How I love Jeffrey Lee Pierce, even though I know that everyone who knew him said he was a hard man to love. I love the fact that - before he was a rock'n'roller in his own right - he was a proud and unabashed *fan* : of Debbie Harry, of Howlin' Wolf, of everything wild and free in American music. I love his air of charming gaucherie. I love his scorpion necklace and his plush and pouting mouth. I love his Quixotic attempt to mutate "Ain't That Peculiar" into "Smokestack Lightnin'". But more than any of that, I love the way that he played with the blues. There is a real difference, you know, between *playing* the blues and *playing WITH* the blues. To really *play* the blues - to play it straight - I think you have to be a certain kind of person, and to have lived a certain kind of life. But if you're willing to respectfully acknowledge the founders of the blues, and if you know that they did it first, then you can *play WITH* the blues. I mean, you can take a few pinches and scraps from the old Blues tradition, and let yourself be inspired by the blues to create new songs. Anyone can play with the blues, I think, just as long as they do it with respect. And I think that Jeffrey Lee did. R.I.P, sweet Jeffrey Lee. I wish I could have met you.
I was lucky and did get to meet him once. I was staying with an English friend in L.A. in Sept.1995 and decided to try to get into The Viper Room to see 'Neurotic Lost Boys' whom were playing a residency; a show every week for a month. The week before Slash came on and did 3 songs; this show Iggy did it. I somehow managed to blag my way in after waiting for 1 hour and a half and the line not moving. It's a long story what else happened that night (I met almost the entire band that night: Matt Sorum,John Taylor, Steve Jones but not Duff) including Rodney Bingenheimer and Iggy (Who was an arrogant and aggressive prick to any man who tried to speak to him.) and Johnny Depp who wasn't a prick. He wasn't the giant star he was then but he spoke to people. But it was Jeffrey whom impressed me the most. I interrupted him talking to his pals saying my band supported him once(But I didn't say that I wasn't in the band at the time but my band raved about that Gun Club show somewhere in the U.K. in the late 80's) and he spoke to me for 15 minutes in this insane cackling mood he was in. He was a bit drunk but very friendly and told me how he got to sing on-stage with Nick Cave at a 95' Shepherds Bush show and then did these leg splits and howled imitating him. Most people didn't know who he was and stared in shock as he imitated Nick screaming on his knees and excitably telling me anecdotes of his travels and music and laughing really loud. If you walked past you would think, "Who's that wild man?" I did see The Gun Club play three different times; the first time at London's 'Town & Country Club in - Oct.25, 1987 Sun. They were great. He's very sadly missed and I hear Jack White kind of worshipped him which makes sense.
As a non American, listening to him play makes me feel like I have the American citizenship. He truly is an American treasure and Jack White is right about Jeff's importance.
It’s uncanny. I looked more into Blondie when I learned how much he liked her and can hear her in him in certain songs. “Detroit 442” by Blondie makes me think of Gun Club every time.
So that's how JLP got his hands on obscure Sun records like Ernie Chaffin's Feeling Low - one of the crawled-over rockabilly's that didn't get broken ;) Bob Hite told him, that's totally Cool. Keep the candle burning guys !
@Mikk Lüftumie Chris Stein was being a total douchebag smartass and trying to embarrass Jeffrey in that interview section and meanwhile Stein doesn't have even a quarter of the talent that Jeff had.
@@tommyconancoates7097 The Gun Club and Pierce are a million times more interesting to me than Blondie, I saw Blondie play many times in the 70's, when Gun Club emerged on the LA scene I had stopped going out to the clubs which I regret, I actually met Kid Congo when he was 17 and probably had a good opportunity to know and hang with Pierce, if I hadn't burnt out and stopped hitting the scene. As for Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, I met Harry through a friend, she was nice enough but the thing about her and Stein to keep in mind is that they were much older than most of the people on the punk scene, in 1977 Debbie Harry was 33 years old, she must have seen JLP as just some little kid.
I was thinking the same thing! Debbie was gorgeous and they had a handful of really good singles. (My favorite of which is probably a cover of Hanging on the Telephone). Chris Stein did a terrible job on the Miami album. His fandom of Blondie helped ruin the first lineup. Kid Congo and Mother Juno were even better though. So, it all worked out. But I agree. Blondie aren’t great
I'd actually like to hear that, but I know not everyone's interested in such things :'D - Anyone know where the rest of this documentary is? Hope it's out there somewhere..
