2017).

Ad: Scan of advert from LA Weekly 24-Jul-81.

Review: Scan of advert from Craig Lee's "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets", LA Weekly 31-Jul-81.

Photo: Scan of a photo taken by Gary Leonard.

08-Aug-81
US CA,Hollywood,-

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

19-Aug-81
US CA,Hollywood,Whisky a Go Go (@ 8901 W. Sunset Blvd)
[with The Flesh Eaters]

Setlist: Goodbye Johnny/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Devil In The Woods/ Jack On Fire/ Sex Beat/ Hot Love [T.Rex]/ She's Like Heroin To Me/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Fire Spirit/ For The Love Of Ivy.

Flyer: Taken from "Make the Music Go Bang: the Early L.A. Punk Scene" a book by (ex- Creeping Ritual/Gun Club) Don Snowden, with Gary Leonard.

Setlist: Photo of setlist (which was literally written by Jeffrey on the back of a napkin), courtesy of likeanelvisfromhell (Instagram).

Ad: Scan of advert taken from Los Angeles Times 16-Aug-81.

Review: "The Gun Club/Flesheaters show at the Whisky was a big success, with Jeff Pierce, lead shouter of the Gun Club, going extra hog-wild to celebrate the release of their new album Fire of Love (named after Jeff's favorite voodoo potion). He rampaged around stage brandishing a bouquet of cattails, shedding feathers all over the audience." from Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 28-Aug-81.

21-Aug-81
US Release of the "Fire Of Love" album (Ruby).

Ad: Scan of ad from LA Weekly 18-Aug-81.

Review: Review by Pleasant Gehman from LA Weekly 25-Sep-81.

25-Aug-81
US CA,Hollywood,Cathay De Grande (@ 1600 Argyle Avenue at Selma Avenue)
[with Rik L Rik, Unit III with Venus, The Stingers]

Flyer: Photo of flyer courtesy of Steven Rascoe.

Ad: Scan of advert from LA Weekly 21-Aug-81.

10-Sep-81
US CA,Los Angeles,The Whisky a Go Go (@ 8901 W. Sunset Blvd)
(Roky Erickson and 100 Flowers show)

Ad: Scan of ad from Los Angeles Times 06-Sep-81.

Article: Scan of Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 18-Sep-81.

Note: Jeffrey Lee Pierce attends and joins 100 Flowers for one song.

xx-Sep-81
US Release of the V/A "Keats Rides A Harley" album (Happy Squid Records).

Note: Various Artists compilation containing the Gun Club's "Devil In The Woods", recorded by Vitus Mataré [from The Last] in April 1981. Happy Squid Records was formed by the Urinals in 1978 in order to release their recordings. One of their songs, "Black Hole", would in 1991 be covered by the Gun Club for the "Divinity" album. The Urinals changed their name to the 100 Flowers in 1981.

23-Sep-81
US CA,San Diego,San Diego State University-The Backdoor
[with The Blasters]

Flyer: Scan of flyer courtesy of Steven Rascoe .

03-Oct-81
US CA,Hollywood,Club Lingerie (@ 6507 Sunset Boulevard)
[with Big Mama Thornton, the Buddy Guy band, Ian Withcomb and Sara Rawls]

Ad: Scan of ad from LA Weekly 02-Oct-81.

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 02-Oct-81.

Review: Review from Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 09-Oct-81.

Note: Brendan Mullen joins the Gun Club on percussion for a few songs. During the late 60's and throughout the 70's, the club was known as Souled Out. Redecorated/reopened in 1981 and run by Brendan Mullen (ex The Masque club), until 1991.

20-Oct-81
US CA,Hollywood,Grandia Room (@ 5657 Melrose Ave)
[with The Lipstick Killers]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Ad: Scan of advert from LA Weekly 16-Oct-81.

Note: Opening night of the Grandia Room. Billy Persons [The Falcons/Weirdos] replaces Rob Ritter on bass. Rob is having commitments with 45 Grave. From Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 23-Oct-81.

The Lipstick Killers were a garage rock band from Sydney, Australia formed in 1978 from the ashes of The Psycho Surgeons.

21-Oct-81
US CA,Hollywood,Cathay De Grande (@ 1600 Argyle Avenue at Selma Avenue)
[with Vox Pop]

Ad: Scan of ad from LA Weekly 16-Oct-81.

Note: Billy Persons [The Falcons/Weirdos] replaces Rob Ritter on bass.

24-Oct-81
US CA,San Francisco,Russian Center
[support for X and with Subhumans]

Flyer: Photo of flyer. Another flyer.

Ad: Scan of ad, taken from San Francisco Examiner 23-Oct-81.

Note: The first show outside of the Los Angeles/Hollywood area. Billy Persons [The Falcons/Weirdos] replaces Rob Ritter on bass.

30-Oct-81
US CA,Los Angeles-MacArthur Park,Otis Art Institute (of Parsons School of Design)

Setlist: Keep A-Knockin' [Little Richard]/ Gloria [Them]/ Louie, Louie [Kingsmen]/ I Was a Teenage Werewolf [The Cramps]/ and more...

Article: "The night before Halloween was equally wild. The Gun Club (who seem to have two bass players at the moment) played a wild party at the Otis Art Institute, exhibiting the more maniacal side of rock 'n' roll as art. Their set began at midnight, with a rousing version of "Ya Keep A-Knockin" (which was no rousing they played it two more times during the course of the evening). During the second song, an overly crazed Jeffrey Lea Pierce crawled under the stage and sang a few songs from down there, screaming in a muffled voice. "I'm not coming out, you'll have to drag me out!" Finally someone did. The set progressed, and the band ran through hit after hit, including a wild version of "Gloria," "Louie, Louie," the Cramps' "I Was a Teenage Werewolf"' with Levi Dexter [Rockats] on bass, a couple of Blondie songs with a member of the audience (male) sitting in for Deborah Harry and/or Jeffrey Lea Pierce, and a killer version of Billy Idol's "Dancing with Myself". The promoter of the party, Sam Hain, was last spotted rolling around on the floor in a puddle of beer." from Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 06-Nov-81.

Note: Billy Persons [The Falcons/Weirdos] replaces Rob Ritter on bass.

31-Oct-81
US CA,Northridge,Devonshire Fairgrounds (@ 1800 Devonshire street)
[The Cramps and Panther Burns show]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Photo: Photo credit unknown.

Note: Cathay De Grande and KROQ present "A horrible Halloween". Horror movies, costume contest, screaming contest, magic show and surprise mystery ghoul. Jeffrey Lee Pierce and Kid Congo Powers attend this Cramps show dressed up as 'Marylyn Monroe from Hell' (Jeff) and ("West Side Story" movie star) Rita Moreno (Kid). Kid at the time was no longer in the Gun Club, but member of The Cramps (December 8, 1980 - September, 1983). Wonder if he dressed down for the Cramps show or performed as 'Rita Moreno'.

03-Nov-81
US CA,Hollywood,The Whisky a Go Go
[with The Blasters]

Ad: Scan of ad from the Los Angeles Times 01-Nov-81.

Note: Jim Duckworth, then touring with Panther Burns, attends the show. He would join The Gun Club in January 1983, recording the "Death Party" EP. Billy Persons [The Falcons/Weirdos] replaces Rob Ritter on bass.

04-Nov-81
US CA,Hollywood,Cathay De Grande (@ 1600 Argyle Avenue at Selma Avenue)
[with Phast Phreddie and Thee Precisions, The Elegants]

Ad: Scan of ad from LA Weekly 30-Oct-81.

Note: Billy Persons [The Falcons/Weirdos] replaces Rob Ritter on bass.

05-Nov-81
US CA,San Francisco,Berkeley Square
[with Half Church and Tanks]

Flyer: Photo of flyer courtesy of Steven Rascoe.

Ad: Scan of advert, taken from San Francisco Examiner 01-Nov-81.

Note: Billy Persons [The Falcons/Weirdos] replaces Rob Ritter on bass.

06-Nov-81
US CA,San Francisco,The On Broadway Theater
[with The Cramps and Panther Burns]

Setlist: Watermelon Man/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ She Is Like Heroin To Me/ John Hardy (aka Ballad Of Dead Man)/ Fire Spirit/ Black Train/ Jack On Fire/ Sex Beat/ For The Love Of Ivy/ Goodbye Johnny(*).

Flyer: Photo of flyer and alternative flyer.

Flyer: Alternative flyer and setlist courtesy of Cindy.

Ad: Scan of advert, taken from San Francisco Examiner 01-Nov-81.

Note 1: Broadcast by KUSF FM radio, except (*). Filmed by Joe Rees for Target Video. "Sex Beat" from this show was released on "V/A:Target Presents Hardcore Vol.3" VHS (Target 1985) and also on "V/A:Underground Forces Volume III" VHS (Target). They were supposed to do a more elaborate live set at the Target Video studios, in between shows, like some other bands did then. But couldn't, because Terry had injured his hand because Jeff had thrown a beer bottle that broke on the drums and cut Terry's hand.

At the time Kid Congo Powers was in The Cramps, having left The Gun Club in November 1980. Panther Burns has Jim Duckworth on guitar. Jim would join The Gun Club in January 1983.

Note 2: Billy Persons [The Falcons/Weirdos] replaces Rob Ritter on bass. Billy:"I replaced [Rob Ritter] in the fall of '81 for a bunch of shows in Los Angeles and three in the Bay Area including the On Broadway show with The Cramps and Panther Burns. The band wasn't doing much in the fall and winter of '81. I would have joined permanently but Ward [Dotson] and Terry [Graham] told me they were going to quit once the "Miami" album was done as they were on salary at the time so Rob was brought back for that album. I also worked with Jeffrey Lee Pierce around this time on what would later become Tex and The Horseheads. Also, I don't know if you are aware but Target Video taped our set and it may finally be released soon. I played with the Weirdos on their [March 1979 recorded] "Who, What, When, Where Why" EP. I also replaced Rob Ritter in Thelonious Monster in the early '90s for a while and was in The Joykiller in the mid-'90s (we did three albums for Epitaph). That [On Broadway show] was a really fun show although my memory of it is pretty foggy. Jeffrey and I spent the whole day drinking in a German restaurant in San Francisco so we were plastered at this show."

Note 3: The On Broadway theater, was upstairs at Mabuhay Gardens, located at 435 Broadway Street. It was constructed in 1919 as the Garibaldi Hall, renamed the Mabuhay Gardens in the 1970s. The Mabuhay Gardens nightclub started featuring rock shows around 1976 when Ness Aquino, the owner of the club, was approached by, rock promoter and television producer, Dirk Dirksen to promote punk rock shows at the Mabuhay. In 1983, Dirksen seemed to have enough and stopped promoting shows at the Mab and On Broadway. Ness Aquino tried to keep the shows going, but sometime in 1988 the club closed it's doors forever.

08-Nov-81
US CA,San Francisco,Severely Muted (a.k.a. Sound Of Music)
[with Panther Burns and Really Red]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Ad: Scan of advert, taken from San Francisco Examiner 01-Nov-81.

Note: The Sound Of Music, a drag queen strip club joint which on weekends became a Punk venue, was opened by Celso Ruperto in 1980 and closed in about 1987. Celso died in 1990, at the age of 64. Billy Persons [The Falcons/Weirdos] replaces Rob Ritter on bass.

18-Nov-81
US CA,Hollywood,Whisky a Go Go (@ 8901 W. Sunset Blvd)
[with Minutemen, Middle Class and Adore O'Hara]

Flyer: Photo of flyer. Photo of alternative copy. Photo of another flyer. Photo of yet another flyer, courtesy of Mike Ziegler.

Ad 1: Scan of advert from the Los Angeles Times 15-Nov-81.

Ad 2: Scan of advert from LA Weekly 13-Nov-81.

Note: Rob Ritter is back on bass.

18-Nov-81
US CA,Hollywood,Cathay De Grande (@ 1600 Argyle Avenue at Selma Avenue)
[with 100 Flowers, The Meat Puppets and The Leaving Trains]

Flyer: Photo of flyer courtesy of Steven Rascoe.

21-Nov-81
US CA,Hollywood,Al's Bar (@ 305 South Hewitt Street at Traction Avenue)
[with The Crowd and Mnemonic Devices]
(2 sets)

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 20-Nov-81.

Article: Scan of letter to Uncut mag June 2012, courtesy of Richard W.

Review: Scan of review from Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 27-Nov-81.

24-Nov-81
US CA,Hollywood,Club Lingerie (@ 6507 Sunset Boulevard)
[with Phast Phreddie and Thee Precisions]

Flyer: Photo of paste-ups for 2 flyers, courtesy of likeanelvisfromhell (Instragram).

Note: "Bon voyage" (goodbye) party. Last show before US East coast tour.

04-Dec-81
US MA,Boston,Streets
[with The Neats]
(2 sets)

Ad: Scan taken from The Heights 23-Nov-81.

Review: Scan of review, taken from Boston Globe 07-Dec-81.

Note: First tour of the East Coast.

05-Dec-81
US NJ,Hoboken,Maxwell's
[with The Phosphenes]

Handbill: Scan of handbill, designed by Guy Ewald.

Note: First time @ Maxwell's. Bob Bert [later of Sonic Youth] attends the show. But according to "Maxwell's Of Hoboken" FB-group, "Bob attended most of the early shows at Maxwell's".

06-Dec-81
US NY,New York City,Peppermint Lounge

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Spirit/ Brother And Sister/ Carry Home (aka Homecoming)/ Like Calling Up Thunder (aka Dixie)/ Texas Serenade (aka Dead On The Lawn)/ John Hardy/ Preaching The Blues/ Goodbye Johnny/ Devil In The Woods/ For The Love Of Ivy.

Ad: Scan of ad.

Setlist: Photo of setlist, courtesy of likeanelvisfromhell (Instragram).

Note: Dee Pop [Bush Tetras] confirmed that the Peppermint Lounge show was the first NYC show ever. This is where Dee and Jeffrey meet for the first time.

xx-Dec-81
US NC,Chapel Hill,-

11-Dec-81
US MA,Cambridge,Discount Records (at 8PM)

Ad: Scan of ad, taken from Boston Rock #24 (10-Dec-81).

Note: In store appearance.

11-Dec-81
US MA,Boston,The Channel Club
[with The Cramps, The Dark, Tymon Dogg]

Ad:Scan of advert, taken from Boston Rock #24 (10-Dec-81).

Review: Scan of review, taken from Boston Globe 14-Dec-81.

12-Dec-81
US PA,Philadelphia,East Side Club
[with Cramps]

Flyer: Scan of flyer.

13-Dec-81
US DC,Washington-Georgetown,The Bayou
[with The Cramps]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Ticket: Scan of ticket.

19-Dec-81
US NY,New York City,Mudd Club
[with Del Byzanteens]

Ad: Scan of ad.

Note: Last East coast show.

20-Dec-81
US CA,Hollywood,Club Lingerie (@ 6507 Sunset Boulevard)
(The Cramps show)

Ad: Scan of ad from LA Weekly 18-Dec-81.

Note: "Jeffrey Lea Pierce attended [The Cramps] show with his mother, but spent a lot of time making out with the waitresses." from Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 25-Dec-81.

25-Dec-81
US CA,Los Angeles,S.I.R. studios and Hollywood,Club Lingerie
Slash Records Christmas party

Article: Scan of Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 01-Jan-82.

Note: "The recent Slash Xmas Party started in the afternoon going until late night when a group of people decided to go over to S.I.R. studios under the misconception that John Belushi was having a party. An impromptu jam group was formed, composed of Jeff Pierce on drums, Slash head honcho Bob Boggs on bass, Keith Morris and manager Gary Hirstius of the Circle Jerks "singing" and Dave Alvin [The Blasters] on guitar. The group then moved to Lingerie, where Keith wound up crawling through the Xmas trees screaming "Eight Days a Week!" "

02-Jan-82
US CA,Hollywood,Cathay De Grande (@ 1600 Argyle Avenue at Selma Avenue)
[with The Plugz]

Listing: Scan from LA Weekly 01-Jan-82.

Note: First live show after returning from their East coast tour.

20-Jan-82
US CA,Hollywood,Cathay De Grande (@ 1600 Argyle Avenue at Selma Avenue)
[with Vox Pop]

Setlist: A.o. Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/.. and more.

Photo: Scan from Sounds 30-Jan-82. Credit Chris Walter.

Listing: Scan of listing, taken from LA Weekly 15-Jan-82, and Los Angeles Times listing 17-Jan-82.

29-Jan-82
US CA,Los Angeles,Ukranian Hall (@ 4315 Melrose Avenue)
[with The Plugz, Flesh Eaters, Phast Phreddie & Thee Precicions]

Poster: Photo of poster.

Flyer 1: Scan of flyer courtesy of Brad Dunning, from his private collection.

Flyer 2: Scan of flyer.

Ad: Scan of advert from LA Weekly 22-Jan-82.

Review 1: Taken from Flipside magazine issue #30 (March 1982).

Review 2: Review by Mikal Gilmore, taken from LA Weekly 07-May-82. "Pierce seemed like a man incapable of and uninterested in matching his intelligence with discipline or, restraint. He slouched around stage mouthing his unconvincing mish-mash of voodoo rhetoric and black vocal manners with an air of studied disregard and narcotized anomie."

12-Feb-82
US CA,Hollywood,Cathay De Grande (@ 1600 Argyle Avenue at Selma Avenue)
[with 100 Flowers]

Setlist: Goodbye Johnny/ Brother And Sister/ Like Calling Up Thunder/ Ghost On The Highway/ Bad Indian/ She's Like Heroin To Me/ Black Train/ Jack On Fire/ Sex Beat/ Devil In The Woods/ For The Love Of Ivy.

