Early Warning [Limited Edition]

The Gun Club | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 11, 1997)
• Original Release Date: November 11, 1997
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Limited Edition
• Label: Sympathy 4 the R.I.
• ASIN: B000003L0D
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #393,395 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Goodbye Johnny

2. Preaching The Blues

3. Watermelon Man

4. Devil In The Woods

5. Fire Of Love

6. Ghost On The Highway

7. Walkin' With The Beast

8. I Hear Your Heart Singing

9. Devil In The Woods

10. Goodbye Johnny

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Promise Me

2. Treat Your Train Right

3. Cool Drink Of Water Blues

4. Devil In The Woods

5. Goodbye Johnny

6. Gonna Find My Baby

7. Desire By Blue River

8. The Devil & The Nigger

9. An American Promise

10. I'm On This Rocket

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh, come ON., December 3, 2004

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Zachary Hoskins "ashtray heart" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Early Warning (Audio CD)

Sound quality?

How can somebody listen to a set as intense and raw and brutally beautiful as this and worry about SOUND QUALITY? Kids, the Gun Club were never meant to seep out of $1000 Bose "home entertainment center" speakers, and if you haven't figured that out yet, then you're beyond hope anyway. The songs on the second disc sound like dirty home recordings because they ARE dirty home recordings, and frankly I'm just thrilled to be able to hear them. Disc One, it's true, is hardly a multi-million dollar, post produced within an inch of its life, Frampton Comes Alive-type affair...and thank god for that. The fidelity ain't nearly as bad as Metallic KO either, and if that record can become an essential part of Iggy's canon I don't see why this one can't become a must-have in Jeffrey Lee's. Because this is the bottom line, people: the performances on this record absolutely scorch. Nobody with red blood, a heartbeat and a love for authentic rock'n'blues should be able to listen to the 1982 live versions of "For the Love of Ivy", "Preachin' the Blues" and "Fire Spirit" and think, "gee, this mix is a little trebly." This is intense, fantastic stuff. Admittedly not as essential a purchase as the first three studio albums...but close enough. Ignore the whining, do yourself a favor and listen to this record. You won't regret it.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The flame that burned brightest..., December 30, 2002

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Michael W. Draine (Acton, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Early Warning (Audio CD)

Seductive, pelvic grooves, blazing Delta slide guitar, and lyrical vision on par with Jim Morrison's made up The Gun Club's explosive compound. The early Gun Club played with passion, commitment, and an ear for tradition that set them apart from the monochord macho of West Coast Hardcore and freeze-dried irony of British New Wave. The founding fathers of the blues provided Gun Club founder Jeffrey Lee Pierce with inspiration, but JLP reached deeper into the darkness of the American collective unconscious than his predecessors dared. Images of desolation and depravity, haunted highways, and deadly women roam through Pierce's lyrics, sung in his plaintive, desperate tenor. JLP's ego and drunken onstage conduct began thinning The Gun Club's ranks after only two albums. The forces that fueled the artist destroyed the band, and ultimately, the man. Disc 1 opens with five 1981 demos that strike like lightning; the incredibly tight 13-song May, 1982 set (dubbed from a vinyl bootleg) is a thrilling, harrowing ride on the edge of an abyss. This show may well have been the original lineup's finest hour, providing definitive performances of most of JLP's best songs. The second disc of oddly poignant demos captures a twentyish Jeffrey Lee Pierce at home, playing mix of blues standards and originals on acoustic guitar. The poor sound quality on disc 1 is the only drawback to this document of short-lived brilliance.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sex and Fear, July 7, 2006

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Gus Santoni (Western Mass.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Early Warning (Audio CD)

Regardless of the fact sound quality is not a factor for the pure sexual energy of the Gun Club, disc two is so stuffed with acoustic wonderment that the set price could be raised to a kidney. 'The Devil and the Nigger' is the song you've always wanted to hear but were too scared to know exists.

If raw sexual energy scares you so much your voice quakes (and it should) then this record will explain why. Life is about dirty, panicky, sex, and Gun Club know that.