Its tragic hes was a staggering musician very vunerable america sucks heroin i fcking hwte that shit its sad he was a masterclass mixed race sincere honest .u see people like iggy i wanna vomit their pretentsions same with the bbc theirs a fking degenerate this guy had a heart congo friends too thk fck some of them are alive doung their thing bless poisin ivy 2 lux . Rip j lee p .thku 4 being an artist his guitar so gentle here .beautiful.
Around 7:15 Jeff makes a comment I relate to. I created most of the songs I've made by playing someone else's stuff the wrong way and accidentally creating something ' original '
Regarding Tex & The Horseheads: just what song *is* it that we hear Tex singing, starting at around the 10:45-minute mark of the video, and going on 'til around the 11:00-minute mark? Does anybody know the title? I think it sure sounds good, whatever it is. Punkier than the usual run of their stuff, maybe.
It wasn't about this video itself but Jack White said something a few years back in the vein of he wonders why JLP's songs aren't taught in schools because their that important. Great video btw!
Da's toevallig, ik zag eergister die fantastische docu van jou over Nick Cave. Eigenlijk de eerste keer dat ik Nick Cave zag praten zeg maar, hahaha... een bijzondere kerel. Iemand in de comments zei dat 'ie zelfmoord ging plegen als die video van TH-cam wordt gehaald... Bedoeld als compliment natuurlijk. De film waar Cave & band toendertijd in mee speelden, Himmel Uber Berlin, is ook een enorme parel. PS: Ik hoop dat je meer (pop)docu's op TH-cam hebt staan...
'taught in schools' is 1 way to make sure kids don't listen! Great that Jack champions the genius who inspired him but no; let the youth with ears find their treasure the real way - via friends, strangers, gigs, borrowing & hunting down records - Heck, they've got the www; it's *easy* for them!
He was a beautiful man with lots and lots of problems. He was very mentally ill and had a lot of pain and did some legitimately crazy things toward the end of his life.
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How I love Jeffrey Lee Pierce, even though I know that everyone who knew him said he was a hard man to love. I love the fact that - before he was a rock'n'roller in his own right - he was a proud and unabashed *fan* : of Debbie Harry, of Howlin' Wolf, of everything wild and free in American music. I love his air of charming gaucherie. I love his scorpion necklace and his plush and pouting mouth. I love his Quixotic attempt to mutate "Ain't That Peculiar" into "Smokestack Lightnin'". But more than any of that, I love the way that he played with the blues. There is a real difference, you know, between *playing* the blues and *playing WITH* the blues. To really *play* the blues - to play it straight - I think you have to be a certain kind of person, and to have lived a certain kind of life. But if you're willing to respectfully acknowledge the founders of the blues, and if you know that they did it first, then you can *play WITH* the blues. I mean, you can take a few pinches and scraps from the old Blues tradition, and let yourself be inspired by the blues to create new songs. Anyone can play with the blues, I think, just as long as they do it with respect. And I think that Jeffrey Lee did.
R.I.P, sweet Jeffrey Lee. I wish I could have met you.
I was lucky and did get to meet him once. I was staying with an English friend in L.A. in Sept.1995 and decided to try to get into The Viper Room to see 'Neurotic Lost Boys' whom were playing a residency; a show every week for a month. The week before Slash came on and did 3 songs; this show Iggy did it. I somehow managed to blag my way in after waiting for 1 hour and a half and the line not moving. It's a long story what else happened that night (I met almost the entire band that night: Matt Sorum,John Taylor, Steve Jones but not Duff) including Rodney Bingenheimer and Iggy (Who was an arrogant and aggressive prick to any man who tried to speak to him.) and Johnny Depp who wasn't a prick. He wasn't the giant star he was then but he spoke to people.
But it was Jeffrey whom impressed me the most. I interrupted him talking to his pals saying my band supported him once(But I didn't say that I wasn't in the band at the time but my band raved about that Gun Club show somewhere in the U.K. in the late 80's) and he spoke to me for 15 minutes in this insane cackling mood he was in. He was a bit drunk but very friendly and told me how he got to sing on-stage with Nick Cave at a 95' Shepherds Bush show and then did these leg splits and howled imitating him.