Flyer: Taken from "Fucked Up and Photocopied", a book by Bryan R. Turcotte and Chris Miller.

Photo: Photos, credit unknown.

Article: Scan of Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 12-Feb-82.

Review: Scan of review, taken from FlipSide #30.

Note: Farewell show before starting their first US tour.

13-Feb-82
US CA,San Diego,Bacchanal
[support for X, with Red Wedding]

Ad 1: Scan of ad from LA Weekly 12-Feb-82.

Ad 2: Scan of advert, courtesy of Mike Ziegler.

15-Feb-82
US AZ,Phoenix,Night Train
[with Los Lasers]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Note: Start of their first tour of the US.

16-Feb-82
US AZ,Tempe,Merlin's
[with Grant and the Geezers + Sun City Girls]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

18-Feb-82
US TX,Austin,Club Foot
[with The LeRoi Brothers]

19-Feb-82
US TX,Houston,The Island
[with Free Money]

Flyer: Photo of flyer, courtesy of likeanelvisfromhell (Instragram).

20-Feb-82
US TX,Dallas,Hot Klub
[with The Skunks]

Flyer: Photo of flyer. Photo of another flyer.

Note: Performing for a flat fee of $400.

2x-Feb-82
US OK,Oklahoma City,The Bowery

2x-Feb-82
US MO,Kansas City,-

22-Feb-82
US LA,New Orleans,The Beat Exchange
[with Our Favorite Band]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Note: Show may have been moved to the 23rd ('Fat Tuesday').

2x-Feb-82
US LA Baton Rouge,-

26-Feb-82
US GA,Atlanta,688 Club
[with Vietnam]

2x-Feb-82
US TN,Knoxville,-

2x-Feb-82
US NC,Winston-Salem,Chapel Hill,-

03-Mar-82
US OH,Columbus,Crazy Mama's

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

xx-Mar-82
US MI,East Lansing,Bunches Continental Café
(2 sets)

05-Mar-82
US MI,Ann Arbor,State House
[with The Meatmen and Bored Youth]

Flyer: Photo of flyer. Alternative flyer.

Article 1: Scan from Detroit Free press, 05-Mar-82.

Article 2: Scan from The Michigan Daily, 05-Mar-82.

Note: Bored Youth's show stopped after an hour by fire officials. The Gun Club arrived at 11PM to find their performance canceled. Article from The Michigan Daily 07-Mar-82 and from The Michigan Daily 09-Mar-82.

06-Mar-82
US IL,Chicago,Club C.O.D.

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

08-Mar-82
US WI,Madison,Merlyn's
[with The Stimuli, The Comicosmics and The Effigies]

Photo: Credit © Hank Grebe. Used with kind permission.

Flyer: Photo of flyer .

09-Mar-82
US MN,Minneapolis,First Avenue-7th Street Entry

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Spirit/ Brother And Sister/ Like Calling Up Thunder/ Goodbye Johnny/ John Hardy/ Bad Indian/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Jack On Fire/ Devil In The Woods/ For The Love Of Ivy/ She's Like Heroin To Me/ Keep A Knockin' [Little Richard].

Note: Sold out show, and according to the band their best of the February/March tour.

Ad: Scan of calendar courtesy of Mike Ziegler.

11-Mar-82
US WI,Milwaukee,The Starship
[with Die Kreuzen]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

12-Mar-82
US KS,Witchica,-
(show cancelled)

13-Mar-82
US CO,Denver,Mercury Cafe
[with Crank Call Love Affair]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

1x-Mar-82
US CO,Denver,-

15-Mar-82
US CO,Boulder,Blue Note

Poster: Photo of poster courtesy of Roger Morgan.

Note: Boulder was the last date of a month long tour. After the show the band are interviewed for a local TV station.

19-Mar-82
US CA,San Francisco,The On Broadway Theater
[with Red Rockers]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Note: The New Wave Rotten Record Chart was an overview created and distributed in San Francisco during 1978-1982 by Dirk Dirksen. It announced shows at his venues, the On Broadway and the Mabuhay Gardens.

02-Apr-82
US CA,Los Angeles,The Cabaret (@ 940 La Cienaga Blvd)
[with Dream Syndicate, The DI's]

Ad: Scan of ad from LA Weekly 02-Apr-82.

Article: Scan of Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 09-Apr-82.

Note: Opening night of The Cabaret. First LA show after US tour.

10-Apr-82
US CA,Hollywood,Club Lingerie (@ 6507 Sunset Boulevard)
[with Top Jimmy & The Rhythm Pigs with Tom Waits + Levi Dexter and his Tribe]
Easter parole party

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Spirit/ I Hear Your Heart Singing/ Fire Of Love/ She's Like Heroin To Me/ Brother And Sister/ Sex Beat/ Devil In The Woods/ Texas Serenade/ John Hardy/ Jack On Fire/ For The Love Of Ivy.

Ad 1: Scan of ad from LA Weekly 02-Apr-82.

Ad 2: Scan of advert from LA Weekly 09-Apr-82.

Article: Scan of Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 15-Apr-82.

Note: "Both twice banned from the Lingerie! Special probation gig - Will they behave?" from ad.

23-Apr-82
US PA,Philadelphia,East Side Club
[with SKP's]

Calendar: Photo of club calendar.

Note: Start of a, sparsely attended, East coast tour.

27-Apr-82
US NY,Buffalo,The Continental
(2 sets)

Setlist: Ghost On The Highway/ Walkin' With The Beast/ I Hear Your Heart Singing/ Devil In The Woods/ Goodbye Johnny/ For The Love Of Ivy/ Bad Indian/ Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Spirit/ Carry Home/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Sex Beat/ Jack On Fire.

Flyer: Photos of flyer, courtesy of likeanelvisfromhell (Instragram).

Video: The show was videotaped.

Note: All above tracks released on the "Early Warning" 2CD compilation (SFTRI 1997), the "Da Blood Done Signed My Name" 2CD compilation (Castle 2007) and on the "Miami" 2CD (Cooking Vinyl 2009).

28-Apr-82
US NY,Rochester,Scorgies
[with New Math]

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Texas Serenade/ Brother And Sister/ Like Calling Up Thunder/ John Hardy/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Fire Spirit/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Sex Beat/ Goodbye Johnny/ Ghost On The Highway/ Keep A Knockin' [Little Richard]/ For The Love Of Ivy.

30-Apr-82
US MA,Boston,University-Vanguard
[with The Del Fuegos and The Embarrassment]

Review 1: Gossip from New York Rocker #52, which claim that Jeffrey dropped his pants during this performance.

Review 2: Scan of review by Michael Hafitz from Boston Rock #29 (29-May-82) of an -obviously shambolic- performance by Pierce, but no pants were dropped.

08-May-82
US MA,Boston,Paradise Theater (early show)
[with The Neats and Mission of Burma]

08-May-82
US MA,Boston,Paradise Theater (late show)
[with The Neats and Mission of Burma]

Listing: Scan of listing from Boston Globe 06-May-82.

11-May-82
US DC,Washington,9:30 Club

14-May-82
US NY,New York City,Sourcerer Sound/Acoustilog Studios (@ 19 Mercer Street)
[with Tom Verlaine]
(morning at 11AM)

Setlist: Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ John Hardy/ Sex Beat/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson].

Photo: Exterior, circa 2017.

Note: Recording session for France Inter FM radio. Broadcast interspersed with an interview with Jeffrey Lee Pierce. Available on the "The Life And Times Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce" 4CD Box Set (Retro Deluxe 2008). All 5 tracks available on the "Elvis From Hell" bootleg LP (Rancid Records, UK).

14-May-82
US NY,New York City,CBGB's
[with The Cosmopolitans]
(evening)

Setlist: Devil In The Woods/ Walkin' With The Beast/ Bo Diddley Is A Gunslinger [Bo Diddley]/ Louie Louie [Richard Berry/Kingsmen]/ She's The Girl I Love-Ghost On The Highway/..and more...

Ad: Scan of ad, taken from the Village Voice.

Note: Above tracks available on the "The Life And Times Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce" 4CD Box Set (Retro Deluxe 2008).

18-May-82
US NY,New York City,The Palladium
[support for The Jam]

Review: Taken from Flipside magazine issue # 32. Another one from Trouser Press September 1982.

19-May-82
US NY,New York University,WNYU 89.1 FM Radio
Music View program

Setlist: Jeffrey Lee Pierce interviewed by Tim Sommer.

Audio: Audio in Soundcloud.

Note: WNYU-FM is a College radio station owned and operated by New York University.

May/June 1982
US NY,New York City,Blank Tapes studios on 21st street and Chris Stein's basement,recording sessions for the "Miami" album. Engineered by Joe Arlotta. Mixed by Butch Jones. Produced by Chris Stein [Blondie]. Recorded songs: Carry Home/ Like Calling Up Thunder/ Brother And Sister/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ Devil In The Woods/ Texas Serenade/ Watermelon Man/ Bad Indian/ John Hardy/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Mother Of Earth. Also recording the "Walking With The Beast" version which appeared on the "Fire Of Love" single. Guests: Debby Harry, Walter Steding and Mark Tomeo [Rubber Rodeo].

xx-May-82
US CA,Los Angeles,signing with Animal (Chrysalis) Records for one album and one single.

Article: Scan of Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 21-May-82. "Record News: Jeffrey Lee Pierce was in town this past week, while the remainder of the Gun Club remained in New York, laying down tracks for their new album. Jeffrey came out here to sign the papers for the record, which'll be put out by Animal/Chrysalis."

Note: Rob Ritter was in town as well, for 3 shows at the Whisky (May 21-23) with his band, 45 Grave.

29-May-82
US NJ,Hoboken,Maxwell's
[with The Phosphenes]

Setlist: Goodbye Johnny/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Texas Serenade/ Carry Home/ She's Like Heroin To Me/ Fire Spirit/ Black Train/ Sex Beat/ Promise Me/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Devil In The Woods(*)/ Jack On Fire/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Keep A Knockin' [Little Richard](*).

Note: (*) tracks available on the Bang Zoom no.3 cassette zine (US 1983) together with an interview with Jeffrey conducted in February 1983.

Flyer: Scan of flyer, designed by Guy Ewald.

xx-May-82
US NJ,Lake Hopatcong,-
[with TV Toy]
(no-one shows up)

xx-May-82
US NJ,Trenton,-

xx-Jun-82
US NY,New York City,The Ritz

xx-Jun-82
US NY,New York City,CBGB's
[support for The Cramps]

04-Jun-82
US MA,Boston,Paradise Theater
[with The Cramps]

Listing: Scan of listing from Boston Globe 03-Jun-82.

05-Jun-82
US NY,Long Island,Roslyn,My Father's Place
[with The Bush Tetras].

Ad: Scan of ad.

Note: Dee Pop is drummer in The Bush Tetras and will join The Gun Club in January 1983.

xx-Jun-82
US PA,Philadelphia,-
[support for The Cramps]

09-Jun-82
UK Release of the "Ghost On The Highway/Sex Beat" 7" single (Beggars Banquet).

11-Jun-82
US NY,New York City,Peppermint Lounge
[support for The Cramps, with Panther Burns]

Setlist: John Hardy/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ [..] Sex Beat/ She's Like Heroin To Me/.. and more...

Note: Peter Holsapple [of dB's] subs on bass for this show only. Rob Ritter is in Detroit and 'unavailable'. Jim Duckworth, then touring with Panther Burns, meets Jeffrey again at the Peppermint Lounge show. He would join The Gun Club in January 1983, first recording the "Death Party" EP then touring.

13-Jun-82
US NY,New York City,Etc Studios
Glenn O'Brien's "TV Party" show.

Setlist: "Wartime Blues" [Blind Lemon Jefferson] (Jeffrey solo acoustic).

Photo: Still taken from the TV Party "Everything For Sale" show DVD. Backstage shot with Chris Stein [Blondie].

Note: Broadcast on Channel J TV, public access TV. Jeffrey Lee Pierce is guest on the "TV Party" show and plays "Wartime Blues" by Blind Lemon Jefferson. Glenn O'Brien died on April 7, 2017, at the age of 70.

18-Jun-82
US CA,San Francisco,The Old Waldorf
[with Rank and File]

Setlist: (encore) Genius Of Live [Tom Tom Club].

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Ad: Scan of advert, taken from San Francisco Examiner 13-Jun-82.

Article: Scan of Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 25-Jun-82.

Note: Located at 444 Battery Street, the Old Waldorf was originally opened by Jeffrey Pollack in 1976 before selling it to Bill Graham who closed it in 1983. Last show with Rob Ritter. His band, 45 Grave, played the next day at SF's Elite Club.

June 1982
US CA,Los Angeles. Rob Ritter leaves the band (returns to 45 Grave) and is replaced by (another ex-Bags and ex-Legal Weapon) Patricia Morrison on bass, upon recommendation of Terry Graham.

Article: Scan of Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 18-Jun-82. "The Gun Club (no, we weren't talking about Jeff Pierce a.k.a. Marilyn Monroe from Hell) are looking for a female bassist. Why? They want to add a "new dimension" to their sound and stage presence. According to a spokesman, 'We want Dianne Chai, but she's in the Alley Cats.' "

19-Jun-82
US CA,Los Angeles,Club Lingerie
(Bush Tetras show)

Article: Scan of Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 02-Jul-82. "And the ubiquitous Jeffrey Lee Pierce put in his two cents, lumbering on-stage to join the Tetras in the most horrifying version of "Wild Thing" we've ever encountered. This gut-wrenching display of pig passion cleared out the Lingerie fast."

25-Jun-82
US CO,Denver,Mercury Café
[with The Young Weasels]

Note: Show got cancelled.

Flyer: Scan of flyer courtesy of Matti.

26-Jun-82
US CA,Santa Monica,Civic Auditorium
[support for Sparks]

Pass: Photo of backstage pass courtesy of Håkan Beckman. .

Ad: Scan of advert from Los Angeles Times 20-Jun-82.

Article: Scan from article in Los Angeles Times 04-Jul-82.

Note: Patricia Morrison's first show with the band. "So I had three days to learn 30 songs, and one ten-minute rehearsal where Jeffrey was blithering drunk. And then my first show was at the Santa Monica Civic [Auditorium] opening for Sparks [June 26, 1982]. People are out there [in the audience] going, ‘What the hell is this shit?’ After we did the show I said to Jeffrey, ‘So?’ And he said, ‘So what?’ And I asked, ‘Am I in?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, you’re in.’ So I just stuck with it." Patricia interviewed for Stomp and Stammer,2001.

06-Jul-82
US CA,Hollywood,Club Lingerie (@ 6507 Sunset Boulevard)

Setlist: Lost Highway [Leon Payne/Hank Williams]/ Texas Serenade/ Brother And Sister/ Like Calling Up Thunder/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Run Through The Jungle/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Sex Beat/ Goodbye Johnny/ For The Love Of Ivy.

Ad: Scan of ad from LA Weekly 02-Jul-82.

Note: "That time you said it was you and Terry and Rob from The Bags all in The Gun Club for one show, when was that? “It was like ’83 [1982] at the Whisky [Lingerie] in Los Angeles. See, Rob had quit [The Gun Club], so I kind of took over for Rob. And we lived next door to each other, which was also quite weird. But he just couldn’t take Jeffrey. Rob was quite a sensitive person, kind of an odd character in his own right. And he said he just didn’t wanna deal with Jeffrey. But when I got in [the band] we played a few shows and it worked, and we said, ‘Rob, please, please play lead guitar.’ Just ‘cause we thought it would be really good. So he did one show. He was supposed to a tour, [but] that one show, he just left the amp there and said, ‘I can’t do it anymore.’" Patricia interviewed for Stomp and Stammer,2001.

10-Jul-82
US CA,San Diego,Jerry Herrera's Spirit
[with The Brat and 502]

Flyer: Photo of flyer courtesy of Steven Rascoe

Ad: Scan of advert, courtesy of Mike Ziegler.

28-Jul-82
US CA,Hollywood,Cathay De Grande (@ 1600 Argyle Avenue at Selma Avenue)
(Tex and The Horseheads show)
[with Carlos and the World, Top Jimmy and the Rhythm Pigs,..]
Benefit for the Zero One club

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 23-Jul-82.

Article: Scan of Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 06-Aug-82.

Note: First Tex and The Horseheads show, with Jeffrey on guitar and Jeff's girlfriend Texacala Jones (aka Linda Yacoubian) on vocals. Jeffrey played guitar in Tex and the Horseheads from July till December 1982.

06-Aug-82
US MI,Detroit,Clutch Cargo's

Setlist: Lost Highway [Leon Payne/Hank Williams]/ Fire Spirit/ Like Calling Up Thunder/ John Hardy/ She's Like Heroin To Me/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Sex Beat/ Sleeping In Blood City/ For The Love Of Ivy.

Flyer: Scan of flyer.

xx-xxx-82
US WI,Milwaukee,-
[with L-Seven]

xx-xxx-82
US WI,Madison,-
[with L-Seven]

09-Aug-82
US MN,Minneapolis,First Ave
[with Rifle Sport]

Setlist: Lost Highway [Leon Payne/Hank Williams]/ Like Calling Up Thunder/ Brother And Sister/ John Hardy/ She's Like Heroin To Me/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Sex Beat/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Goodbye Johnny/ For The Love Of Ivy.

Calendar: Scan courtesy of Jim F.

