![]() ![]() So, right away, Kelly and I started writing material and planning how we would do this, and we were fortunate. So I contacted Kelly Nickels immediately, and I asked Kelly if he was ready to come back because he had taken a lot of time off, and Kelly was so into it. 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. 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. After writing material and playing shows, the group signed with PolyGram.INTERVIEW BY MARKO SYRJÄLÄ L.A. Initially, the group were to be called Faster Pussycat (later the name of another band several of that band’s members over the years were also in L.A. Robert Stoddard, former The Dogs D’Amour singer, briefly became guitarist for the group, co-writing the song “Nothing to Lose” that appeared on L.A. Guns with Mick Cripps and Nickey Alexander. Later, in 1985, Guns and singer Paul Black reformed L.A. Guns and Hollywood Rose) with the lineup composed of Axl Rose, Tracii Guns, Izzy Stradlin, Ole Beich and Rob Gardner. The group changed their name to Guns N’ Roses (combining the names of L.A. Weber, who left to move to New York City, was soon replaced by Tracii Guns. Guns drummer Gardner also joined the group. However, Hollywood Rose reunited, briefly, with Rose, Stradlin, Weber and Steve Darrow returning while L.A. Rose would leave the group to front Rapidfire before going on to form Hollywood Rose, a group formed following the introduction of guitarists Izzy Stradlin and Chris Weber to each other by Guns.įollowing the breakup of Hollywood Rose, in 1984, singer Rose rejoined L.A. The same material would later be released as a bonus disc with the compilation album Hollywood Raw in 2004. Originally released on vinyl, the record was produced and engineered by Blues/Rock guitarist Chuck Rosa and came out on Raz Records (an independent Hollywood based record label, named after the band’s manager, Raz Cue). 1, before Jagosz was replaced by Axl Rose. This lineup recorded the band’s debut EP, Collector’s Edition No. The first lineup included singer Michael Jagosz bassist Ole Beich and drummer Rob Gardner. Guns were first formed in 1983 by guitarist Tracii Guns. ![]()
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