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
EP by
The Gun Club
ReleasedApril 13, 1983
RecordedJanuary-February 1983
StudioBlank Tapes Studios, New York
GenrePost-punk, roots rock
Length19:43
LabelAnimal Records (original release)
Sympathy for the Record Industry (2004 US reissue)
Cooking Vinyl (2009 European reissue)
ProducerChris Stein, Jeffrey Lee Pierce
The Gun Club chronology
Miami
(1982)		 Death Party
(1983)		 The Las Vegas Story
(1984)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."The House on Highland Avenue"3:10
2."The Lie"3:16
3."The Light of the World"3:07
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Death Party"5:53
2."Come Back Jim"3:50

Personnel
The Gun Club

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
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References
  1. Jurek, Thom. "Death Party". Allmusic. Retrieved May 4, 2013.
  2. Green, Jim; Sprague, David (2007). "Gun Club". Trouser Press. Retrieved May 4, 2013.
  3. http://www.furious.com/perfect/gunclub2.html
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