Ticket: Scan of ticket courtesy of Jim F.

13-Aug-82
US CA,Concord,Concord Pavilion
[with X, The Unknowns, Norman Salant]

Poster: Photo of poster.

Ad: Scan of advert from San Francisco Examiner 08-Aug-82.

Backstage pass: Scan courtesy of Steven Wolfe, from his collection.

Review: Scan of review from Berkeley Gazette 17-Aug-82. " The Gun Club, instrumentally interesting, seemed bored to distraction and didn't live up to the promise of their own Slash LP."

16-Aug-82
US OR,Eugene,B.J. Kelly's
[with Kingsnake and Punishment Farm]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Band photo: Band photo, by Ed Colver. Reproduced in "Punk Like Me!", a book by Terry Graham.

Note: Outdoor venue. For the live shows on the US West coast they add extra guitarist Annie Unger. At the end of 1982 Annie joined -Bay Area band- The Toiling Midgets as their third guitarist.

17-Aug-82
US OR,Portland,The Met
[with The Toiling Midgets]

Setlist: Watermelon Man/ Brother and Sister/ Like Calling Up Thunder/ John Hardy/ She Is Like Heroin To Me/ Devil In The Woods/ Cool Drink Of Water/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Sex Beat/ For The Love Of Ivy.

Flyer: Reproduced in "Punk Like Me!", a book by Terry Graham.

Note: With extra guitarist Annie Unger.

18-Aug-82
US WA,Seattle,Baby O's
[with Little Bears]

Photo: Credit © Michael Leach (from www.bestrockphotos.com). Used with kind permission.

Flyer: Scan of flyer courtesy of Håkan Beckman.

Note: With extra guitarist Annie Unger.

19-Aug-82
CA BC,Vancouver,Commodore Ballroom
[with The Go-Gos]

Ad: Scan of ad.

Article: Scan of article from The Province 19-Aug-82.

Note: With extra guitarist Annie Unger.

21-Aug-82
US CA,San Francisco,The On Broadway Theater

Flyer: Scan of flyer courtesy of Matti A.

Ad: Scan of advert, taken from San Francisco Examiner 15-Aug-82.

Note: With extra guitarist Annie Unger.

31-Aug-82
UK Release of the "Fire Of Love/Walking With the Beast (version #1)" 7" single (Animal Records/Chrysalis Records).

20-Sep-82
US/UK Release of the "Miami" album (Animal Records/Chrysalis Records).

21-Sep-82
US CA,Hollywood,Florentine Gardens (@ 5951 Hollywood Bld.)
"New Wave Theatre" TV program

Setlist: Brother And Sister/ Fire Spirit.

Photo 1: Screen capture from video.

Photo 2: Photo credit Gary Leonard.

Article: Scan from Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 24-Sep-82.

Note 1: Filmed for "New Wave Theatre", a television program hosted by Peter Ivers, broadcast locally in the Los Angeles area by KSCI on UHF channel 18. Broadcast on the east coast by USA Network cable on the "Night Flight" show. Re-broadcast in 1982 (during the French tour?) on French TF1 TV (Mégahertz program) with an additional interview with Jeffrey.

Peter Ivers wrote the song "In Heaven, Everything Is Fine" for David Lynch's 1976 film "Eraserhead". This track was used by Lydia Lunch as intro to her 13.13 live performances in 1981. On March 3, 1983, Peter Ivers was found bludgeoned to death in his apartment in a rundown neighborhood of Los Angeles at the age of 37. It was speculated that he may have been murdered by his NWT business partner. A superb biography and insight in the murder case has been written by Josh Frank.

Note 2: Oddly, the video shows Rob Ritter on bass instead of Patricia Morrison.

25-Sep-82
US CA,Hollywood,Cathay De Grande (@ 1600 Argyle Avenue at Selma Avenue)
(Tex and The Horseheads, + Flesheaters show)

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 24-Sep-82.

Photo: Photo, credit unknown.

Note: Jeffrey Lee Pierce with Tex and The Horseheads.

01-Oct-82
US MA,Boston,The Spit
[with Tex and The Horseheads]

Review: Scan of review, taken from the Boston Globe 02-Oct-82.

Review: Taken from Take-It fanzine.

Note: Chrysalis Records flew the band to Boston and New York City to promote the "Miami" album. Warm-up show for their first European tour. The Gun Club also backs Texacala Jones, then Jeffrey's girlfriend, doing the show without The Horseheads, who did not make it to the show.

02-Oct-82
US NY,New York City,CBGB
[with Tex and The Horseheads and Peter Holsapple]

Setlist: Goodbye Johnny/ Brother And Sister/ Like Calling Up Thunder/ Run Through The Jungle/ Lost Highway [Leon Payne/Hank Williams]/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Texas Serenade/ Fire Spirit/ Goodbye Johnny (reprise)/ Black Train/ Sex Beat/ Me and Mrs. Jones- Jack On Fire/ Keep A Knockin' [Little Richard].

Ad: Scan of ad.

Note: Warm-up show for their first European tour. The Gun Club also back Texacala Jones' band The Horseheads.

05-Oct-82
UK London,The Venue
[with Zerra One]

Setlist: Lost Highway [Leon Payne/Hank Williams]/ Texas Serenade/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ John Hardy/ She's Like Heroin To Me/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Like Calling Up Thunder/ Goodbye Johnny/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Devil In the Woods/ Sex Beat/ For The Love Of Ivy/ Fire Spirit/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Keep A Knockin' [Little Richard].

Review: Taken from Melody Maker 16-Oct-82. Taken from The Guardian 07-Oct-82.

Photo 1: Credit David Corio. Sourced from Gettyimages/Referns music archives.

Photo 2: Credit David Corio, taken from New Musical Express 16-Oct-82 .

Ticket: Scan of ticket courtesy of Ger P.

Ad: Scan of advert from UK mag.

Note: Start of first -5 date- tour of Europe.

07-Oct-82
FR Paris-Montmartre,Theatre Le Palace
[with La Souris Déglinguée]

Setlist: Like Calling Up Thunder/ Sleeping In Blood Red City/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Goodbye Johnny/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Devil In the Woods/ Sex Beat(*)/ For the Love of Ivy/ Black Train/ Keep A Knockin' [Little Richard].

Photo: Backstage shot, credit unknown. Another shot , credit unknown. Screen capture from TV broadcast.

Ticket: Scan of ticket.

Article: Scan of Pleasant Gehman's column "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" from LA Weekly 08-Oct-82. "The Gun Club are on their way to Paris, France, where Marlon Brando's daughter, Maya Ryan [sic, Cheyenne?], will be throwing a party for the group. Seems she has a crush on Jeffrey Lee, who, she finds, resembles her father when he was younger."

Note: All above tracks broadcast by France Inter FM Radio. Also broadcast in the US via the King Biscuit Flower Hour, syndicated radio show. (*)Broadcast on 21-Oct-82 by French Antenne 2 TV on the "Les Enfants du rock" program (hosted by Antoine de Caunes), section 'Houba! Houba! Concert', together with 2 more live tracks from the same show, "Run Through The Jungle" and "Carry Home".

08-Oct-82
NL Eindhoven,Effenaar

Setlist: Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ John Hardy/ Devil In the Woods/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Like Calling Up Thunder/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/.. and more...

Article: Scan from Het Parool, 08-Oct-82.

Note: Above tracks recorded and broadcast by Dutch VARA FM radio.

09-Oct-82
NL Rotterdam,Multimedia Café Parkzicht

Poster: Photo of poster.

Review: Scan taken from De Volkskrant 11-Oct-82.

10-Oct-82
NL Amsterdam,Melkweg

Ad: Scan taken from De Volkskrant 07-Oct-82.

Note: Last date of first European tour.

12-Oct-82
US CA,San Francisco,I-Beam
[with The Paris Working]

Ad: Scan of ad, taken from San Francisco Examiner 10-Oct-82.

Note: The I-Beam, located at 1748 Haight Street, began as a seven night a week gay club in 1977. From 1981 to 1992 rock bands played at the club, which closed down on July 23, 1994.

13-Oct-82
US CA,San Francisco,The Old Waldorf
[with Impatient Youth and Ifthenwhy]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Ad: Scan of advert, taken from San Francisco Examiner 10-Oct-82.

15-Oct-82
US CA,San Diego,State University-The Backdoor
[with Tex and The Horseheads]

Ad: Scan of ad, courtesy of Mike Ziegler.

Listing: Scan of listing from Los Angeles Times 05-Oct-82.

18-Oct-82
US AZ,Tucson,Backstage pub
[with Conflict]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Listing: Scan of listing from Arizona Daily Star 15-Oct-82.

Note: Start of the second US tour. Gun Club does not play, as half the band's van broke down on their way from L.A. Jeffrey arrived and is in the audience.

19-Oct-82
US AZ,Tempe,Devilhouse
[with Grant and the Geezers]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Photo: Photo credit Grant Cleaver.

22-Oct-82
US TX,Dallas,Hot Klub
[with The Big Boys]

Flyer: Taken from "Fucked Up and Photocopied", a book by Bryan R. Turcotte and Chris Miller.
Alternative flyer.

Listing: Scan of listing from Fort Worth Star-Telegram 15-Oct-82.

Contract: Photo of contract, courtesy of likeanelvisfromhell (Instragram). The band receives a flat fee of $400 (or 45% of the door receipts).

23-Oct-82
US OK,Oklahoma City,The Bowery
[with The Individuals]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

24-Oct-82
US TX,Austin,Club Foot
[with Body Nightclub]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Ad: Scan of advert from Austin American-Statesman Oct 21, 1982.

Review: Scan of review, taken from Austin American-Statesman Oct 26, 1982: "Terry Graham's drums and a new, female bass player layed a foundation solid as concrete, and occasional brilliance came from Ward Dotson's guitar, but Pierce's caterwauling and spoiled-brat stage-presence sabotaged what could have been a riveting show."

26-Oct-82
US TX,Houston,Fitzgerald's
[with Richard Hell]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

27-Oct-82
US LA,New Orleans,Tupelo's Tavern

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Ad: Scan of advert from Wavelength October 1982, courtesy of Mike Ziegler.

xx-Oct-82
US LA,Baton Rouge,-

Note: "I remember playing Baton Rouge on Halloween and feeling very lonely and homesick. I'd not been in the band long, and the boys were picking on me. I didn't know how to fight back yet. I was sitting outside the van feeling sorry for myself when an outrageous blond girl dressed up as Mae West came up to me and we hit it off. I ended up that evening dancing the night away with people dressed up as Confederate soldiers, Frankenstein, etc., and having the time of my life." Patricia Morrison quated in "Women of the Underground: Music" a book by Zora von Burden (Manic D Press, 2010).

29-Oct-82
US TN,Nashville-Clarksville,Reivers Eatery and Dancing

Listing: Scan of listing from The Memphis Press-Scimitar 28-Oct-82.

30-Oct-82
US GA,Atlanta,688 Club
[with The Roys]

Listing: Scan of listing from Atlanta Constitution 30-Oct-82.

31-Oct-82
US TN,Knoxville,-

Note: At the last night of the World Fair '82. (ref "Punk Like Me!", a book by Terry Graham.)

01-Nov-82
US TN,Nashville,Spanky's
[with Young Grey Ruins]

Setlist: Lost Highway [Leon Payne/Hank Williams]/ Texas Serenade/ John Hardy/ Black Train/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Carry Home/ Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Spirit/ Brother And Sister/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Sex Beat/ For The Love Of Ivy/ Goodbye Johnny/ Keep A Knockin' [Little Richard].

Flyer: Scan of flyer.

Listing: Scan of listing from The Tennessean 31-Oct-82.

04-Nov-82
US NJ,Hoboken,Maxwell's

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

05-Nov-82
US DC,Washington,9:30 Club

Setlist: Bo Diddley's A Gunslinger [Bo Diddley]/ She's Like Heroin To Me/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ John Hardy/ Brother And Sister/ Albert Finch/ Fire Spirit/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Black Train/ Sex Beat/ For The Love Of Ivy - Stairway To Heaven [Led Zeppelin]/ Carry Home/ Texas Serenade.

Ad: Scan of ad, taken from American Eagle 05-Nov-82.

06-Nov-82
US CT,Bridgeport,Pogo's

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Ticket: Scan of ticket.

10-Nov-82
US MA,Boston,The Channel Club

Ad: Scan taken from The Heights 08-Nov-82.

11-Nov-82
US NY,New York City,Peppermint Lounge
[with Tex and The Horseheads]

Setlist: Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/.. and more..

Photo: Credit Ebet Roberts. Sourced from Gettyimages/Referns music archives.

Ad: Scan of advert from the Village Voice, courtesy of Thurston Moore.

Review: Scan of review by Jon Pareles, from the New York Times 14-Nov-82, courtesy of Joslyn W. "Adding injury to insult, the band delayed its own set from I A.M. to 2 A.M. to appear as "Texas and the Horseheads" backing a singer so incompetent and affected she would flunk any New York club audition."

Note: Filmed by Paul Tschinkel (for his "Inner-Tube", Punk and New Wave documentary/cable TV series). Above track broadcast on Manhattan Cable access TV. The Gun Club backed Jeffrey's then girlfriend Texacala Jones.

12-Nov-82
US PA,Philadelphia,Love Club

Flyer: Photo of flyer, designed by Matt Marello.

16-Nov-82
US NY,Buffalo,The Continental

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Ad: Scan of advert from Buffalo News 12-Nov-82.

17-Nov-82
CA ON,Ottawa,The Roxy
[Screaming Bamboo]

Listing: Scan of listing from The Ottawa Citizen 12-Nov-82.

18-Nov-82
CA QC,Montréal,Le Cargo

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Ad: Scan of advert from The Gazette 06/13-Nov-82.

Ticket: Photo of ticket courtesy of Matti A.

19-Nov-82
CA ON,Toronto,Larry's Hideaway

Ticket: Scan of ticket courtesy of Frank M.

20-Nov-82
US OH,Cleveland,The Pop Shop (below The Agora Ballroom)
[with Easter Monkeys]

Setlist: (A.o.) Lost Highway [Leon Payne/Hank Williams]/ She's Like Heroin To Me/ Jack On Fire/ Ghost On The Highway/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Carry Home/ Sex Beat/ For The Love Of Ivy/ .. and more..

Ad: Scan of ad from Scene entertainment weekly, Volume 13, Issue 46 (18/24-Nov-82).

Review: Scan of review from Scene entertainment weekly, Volume 13, Issue 47 (24-Nov/01-Dec-82).

Note: "It was November of '82. Jeffrey Lee Pierce and his Gun Club were scheduled to play their first Cleveland gig at the Pop Shop, a small bar located under its much larger sister venue, the Agora. Every punk and wayward rocker in the area looked forward to it. But the Gun Club were a disappointment. They were drugged, tour-spent and in poor form, and they struggled to keep the formidable crowd that descended upon the Shop that fateful eve." (uncredited review on Attacking the Beat - blog).

21-Nov-82
US MI,Detroit,Hamtramck,Paycheck's Lounge
[with L-Seven]

Setlist: Lost Highway [Leon Payne/Hank Williams]/ Goodbye Johnny/ John Hardy/ She's Like Heroin To Me/ Jack On Fire/ Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Spirit/ Like Calling Up Thunder/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Devil In The Woods/ Sex Beat/ For The Love Of Ivy/ Stormy Weather/ Bo Diddley's A Gunslinger [Bo Diddley]/ Sleeping in Blood City.

Flyer: Photo of flyer. Another one here .

Listing: Scan of listing from Detroit Free Press 19-Nov-82.

22-Nov-82
US MI,East Lansing,Player's Club (moved from Dooley's)
[with Monkey Pilot]

Review: Scan of review taken from The State News, courtesy of John Neilson [Monkey Pilot].

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

24-Nov-82
US OH,Columbus,Mr.Browns
[with The Great Plains]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

xx-Nov-82
US During the last week of the tour Jeffrey intends to leave the tour. Ward Dotson forces him to stay (from "Ghost on the Highway" film).

26-Nov-82
US IL,Chicago,The Metro
[with The Bush Tetras]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

27-Nov-82
US WI,Milwaukee,The Palms Theatre
[with Bush Tetras and The Prosecuters]

Flyer: Photo of flyer, courtesy of Matti.

Note: The Milwaukee Journal dated 21-Jan-83 writes: "Anyone who witnessed the fiasco concert at the Palms last month won't be suprised to hear that the headlining group, The Gun Club, broke up. The lead singer, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, appeared so drunk that he stumbled, instead of stood on stage, and slobbered instead of sang. The crowd booed, the band walked off. Apparently, the remainder of the Gun Club's tour didn't fare much better. However, before and after the Milwaukee show, stranger behind the scenes incidents troubled the event......"

28-Nov-82
US IL,Chicago,Club 950 Lucky Number
[with Mortal Micronotz]

Flyer: Photo of flyer. Photo of another flyer courtesy of Håkan Beckman. .

30-Nov-82
US WI,Madison,Merlyn's
[with Hollywood Autopsy]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Listing: Scan of listing from The Capital Times 24-Nov-82.

01-Dec-82
US MO,St.Louis,Mississippi Nights
[with The Clones]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

02-Dec-82
US MO,Columbia,The Blue Note

03-Dec-82
US KS,Lawrence,Opera House
[with Mortal Micronotz]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Note: After the (deliberately truncated) set, Jeff and the band visit William S.Burroughs. Last date on the tour.

