Gun Club “Sex Beat 81″
Gun Club “Sex Beat 81″ 1981. Lolita Records. Today, June 27th, is Gun Club founder/singer/guitarist Jeffrey Lee Pierce’s birthday (b. 1958 d. 1996). Sex Beat 81 is a mostly live record from performances at LA’s Club 88 and Hollywood’s Starwood in the winter of 1981. The tracks included are “swamped-out, roiling rock, swaggerific hell-bound blues and gothic country” cuts from Fire of Love and Miami including “Sex Beat,” “Jack on Fire,” “Preaching the Blues,” “Promise Me,” “Devil in the Woods” and “Bad Indian.”
Daily (maybe) pulls from the vault: 33-1/3, 45, 78, old, older, classic, new, good, bad. Subjective. Autobiographical. Occasionally putting a record up for sale.