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The Las Vegas Story in Bloomington, MN
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The tragedy of the
Gun Club
's third album,
The Las Vegas Story
, is that it was largely ignored by both critics and fans due to the mixing and mastering disaster that marred its predecessor,
Miami
-- an album that was full of great songs and performances but was so marred by poor sound that it sounded lifeless. Both records were issued by
Chris Stein
's
Animal
label.
was produced by
Jeff Eyrich
who was just coming off
T-Bone Burnett
Proof Through the Night
project and was about to enter the studio with both
the Plimsouls
and
Thin White Rope
. Its lineup features the return of original guitarist
Kid Congo Powers
, as well as drummer
Terry Graham
and new bassist
Patricia Morrison
(aka
Pat Bag
) from L.A.
punk
outfit
the Bags
. Late frontman /guitarist
Jeffrey Lee Pierce
was writing feverish
rock & roll
songs that took their inspiration from Southern
blues
and West Texas
country
music all framed by an angular, jagged
post-punk
energy. The screaming rawness at the heart of the band's debut,
Fire of Love
, had been replaced by a dry, moaning lonesome, percussion heavy desert sound, space and echo float through the mix like a ghost through
Pierce
's slide guitar playing. Bass drum and tom-toms fuel the attack with a basic, primitive nocturnal energy. Topics ranged from personal disintegration in
"Walkin' with the Beast,"
and the
country-blues
-drenched
"Eternally Is Here,"
and the shambolic, two-step
confusion of
"My Dreams"
that quotes directly from
Television
"Marquee Moon"
to the disappearance of the nation in
"Bad America"
's edgy guitar wrangle. There are a couple of covers on the set tossed right in the center of the album:
"The Master Plan,"
a spooky, brooding,
rock
read of
Pharoah Sanders
' and
Leon Thomas
'
"The Creator Has a Master Plan,"
and a slovenly, funereal version of
"My Man's Gone Now,"
by
George
Ira Gershwin
from Porgy and Bess.
is a provocative record that reveals
the Gun Club
was pulled in many directions at once, and though the tension is in evidence on every track, it nonetheless holds together. After
,
is their most satisfying album and is, perhaps, the band's most visionary offering. ~ Thom Jurek
Gun Club
's third album,
The Las Vegas Story
, is that it was largely ignored by both critics and fans due to the mixing and mastering disaster that marred its predecessor,
Miami
-- an album that was full of great songs and performances but was so marred by poor sound that it sounded lifeless. Both records were issued by
Chris Stein
's
Animal
label.
was produced by
Jeff Eyrich
who was just coming off
T-Bone Burnett
Proof Through the Night
project and was about to enter the studio with both
the Plimsouls
and
Thin White Rope
. Its lineup features the return of original guitarist
Kid Congo Powers
, as well as drummer
Terry Graham
and new bassist
Patricia Morrison
(aka
Pat Bag
) from L.A.
punk
outfit
the Bags
. Late frontman /guitarist
Jeffrey Lee Pierce
was writing feverish
rock & roll
songs that took their inspiration from Southern
blues
and West Texas
country
music all framed by an angular, jagged
post-punk
energy. The screaming rawness at the heart of the band's debut,
Fire of Love
, had been replaced by a dry, moaning lonesome, percussion heavy desert sound, space and echo float through the mix like a ghost through
Pierce
's slide guitar playing. Bass drum and tom-toms fuel the attack with a basic, primitive nocturnal energy. Topics ranged from personal disintegration in
"Walkin' with the Beast,"
and the
country-blues
-drenched
"Eternally Is Here,"
and the shambolic, two-step
confusion of
"My Dreams"
that quotes directly from
Television
"Marquee Moon"
to the disappearance of the nation in
"Bad America"
's edgy guitar wrangle. There are a couple of covers on the set tossed right in the center of the album:
"The Master Plan,"
a spooky, brooding,
rock
read of
Pharoah Sanders
' and
Leon Thomas
'
"The Creator Has a Master Plan,"
and a slovenly, funereal version of
"My Man's Gone Now,"
by
George
Ira Gershwin
from Porgy and Bess.
is a provocative record that reveals
the Gun Club
was pulled in many directions at once, and though the tension is in evidence on every track, it nonetheless holds together. After
,
is their most satisfying album and is, perhaps, the band's most visionary offering. ~ Thom Jurek
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