07-Dec-82
US NY,New York City,Mudd Club
American Beat - New York Rocker benefit
(Sonic Youth, ZEV, The Blue Pics + special guests)

Photo: Credit Catherine Ceresole, taken from "Beauty Lies in the Eye", photobook (Edition Patrick Frey 2013).

Flyer: Xerox of flyer.

Note: A Sonic Youth show at which Jeffrey Lee Pierce joins the band on vocals for their last song "I Wanna Be Your Dog".

08-Dec-82
US NY,New York City,CBGB's
American Beat - New York Rocker benefit
(Richard Hell, Peter Holsapple, The Revelons + special guests)

Photo: Credit Laura Levine.

Note: Jeffrey attends and perhaps joins one of the artists. Billy Idol is also present.

December 1982
The Gun Club break up

Terry Graham and Ward Dotson leave the band. Terry replaces Nick Knox in the Cramps for 2 US live dates (in Detroit/Chicago) and one studio demo session (in Hollywood) late December 1982. Terry would only return to the Gun Club in September 1983. Ward goes on to form first The Phillips Blues Band (1983), then The Pontiac Brothers (1984-1991), later The Liquor Giants (1991-2000) and recently Golden Sombrero (2013).

Dee Pop had been kicked out of the Bush Tetras and joins the temporary band The Mysterious Trees with the line-up: Texacala -Linda- Jones (vocals)/Jeffrey Lee Pierce (vocals/guitar)/Jimmy Joe Uliana [a friend of Dee Pop] (bass) and Dee Pop (drums). They play several shows in New York City (CBGB's and Peppermint Lounge) during December 1982.

Jim Duckworth [Panther Burns/Alex Chilton band] from Memphis and Dee Pop (real name Dimitri Constantin Papadopoulos) from New York join a new line-up of the Gun Club in New York in January 1983. Patricia Morrison does not participate to the "Death Party" EP recording sessions due to logistical reasons (i.e. she was in Los Angeles).

Interview: Excerpt from an interview with Jeffrey, from "Alternative America" fanzine, courtesy of Matti.

January/February 1983
US NY,New York City,Blank Tapes studios on 21st street,recording sessions (5 days) for the "Death Party" 7"/12" EP. Engineered by Joe Arlotta. 'Produced' by Chris Stein. Initially intended as a Tex & The Horseheads session. Songs written and recorded: The House On Highland Ave/ The Lie (initially titled "So Why")(*)/ The Light Of The World(*)/ Death Party/ Come Back Jim. Guest: Texacala -Linda- Jones (of Tex & The Horseheads). (*) these songs are also part of the Mysterious Trees' repertoire.

According to Dee Pop the band rehearsed one day (for 3 hours), then did a 6-days tour of the East coast, had 2 days off, then went off to Europe for 2 months playing on rented equipment. Dee Pop played the East Coast tour with a broken hand and then left for the European tour, still with a broken hand!

February 1983
US NY,New York City,Stardust Motel
One day filming for the "House On Highland Ave" promo video, made by Jonas Thaler.

February 1983
US NY,New York City,-

Content: Jeffrey Lee Pierce interviewed for "Bang Zoom" cassette zine #3 by Carolyn Master and Michael Baseman. BZ#3 also includes "Devil In The Woods" and "Keep A Knockin'", recorded live @ Maxwell's, Hoboken (NJ) on 29-May-82.

Audio: Bang Zoom Issue #3 (Gun Club section 41:42-53:30).

Note: Between 1981-83, Bang Zoom offices were located @ Einsteins boutique shop at 34 East 7th street (NYC), opened by designer Paul Monroe in 1981 (and in 1983 artist Greer Lankton joined him as a partner).

25-Feb-83
US NY,New York City-Brooklyn,Sheepshead Bay,Brooklyn Zoo
[with Certain Generals]

Listing: Scan of listing from Daily News 23-Feb-83.

Article: Interview with Jeffrey from FFanzeen #11 .

Note: Jim Duckworth's first show with The Gun Club.

26-Feb-83
US PA,Philadelphia,East Side Club
[with Dance Factory]

Ad: Scan of ad from Philadelphia Daily News 25-Feb-83.

01-Mar-83
US RI,Providence,The Living Room
[with MX]

Ad: Scan of ad, from the Boston Rock #37.

02-Mar-83
US MA,Boston,The Channel Club
[with Someone & the Somebodies]

Ad: Scan from the Boston Phoenix 01-Mar-83.

Review: Scan of review from The Heights 07-Mar-83.

Note: In a December 1984 interview Jeffrey mentions that the 5 tracks released on the "Love Supreme" semi-legit LP album (Offense, France) -labeled as having been recorded at the Vinavil Club, Imola, Italy (on 28-Nov-83)- were in fact recorded in Boston.

0x-Mar-83
US CO,Denver,Mercury Cafe

05-Mar-83
US DC,Washington,9:30 Club (2 sets)
[with The Renegades]

Setlist: (2nd set) Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Sex Beat/ The House On Highland Ave/ The Lie/ Cool Drink Of Water/ Fire Spirit/ Death Party/ Heebies Jeebies [Boyd Atkins].

Handbill: Scan of handbill.

Note: During "Sex Beat" Jeffery runs into a pole, temporarily knocking himself out. Mike Lavella (a Pittsburgh punk) picks up the mic and sings the final bit of "Sex Beat"."

09-Mar-83
FR Rouen,Le Petit-Quevilly,Exo 7
[with Les Nus]

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ John Hardy/ The Lie/ The House On Highland Ave/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Fire Spirit/ Death Party/ Goodbye Johnny/ Sex Beat/ Heebies Jeebies [Boyd Atkins]/ Texas Serenade.

Ticket: Scan of ticket, courtesy of Dominique.

Article: Scan of article.

Note: Start of the second tour of Europe. Two months of heavy alcohol and drugs consumption. "Studio 44" (1979-1983) was previously known as "Cinéma le Chartreux" (1953-1979) and later renamed as "Exo 7" (1983-2010). The building was demolished in the Autumn of 2021.

10-Mar-83
FR Paris,Le Bataclan
[with Les Nus]

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday](+)/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds](+)/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR](+)/ John Hardy(+)/ The Lie/ The House On Highland Ave/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Fire Spirit/ Death Party/ Goodbye Johnny/ Sex Beat/ Heebies Jeebies [Boyd Atkins].

Ticket: Scan of ticket.

Photo: Credit Jean-Pierre V.

Note: Just before they went on stage all (except Patricia) consumed what they believed was coke, which turned out to be heroin. Tracks (+) are available on the "Eat My F*ck Tour 83", French fan club cassette tape (1984).

11-Mar-83
FR Orléans-Olivet,Le Zig Zag
[with Les Nus]

Setlist: The Lie/ Death Party/ Sex Beat/.. and more..

Photo: Credit © Jean Zindel .

Ad: Reproduction of ad from the "The Life And Times Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce" 4CD Box Set booklet (Retro Deluxe 2008).

Note: Above tracks are available on the "Eat My F*ck Tour 83", French fan club cassette tape (1984).

12-Mar-83
FR Rennes,Salle de la Cité

Ticket: Scan courtesy of Laurent Ouvrard.

14-Mar-83
FR Toulouse,Salle de la Piscine
[with Les Nus]

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ The Lie/ John Hardy/ Black Train/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Fire Spirit/ Death Party/ Sex Beat/ Heebies Jeebies [Boyd Atkins]/ Disco Inferno [Trammps].

Ticket: Photo of ticket.

15-Mar-83
FR Bordeaux,-

Setlist: Black Train/.. and more..

Poster: Photo of generic French tour poster.

Note: Above track available on the "Eat My F*ck Tour 83", French fan club cassette tape (1984).

16-Mar-83
FR Clermont-Ferrand,Chris Club

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ John Hardy/ The Lie/ Black Train/ ?/ Disco Inferno [Trammps]/ Brother And Sister/ Death Party/ Sex Beat/ Goodbye Johnny/ Heebies Jeebies [Boyd Atkins].

Poster: Photo of generic French tour poster.

17-Mar-83
FR Lyon,Palais d'hiver,West Side Club
[with Les Nus]

Setlist: Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Fire Spirit/ Goodbye Johnny/ Texas Serenade/ Heebies Jeebies [Boyd Atkins]/ House On Highland Ave/ Sex Bomb [Flipper]/ .. and more ..

Ticket: Scan of ticket.

Note: Above tracks available on the "Eat My F*ck Tour 83", French fan club cassette tape (1984).

18-Mar-83
CH Genève,Studio 4 of a jazz radio station,Rockline

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ The House On Highland Ave/ Death Party/ Heebies Jeebies [Boyd Atkins]/ The Lie/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR].

Note: Jeffrey 'plays' piano on some tracks. Available on the "Death Party" CD (SFTRI 2004).

19-Mar-83
CH Genève,Le CAB (Centre commercial Avenchet)

Listing: Scan of listing from Journal de Genève 19-Mar-83.

20-Mar-83
CH Zürich,Rote Fabrik - Tonmodern Festival
[with Motor Boys Motor]

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ John Hardy/ The Lie/ Black Train/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ The House On Highland Ave/ Fire Spirit/ Death Party/ Sex Beat/ Goodbye Johnny/ Texas Serenade.

Ad: Scan of ad, taken from Neue Zürcher Nachrichten 18-Mar-83.

Note: All but the first 2 tracks were broadcast by Swiss Radio DRS 2. All but last 3 tracks available on the "Death Party" 2CD (Cooking Vinyl 2009). Tonmodern Festival line-up: 11-Mar-83: Au Pairs, Minimal Compact, Liliput; 12-Mar-83: Zebra, Bisca, Catalogue; 13-Mar-83: The Go-Betweens, Blue China; 18-Mar-83: Polyphonic Size, Aboriginal Voices, Fad Gadget; 19-Mar-83: JaJaja, Der Moderne Mann, Zapotek; 20-Mar-83: Motor Boys Motor, Gun Club.

21-Mar-83
CH Basel,-

22-Mar-83
FR Grenoble-Lancey,Salle des fêtes

Ticket: Scan of ticket courtesy of Pierre Mugnier.

23-Mar-83
FR Montpellier,Grand Odéon

Ticket: Scan of ticket.

24-Mar-83
FR Marseille,Le Flipper

Ticket: Scan of ticket, credit Chris Begood. Scan of another ticket.

Note: Nearly 1,000 attendants.

25-Mar-83
DE Münster,Odeon

Ad: Taken from Scritti mag Mar-83.

Note: Start of first (7-date) German tour.

26-Mar-83
DE Hamburg,Markthalle
[with Treibsand]

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR](+)/ John Hardy/ The Lie(+)/ Black Train(+)/ The House On Highland Ave(+)/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson](+)/ Fire Spirit(+)/ Death Party(+)/ Sex Beat(+)/ Goodbye Johnny(+)/ Texas Serenade/ Heebie Jeebies [Boyd Atkins]/ Disco Inferno [Trammps].

Poster: Scan of generic tour poster courtesy of Matti.

Note: (+) broadcast by German FM radio and also available on the "Amarillo Beach" bootleg LP.

27-Mar-83
DE Berlin,Quartier Latin

28-Mar-83
NO Oslo,University-Blindern campus,Chateau Neuf-Circus (basement)

Ad: Scan of ad, taken from Puls musicmagazine #3, 1983.

Photo: Photos credit Kåre Eide, sourced from the Norwegian National library.

Note: In the basement, after Simple Minds played the upstairs main hall. Organised by the Ratz/Studio 26 team.

29-Mar-83
SE Stockholm,Kolingsborg
[with Urban Släke]

Setlist: Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ and many more...

Photo: Credit Mats Bäcker as published in Schlager # 65, dated 19th of April 1983. Scan courtsey of Matti A.

Note: Kolingsborg used to be called Bobbadilla.

31-Mar-83
SE Malmö,KB-Kulturbolaget

0x-Apr-83
DK København,-

03-Apr-83
FR Bourges,Chapiteau
Le Printemps de Bourges festival #7
[with U2, Les Rois Fainéants, Zéro de conduite]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Ticket: Scan of ticket.

Article: Scan of article.

Note 1: Before the show, Jeffrey Lee Pierce had met Zéro de conduite (a French punk group, all aged 11-13 years) at the train station, waiting for the promoter to pick him up. The kids had recorded a version of "Sex Beat" on a cassette tape, which they gave to Jeff. He liked it so much that the Gun Club let them do a 10 mins version in French of "Sex Beat" (using the Gun Club's equipment) just before they went on stage themselves. On stage, standing next to drummer Guilaume Ledoux were Bono and The Edge who were laughing and cheering. Dee, Jim and Patricia had to get the kids off stage because they had no idea how to end the song. After the Gun Club's set the stage and U2's equipment (which was already on stage) were left in a mess with beer cans and stuff.

Note 2: A recording of the Gun Club's show was broadcast on 27-Sep-83 by pirate radio station Radio Transis'Tours @ 93.6FM (from Tours). U2's show was broadcast on 26-Apr-83.

05-Apr-83
DE München,Alabamahalle

Ticket: Scan of ticket courtesy of Ingrid.

06-Apr-83
DE Frankfurt,Batschkapp

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Spirit/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ John Hardy/ The Lie/ Black Train/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ The House On Highland Ave/ Death Party/ Sex Beat/ Goodbye Johnny/ Texas Serenade/ Heebie Jeebies [Boyd Atkins]/ Disco Inferno [Trammps].

07-Apr-83
DE Bochum,Zeche

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Spirit/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ John Hardy/ The Lie/ Black Train/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Death Party/ Sex Beat/ The House On Highland Ave/ Heebie Jeebies [Boyd Atkins].

08-Apr-83
DE Bonn,Rheinterrassen

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday] /Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ John Hardy/ The Lie/ Black Train/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Fire Spirit/ Death Party/ Sex Beat/ Goodbye Johnny/ The House On Highland Ave/ Texas Serenade.

Ticket: Scan of ticket.

09-Apr-83
NL Leiden,LVC

Ad: Taken from Oor magazine 09-Apr-83.

Review: Review from NRC Handelsblad 11-Apr-83; Review from Het Parool 11-Apr-83; Review from De Volkskrant 11-Apr-83; Review from Trouw 15-Apr-83;

11-Apr-83
FR Dijon-Marsannay,Salle des Fêtes
[with Les Nus]

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ John Hardy/ The Lie/ Black Train/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Fire Spirit/ Death Party/ Sex Beat/ Goodbye Johnny/ Texas Serenade/ Heebies Jeebies [Boyd Atkins]/ Disco Inferno [Trammps].

Ticket: Photo of ticket.

13-Apr-83
UK/DE Release of the "Death Party" EP (Animal Records).

13-Apr-83
NL Nijmegen,Doornroosje

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday](*)/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds](*)/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ John Hardy(*)/ The Lie(*)/ Black Train(*)/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson](*)/ Fire Spirit/ Death Party/ Sex Beat(*)/ Goodbye Johnny/ Texas Serenade/ Heebies Jeebies [Boyd Atkins]/ Disco Inferno [Trammps].

Listing: Scan of listing from Vinyl mag #24, Apr-83.

Note: (*) broadcast by Dutch VARA FM radio.

14-Apr-83
NL Groningen,Vera

Review: Review taken from Het Nieuwsblad van het Noorden, 15-Apr-83.

15-Apr-83
NL Amsterdam,Melkweg

Note: Likely cancelled/moved to Paradiso.

16-Apr-83
NL Apeldoorn,Gigant

Setlist: Goodbye Johnny(*)/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR](*)/ John Hardy(*)/ The Lie/ Fire Of Love/ Black Train/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Death Party(*)/ Sex Beat(*)/ Fire Spirit(*)/ Heebies Jeebies [Boyd Atkins](*)/ The House On Highland Ave(*)/ Disco Inferno [Trammps](*).

Photo: Scan of xerox. Credit unknown.

Note: (*) broadcast by Dutch KRO FM radio on the 'Rocktempel' show.

17-Apr-83
NL Amsterdam,Paradiso
[with Sturm und Drang]

Setlist: The Lie/ Fire Spirit/.. and more...

Photo 1: Credit Lex Van Rossen/MAI. Sourced from Gettyimages/Referns music archives.

Photo 2: Screen capture from TV broadcast.

Poster: Photo of poster, designed by Martin Kaye.

Video: "Hotel Suburbia" Episode #4 (not #3). Gun Club piece starts at 06:14.

Note 1: Above tracks broadcast on 20-Apr-83 by Dutch VPRO TV, on the "Hotel Suburbia" program presented by Jan Eilander. Also includes an interview with Jeffrey and Patricia, of which the audio part together with "The Lie" and "Fire Spirit" is available on the "The Life And Times Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce" 4CD Box Set (Retro Deluxe 2008). Same live tracks are available on the "Moonlight Motel" bootleg LP (1985), "Enigma Of Desire" bootleg LP (2000) and "Moonlight Motel" official CD/LP (Cleopatra Records 2014).

Note 2: Just like its predecesor, Götterdämmerung 2000, Hotel Suburbia was cancelled prematurely, after 4 episodes only.

19-Apr-83
UK Leeds,The Warehouse
[with The Sisters Of Mercy]

Ad: Taken from a UK mag April 1983, courtesy of Matti A.

20-Apr-83
UK Manchester,Hacienda
[with The Sisters Of Mercy]

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ John Hardy/ The Lie/ Black Train/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Fire Spirit/ Death Party/ Sex Beat/ Goodbye Johnny/ Texas Serenade/ Heebies Jeebies [Boyd Atkins]/ Disco Inferno [Trammps].

