![]() Hits for me here are the opening song, 'Don't Look At Me That Way' the melodic hard rock 'Revolution' and 'Lost In The City of Angels' 'The Ballad' which is quite obvious, is the ballad of this album the sleazy 'Hellraisers Ball' and the fast-paced closer, 'Don't You Cry'. 'Waking The Dead' shows L.A.GUNS try to revive their early days sound, but also attempt to adapt with the current climate, resulting in a 75% classic style and 25% modern touch. This album just makes me smile.Ģ002 is surely a bad year to produce a glam album, I mean, who's going to buy that when nu-metal still rule the world, but thumbs up to Phil Lewis and the gang to deliver such a classy release in the midst of a horrible heavy metal year. scene which brought us bands like Faster Pussycat, has been brought back to life in a relevant and fun manner. Guns are back with a huge bang, and this album deserves very close attention indeed. Lewis screams with power and swagger as if he is still in twenties pouting “Let me be rude, do you mind if I'm crude, I'll insult all of your friends” while Guns has turned it up, and shows whatever Lewis can do on his part of the stage he is going to do his very best to show who is the owner of the name. This is the Lewis and Guns show, and they are showing now sign at all of slowing down. The rest of the line-up is Johnny Martin (bass), Scot Coogan (drums) and Ace Von Johnson (guitar), but none of them have been there for more than three years in a band whose history can be traced all the way back to 1983 (of course there was a small detour into some outfit called Guns ‘s’ Roses). There is no doubt that in the 30+ years since they first met, their finest moments have been when they are together. ![]() Whenever Lewis is at the microphone, he somehow embodies sleaze, and sneers through the vocals, and when he has Guns next to him then both of them hit pure form. After the success of their superb debut album ‘Sheer Greed’ I was somewhat surprised they imploded but given that Collen went on to Def Leppard and Lewis eventually to L.A Guns it was obviously a good training ground. I was curious to see what a British band would do with the Kiss classic, and they made it their very own. I first came across Lewis when I purchased Girl’s second single “Hollywood Tease” back in 1980. Lewis and Guns have fallen out more than once during their long relationship, which stretches all the way back to 1987, but when they are together there is no doubting the chemistry. And if that version also contains the one and only Philip Lewis, then that is the one to go for. To me, and to many other fans it has to be said, whatever version contains guitarist Tracii Guns is the one that matters. Given there have been a few different versions of this band treading the bands, and even now there are two in existence, it can be somewhat difficult to understand which one is the real deal. For this show they were joined by Scot Coogan (drums, backing vocals), Ace Von Johnson (rhythm vocals, backing vocals) and Johnny Martin (bass, backing vocals) and together the quintet makes the place jump like it was 1989. Lewis has never been the best singer in the world, yet he is the consummate frontman, always knowing what the audience expect and giving it to them. There is something about the two of them together which creates tension and a great end result. Guns have been at the forefront since their re-emergence in 1985, and while there have been different versions over the years, for me the true band is whichever one features Tracii and Phil Lewis (strange to think that at one time they were each fronting their own version of the band). The band announced a special gig at the Fremont Country Club in Las Vegas, NV that would celebrate the 31st anniversary of their beloved album, ‘Cocked and Loaded’, which they then played virtually in its entirety while also adding in “Speed” from their more recent album ‘The Missing Peace’.Įveryone knows Tracii merged his band with Hollywood Rose to create Guns ‘n’ Roses before leaving to form a new version of his own band, and there is no doubt that their second album, 1989’s ‘Cocked and Loaded’ is seen by many as their highlight with the single “The Ballad of Jayne” being one of the highlights. Guns wanted to get together and do one of the things they love most, which is play a show. In November 2020, during the recording of a new album, L.A. Guns over the years, but there is now only one band legally allowed to use the name without having another name attached to it, and that is the one which features Tracii Guns and Phil Lewis (who I will always think of as the singer from Girl, as I loved their debut album). I do not have the energy to describe in detail what has happened to L.A.
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