Most people didn't know who he was and stared in shock as he imitated Nick screaming on his knees and excitably telling me anecdotes of his travels and music and laughing really loud. If you walked past you would think, "Who's that wild man?"
I did see The Gun Club play three different times; the first time at London's 'Town & Country Club in
- Oct.25, 1987 Sun. They were great. He's very sadly missed and I hear Jack White kind of worshipped him which makes sense.
I met Jeffrey Lee from Kentucky. Rode in his red mustang from the 00 club. All he talked about was Debbie Harry.
That was beautiful. Thank you
As a non American, listening to him play makes me feel like I have the American citizenship. He truly is an American treasure and Jack White is right about Jeff's importance.
One of the best 80s bands, so sadly overlooked. We will always have their records, but I would have loved to have been alive then to see them play
RIP Jeffrey Lee Pierce (June 27, 1958 - March 31, 1996), aged 37
You will always be remembered as a legend.
I saw them on '83 tour, unforgettable genius.
in Australia? I missed the show at the ANU in October, to my eternal regret.
Such a brilliant man. He drew from the best influences and it shows in his sound. Clean and heavy.
Lovely Patricia ❤️🦇
Fan pour toujours
He was head of the Debbie Harry fanclub....
He looks a bit like her in his blond period. A rougher manly version tho.
It’s uncanny. I looked more into Blondie when I learned how much he liked her and can hear her in him in certain songs. “Detroit 442” by Blondie makes me think of Gun Club every time.
Well welly well well - just about to post that there would never have been "A " Jack White" without Jeffrey
Nice to see him chilling and talking. Thanks for this!
You can see the chicano in his face, true legend among us.
So that's how JLP got his hands on obscure Sun records like Ernie Chaffin's Feeling Low - one of the crawled-over rockabilly's that didn't get broken ;) Bob Hite told him, that's totally Cool. Keep the candle burning guys !
Yeah... in heaven..
Great guitar player - I so miss this guy
Jeffrey sure looks a bit like Marlon Brando here, no?
This is great! Jeff Pierce doing what he was born to do.
Debbie wrote the song Under The Gun as a tribute to Jeffery.
@Mikk Lüftumie Chris Stein was being a total douchebag smartass and trying to embarrass Jeffrey in that interview section and meanwhile Stein doesn't have even a quarter of the talent that Jeff had.
@@tommyconancoates7097 The Gun Club and Pierce are a million times more interesting to me than Blondie, I saw Blondie play many times in the 70's, when Gun Club emerged on the LA scene I had stopped going out to the clubs which I regret, I actually met Kid Congo when he was 17 and probably had a good opportunity to know and hang with Pierce, if I hadn't burnt out and stopped hitting the scene. As for Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, I met Harry through a friend, she was nice enough but the thing about her and Stein to keep in mind is that they were much older than most of the people on the punk scene, in 1977 Debbie Harry was 33 years old, she must have seen JLP as just some little kid.
I was thinking the same thing! Debbie was gorgeous and they had a handful of really good singles. (My favorite of which is probably a cover of Hanging on the Telephone). Chris Stein did a terrible job on the Miami album. His fandom of Blondie helped ruin the first lineup. Kid Congo and Mother Juno were even better though. So, it all worked out. But I agree. Blondie aren’t great
@Mikk Lüftumie Clearly said he liked their first album, surf music influenced ... presume you haven't heard their early stuff
Beautiful/ Crazy. RIP JLP. Love-
Yes, he has his flaws, but he made some great songs.
The most important rock'n'roll band of this years... before Nirvana...
Nah
@@smkxodnwbwkdns8369the gun club was musically better, and more influential than Nirvana in every way imaginable.
Thank you!
“My parents were getting divorced and I couldn’t go home”
That’ll do it
Yep, though I love Chris Stein he seems pretty insensitive here... Not his proudest moment :(
@@sly7642 yeah pretty tactless after helping him with his album and all.
He's talking more or less about technique on developing photos the old way.... You don't miss anything while he talks Dutch
Nederlands lijkt veel op Engels en Duits, en een beetje Frans.
I'd actually like to hear that, but I know not everyone's interested in such things :'D - Anyone know where the rest of this documentary is? Hope it's out there somewhere..