Photo: Screen capture from DVD.

Ad: Scan of advert taken from UK mag.

Note: Video available on the "Live At The Hacienda 1983/1984" DVD (Cherry Red 2006). Audio released on "Live At The Hacienda '83" LP (Cherry Red/Culture Factory, 2022).

21-Apr-83
UK Norwich,Gala Ballroom
[with The Sisters Of Mercy]

Ticket: Scan of ticket.

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

22-Apr-83
UK Newcastle,Dingwalls
[with The Sisters Of Mercy]

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ John Hardy/ The Lie/ Black Train/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Fire Spirit/ Death Party/ Sex Beat/ Goodbye Johnny.

Ad: Scan of ad.

Ticket: Scan of ticket.

23-Apr-83
UK Sheffield,Dingwalls

Ad: Scan of ad.

Note: Without the Sisters of Mercy as support. "At Sheffield they were joined on stage for half the set by the legendary Dancing Tarantulas, a bunch of pinheads who dance to records, thus giving Jeffrey the opportunity for a sitdown" (from an article by Kris Needs for Flexipop magazine 1983). Dingwalls briefly existed until summer '83 at the location of the former Hofbrauhaus Bierkeller.

24-Apr-83
UK London,The Lyceum
[with The Sisters Of Mercy, New Model Army, Joolz, Sex Beat]

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ John Hardy/ The Lie/ Black Train/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Fire Spirit/ Death Party/ Sex Beat/ Goodbye Johnny/ The House On Highland Ave/ Texas Serenade/ Heebie Jeebies [Boyd Atkins]/ Disco Inferno [Trammps].

Poster: Photo of poster, courtesy of Peter Bloyce.

Ad: Scan of advert taken from a UK mag April 1983. Another ad, taken from NME 16-Apr-83.

Review: Scan taken from The Guardian, Apr 26, 1983.

Note: All tracks, except for "Disco Inferno" released on "Live In London 1983" LP (Blixa Sounds, 2020), Record Store Day release.

25-Apr-83
UK Brighton,Xtreems Club

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ John Hardy/ The Lie/ Black Train/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Fire Spirit/ Death Party/ Sex Beat/ Goodbye Johnny/ ..and more.

Ad: Ad for Uk tour, taken from NME 16-Apr-83.

Note: Last date of the 2 month European tour. Drummer Dee Pop switched to vocals and Jim Duckworth to drums for the encore. "Fire Of Love" available on the "The Life And Times Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce" 4CD Box Set (Retro Deluxe 2008).

20-Jun-83
US CA,San Francisco,I-Beam
[with Los Black Athletes]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Ad: Scan of advert, taken from San Francisco Examiner 19-Jun-83.

Handbill: Scan of handbill.

22-Jun-83
US AZ,Phoenix,DecaDance Nightclubette

Flyer: Scan of flyer courtesy of Matti.

xx-xxx-83
US AZ,Phoenix,The Mason Jar

24-Jun-83
US WA,Seattle,Metropolis
[with U-Men]

Photo: Credit © Michael Leach (from www.bestrockphotos.com). Used with kind permission.

Flyer: Photo of flyer. Photo of another flyer.

01-Jul-83
US OH,Cleveland,Dave Goode's Videotheque

Ad: Scan of ad from Scene entertainment weekly, Volume 14, Issue 46 (30-Jun/06-Jul-83).

03-Jul-83
US CA,San Francisco,The On Broadway Theater

Note: Rescheduled to the 23rd.

07-Jul-83
US LA,New Orleans,Tipitina's

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ John Hardy/ The Lie/ Stranger In Your Town/ Black Train/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ Eternally Is Here/ Moonlight Motel/ She's Like Heroin to Me/ Death Party/ Sex Beat/ Texas Serenade/ Goodbye Johnny/ A Love Supreme [John Coltrane].

Listing: Scan of listing from The Sun 02-Jul-83.

08-Jul-83
US NY,New York City-Manhattan,First City Cabaret

Listing: Scan of listing from the Canarsie Courier 07-Jul-83.

09-Jul-83
US GA,Atlanta,688 Club
[with Kilkenny Cats]

Listing: Scan of listing from The Atlanta Constitution 09-Jul-83.

Note: "With The Gun Club, I did a show where the entire band except for me missed the plane. And me and my brother – who was our roadie – get to the 688 club and do the entire soundcheck by ourselves – my brother played drums and I played the guitar and sang – to check all the instruments hoping they would make it on time. Which they did, by like 30 seconds. But they showed up and they were all trashed, and I was trashed because I figured, ‘Oh well, they’re not gonna show up, fuck it.’ So, it was one of those Gun Club debacles. We played disco songs, and we played ‘Sex Bomb’ by Flipper for half an hour, and shit like that." Dee Pop interviewed for Stomp and Stammer,2018.

12-Jul-83
US TX,Dallas,Ground Zero
[with The Devices]

Flyer: Photo of flyer, courtesy of Mike Z.

14-Jul-83
US MI,Ann Arbor,Big Beat

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Article: Scan from the Michigan Daily 14-Jul-83.

Review: Scan from the Michigan Daily 16-Jul-83.

Note: Big Beat (formerly Mile High Club) was located above the Heidelberg restaurant, a German restaurant on 215 North Main street. Gun Club played on Big Beat's opening night.

15-Jul-83
US FL,Miami-Hialeah,Blitz
[with Charlie Pickett And The Eggs]

Listing: Scan of listing from the Fort Lauderdale News 08-Jul-83.

Note: 200 people attended.

22-Jul-83
US NY,New York City,Peppermint Lounge
[with Violent Femmes]

Setlist: (partial) Sex Beat/ Texas Serenade/ Goodbye Johnny/ Death Party/ Black Train/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ A Love Supreme.

Review: Review taken from Dangerous Rhythms Issue #3, December 1983.

23-Jul-83
US CA,San Francisco,The On Broadway Theater
[with Swinging Possums and RX]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Ad: Scan of advert, taken from San Francisco Examiner 17-Jul-83.

29-Jul-83
US TN,Memphis,Antenna
[with The Modifiers]

Article: Scan of article from The Memphis Press-Scimitar 28-Jul-83.

30-Jul-83
US PA,Philadelphia,Filly’s
[with Dance Factor]

Article: Scan of article from Philadelphia Daily News 29-Jul-83.

Note: Because Jeff had missed his flight, vocal duties are taken by Dee Pop, Ben Vaughn [Ben Vaughn Combo] and the guy from Dance Factor, the support band.

02-Aug-83
CA ON,Toronto,The Upper Lip

03-Aug-83
CA ON,Toronto,The Upper Lip

Flyer: Reproduction of flyer taken from the booklet of the "Death Party" 2CD (Cooking Vinyl 2009).

Tickets: Xerox of ticket for August 2nd show. Scan of ticket for the August 3rd show, courtesy of Frank M.

Note: Opening bands at one of the above shows are The 10 Commandments and Living Proof.

07-Aug-83
US MN,Minneapolis,First Ave
[support for Alan Vega]

Photo: Credit Gary Smith.

Calendar: Scan of calendar.

Ad: Scan of advert courtesy of Jim F.

11-Aug-83
US CA,Hollywood,Club Lingerie (@ 6507 Sunset Boulevard)
[with Tex & The Horseheads and The Joneses]

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Eternally Is Here/ John Hardy/ The Lie/ Stranger In Your Town/ Like Calling Up Thunder/ She's Like Heroin To Me/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Moonlight Motel/ Death Party/ Sex Beat/ Texas Serenade/ The House On Highland Ave/ Carry Home.

Ad 1: Scan of ad from LA Weekly 12-Aug-83. "1st L.A. appearance in 14 months".

Ad 2: Reproduction of advert (from LA Weekly 05-Aug-83), taken from booklet with "Las Vegas Story" reissue (Blixa Sounds, 2022).

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 05-Aug-83.

Note: Jeffrey played guitar in Tex and the Horseheads from July till December 1982.

13-Aug-83
US NY,New York City,Dancetaria

Listing: Scan of listing from Canarsie Courier 11-Aug-83.

18-Aug-83
US CT,West Haven,Brothers

Poster: Photo of poster, courtesy of likeanelvisfromhell (Instragram).

Note: Show did not happen, the club owners were in the process of closing Brothers and opening the Grotto in New Haven.

19-Aug-83
US MA,Boston,The Rat
[with The Plugz]

20-Aug-83
US MA,Boston,The Rat
[with The Del Fuegos]

Ad: Scan of ad, taken from Boston Rock #42 (08-Aug-83).

xx-Aug-83
US MI,Detroit,Hamtramck,Paycheck's Lounge

Note: Dee Pop confirmed (in an email to me) that his last show with the Gun Club was @ Paycheck's Lounge.

xx-xxx-83
US NY,New York City,Dancetaria

Note: Show with Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Alan Vega, Bryan Gregory, a friend/roadie of Bryan Gregory and Dee Pop. They rehearsed amongst other "96 Tears". Event cancelled because Jeffrey Lee Pierce went missing.

28-Aug-83
US CA,Hollywood,Cathay De Grande (@ 1600 Argyle Avenue at Selma Avenue)
The Sunday Club presents:
[with Blood on the Saddle, Phranc and The Knitters]

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 26-Aug-83.

Note: Jeffrey Lee Pierce solo acoustic. The Knitters were Exene Cervenka, John Doe and DJ Bonebrake [all X], Dave Alvin [The Blasters] and Jonny Ray Bartel [The Red Devils].

02-Sep-83
NL Amsterdam,Paradiso
[with Violent Femmes]

Note: Cancelled at the last moment, due to (booking) agent issues, or just because the Gun Club had broken up (again).

03-Sep-83
NL Rotterdam,De Doelen
Pandora's Music Box Festival

Flyer: Scan of front cover of the official festival booklet.

Ad: Scan of ad .

Note: Cancelled at the last moment, due to (booking) agent issues, or just because the Gun Club had broken up (again).

08-Sep-83
UK London,The Lyceum
[with Violent Femmes and Beast]

Ad: Taken from NME 20-Aug-83, courtesy of Matti.

Note: Cancelled at the last moment, due to (booking) agent issues, or just because the Gun Club had broken up (again).

15-Sep-83
US CA,Los Angeles-Santa Monica,Music Machine
[with Shadow Minstrels, Screamin' Sirens and Grand Manner]

Ad: Scan of ad from LA Weekly 16-Sep-83.

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 09-Sep-83.

Review: Scan of review from the Los Angeles Times, 19-Sep-83. " [...] the place was packed with people who wanted to see what unpredictable leader Jeffrey Lee Pierce is up to these days. It turned out to be not much. Actually, many of the group's local fans may have been heartened by the lack of change in this performance. Gun Club's country-blues-meets-punk sound is as unstable a mix as ever. It's not hard to pinpoint the problem. [...] With his long, ratty bleached-blond hair, Pierce has always been more of a shamanic showman than a vocalist. But you'd think that he would have learned to sing more effectively by now. Instead, his voice was shakier than ever on Thursday [...]"

Note: First show with the reformed Gun Club.

23-Sep-83
US CA,Hollywood,Cathay De Grande (@ 1600 Argyle Avenue at Selma Avenue)
[with Cambridge Apostles, Kommunity FK, The Modifiers]

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 23-Sep-83.

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ She's Like Heroin To Me/ The Lie/ Walking With The Beast/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Moonlight Motel/ Death Party/ Sex Beat/ Texas Serenade/ Goodbye Johnny.

Note: Cambridge Apostles was Alice Armandariz [The Bags] new (yet short-lived) band.

September 1983. The "Fire Of Love" album had been released in Australia on Big Time Records. On the verge of the Australian tour, at San Francisco airport, Jim Duckworth and Terry Graham leave the band. Jeffrey gets on his flight to Melbourne. Patricia Morrison takes hers (to Sydney) as well, but arrives a day later (in Melbourne). In the meantime Spencer P.Jones [later in Beasts of Bourbon] and Billy Pommer Jr., both of Australian band The Johnnys, are hired for the live band. Jeffrey calls Kid Congo, who by then had just left The Cramps, to re-join The Gun Club. Kid flies in from Los Angeles and arrives in Australia on 30-Sep-83. Back in the US, Terry Graham joins The Leaving Trains and records with them for their "Well Down Blue Highway" album.

Ad: Scan of ad from RAM magazine September 1983.

Article: Scan of "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" column from LA Weekly 07-Oct-83.

Note: "Or the time, going to Australia, [Jeffrey] didn’t have a ride to bet to the airport so I gave him my ride. Consequently I was late getting there. And we had to take a connecting flight from L.A. to San Francisco, then on to Australia. We sorted that out, and I made sure we got dinner and everything. But our equipment was late because it had to come on a later flight. To make a long story short, Jeffrey, because I had taken care of him and he was on time, was able to go on the plane. The others, we were standing there waiting for our guitars to come out of the [baggage carousel]. Well, they were saying, ‘Your plane is leaving.’ And Jeffrey said, ‘Just leave ’em.’ I said, ‘What do you mean? We can’t just leave them!’ And he said, ‘I have to go. People are waiting to see me. I am an important man.’ So our equipment finally came out. The other two people in the band turned to me, which was Terry Graham and Jim Duckworth, I think it was, and said, ‘We’re not going, Patricia.’ And Jeffrey had already gone to Australia for the tour. This is actually the first time anyone has every heard this, because up until now we just pretended that it was an accident. But they planned it totally ahead of time, and said ‘We’re not going to go.’ So I said, ‘Well, I want to, because I’ve never been to Australia, so I’m going!’ So they said, ‘OK, fine,’ and hung around with me. Terry had a video camera, and we took videos of us talking about this. I got on the plane and I went. We stopped in Hawaii, and there was a message that came over the [speaker]. ‘Miss Morrison, please come to the thing, there is a message for you.’ And it was the [booking] agent saying, ‘Something weird’s happened here. Terry and Jim’s names aren’t down as on the plane. What’s happened?’ And I said, ‘They’re not coming.’ And the agent… he just couldn’t get it through his head. He was like, ‘What are we going to do?’ I said, ‘I don’t know, but I am going to Australia.’ Hahaha! So I went. And there was a band called The Johnnys in Australia. We picked up the guitarist, Spencer P. Jones, and Billy [Pommer], their drummer. We had one soundcheck/rehearsal, totally jetlagged, and played the shows. I mean, that is what [Jeffrey] could drive you to. It’s hard to explain unless you’ve put up with it, but I’ve seen him get people to tears." Patricia interviewed for Stomp and Stammer,2001.

27-Sep-83
AU Adelaide,Norwood Town Hall

Poster: Photo of poster.

Note: Re-scheduled to 14-Oct-83.

28-Sep-83
AU Melbourne-Kew,Prospect Hill Hotel

Setlist: Mean Old Train/ I'm Lonesome (Lonely Old Sun)/ Not Supposed To Be That Way [Willie Nelson]/ Secret Fires/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ Moonlight Motel(+)/ Mother Of Earth(+)/ The House On Highland Ave/ My Man's Gone Now [George Gershwin]/ Brother And Sister/ Carry Home/ Black Train/ Lost Highway [Leon Payne/Hank Williams]/ John Hardy [traditional]/ Hello Walls [Willie Nelson].

Poster: Photo of poster.

Article: Scan of article from The Age 30-Sep-83.

Line-up: Jeffrey Lee Pierce solo on acoustic guitar.

Note: "Hello Walls" available on the "Danse Kalinda Boom-9 Lives #4" 2CD (Flow Records 2006); (+) available on the "The Life And Times Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce" 4CD Box Set (Retro Deluxe 2008).

29-Sep-83
AU Geelong-Ocean Grove,The Collendina (Ocean Grove) Hotel
[with The Johnnys]

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Moonlight Motel/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ Brother And Sister/ The House On Highland Avenue/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ A Love Supreme [John Coltrane]/ .. and more..

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Photo: Photo credit Ron McP.

Note: Above tracks available on the "Danse Kalinda Boom-9 Lives #4" 2CD (Flow Records 2006).

30-Sep-83
AU Melbourne-St.Kilda,Seaview Ballroom
[with The Johnnys and Painters & Dockers]

Ad: Scan of xerox of Australian tour ad.

Interview: Scan of article taken from The Age 30-Sep-83.

Note: First Australian show with Kid who by then had just left The Cramps. Kid flew in from Los Angeles in time for this gig.

01-Oct-83
AU Melbourne-St.Kilda,Seaview Ballroom
[with The Corpse Grinders & Tombstone Hands]

Review: Photo of review by Lazarus Dobelsky, taken from A-Z magazine, October 1983.

02-Oct-83
AU Melbourne,University
[with Plays With Marionettes]

Photo: Credit Wayne O'Farrell.

Listing: Scan of listing, taken from The Age 30-Sep-83.

Note: Organised by 3RRR FM-radio.

04-Oct-83
AU Canberra,Australian National University (ANU)-bar

Note: Organised by 2XX FM radio. "That night, the support band asked if they could use a smoke machine and if we wanted to use it for our set also. Sure, We said that would be great. We decided to turn it on during "Cool Drink of Water," [...] The machine was turned on. Smoke poured out, and poured and poured, until it was so thick, we could barely see each other, let alone the audience. Lost in a haze, we turned the song into a psychedelic drone, driving it up and up in volume and intensity. After about ten minutes, we stopped. The air around us began to clear. Almost the entire audience had split, driven away by the smoke, apart from two hippie chicks headbanging at the front." from "Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir", book by Kid Congo Powers (2022).

