Love it. One of the first hardcore records - if not - the first.
"The Middle Class are generally considered one of the first bands to play hardcore punk. Once after a show, the band was approached by a young spectator by the name of Keith Morris, who quipped that he was going to start a band of his own. The band would turn out to be the legendary Black Flag, another band credited with originating the style."
"The Middle Class are generally considered one of the first bands to play hardcore punk. Once after a show, the band was approached by a young spectator by the name of Keith Morris, who quipped that he was going to start a band of his own. The band would turn out to be the legendary Black Flag, another band credited with originating the style."
I always heard he drank too much and ruined his health
Jeffrey Lee Pierce died from a brain hemorrhage in 1996 at the age of 37. His life is the subject of the documentary Ghost on The Highway: A Portrait of Jeffrey Lee Pierce and The Gun Club, directed by Kurt Voss and produced by Voss and editor/composer Andrew R. Powell. The documentary debuted at the Don't Knock The Rock Film Festival in Los Angeles in June 2006 and is currently available on DVD.
More interest in Jeffery Lee here.
Former Bad Seed Mick Harvey has spoken of his memories of the late Gun Club leader Jeffrey Lee Pierce as well as revealing that new material of his own may be forthcoming before the end of the year. Harvey has contributed a version of Pierce's 'St Mark's Place' for the the second album in the Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project series, The Journey Is Long.
"The Middle Class are generally considered one of the first bands to play hardcore punk. Once after a show, the band was approached by a young spectator by the name of Keith Morris, who quipped that he was going to start a band of his own. The band would turn out to be the legendary Black Flag, another band credited with originating the style."
Right on. I can't believe I never heard of them....
"These guys rocked hard . and had an unbelievable back story,... they were seriously bad ass, having spent 18 months in El Salvador with US special forces fighting a covert war against the Farabundo Mart National Liberation Front, these guys returned home on a dishonorable discharge and decided to form a band... The rest is history."
...probably not true, but hilarious .
First heard them off a comp tape I ordered from Thrasher as a kid.Go ahead and laugh, punk was dead as shit when I hit puberty.
Yeah, that's real fucking punk alright
All the suburban jock assholes fucked up the punk scene worse than the skin heads did.