What is the photographers name? I’d like to track him down. Thanks for the help
what a cool find......thanks for this post. awesome
Vince Neil stole Jeffrey's early/mid 80's look. Then Jeffrey stole Indiana Jones' look in the late 80's. In any case, Jeffrey was and is a legend.
Gammarklar far out man!
+Gammarklar Blondie's beau Stein Destroyed him.
Really, how d´you no?
go directly to Vince Neil's website & stay there! WTF does he have to do with Gun Club?
@@cityandsuburb 😂
Gun clubs death party lineup was short lived. Jeff,Patricia Morrison, Jim Duckworth, & the late great Dee Pop(RIP) 👏
Its tragic hes was a staggering musician very vunerable america sucks heroin i fcking hwte that shit its sad he was a masterclass mixed race sincere honest
.u see people like iggy i wanna vomit their pretentsions same with the bbc theirs a fking degenerate this guy had a heart congo friends too thk fck some of them are alive doung their thing bless poisin ivy 2 lux . Rip j lee p .thku 4 being an artist his guitar so gentle here .beautiful.
Damnit! No subtitles.... oh well...
Around 7:15 Jeff makes a comment I relate to. I created most of the songs I've made by playing someone else's stuff the wrong way and accidentally creating something ' original '
Regarding Tex & The Horseheads: just what song *is* it that we hear Tex singing, starting at around the 10:45-minute mark of the video, and going on 'til around the 11:00-minute mark? Does anybody know the title? I think it sure sounds good, whatever it is. Punkier than the usual run of their stuff, maybe.
n.b. Interview (in English) begins @ 4:45
"Singing in the key of Jeff"
It's be nice to know what their saying about Jeff
Jeffrey Lee Pierce, tu manques !
He was light yeqrs beyond debbie thats 4 sure .Ouch
Lol I was upset when the video ended. Where’s the next part?
hi guys from poppelchannel what did jack white say? was it about this particular excerpt or more in general? I'm the director of this, thats why I ask
It wasn't about this video itself but Jack White said something a few years back in the vein of he wonders why JLP's songs aren't taught in schools because their that important. Great video btw!
Da's toevallig, ik zag eergister die fantastische docu van jou over Nick Cave. Eigenlijk de eerste keer dat ik Nick Cave zag praten zeg maar, hahaha... een bijzondere kerel. Iemand in de comments zei dat 'ie zelfmoord ging plegen als die video van TH-cam wordt gehaald... Bedoeld als compliment natuurlijk. De film waar Cave & band toendertijd in mee speelden, Himmel Uber Berlin, is ook een enorme parel. PS: Ik hoop dat je meer (pop)docu's op TH-cam hebt staan...
it ends abruptly - was there any more? Thanks a lot for doing it, great
'taught in schools' is 1 way to make sure kids don't listen! Great that Jack champions the genius who inspired him but no; let the youth with ears find their treasure the real way - via friends, strangers, gigs, borrowing & hunting down records - Heck, they've got the www; it's *easy* for them!
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Urban Dance Squad shirt!!
@10:20 Mark Lanagen was right about his smile/frown
The predecessor of Anton Newcombe?
That was fantastic. why was he, or did he end up being a difficult person? Didn't seem so in this short feature.
Check out Ghost On The Highway doco!
drugs / alcohol was a big factor.. we all have demons
He was a beautiful man with lots and lots of problems. He was very mentally ill and had a lot of pain and did some legitimately crazy things toward the end of his life.
you are what you eat and drink, it's a tough and shitty business.R.I.P JLP
And inject...
anyone here who knows the name of the song after the interview?
Can someone please tell me the name of the song at the beginning?
the lie
+geoffrey melendres No, I mean the accoustic one that Jeffrey is playing from 0:00
its mother of earth i think
+Chayton Black he's just mucking around playing blues licks i reckon
It's just a standard bluesy improv
Anyone know who the photographer they interviewed in the beginning is? I’d love to track him down
Who’s the lady on the bass?
The beautiful Goth queen Patricia Morrison ❤️
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whats he playing at 7:30 ???
Think its his rendition of Marvin Gaye's Ain't That Peculiar opening riff.
Debbie and Chris aren't cool.
which one is the last song?
An old obscure blues song..
Ok
what is the song at 2;35????????
James J The Lie