05-Oct-83
AU Sydney-Surry Hills,Trade Union Club
[with The Celibate Rifles]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Photo: Backstage photo, credit George Tsoutas.

Ad: Scan of ad from Sydney Morning Herald 30-Sep-83.

Article 1: Scan of article by Stuart Coupe from Sydney Morning Herald 02-Oct-83.

Article 2: Scan from a review by Rob Miller published in On The Street October,1983.

06-Oct-83
AU Sydney-Surry Hills,Trade Union Club
[with the Scientists]

Photo: Credit David Laing.

Article: Article written by Stuart Coupe, taken from The Sydney Morning Herald 02-Oct-83.

07-Oct-83
AU Sydney,Manly Vale Hotel
[with The Hoodoo Gurus]

Listing: Scan of ad, taken from The Sydney Morning Herald 30-Sep-83.

08-Oct-83
AU Sydney-Carmens,Miranda Hotel
[with Hoi Polloi]

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Moonlight Motel(*)/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ Brother And Sister(*)/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ The Lie/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Death Party/ Jack On Fire/ Sex Beat/ For The Love Of Ivy/ The House On Highland Ave/ A Love Supreme.

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Note: Tracks (*) available on the "The Life And Times Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce" 4CD Box Set (Retro Deluxe 2008).

09-Oct-83
AU Brisbane-Fortitude Valley,Whispers

Note: Whispers was opened in 1979 as Brisbane’s premier entertainment centre, spread over three levels, it had a capacity of 1,000 people. The owners used the lighting designer from New York's famous Studio 54 spending over half a million (Australian) dollars on lighting alone. Whispers also had valet parking, cigarette girls, drink waiters and an a-la-carte restaurant.

12-Oct-83
AU Sydney,Paddington Green Hotel-Players
[with Young Docteurs and Ragadoll]

Flyer: Photo of flyer, courtesy of likeanelvisfromhell (Instagram).

Listing: Scan of listing, taken from The Sydney Morning Herald 12-Oct-83.

Note: During the last song -"A Love Supreme", the plug was pulled on the band.

12-Oct-83
AU Sydney-Paddington,Paddo's Restaurant,Commotion Club

Photo: Reproduction of photo from Stiletto zine Nov-83, taken from "The Life And Times Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce" 4CD Box Set booklet.

Note: Not a live show. Commotion Club was a newly opened nightclub, each Wednesday night.

14-Oct-83
AU Adelaide,Norwood Town Hall
[with The Spikes]

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Moonlight Motel/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ Brother And Sister/ Cool Drink Of Water [Tommy Johnson]/ The Lie/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Death Party/ Jack On Fire/ Sex Beat/ For The Love Of Ivy/ The House On Highland Ave/ A Love Supreme.

Photo: Screen capture from private video.

Video: Private video.

Review: Review from DNA zine #35, January 84.

15-Oct-83
AU Melbourne-Collingwood,The Club
[with Bliss Bombs]

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Moonlight Motel/ Run Through The Jungle [John Fogerty/CCR]/ Brother And Sister/ The Lie/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Death Party/ Jack On Fire/ Sex Beat/ For The Love Of Ivy/ The House On Highland Ave/ Cool Drink Of Water/ A Love Supreme [John Coltrane].

Listing: Scan of listing, taken from The Age 14-Oct-83.

Note: Released on a live tape labeled "Bop Girl", because Jeffrey's endlessly referring to Pat Wilson's pop song with the same title, that had just been released in September 1983.

16-Oct-83
AU Melbourne-South Yarra,Her Majesty's Nightspot (aka Macy's)
[with Frontier Scouts]

Setlist: The Lie/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Death Party/ Jack On Fire/ Sex Beat/ For The Love Of Ivy/...and more..

Listing: Scan of listing, taken from The Age 14-Oct-83.

Note: Above tracks available on the "Danse Kalinda Boom-9 Lives #4" 2CD (Flow Records 2006).

17-Oct-83
AU Melbourne-City,Hotel Francis,The Venetian Room

Poster: Photos of poster, courtesy of likeanelvisfromhell (Instagram).

Note: (Next to) Last Australian (planned) appearance.

23-Oct-83
AU Sydney-Surry Hills,Strawberry Hill Hotel (formerly The Southern Cross Hotel)
[with Le Hoodoo Gurus]

Ad: Reproduction taken from "Inner City Sound", a book by Clinton Walker (Verse Chorus Press 2005).

Photo: Photo credit Edwin Garland.

Article: Recollections by Edwin Garland, taken from I-94 Bar. "It was a show full of passion and commitment. We were all crammed into a space designed for 100 people. There were maybe twice of many of us squeezed in that tiny room. At one point I was pushed over and landed in Billy’s drum kit… as the band played on."

Note 1: Because of the high tour expenses, Rob Furst (Australian promoter) had no money left to give to the band, thus increasing the tensions between him and the band. To pay for their return flight to the US, Stuart Coupe (tour publicist) and Roger Grierson (The Johnnys’ manager) organised this mystery show. This was to be the last show of the tour. They did a crazy set and many of the audience ended up on stage.

Note 2: "After the Strawberry Hill show, Jeffrey and Patricia flew straight back home. I stayed on at Spencer's place in Sydney for a few days waiting for my flight. He was just about to start recording an album with his new band, a supergroup of Johnnys, Scientists, and Hoodoo Gurus called "Beasts of Bourbon", who had taken their name from the headline of an article about the Gun Club. Spencer introduced me to their singer, a charismatic and striking-looking nineteen-year-old kid named Tex Deadly [Perkins]. [...] They wanted me to record with them, but, unfortunately, my flight left before we could get into the studio." from "Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir", book by Kid Congo Powers (2022). Years later (summer 1985) in London, Kid tried to form a new band, Fur Bible, with Tex Perkins as vocalist, but that did not work out. In February 1988, whilst recording the "Tender Prey" album in Melbourne and touring with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Tex formed "The Butcher Shop" (with Spencer and Billy from the Johnnys), recording the "Hard For You" EP with Kid joining on guitar.

31-Oct-83
US CA,Hollywood,Cathay De Grande (@ 1600 Argyle Avenue at Selma Avenue)
[with The Mentors, Rigor Mortis, and Shattered Faith]

Ad: Scan of ad from LA Weekly 28-Oct-83.

Note: First show after returning from Australia.

19-Nov-83
US CA,Santa Monica,The Music Machine
[with The Romans, Love Jones, Killer Crows]

Setlist: Lost Highway [Leon Payne/Hank Williams]/ Moonlight Motel/ Bad Indian/ Brother And Sister/ Bad America/ Walkin' With The Beast/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Jack On Fire/ Death Party/ Sleeping In Blood City/ For The Love Of Ivy/ A Love Supreme [John Coltrane].

Ad: Scan of ad from LA Weekly 18-Nov-83.

Photo: Photo of setlist, courtesy of likeanelvisfromhell (Instagram).

Note: Second show after returning from Australia and last show before Italian and UK tour.

25-Nov-83
IT Roma,Teatro Palladium

Setlist: Lost Highway [Leon Payne/Hank Williams]/ Moonlight Motel/ Bad Indian/ Bad America/ Walkin' With The Beast/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Death Party/ Sex Beat/ For The Love Of Ivy/ A Love Supreme [John Coltrane].

Note: Start of a 7 dates Italian tour. Teatro Palladium is a 1200 seats concert hall.

26-Nov-83
IT Firenze-Campi Bisenzio,Discoteca Manila

Setlist: Lost Highway [Leon Payne/Hank Williams](*)/ Moonlight Motel(*)/ Bad Indian(*)/ Bad America(*)/ Brother And Sister(*)/ Walkin' With The Beast(*)/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Sleeping in Blood City/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Death Party/ Sex Beat(*)/ For The Love Of Ivy(*)/ A Love Supreme [John Coltrane].

Note: (*) Tracks available on the "Destroy The Country" bootleg LP (Not Just Jazz records 1984), "Destroy The Country" official CD/LP (Cleopatra 2014) and "Live At Manila Club" bootleg LP (Radiation Reissues 2017).

27-Nov-83
IT Venezia

Note: Visiting Venice, but not playing there.

xx-Nov-83
IT Nove,Palestra Comunale di Nove

28-Nov-83
IT Imola,Vinavil Club

Setlist: Lost Highway [Leon Payne/Hank Williams]/ Moonlight Motel/ Bad Indian/ Black Train/ Bad America/ Walkin' With The Beast/ Preachin' The Blues/ Sleeping In Blood City(+)/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds](+)/ Death Party(+)/ For The Love Of Ivy(+)/ A Love Supreme(+) [John Coltrane].

Note 1: (+)Tracks 1-4,6 on the "Love Supreme" semi-legit LP album (Offense, France). (+)Tracks 13-16,18 on the "Death Party" semi-legit CD album (Revenge, France). "Sleeping In Blood City" is titled "Lost Highway" on these releases.

Note 2: In a December 1984 interview Jeffrey mentions that the 5 tracks released on the "Love Supreme" semi-legit LP album (Offense, France) -labeled as having been recorded at the Vinavil Club, Imola, Italy (on 28-Nov-83)- were in fact recorded in Boston.

29-Nov-83
IT Milano,Plastic club

Note: The scheduled show at the Plastic club is cancelled. The band remain in Milano for their upcoming shows in neighbouring towns (Bergamo and Piacenza).

30-Nov-83
IT Bergamo,Cinema Nuovo

Setlist: Lost Highway [Leon Payne/Hank Williams]/ Moonlight Motel/ Bad Indian/ Brother And Sister/ Bad America/ Walkin' With The Beast/ Preachin' The Blues/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Death Party/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ For The Love Of Ivy/ A Love Supreme [John Coltrane].

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Video: Private video made available by ScottishTeeVee.

01-Dec-83
IT Piacenza-Fiorenzuola d'Arda,Discoteca My Way

Photo: Photo credit Antonio Bacciocchi.

02-Dec-83
IT Rimini-Viserba,Slego club

Setlist: Lost Highway [Leon Payne/Hank Williams]/ Moonlight Motel/ Bad Indian/ The House On Highland Avenue/ Bad America/ Walkin' With The Beast/ Preachin' The Blues/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Sex Beat/ For The Love Of Ivy/ For The Love Of Ivy (Reprise)/ Bo Diddley's A Gunslinger [Bo Diddley].

Photo: Photo credit unknown.

Note 1: End of a 7 dates Italian tour. On March 2, 1984, Jeffrey would do a spoken word show @ Be Bop Records (Reseda, CA) reading from his Italian '83 Gun Club tour diary (from Forced Exposure #7/8, Summer 1985). Jeffrey gets almost all of the dates wrong in his diary. "It's our last and worst show ever". from Jeffrey's tour diary. Audio recording.

Note 2: Gabriele recalls "I remember Gun Club started the gig totally out of tune and the whole concert was unfortunately not one of their best... Many jerks in the audience booed throughout the performance and in the middle of 'For The Love Of Ivy' the band stopped and left the stage, they came back after a while and they picked up where they left off. They played another tune [Bo Diddley's A Gunslinger] and left the stage again, this time for good."

04-Dec-83
UK London,The Lyceum
[with The Moodists, Alien Sex Fiend and Flesh For Lulu]

Setlist: Om [John Coltrane]/ Bo Diddley's A Gunslinger [Bo Diddley]/ Walking With The Beast/ Bad Indian/ Moonlight Motel/ Bad America/ The House On Highland Ave/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Death Party/ Sleeping In Blood City/ For The Love of Ivy/ A Love Supreme [John Coltrane].

Ticket: Original ad, from NME mag 26-Nov-83.

Photo: Photo credit Mick Mercer.

Poster: Photo of poster.

Review: Scan taken from Sounds mag 17-Dec-83 courtesy of the 'fearless Finnish fanatic'! Original from NME mag 17-Dec-83

Note: "Om" and "A Love Supreme" are John Coltrane tracks. 2,000 fans attend the show.

06-Dec-83
UK Leeds,The Warehouse

Setlist: Lost Highway [Leon Payne/Hank Williams]/ Moonlight Motel/ She's Like Heroin To Me/ Bad Indian/ The House On Highland Ave/ Bad America/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Death Party/ Wipe Out(*)/ Ghost On The Highway(*)/ Sex Beat/ Sleeping In Blood City/ A Love Supreme [John Coltrane].

Note: Released February 21, 2015 by the Sheffield Tape Archive , except for (*).

07-Dec-83
UK Manchester,Hacienda Club
[with Lavolta Lakta]

Setlist: Lost Highway [Leon Payne/Hank Williams]/ Moonlight Motel/ Bad Indian/ The House On Highland Ave/ Bad America/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Death Party/ For The Love of Ivy/ A Love Supreme [John Coltrane]/..and more...

Photo: Credit Martin O'Neill. Sourced from Gettyimages/Referns music archives. Screen capture from DVD.

Ad: Scan of ad taken from UK mag.

Note: Above tracks available on the "Fire Of Love" DVD (Cherry Red 2007).

09-Dec-83
US NY,New York City,Peppermint Lounge
[with Paleface]

Review: Scan taken from Trouser Press March 1984.

10-Dec-83
US MA,Boston,The Rat Club
[with The Del Fuegos]

Ad: Scan from the Boston Phoenix 06-Dec-83.

xx-Dec-83
US NY,Buffalo,Tralfamadore Café

13-Dec-83
US FL,Miami,-

17-Dec-83
US CA,San Francisco,On Broadway

Ad: Scan of ad from San Francisco Examiner 04-Dec-83.

Note: Rescheduled to the 30th.

30-Dec-83
US CA,San Francisco,On Broadway
[with Green On Red and People's Temple]

Setlist: Lost Highway [Leon Payne/Hank Williams](+)/ Moonlight Motel(+)/ Bad Indian/ Texas Serenade/ Bad America(+)/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson](+)/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Death Party/ Sleeping In Blood City/ For The Love Of Ivy.

Photo: Photo of flyer.

Ad: Scan of advert from San Francisco Examiner 25-Dec-83.

Note: (+)available on the "The Life And Times Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce" 4CD Box Set (Retro Deluxe 2008). Complete show available on the "Its Like Heroin To You", UK fan club cassette tape (1984).

14-Jan-84
US CA,Santa Monica,Music Machine
[Legal Weapon, The Mutts, The Young Lords]

Ad: Scan of ad from LA Weekly 13-Jan-84.

19-Jan-84
CA BC,Vancouver,Commodore Ballroom
[with House Of Commons]

Photo: Credit Rob Gander . Used with kind permission.

Review: Scan of review from The Vancouver Sun 20-Jan-84. "Gun Club's music way off the mark. [...] Everything was fine, in fact, until platinum-blonde lead singer Jeffrey Lee Pierce [...] picked up his guitar. That's when the music sounded like one big malfunction (Pierce seemed to be out of time out of tune, out of key, and out to lunch). [...] At his worst, Pierce sounds like a washed up Tarzan trying to call up thunder".

Note: About 400 people attended.

20-Jan-84
US WA,Seattle,Norway Center,Auditorium

Poster: Photo of poster.

21-Jan-84
US OR,Portland,Starry Night Club
[with Napalm Beach and Film At 11]

Poster: Photo of poster.

Flyer: Photo of flyer courtesy of Mike Ziegler.

xx-xxx-84
US MI,East Lansing,Rick's American Cafe

02-Mar-84
US CA,Reseda,Be Bop Records (@ corner of Sherman Way/Canby Avenue)
Freeway Records Presents
[with Henry Rollins, Chuck Dukowski and Therese Covarrubias]

Ad: Scan of ad.

Review: Review from strangereaction.com (10-Jul-2018).

Note: Jeffrey Lee Pierce's first spoken work show (organised by Harvey Kubernik of Freeway Records), reading from his Italian '83 Gun Club tour diary. Jeffrey gets almost all of the dates wrong in his diary. Henry Rollins' third spoken work show. An exerpt (of a studio reading) ended up on "Neighborhood Rhythms" 2LP (Freeway Records, 1984).

03-Mar-84
UK Release of "The Birth,The Death,The Ghost" live LP (ABC Records).

Mar/Sep-84
US CA,Los Angeles,Chateau Le Trianon (@ 1750-1754 North Serrano Avenue)

Note: "By the spring of 1984, Jeffrey had worn out his welcome at his mother's place in the Valley and was living on the couch at the Trianon with my roommate Cindy Schwartz and me. [...] We did heroin and read a lot of William Burroughs, two activities that seemed entirely complimentary, if not mandatory. The Western Lands had just been published and Jeffrey even went to meet his idol at a book signing in Los Angeles.[...] Sitting across a coffee table from each other in the living room [...] we decided to put the cut-up method into practice one day. [...] We titled it The Las Vegas Story. It seemed to fit with the songs Jeffrey had been writing for the album we were about to record —about the underbelly and decline of America as seen through the lens of iconic locations associated with a particular type of tawdry glamour, now sunk into disrepair, places like Las Vegas, Miami, or Hollywood, an emerging theme in his writing." from "Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir", book by Kid Congo Powers (2022).

"Celebrities living in Trianon over the years: Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks (1930s), director Fred Beetson, actors Maryon Hall, William Burns, George Irving, Betty Ross Jensen, Charles O’Malley, Harry Woods, Albert Von Tilzer (composer), Belinda Carlisle [The Go-Go's], George James Hopkins (set decorator), Vincent Spano, Kid Congo of the Cramps, and Billy Zane (actor)." from Trianon .

