Novelist Marc Sastre tells JACK ON FIRE/GUNFIRE (Fan Club zine) Content: Jack On Fire (#) and later Gunfire (#) was the quarterly zine issued by Gene Temesy, president of the US fan club, which ran from till Each issue was stacked with exclusive and insightful interviews with all key players in and around the band, as well as tons of great photos.
In March 2012, Nick During a interview with Gun Club’s biographer Gene Temesy, the iconic rocker Nick Cave described the character of the Gun Club frontman and painted a picture of a man who was constantly at war with himself and how he should be in public. Cave said: “With Jeffrey, you pretty much entered his world when you saw him.
Kid Congo Powers has an In March , Nick Cave gave an interview to Gun Club biographer Gene Temesy, researching for a book on the history of the Gun Club, which was published on the Australian -based magazine Mess and Noise, noting Pierce's obsessions with the Vietnam War, dinosaurs, and Japanese horror movies. He went on: "with Jeffrey, you pretty much entered.
This article couldn't have The Cypress Tape would soon be joined by other unrealized song sources from diverse tapes supplied by key characters in Jeffrey’s life coming on board, including Gene Temesy, who started the Gun Club fan club in and brought home Pierce’s ‘98 autobiography Go Tell The Mountain, writer-DJ-musician Phast Phreddie Patterson and Jeffrey.
This is an extract from Temesy's These were gleaned from a diverse collection of tapes offered up by key figures in Jeffrey’s life who had come on board: Gene Temesy, the instigator of the Gun Club fan club in and the man who brought Pierce’s ’98 autobiography Go Tell The Mountain to light; writer-DJ-musician Phast Phreddie Patterson, and Jeffrey’s sister Jacqui.
The guitarist next got Pierce was a man in constant conflict with his inner demons. In a interview with Gun Club biographer Gene Temesy, Nick Cave, a great admirer of the frontman, said: “With Jeffrey, you pretty much entered his world when you saw him. His obsessions crawled all over him.
During a 2012 interview
While Ishiguro grew up in England with a Japanese cultural background, the Texas-born Pierce left his hometown of Los Angeles several times over the course of his Gun Club and solo years to seek solace in the East. 
Conceived in 2006 by the The story of the Gun Club as evoked through interviews with ex-Gun Club members Kid Congo Powers, Ward Dotson, Terry Graham, Jim Duckworth, and Dee Pop as well as interviews with Dave Alvin [Blasters], John Doe [X], Henry Rollins [Black Flag, Rollins Band], Mike Martt [Tex and the Horseheads], Peter Case [Plimsouls], and Lemmy Kilmister.