Biography
La
Guns are a band from Los Angeles. Originallyformed in
1983, one of the most interesting facts about the band
is that some of the former band members went on to form
Guns n Roses, in particularly Axl Rose. As of 2006,
there are actually two bands performing as LA Guns.
One is with Tracii Guns, the founding member of L.A
Guns and the other with Phil Lewis, the band's third
lead singer.
Band
members
Current
line-up for LA Guns (1)
Phil Lewis - vocals
Stacey Blades - guitar
Scott Griffin - bass
Steve Riley - drums
Current
line-up for LA Guns (2)
Paul Black - vocals
Tracii Guns - guitar
Jeremy Guns - bass
Chad Stewart- drums
Former
band members
Axl
Rose
Nickey "Beat" Alexander
Michael Jagosz
Chris Van Dahl
Ralph Saenz
Joe Leste (very briefly)
Jizzy Pearl
Rob Gardner
Michael "Bones" Gershima
Robert Stoddard
Mick Cripps
Keff Ratcliffe (touring)
Brent Muscat (touring)
Chris Holmes (touring)
Keri Kelli (touring)
Ole Beich
Kelly Nickels
Johnny Crypt
Muddy
Adam Hamilton
Stefan Adika (touring)
Chuck Garric (touring)
Edan Serge Gillen
Discography
Collector's
Edition No. 1 (1985)
L.A. Guns (1988)
Cocked & Loaded (1989)
I Wanna Be Your Man (1990)
Hollywood Vampires (1991)
Cuts (1992)
Live! Vampires (1992)
Vicious Circle (1994)
Best Of: Hollywood A Go-Go (1994)
American Hardcore (1996)
Hollywood Rehearsal (1997)
Wasted (1998)
Shrinking Violet (1999)
Greatest Hits and Black Beauties (1999)
Cocked & Re-Loaded (2000) Rerecording of Cocked
& Loaded
Live: A Night on the Strip (2000)
Black City Breakdown (1985-1986) (2000)
Man in the Moon (2001)
Waking the Dead (2002)
Ultimate LA Guns (2002)
Rips the Covers Off - Phil Lewis' L.A. Guns - (2004)
Hollywood Raw (2004)
Tales from the Strip - Phil Lewis' L.A. Guns - (2005)
Black List (2005)
20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The
Best Of L.A. Guns (2005)
Loud and Dangerous: Live from Hollywood - Phil Lewis'
L.A. Guns - (2006)
Links
official
website
Phil
Lewis' L.A Guns at myspace
Tracii
Guns L.A Guns at myspace
Reviews
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L.A
Guns-Greatest hits and Black Beauties
Record
Label:
Cleopatra
Year: 1999
Track listing:
01. bricks
02. one more reason
03. ritual
04. electric gypsy
05. no mercy
06. sex action
07. rip n tear
08. disbelief
09. ballad of Jayne
10. time
11. heartful of soul
12. 3 minute atomic egg
13. on more reason (Julian Beston Remix)
14. sex action (Intro-Venus remix)
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Review by Janine Macdonald
L.A Guns, formed in 1983,
came around at a time where they were concerned too
dark to be a hair band, and their genre of music tended
to head more toward the glam rock/cock rock genre. The
best term for them would probably be sleaze rock, which
was the same way their counter part, Guns n Roses also
headed.
This greatest hits sees
the band re-recording their hit songs, and adding six
new songs, as well as a couple of remixes. Sounds like
a good idea? I’m not so sure. The songs were perfectly
fine the way they were, and with the likes of LA Guns,
it may have been a clash of the biggest egos.
Track such as one more reason and no mercy are perfect
gems on the album, but that’s where it ends. There
is such a lacklustre of emotion in Phil Lewis’
vocals, that it sounds like this album was a trial to
him. To be honest, maybe he knew something the others
didn't, in realising that fans don't want remixes and
re-recorded songs, they want new material. Fans will
either love it because it’s LA Guns reworking
their older stuff, or hate it because it’s been
reworked, when it shouldn’t have been.
To be honest, listening
to their songs, reworked, well it bored the hell out
of me.
Songs actually worth
checking out: no mercy, one more reason, the ballad
of Jayne.
I give it 2/5
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