Guns because they were going to do shows as Tracii and Phil, not as L.A. I knew that I was just going to keep pushing forward with L.A. So when I was on tour with Phil in 2016, after 15 years of Phil and me doing it alone, he decided to do some shows with Tracii, and I never wavered. I was the one guy that never quit the band, and all of the other classic members had left the band at one time or another. Guns that kept going through the whole thing. What happened was I’m the one guy in L.A. You know what? I got to tell you I never really considered stopping. Guns in early 2017 and joined Tracii Guns’s version of the band. There were rumors that you had given up music after Phil Lewis left L.A. What made you decide to return to the music scene and form your version of the band. In December of 2018, it was announced that you would activate your version of L.A.Guns and that the band would perform at the M3 festivals on following summer. Guns, it was time to pick up the phone, ask Riley what’s going on and how things have developed since his band announcement.īefore we start discussing the new RENEGADES album, let’s go back a bit in time. Because the world now has once again two active versions of L.A.
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The band released its first single, “Crawl,” in April of 2020, and the full album RENEGADES saw the light of day last November. Guns member Scotty Griffin and vocalist/guitarist Kurt Frohlich. The lineup is completed with onetime L.A. Guns would resurface, and the band lineup also includes another “classic era” member, Kelly Nickels.
In December of 2018, Riley announced that his new incarnation of L.A. Their version of the band has released two studio albums after that. In early 2017 Lewis announced that he was leaving Riley’s version to join forces again with Guns. The other was run by Riley and Lewis, whereas Guns led his versions of the band. The band name is owned in half (50/50) by Riley and Guns, and between 2006-2012 there were two versions of LA Guns under the same name. However, the group went through numerous lineup changes (with Riley being the most consistent member). They achieved moderate chart success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. After several changes, the band’s “classic lineup” of Guns, vocalist Phil Lewis, bassist Kelly Nickels, guitarist Mick Cripps, and Steve Riley got together in 1987. Guns are an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, originally formed in 1983 by Tracii Guns and Rob Gardner. Guns, Paul Black) that we lost due to heroin, he didn't die but the label said, "Hey you can't have a junkie in your band," so our (then) manager, this guy Alan Jones he said, "If you could have anybody sing for you, who would it be?" And I just said, "Well this guy Phil Lewis, and he said, "I know Phil," and he went and got him and brought him back and that was it.INTERVIEW BY MARKO SYRJÄLÄ L.A. Guns recorded a version of "Hollywood Tease" for their 1988 debut.) Every song on that record … And the other (Girl) album too, "Wasted Youth," is very similar and even a little bit darker, so when the singer we had (in L.A.
"Oh, so that's the perception of the Hollywood music scene?" Which I was living and breathing every day. Songs like "Hollywood Tease" obviously really impacted me. I was like 17 years old when I got turned on to that record and the thing that was really cool about it is it was during that New Wave of British Metal but it wasn't really metal. Oh man, that record … Izzy (Stradlin, classic-era Guns N' Roses guitarist and songwriter) turned me on to that record and it floored me.