Death Party
Death Party is an EP by punk blues group The Gun Club, released in 1983.[2] It is the only official release of the Jim Duckworth and Dee Pop line up of the band which existed for about eight months.
| Death Party | ||||
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| EP by | ||||
| Released | April 13, 1983 | |||
| Recorded | January-February 1983 | |||
| Studio | Blank Tapes Studios, New York | |||
| Genre | Post-punk, roots rock | |||
| Length | 19:43 | |||
| Label | Animal Records (original release) Sympathy for the Record Industry (2004 US reissue) Cooking Vinyl (2009 European reissue) | |||
| Producer | Chris Stein, Jeffrey Lee Pierce | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
A scheduled recording session for Tex & the Horseheads, 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 was the bassist but didn't play on the EP because of the recording session's spur of the moment nature.[3]
Death Party was produced by Chris Stein, although he came to the sessions after most of the recordings were completed.
Track listing
All tracks are written by Jeffrey Lee Pierce.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The House on Highland Avenue" | 3:10 |
| 2. | "The Lie" | 3:16 |
| 3. | "The Light of the World" | 3:07 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Death Party" | 5:53 |
| 2. | "Come Back Jim" | 3:50 |
Personnel
- The Gun Club
- Jeffrey Lee Pierce - vocals, piano, guitar and bass on "The Lie"
- Jim Duckworth - lead guitar
- Dee Pop (Dimitri C. Papadopoulos) - drums, percussion
with:
- "Texas" Linda Jones - backing vocals and screams
- Jimmy Joe Uliana - bass except on "The Lie"
- Technical
- Joe Arlotta - session engineer
- Clayton Clark - cover artwork
References
- Jurek, Thom. "Death Party". Allmusic. Retrieved May 4, 2013.
- Green, Jim; Sprague, David (2007). "Gun Club". Trouser Press. Retrieved May 4, 2013.
- http://www.furious.com/perfect/gunclub2.html