March/April 1984
US CA,Hollywood,Ocean Way Recording studios-Studio B (@ 6000 Sunset Boulevard),recording and mixing sessions for the "The Las Vegas Story" album. Engineered by Mark Ettel with assistant engineer Judy Clapp. Produced by Jeff Eyrich. Tracks recorded are: The Las Vegas Story/ Walkin' With The Beast (version #2)/ Eternally Is Here/ The Stranger In Our Town/ My Dreams/ Secret Fires/ (The Creator Has A) Master Plan [Pharoah Sanders]/ My Man's Gone Now [George & Ira Gershwin]/ Bad America/ Moonlight Motel/ Give Up The Sun.

Guest players: Dave Alvin [The Blasters] plays guitar on "Eternally Is Here" and "Stranger In Our Town"; Fred -Phast Phreddie- Patterson and Lois Graham play wooden flute on "(The Creator Has A) Master Plan"; Randy Kerber [Julio Iglesias] piano on "My Man's Gone Now" and Andy & David Williams backing vocals on "My Man's Gone Now".

Photo: Google street view, 2017.

Note 1: Expat UK punk Billy Idol [Generation X] visits often and invites the band to open for him at the 12,000-seater Long Beach,Arena. In 1982, Michael Jackson recorded part of his "Thriller" album at this studio. Gladys Knight and the Pips ('83) and Donna Summer ('84) also recorded here. The Doors were remastering their "Waiting For The Sun" album for CD while the Gun Club were recording. These days it's the location of EastWest Studios.

Note 2: "It was very quick. Two weeks. The only thing I would say is that, before we went in to [record it], we had been playing the songs on tour, so… we knew what we were doing and everything. But we went to do a few rehearsals, and [Jeffrey] had a bit of an ego trip and he decided to change all the bass parts at the last minute. And he changed them to weird things. But the producer (Jeff Eyrich), who came to rehearsal, said, ‘Great, but what’s happened to the bass parts?’ And, you know, Jeffrey tried to pretend like he wasn’t listening, and I said, ‘Well, Jeffrey changed ‘em all.’ He said, ‘Well, change ‘em back, for God’s sake!’ Hahaha! So he put ‘em all back. I don’t know, it was just sort of an ego thing. I have no idea. But we went in and we did everything in one or two takes on that album. And it was a bit hard sometimes with Jeffrey’s voice, because he wasn’t always in key, but it worked. It was fine that he wasn’t. A lot of people aren’t. But why don’t we do backing vocals on it. We had Andy Williams, you know, his [nephews, Andrew and David], the Williams Brothers, they sang on 'Las Vegas Story', and we had to find the pitch to make it work on ‘My Man’s Gone Now’ and everything. But it works. That sort of thing never bothered me. But it was very quick and very easy." Patricia interviewed for Stomp and Stammer,2001.

Note 3: "It was a big studio, but we had the cheaper "off hours" time, so we'd go in at like midnight until six in the morning and record. The good thing though was that Ry Cooder was recording the "Paris, Texas" soundtrack in the same studio during the day and he had all these vintage amps there and all these crazy noisemaker things. So we poked around his stuff and used some percussion. Also, Stevie Nicks [Fleetwood Mac] was recording in the next studio and she was the one that didn't come in until three in the morning. And this big white limousine would roll up and like eighteen people would fall out and immediately go into the bathrooms and block the doors - both the men's and the women's." Kid Congo Powers, from liner notes with "Las Vegas Story" reissue (Blixa Sounds, 2022).

16-Mar-84
US CA,San Francisco,On Broadway Theatre/Nightclub
[with Paris Working, Tupelo Chain Sex and People's Temple]

Setlist: Bo Diddley's A Gunslinger [Bo Diddley]/ Death Party/.. and more..

Flyer: Photo of flyer. Scan of alternative flyer. Another version flyer.

Ad: Scan of advert, taken from San Francisco Examiner 13-Mar-84.

Note: Above tracks available on the "The Life And Times Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce" 4CD Box Set (Retro Deluxe 2008).

18-Mar-84
US CA,Fullerton,Ichabod's
[with Blood On The Saddle and Convicted]

Flyer: Photo of flyer. Photo of another flyer.

Note: Part of a Sunday showcase series.

19-Mar-84
US CA,Long Beach,Arena
[support for Billy Idol]

Photo: Backstage shot, credit unknown.

Ad: Scan of advert from Los Angeles Times 18-Mar-84.

Review: Scan of review from the "L.A. Dee Da - On The Streets" colum from LA Weekly 30-Mar-84.

Note: The band is booed and pelted with coins to which Jeffrey responds by sticking his arse out and getting himself thrown off stage, after six songs only.

24-Mar-84
US CA,Hollywood,Club Lingerie (@ 6507 Sunset Boulevard)
[with Blood On The Saddle, Phast Phreddie & thee Precisions]

Ad: Scan of ad from LA Weekly 16-Mar-84.

09-Apr-84
US CA,San Francisco,I-Beam
[with Yo]

Setlist: (partial) A Love Supreme [John Coltrane].

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Video: Video.

Ad: Scan of advert, taken from San Francisco Examiner 08-Apr-84.

13-Apr-84
US CA,Santa Monica,Music Machine
[with The Sex Donkeys, The Seaweed Sandcrabs, Feminists, Straight Edge]

Setlist: Eternally Is Here/ Brother And Sister/ Bad America/ Give Up The Sun/ Walking With The Beast/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Death Party/ She's Like Heroin To Me/ Jack On Fire/ A Love Supreme [John Coltrane].

Ad: Scan of ad from LA Weekly 13-Apr-84.

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 13-Apr-84.

25-May-84
US CA,Reseda,Be Bop Records (@ corner of Sherman Way/Canby Avenue)
Freeway Records Presents
[with Phast Phreddie, Anna Statman, Shredder [Danny Weizmann], and Bill Inglot]

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 25-May-84.

Note: Kid Congo Powers reads from his Australian Tour journal. An exerpt (of a studio reading) ended up on "Neighborhood Rhythms" 2LP (Freeway Records, 1984).

30-May-84
US CA,Santa Monica,Texas Records
Amateur Night #1

Setlist: Trumpet recital (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)/ Reading from journals (Kid Congo Powers)/ Super-8 films of the Gun Club in Europe (Terry Graham)/ Hommage to Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable (Jeff/Kid/Terry).

Flyer: Scan of flyer courtesy of Matti A.

Review: Scan of review from Los Angeles Times 01-Jun-84. "Texas Records will be hosting a series of amateur nights wherein each member of a guest band will be allotted 20 minutes to indulge his fondest secret wish as a performer."

June/July 1984
US CA,Los Angeles-Hollywood,Control Center recording studio. Chris D./Divine Horseman "Time Stands Still" album recording sessions. Engineered by Rick Novack. Mastered @ Quad Teck studio (Hank Waring's studio @ 4007 West Sixth Street, Los Angeles-Central) by Chris Desjardins and Pat Burnette.

Tracks recorded are: When The Rain Comes Down/ Lilly White Hands/ Past All Dishonor/ Frankie Silver/ Sanctuary/ Heat From The Sun/ Little Sister/ Hell's Belle/ and Time Stands Still.

Note: Jeffrey Lee Pierce [Gun Club] plays guitar on "Hell's Belle" and piano on "Time Stands Still"; Kid Congo Powers [Gun Club] plays slide guitar on "Hell's Belle". Other personnel: Julie Christensen, Robyn Jameson [The Flesh Eaters], Dave Alvin [The Blasters], Bill Bateman [The Blasters and also ex-Flesh Eaters], John Doe [X], Chris Cacavas [Green On Red], Dan Stuart [Green On Red], Kerry McBride [Juju Hounds], Slim Evans [Rank & File] and Texacala Jones [Tex & the Horseheads].

June 1984
US CA,Los Angeles-Hollywood,Control Center recording studio. Various Artists "Don't Shoot" album recording sessions. Produced by Chris Chris Desjardins and Rick Novack. Tracks recorded are: Hello Walls [Willie Nelson] by Top Jimmy & The Rhythm Pigs/ I'll Get Out Somewhere by Stephen McCarthy/ Wreckin' Ball by John Doe/ Almost Persuaded by Julie Christensen/ Tears Fall Away by Divine Horsemen.

Note: Alternative/punk bands recordings for "Don't Shoot", a country rock compilation album. Released on Zippo Records (UK) in 1986.

June 1984
US CA,Los Angeles-Hollywood,Control Center recording studio. Jam session, Engineered by Chris Chris Desjardins and Rick Novack. Produced and mixed by Chris D. Tracks recorded are: Walkin' Down The Street Doin' My Thing [Jeffrey Lee Pierce]/ New Way Of Walkin' [Jeffrey Lee Pierce]/ Not Supposed To Be That Way [Willie Nelson]/ Piano Jam/ Shake, Rattle And Roll [Jesse Stone]/ Bad Moon Rising [John Fogerty/Creedence Clearwater Revival].

Note 1: Jeffrey Lee Pierce [Gun Club] with an all-star unit of Dave Alvin [The Blasters] on guitar, Bill Bateman [The Blasters and also ex-Flesh Eaters] on drums, Jack Waterson [Green on Red] on bass, Gene Taylor on piano and Kid Congo Powers [Gun Club] on background vocals. Released on CD/LP as "Soulsuckers On Parade" by Minky records (US, 17-Jul-2021]. In 2009 "Walkin' Down The Street Doin' My Thing" would be covered by Lydia Lunch and Dave Alvin for the Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions project album, "We Are Only Riders".

Note 2: "The thing is, we were all imbibing that evening –everybody in the band, as well as I— and none of us were too intoxicated to function. Jeffrey got there late and he was three sheets to the wind, but he was in fine form and he felt comfortable around all of us, ’cause we were all friends and we got him. We got his sense of humor and he was in a good mood. [...] Jeffrey’s sense of humor was truly contagious. And you know, we all continued to drink as the night went on. It’s my recollection that we started with the Willie Nelson song ["Not Supposed to Be That Way"] because that was a song that he was ostensibly contributing to the country-punk compilation. We did two takes on that [...] and then we did "Walking Down the Street Doin’ My Thing", which he taught to the guys in the studio. The song was mostly performed on the spot in the studio. Improvisation in the songs, as you’ll hear, is high. To my knowledge, he hadn’t shown those guys the music or the song before coming in there. I don’t remember if he had the lyrics written out or if he just remembered them extemporaneously. As you [hear] in the two Willie Nelson versions, he started improvising lyrics that Willie Nelson did not write in that song. He had been reading a lot of William Burroughs, so he’s inserting William Burroughs type imagery from "Naked Lunch" and other kinds of surreal things he’d been reading —stream of consciousness stuff— and as the evening more on, we wanted to keep playing music and Jeffrey wanted to do "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" and I ended up singing lead vocals with him. Jeffrey was just basically singing "Shake, rattle, and roll" over and over, and then I was improvising scat-type jazz and blues singing. I was just drunk enough to kind of make it work a little bit, then Kid was in there for that song and was doing a “ba-ba-ba-ba-baby,” real low, low voice. You can hear him a few times. Recording continued until the group was too imbibed to remember lyrics. After that, we still hadn’t had enough. We did "Bad Moon Rising" which neither Jeffrey or I could remember the lyrics and we were both singing lead vocal on that. And then I think we ran out of tape. We were all set to get to the point where we were too inebriated to continue." Chris D. interviewed for The Pitch by Nick Spacek 09-Jul-2021.

xx-Jun-84
US CA,Los Angeles,Public Access TV-Channel 14
Li'l Art Fein's Poker Party

Setlist: Phast Phreddie & Thee Precisions: Only Lovers Left Alive (playback).

Photo: Screen capture from video.

Note: Phast Phreddie featuring Peter Case [The Plimsouls] on standup bass, Jeffrey Lee Pierce [Gun Club] on sax, Paul Body [doorman @ The Troubadour club] on percussion, Chris Bailey [Thee Precisions] on drums, and Dan Perloff [later Blixa Sounds Records] on bongos. Art Fein's Poker Party was world's only rock & roll talk show, broadcasting on LA's Public Access Television for over 25 years, from 1984-2009. Art Fein was once manager of the Cramps and he's the author of "The L.A. Musical History Tour" book.

22-Jun-84
US NV,Las Vegas,Old Vegas
[with Blood On The Saddle]

Flyer 1: Taken from "Fucked Up and Photocopied", a book by Bryan R. Turcotte and Chris Miller.

Flyer 2 and 3: Photo of flyer 2. Photo of flyer 3.

Photo 1: Photo 1 credit Wayne Coyner.

Photo 2: Photo 2 (also showing Amy Sammons, Terry's girlfriend) credit Louie Thomas.

23-Jun-84
US CA,Santa Monica,Music Machine
[with Blood On The Saddle, Beat Farmers and Die Schlaflosen]

Setlist: (partial) Walking With The Beast/ A Love Supreme [John Coltrane].

Ad: Scan of xerox of ad courtesy of Matti A.

Note 1: Kid's amp catches fire during this show. Henry Rollins, who had been babysitting The Bad Seeds (then touring US) all day ends up with (Bad Seeds members) Blixa Bargeld, Mick Harvey and Hugo Race at the Gun Club's concert. "[The Gun Club] stank. Mostly because Jeffrey was so shit-faced he couldn't play. They did a good version of 'Walking With The Beast'. Blixa [Bargeld] is falling down at this point. I'm holding him up. He starts waltzing with me [Henry Rollins]. It's great." (from "Get In The Van", a book by Henry Rollins).

"Jeffrey is a little under the bottle on this evening and he missed the mic as often as not and insisted on doing a very painful horn solo. I think it was then that Blixa and I started waltzing around the room". (from "Fanatic!", a book by Henry Rollins).

Note 2: " We played the Music Machine on Pico Boulevard. Die Schlaflosen were the support. Jeffrey was drunk off his ass, possibly stoned. I'm sure I was too. In fact, I know I was because Jeffrey and I joked that the only people on our guest list were our drug dealers, Juan and Leroy, who did not have last names." from "Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir", book by Kid Congo Powers (2022). Kid had met the Bad Seeds for the first time the day before at Perkins Palace, Pasadena, where the Bad Seeds performed supported by the Cramps. Jeffrey had met Nick at the Bad Seeds show in New York on 08-Jun-84.

25-Jun-84
US/UK Release of "The Las Vegas Story" LP album (Animal Records/Chrysalis Records).

27-Jun-84
US CA,Hollywood,Lhasa Club (@ 1110 North Hudson)
Freeway Records presents
[with Henry Rollins, D. Boon and Michelle T.Clinton]

Listing: Scan of listing from LA Weekly 22-Jun-84.

Note: Jeffrey Lee Pierce's second spoken word show. An exerpt (of a studio reading) ended up on "Neighborhood Rhythms" 2LP (Freeway Records, 1984).

03-Jul-84
US CA,Berkeley,Berkeley Square
[with Fade to Black and Firesports]

Flyer: Scan of flyer, Aaron Cometbus Punk and Underground Press Collection, #8107. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Ad: Scan of advert taken from San Francisco Examiner 01-Jul-84.

04-Jul-84
US CA,San Francisco,Fox Warfield Theatre
[support for Siouxsie & The Banshees]

Handbill: Photo of handbill.

06-Jul-84
US CA,San Francisco,Mabuhay Gardens
[with Drunk Injuns, Our Lady of Pain, Napalm Beach]

Flyer: Photo of flyer. Alternative flyer .

07-Jul-84
US CA,Santa Monica,Civic Auditorium
[support for Siouxsie & The Banshees]

Setlist: Walkin' With the Beast/ Moonlight Motel/ Eternally is Here/ Bad America/ Stranger In Our Town/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson](*)/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Goodbye Johnny.

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Ad: Scan of advert from Los Angeles Times 10-Jun-84.

Ticket: Scan of ticket.

Note: (*)Jeffrey Lee Pierce plays trumpet.

13-Jul-84
US CA,Hollywood,Club Lingerie (@ 6507 Sunset Boulevard)
[with Mau Mau's and Scoundrelz]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Ad: Scan of advert form LA Weekly 06-Jul-84.

xx-Jul-84
MX Chichén-Itzá and Cozumel and Yucatán Peninsula
Jeff and Kid take a holiday in Mexico

Photo: Photo from "Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir", book by Kid Congo Powers (2022).

Note: "Knowing we had to go out on a long, possibly grueling tour in support of The Las Vegas Story, we made the remarkably sensible decision, at least for us, that we didn't want to pack our [heroin] habits and take them on the road with us. We figured it would be easier to kick and clean up if we were away from home for a few days, far from all the distractions and invitations that came our way daily. Not least, our drug dealers who were on call at all hours and delivered heroin to our door like pizza. [...] After a week of this, we arrived back in LA, hungover but not strung out, newly inspired and ready to head out on the road with the Gun Club." from "Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir", book by Kid Congo Powers (2022).

27-Jul-84
US CA,Los Angeles,Hollywood Palace
Celebrity bash for Prince's "Purple Rain" movie world premiere.

Review: Scan of review from the "LA Dee Da" column in LA Weekly 03-Aug-84.

Note: "Purple Rain" movie world premiere. Jeffrey Lee Pierce attends the event together with John Doe and Exene Cervenka [X].

28-Jul-84
US CA,Santa Monica,Music Machine
[with True West, The Leaving Trains, Endless Banana]

Setlist: (partial) Walkin With The Beast/ Like Calling Up Thunder/ Stranger In Our Town/ A Love Supreme [John Coltrane].

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Ad: Scan of advert form LA Weekly 27-Jul-84.

Pass: Scan of backstage pass.

