'Lineage'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
hey hec - do you know the origin of the term "gun club"? here's one possibility, anyway. it's an informal term that refers to a group of high-ranking officers on a us navy battleship. they were in charge of the big guns, or battleship gun strategy or something like that.
of course, it's also used for a club for people to shoot their rifles, etc. for all i know this might predate the us navy usage. come to think of it, it makes sense for the navy to have adopted it from this usage.
Happy birthday, bicyclops! It's a propitious day indeed.
This is all I've got Tom:
[Pierce] met Kid Congo Powers and insisted he learn guitar, and they formed the Creeping Ritual in 1980-81....the name changed to Gun Club after a suggestion by the Circle Jerks' Keith Morris....Jeffrey's longtime friend, then-roommate.
Sorry to butt in. A hypodermic is sometimes referred to as a "gun." OK, butting out, now.
The dBs opening for REM on my list of Best Shows EVAH. At the Tower Theater in Philadelphia (well Upper Darby) in, uh, '84?
Happy Birthday Bicyclops!!
Another band covered it on one of the Bloodshot comps too.
Trailer Bride. Melissa Swingle also sings on Alejandro Escovado's tepid cover of "Sexxx Beat" on his Bourbonitis Blues EP.
Sorry to butt in. A hypodermic is sometimes referred to as a "gun." OK, butting out, now.
I'm sure that was a factor in the name selection, now that you mention it. Sure beats Creeping Ritual.
The dBs opening for REM on my list of Best Shows EVAH. At the Tower Theater in Philadelphia (well Upper Darby) in, uh, '84?
Saw that tour! Saw them in Providence, RI actually.
Also saw the following bands open for REM at different shows: Let's Active, Husker Du, The Neats.
I think I saw them with Let's Active. Brain fuzzy. sooo long ago.
Husker Du playing at an Elk's Club in Philly (in '85/'86?) was one of my other best shows. I saw Bob Mould recently here in baltimore and I told him that and he said someone else had come up to him that night and said they were at that same show.
(I also told him about how they helped me survive high school and how i quoted "Chartered Trip Away" in my yearbook and how he looked fantastic and how I do pilates now... I was xtra babble-icious fangirl!)
I bet Bob dug that.