''Death Party'' is an
EP by American rock band
The Gun Club, released in 1983.
It is the only official release of the Jim Duckworth and Dee Pop line up of the band which existed for about eight months.
A scheduled recording session for
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, the band Jeffrey Lee Pierce had put together around his girlfriend Linda/Texacala Jones was going to go unused. So the Gun Club filled the booking and recorded the ''Death Party'' EP with a bassist called Jimmy Joe Uliana who was a friend of Dee Pop's.
Patricia Morrison
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was the Gun Club's bassist at the time, but didn't play on the EP because of the recording session's spur of the moment nature.
''Death Party'' was produced by
Chris Stein
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, although he came to the sessions after most of the recordings were completed.
Reception
In a 1983 ''
Trouser Press
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'' review, Jim Green speculates that "Pierce may be assessing new stylistic directions", but concludes "this ain't it." Green says that ''Death Party'' lacks the "singleminded intensity of Gun Club's
lbums" He also says that "
e songs...sound like leftovers" and that the "record treads water more than anything else."
Track listing
Personnel
;The Gun Club
*
Jeffrey Lee Pierce
Jeffrey Lee Pierce (June 27, 1958 – March 31, 1996) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and author. He was one of the founding members of the band The Gun Club, and released material as a solo artist.
Biography Early life
Pierce ...
- vocals, piano, guitar; bass on "The Lie"
*
Jim Duckworth - lead guitar
*Dee Pop (Dimitri C. Papadopoulos) - drums, percussion
with:
*"Texas" Linda Jones (Texacala Jones) - backing vocals and "screams"
*Jimmy Joe Uliana - bass except on "The Lie"
;Technical
*Joe Arlotta - session engineer
*Robin Young, Clayton Clark - cover artwork
References
External links
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The Gun Club albums
1983 EPs
Cooking Vinyl EPs