Note: Endless Banana has Johnny Nation [ex- Bags, ex- The Cyclones and Lydia Lunch's 13.13] on vocals and guitar.

29-Jul-84
US CA,Los Angeles,Continental Club
Benefit for Zero One gallery
[with Louie Lista, Top Jimmy, Cruzados, The D.I.s]

Setlist: "A Love Supreme" [John Coltrane]/ "So What" [Miles Davis].

Listing: Scan of listing from the "LA Dee Da" column in LA Weekly 27-Jul-84.

Note: Jeffrey Lee Pierce had briefly formed The Astro Unicorn Jazz Ensemble, with Peter Case [The Plimsouls] on piano and Brendan Mullen [The Masque and Club Lingerie owner]. This was to be their only live show. "It was a total disaster. We cleared the place out." Peter Case in "Ghost on the Highway", a 2006 film by by Kurt Voss.

02-Aug-84
US IL,Chicago,The Metro
[with Bad Manners]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Note: Start of a 6-weeks North American tour, with Marcy Blaustein as tour manager, Justin Case as roadie and Murray Mitchell [Lydia Lunch/Siouxsie guitar tech and later Fur Bible] as friend.

03-Aug-84
US MI,Detroit,Todd's

Setlist: Hey Juana/ Moonlight Motel/ Walkin' With the Beast/ Like Calling Up Thunder/ Eternally is Here/ Bad America/ Stranger In Our Town/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Death Party/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Goodbye Johnny/ A Love Supreme [John Coltrane]/ Bo Diddley's A Gunslinger [Bo Diddley].

05-Aug-84
US MI,Ann Arbor,The Blind Pig Café
[with Grief Factory]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Article: Scan from the Michigan Daily 05-Aug-84.

06-Aug-84
US WI,Milwaukee,Teddy's
[with Dummy Club]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

08-Aug-84
US NY,Rochester,Scorgies
[with The Resisters]

Setlist: Hey Juana/ Brother And Sister(+)/ Walkin' With the Beast(+)/ Eternally is Here(+)/ Stranger In Our Town(+)/ Moonlight Motel(+)/ JLP trumpet solo/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ JLP trumpet solo (dedicated to Fats Navarro)/ Preachin' The Blues(*)/ Like Calling Up Thunder(*)(+)/ Sleeping In Blood City(+)/ Goodbye Johnny(+)/ House on Highland Ave(+)/ Give Up The Sun(+).

Flyer: Photo of flyer from Terry Graham's collection.

Note: (*) Tracks can be downloaded from the Scorgies blog. Jeffrey 'plays' trumpet during this show. (+) tracks available on extra disc with the "Las Vegas Story" reissue (Blixa Sounds, 2022).

09-Aug-84
CA ON,Toronto,Larry's Hideaway
[with The 10 Commandments]

Setlist: (partial) Hey Juana/ JLP trumpet solo/ Preachin' The Blues/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Goodbye Johnny/ JLP trumpet solo/ A Love Supreme [John Coltrane].

Poster: Scan of poster, courtesy of Frank M.

Ticket: Scan of ticket.

Photo: Photo 1 (before show) and photo 2 (on stage and backstage, with Amy Sammons [camera and transportation] and Marcy Blaustein [road manager]). Screen captures from DVD with "Las Vegas Story" (Super Deluxe - 2CD/DVD) reissue (Blixa Sounds, 2022).

Note: Fan account: "Ugh, they were horrible. Jeffrey Lee Pierce was drunk and couldn't play the clarinet (or whatever it was). For about twenty minutes, they held it together, and lapsed back into chaos." Above tracks available on extra DVD with the "Las Vegas Story" reissue (Blixa Sounds, 2022).

10-Aug-84
CA ON,London,Mingles
[with Forgotten Rebels]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

1x-Aug-84
US NY,New York City,Pyramid Club

14-Aug-84
US NJ,Bloomfield,The Jetty
[with U.S. Chaos]

Setlist: Hey Juana/ Brother And Sister/ Walking With The Beast/ Eternally Is Here/ Stranger In Our Town/ Bad America/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Moonlight Motel/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Goodbye Johnny.

Ad: Reproduction, taken from "Punk Like Me!", a book by Terry Graham.

15-Aug-84
US PA,Pittsburgh,The Decade
[with Kids After Dark]

Setlist: (partial) Stranger In Our Town/ Bad America.

Flyer: Photo of flyer, courtesy of Glenn Sebastian [Kids After Dark].

Photo: Photo. Screen captures from DVD with "Las Vegas Story" (Super Deluxe - 2CD/DVD) reissue (Blixa Sounds, 2022).

Note: Above tracks available on extra DVD with the "Las Vegas Story" reissue (Blixa Sounds, 2022).

16-Aug-84
US OH,Cleveland,The Pop Shop (below The Agora Ballroom)
[with Death of Samantha and Faith Academy]

Setlist: (partial) Brother And Sister/ Walkin' With the Beast/ Eternally is Here/ Stranger In Our Town/ .. and encore: Bo Diddley's A Gunslinger [Bo Diddley](*)(+).

Flyer: Scan of flyer.

Ad 1: Scan of advert from Scene entertainment weekly, Volume 15, Issue 33 (16/22-Aug-84).

Ad 2: Scan of advert from Scene entertainment weekly, Volume 15, Issue 33 (16/22-Aug-84).

Review: Scan of review from Scene entertainment weekly, Volume 15, Issue 34 (23/29-Aug-84).

Note: (*) with on guest guitar Ike Knox (aka Mike Metoff) and Bryan Gregory [both formerly of The Cramps]. Bryan was at the time living in Cleveland and having a band named Beast in San Francisco. (+) track available on extra DVD with the "Las Vegas Story" reissue (Blixa Sounds, 2022).

17-Aug-84
US KY,Newport,Jockey Club
[with Major Morgan and the Wastebaskets, The Thangs]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

18-Aug-84
US OH,Columbus,Crazy Mama's

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Handbill: Scan of handbill.

19-Aug-84
US OH,Kent,JB's Down nightclub
[with The Difficult, International Length]

Photo: Photo credit unknown.

Ad: Scan of advert from Scene entertainment weekly, Volume 15, Issue 33 (16/22-Aug-84).

21-Aug-84
US MO,Westport,The Lone Star
[with The Yard Apes]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

23-Aug-84
US KS,Lawrence,The Opera House
[with The Pagan Idols and The Pedal Jets]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Note 1: Jeffrey meets up with William S. Burroughs at his Sears Kit house in Lawrence.

Note 2: "Jeffrey met Burroughs in Lawrence, Kansas one time when we played there. He went to his house [before the show] … and I believe [Jeffrey] was drunk as usual. But he always told the story that William Burroughs’ cat fell down a ravine. And of course down the years, it became this huge, you know, ‘rushing river gorge.’ I think it was a ditch! Hahaha! This kitten went down there, and Jeffrey brought it back for him. But he was thrilled to death when he met him. That really was somebody that he admired." Patricia interviewed for Stomp and Stammer,2001.

Note 3: "Predictably, the show was awful. Well, we were great; Jeffrey was a mess. He would start on some rant between songs, in the middle of songs, whenever he felt like it. He ended up lying on the stage, on his stomach, blabbering incoherently, like an end-of-days Jim Morrison. I remember looking over, seeing him there with his pants riding down around his ass. We were playing in a big theater and the lighting engineer decided to have some fun at Jeffrey's expense by training the follow spot right on his butt crack. That made the show for me. We thought it was hilarious. I'm sure it wasn't for the audience." from "Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir", book by Kid Congo Powers (2022).

25-Aug-84
US TX,Dallas,The Twilite Room (formerly Liberty Hall)
[with Western Alliance]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Photo: Photo credit Dixon Coulbourn, taken from "Going Underground: American Punk 1979-1989", a book by George Hurchalla.

28-Aug-84
US TX,Austin,Continental Club

31-Aug-84
US GA,Athens,40 Watt Club
[with Kilkenny Cats]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

01-Sep-84
US GA,Atlanta,688 Club
[with Kilkenny Cats]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

02-Sep-84
US TN,Nashville,Cantrells
[with Raging Fire]

Flyer: Photo of flyer.

Review: Review from unknown magazine.

06-Sep-84
US NY,Long Island,Roslyn,My Father's Place

Setlist: Hey Juana/ Brother And Sister/ Bad Indian/ Sex Beat/ Eternally Is Here/ Bad America/ Stranger In Your Town/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Goodbye Johnny/ Give Up The Sun.

07-Sep-84
US DC,Washington,9:30 Club
[with Crippled Pilgrims]

08-Sep-84
US NY,New York City,Ritz
[with The Dream Syndicate]

Ad: Scan of ad.

Note: "By the time we got to New York, Jeffrey was completely out of control. We played the Ritz in New York with the Dream Syndicate and Jeffrey pulled out a machete he'd bought somewhere on tour. People started freaking out. We were like, "Oh, it's just Jeffrey's sword." Nothing could really shock us when it came to Jeffrey's behavior at this point. He was obsessed with Japanese movies, samurai movies, and all things war." from "Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir", book by Kid Congo Powers (2022).

11-Sep-84
US RI,Providence,The Living Room

Setlist: Hey Juana/ Eternally Is Here/ Stranger In Our Town/ Bad Indian/ Sex Beat/ My Dreams/ Bad America/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Moonlight Motel/ Goodbye Johnny/ Give Up The Sun.

12-Sep-84
US MA,Boston,The Channel Club
[with Chain Link Fence, Salem 66, Barrence Whitfield and the Savages]

Review: Scan of review by Ted Drozdowski from Sweet Potato, October 1984.

13-Sep-84
US NJ,New Haven,Café Grotto

14-Sep-84
US NY,Buffalo,State College,Uptown Auditorium
[with Lydia Lunch]

Poster: Courtesy of David M.

Note 1: Jeff plays alto sax for most of the set. This is the final date of the tour. During the show their touring van is broken into and all their equipment is stolen. Before the start of the European tour Kid buys a new guiter, a Fender Squier, in London.

Note 2: "My best tale of Jeffrey was, we were in Buffalo, New York, and he decided to buy drugs from somebody… which I might add that all these drugs are what killed him. I am not advocating that in any way. I watched him go downhill until it was painful to watch. But we played Buffalo, at a college or something. And Jeffrey decides to buy some drugs from somebody. So he goes to the van, takes two black guys over to the van, opens up the van – all our stuff is in there – brings out his suitcase, opens his suitcase, takes out a wad of cash, pays the guys for the drugs, puts the wad of cash back in the suitcase, closes the suitcase, puts it in, locks the van and walks away. Now the next thing we hear is somebody comes in screaming, ‘There’s a robbery!’ And they took everything, including all of my wages. We had everything taken. We were supposed to, two days later, be playing in London. We had to get all new passports. This was sort of a Jeffrey thing. That was typical Jeffrey." Patricia interviewed for Stomp and Stammer,2001.

21-Sep-84
NL Leiden,LVC

Setlist: .../ Give Up The Sun/ She's Like Heroin To Me/ House On Highland Ave/ Moonlight Motel.

Listing: Scan of listing from Vinyl mag Vol4 09, Sep-84.

Note: Listed above are the last 4 tracks of the show. Jeffrey also 'played' trumpet during this concert.

22-Sep-84
NL Rotterdam,De Doelen,Grote Box
Pandora's Music Box festival
[with Tom Verlaine, John Cale, Johnny Thunders, The Fall, Pete Shelley,..]

Setlist: Brother And Sister/ Sex Beat/ Bad Indian(*)/ Eternally Is Here(+)(*)/ Bad America(+)(*)/ Stranger In Our Town(+)(*)(-)/ Gila Monster,New Mexico-Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson](+)(*)(-)/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds](*)/ Sleeping In Blood City(+)/ Goodbye Johnny(+)/ Give Up The Sun(+)/ She's Like Heroin To Me(*).

Photo: Credit Ad de Wit.

Dressingroom index: Photo of index.

Note 1: (+) released on the "Danse Kalinda Boom" album. (*) Broadcast by Dutch VPRO/VARA FM radio and released on the "Moonlight Motel" bootleg LP (1985), "Enigma Of Desire" bootleg LP (2000) and "Moonlight Motel" official CD/LP (Cleopatra Records 2014).. (-) Also available on "The Life And Times Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce" 4CD Box Set (Retro Deluxe 2008).

Note 2: Murray Mitchell is their roadie on this tour. Murray used to be Siouxsie and the Banshees' roadie, he was also guitarist in Lydia Lunch's 13.13 live band and on her "Honeymoon in Red" album. He's enlisted in Kid's Fur Bible band in 1985 and in February/March 1985 he will join Jeffrey's "Wildweed" album recording sessions.

23-Sep-84
BE Deinze,Brielpoort
Futurama festival
[with Shriekback, Tom Verlaine, The Sound, The Scientists,..]

Setlist: Brother And Sister/ Sex Beat/ Bad Indian/ Eternally Is Here/ Bad America/ Stranger In Our Town/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Goodbye Johnny/ The House On Highland Ave/ She's Like Heroin To Me.

Poster: Photo of poster.

Note: Partially broadcast on Belgian BRT TV on the Villa Tempo program on 26-Oct-84.

24-Sep-84
DE Frankfurt,Batschkapp

Setlist: Brother And Sister/ Sex Beat/ Moonlight Motel/ Eternally Is Here/ Bad America/ Stranger In Our Town/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Goodbye Johnny/ My Dreams/ Give Up The Sun/ Bo Diddley's A Gunslinger [Bo Diddley].

Poster: Photo of generic tour poster courtesy of Matti A.

25-Sep-84
DE München,Alabamahalle

Setlist: Eternally Is Here/ Sex Beat/ Moonlight Motel/ My Dreams/ Bad America/ Stranger In Our Town/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Like Calling Up Thunder/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Goodbye Johnny/ The House On Highland Ave/ Give Up The Sun/ Black Train/ A Love Supreme.

Ticket: Scan of ticket courtesy of Ingrid.

26-Sep-84
DE Stuttgart,Maxim

Setlist: Eternally Is Here/ Brother And Sister/ Sex Beat/ Moonlight Motel/ My Dreams/ Bad America/ Stranger In Our Town/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Goodbye Johnny/ The House On Highland Ave/ Black Train/ A Love Supreme [John Coltrane].

Photo: Photo credit Gerd Bächler.

28-Sep-84
DE Bochum,Zeche

Ticket: Scan of ticket courtesy of Ger P.

Review: Photo of review from Musik Express November 1984.

29-Sep-84
DE Bremen,Schlachthof

Setlist: Moonlight Motel/ Sex Beat/ Eternally Is Here/ Bad America/ Stranger In Our Town/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Like Calling Up Thunder/ Goodbye Johnny/ A Love Supreme [John Coltrane]/ Louie Louie [Richard Berry/Kingsmen].

30-Sep-84
DE Hamburg,Markthalle

Setlist: Eternally Is Here/ Brother And Sister/ Sex Beat/ Moonlight Motel/ My Dreams/ Bad America/ Stranger In Our Town/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Like Calling Up Thunder/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Goodbye Johnny/ A Love Supreme [John Coltrane].

Ad: Scan of ad from Oxmox magazine courtesy of Martin L.

Ticket: Scan of ticket.

01-Oct-84
DE Paderborn,WDR/WWF TV, Music Convoy
[with The Dream Syndicate, Pete Shelley and Jethro Tull]
(afternoon)

Setlist: My Dreams.

Photo 1: Screen capture from TV broadcast.

Photo 2: Photo at soundcheck depicting the band minus Jeffrey and adding tour manager Robert. Courtesy of Terry Graham.

Note: The band playbacks in the afternoon on the Westdeutschen WerbeFernsehen "Musik Convoy" program. The "Musik Convoy" existed only during 1984-1985. The program's truck used to visit small towns in Nordrhein Westphalen on a Monday, set up on the marketplace and present local and international bands. Moderated by Alan Bangs and Karin Sarholz.

01-Oct-84
DE Detmold,Honky Dory
(evening)

Review: Scan of review from Der Skalp fanzine, 05-84. The reviewer arrives too late at the show and only catches the encore!

02-Oct-84
DE Berlin,Metropol

Setlist: Strange Fruit [Lewis Allan/Billie Holiday]/ Eternally Is Here/ Brother And Sister/ Sex Beat/ Moonlight Motel/ My Dreams/ Bad America/ Like Calling Up Thunder/ Stranger In Our Town/ Preaching The Blues [Robert Johnson]/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Goodbye Johnny/ The House On Highland Ave/ She's Like Heroin To Me/ For The Love Of Ivy.

04-Oct-84
SE Malmö,Stadt Hamburg
[with Sinners]

05-Oct-84
NO Oslo,University-Blindern campus,Ratz @ Chateau Neuf-Circus (basement)
[with Skjønn Forening]

Setlist: Moonlight Motel/ My Dreams/ Fire Of Love [Jody Reynolds]/ Like Calling Up Thunder/ Sleeping In Blood City/ Goodbye Johnny/ Black Train/..and more..

Listing: Scan of listing, taken from Arbeiderbladet/Nye Takter musicmagazine #90, 1984.

Ticket: Scan of ticket.

Interview: Scan of interview, taken from Arbeiderbladet/Nye Takter musicmagazine #91, 1984.

Note: Above tracks broadcast by Norwegian FM radio.

06-Oct-84
SE Stockholm,Ritz

Photo: Credit © Johan Ödmann (from Odmann Gallery). Used with kind permission.

08-Oct-84
DK København,Saltlageret
[with Disneyland After Dark]