The Gun Club

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... she was also a member of The Gun Club, which was an- another kind of legendary punk band.

Uh, she is kind of the reason that The Sisters of Mercy are, like, seen as, like, like almost The Addams Family of, uh, the goth world.

She is, like, their Morticia Addams.

Kid Powers, the song is a tribute to him.

He was in The Bad Seeds, but he was also in The Cramps and The Gun Club.

The Gun Club was the first one.

Rick Ocasek was from The Cars.

We produced it.

You know, was it something that was a big presence in the house growing up? Were your parents into it? Did you have any other musicians in the family?

yeah i mean you know definitely music was something that was in the house for sure and uh yeah i had an older i have an older brother and older sister so my brother was like the classic rock guy who's listening to the band and the who and my sister after the beatles and the monkeys started going out to see shows in hollywood and in l.a so She was going to see The Germs and The Gun Club and Black Flag.

And so her record collection, she had an amazing shelf full of music.

And it definitely was, don't listen to my records.

Yeah

... uh, with Gun Club.

Uh, later Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Yep

We had Since I've Been Loving You by Led Zeppelin.

Uh, we had Mother of Earth by The Gun Club, and I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman by The White Stripes.

Um, I picked a bunch of those.

Um, what do you want us to know about that Led Zeppelin song?

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the Cretins and The Gun Club-

Yeah

... and Bob Dylan and Black Flag all put into a blender, but it was just all the stuff we liked.

Mona.

And then, um, there was a band in the early '80s, an American band called The Gun Club, uh, who I was kind of obsessed with and, uh, as a, as a youngster.

So it, it's Bohannon, Bo Diddley, and The Gun Club, How Soon Is Now.

Yeah.

I mean, it's fantastic.

I'm not, I'm not been a front guy for very long time, and it's n- not something that I'm super classically comfortable with.

Uh, but as we started doing it, he was like, "Hey, if, when you're s- when you're trying to find the note, I can hear it." He's like, "You just wanna be believable." Like, he was like, "Think about, like, how Jeffrey Lee Pierce on his Gun Club records isn't hitting all the notes perfectly, but you believe every word he's saying."

Yeah.

It was, like, just the...

Like, that was, like, the perfect reference for me, 'cause I love those Gun Club records so much.

And, um, yeah, it, that, that...

And, but hearing him also say that made me think, "Okay, like, yeah, you just, you, you sell this." [laughs] Like, and I, and so from gaining that confidence, I felt a lot more comfortable, too.