Patricia
Morrison (born January 14, 1962) is an American bass guitarist, singer
and songwriter. She worked with Bags, Legal Weapon, The Gun Club, Fur
Bible, The Sisters of Mercy and The Damned.
She was active in the Los Angeles, California punk rock scene in her mid-teens, and was a founding member of The Bags in 1976. She left that band after a fallout with co-founder, Alice Bag. She began Legal Weapon in 1981, with singer Kat Arthur and guitarist Brian Hansen (both previously of the Silencers), drummer Charlie Vartanian and guitarist Mike R. Livingston, releasing an EP called No Sorrow.
In 1982 Morrison joined The Gun Club, a highly influential post-punk/ blues band from Los Angeles. Created and led by talented maverick singer guitarist and songwriter Jeffrey Lee Pierce, they merged the contemporary genre of punk rock with the more traditional genres of rockabilly and country music along with X, the Flesh Eaters and the Blasters. The Gun Club has been called a "tribal psychobilly blues" band and initiators of the U.S. wave of Cowpunk.
Quitting after her second tour with them, she then formed the band Fur Bible with Kid Congo Powers, performing as the opening act for Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was during this time Morrison was contacted by Andrew Eldritch, asking her to join The Sisters of Mercy. She performed on the 1986 album Gift (released under the group name The Sisterhood) and on The Sisters of Mercy's 1987 album Floodland.
In 1994, Morrison released a solo album, Reflect on This, and in 1996, she joined The Damned after bassist Paul Gray was injured, she played with them till 2004.
