Jeffrey Lee Pierce (June 27, 1958 – March 31, 1996) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He was one of the founding members of the 1980s punk band The Gun Club. He was a founding member of The Red Lights, before forming The Gun Club, and also released several solo albums.
Biography
1970s
Jeffrey's mother is Mexican-American. As a teenager, Pierce moved from El Monte, a working-class industrial suburb East of Los Angeles, to Granada Hills, at the time a white working- and middle-class suburb in the San Fernando Valley. Pierce attended Granada Hills High School, where he participated in the drama program, acting in plays and writing several of his own brief experimental pieces.
Pierce's musical influences at this time tended heavily toward glam and progressive rock, and he was particularly fond of bands such as Sparks, Genesis, and Roxy Music. During the mid-70s, after attending a concert by Bob Marley (at which he was fascinated as much by Marley's shamanistic presence as by his music), Pierce became deeply engrossed in reggae; eventually he would travel to Jamaica to explore the music, a trip that left him ambivalent about the music's relevance to American culture. His infatuation with reggae overlapped with the emergence of punk rock, and Pierce became a fixture on the Hollywood scene as a writer for the Slash fanzine and, to a lesser extent, as a musician. While his later interest in American blues was presaged by his devotion to the rootsiest forms of reggae, his love for the more theatrical, complex sounds of glam and prog showed up in his support for the No Wave movement in New York City.
Jeffrey LeeAM (born 1971) is the sole member of the Djok clan and the senior custodian of the 1,228 hectare Koongarra region in Australia's Northern Territory which is believed to contain a significant uranium deposit.
The land owned by the clan is surrounded by Kakadu National Park. He has become famous since he doesn't want to sell the high-valued fields to the French energy giant Areva who plans to extract 14,000 tonnes of uranium worth more than $5 billion.
In June 2011, UNESCO decided to make Koongarra a World Heritage Site and the process of incorporating it into the Kakadu National Park began.
A native of Michigan, Lee was raised in the Lutheran faith. At an early age he was urged by his pastor to consider ordained ministry. As a young man he joined the Episcopal Church. After marrying his wife, Lisa, in 1979 they moved to New York City where they both worked as buyers for Bloomingdale's. The juxtaposition of wealth and extreme poverty side by side that Lee saw in New York led Lee to decide to pursue ordained ministry. Lee received his seminary education at Nashotah House in Nashotah, Wisconsin.
Lee served as the canon to the ordinary after being ordained as a priest. He also worked in church development, having started a suburban congregation near Indianapolis, Indiana. Lee worked as a rector with declining parishes in both Wisconsin and Washington before being elected Bishop of Chicago. Lee was chosen from a slate of eight nominees. Lee was the 1,026th Bishop consecrated for the Episcopal Church.
Smelling like a brewery, looking like a tramp I ain't got a quarter got a postage stamp Been five o'clock shadow boxing all around the town Talking with the old men sleeping on the ground Bazanti bootin al zootin al hoot and Al Cohn sharin this apartment with a telephone pole and it's a fish-net stockings spike-heel shoes Strip tease, prick tease car kease blues and the porno floor show live nude girls dreamy and creamy and the brunette curls Chesty Morgan and a Watermelon Rose raise my rent and take off all your clothes with the trench coats magazines bottle full of rum she's so good, it make a dead man cum, with pasties and a g-string beer and a shot Portland through a shot glass and a Buffalo squeeze wrinkles and cherry and twinky and pinky and FeFe live from Gay Paree fanfares rim shots back stage who cares all this hot burlesque for me cleavage, cleavage thighs and hips from the nape of her neck to the lip stick lips chopped and channeled and lowered and louvered and a cheater slicks and baby moons she's hot and ready and creamy and sugared and the band is awful and so are the tunes crawlin on her belly shakin like jelly and I'm getting harder than Chinese algebraziers and cheers from the compendium here hey sweet heart they're yellin for more squashing out your cigarette butts on the floor and I like Shelly you like Jane what was the girl with the snake skins name it's an early bird matinee come back any day getcha little sompin that cha can't get at home getcha little sompin that cha can't get at home pasties and a g-string beer and a shot Portland through a shot glass and a Buffalo squeeze popcorn, front row higher than a kite and I'll be back tomorrow night
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are about to start mixing their new album, Cave has revealed ... He added ... The singer-songwriter also recently teamed up with another pop veteran, Blondie, for a cover of The Gun Club’s Jeffrey Lee Pierce’s ‘On The Other Side’.
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MACOMB — Following are the property transfers in McDonough County Nov. 17-22. • 12480 N 950th Rd, Macomb, 2.32 acres ... • 602 N Charles St., Macomb ... • 1 Rye Ct., Macomb ... • 400 E Pierce St., Macomb. $82,500/Megan Lee Meredith Dildine to Jeffrey D Albaugh ... .
That’s where I first saw Jeffrey Lee Pierce, my creative partner in The Gun Club, the band we would form that night at the Pere Ubu show ... Like me, Jeffrey had been to New York, where he had even tried to start his own band.
... set out to destroy music as much as create it,” says Kid Congo Powers talking about the Gun Club , a riotous punk-blues band he co-founded with Jeffrey Lee Pierce in 1979.
The McDonough County Voice
21 Nov 2022
The McDonough County Voice
21 Nov 2022