11/20/2022 0 Comments L.a. guns l.a. guns![]() Ohio Music Experience: Who would you say are your musical influences? I’d much rather him write these intricate pieces that he really enjoys playing live instead of me bringing, I mean like “Over the Edge” which is very, very simple. Guns and I wouldn’t really want Tracii to play that kind of stuff. It’s much more of a Brit pop kind of a, sort of an oasis kind of a thing that just wouldn’t be right for L.A. I’m actually working on one today and it’s very different. My own solo writing songs, I’m saving that. I want him to be playing, you know, when we do it live, the stuff that he creates. I let Tracii do the writing, the instrument writing. The best songs that we like, and that’s pretty much been the MO since this reunion. There really hasn’t been much of a concept other than put together the 10 or 11 best songs that we can. Is there a theme with this album? How did the rest of the songs come about? Ohio Music Experience: Yes, it did and your vocals are very strong. Yeah, it just turned out great didn’t it? I meant like, hours of it, (he chuckled), but I’d like to think that I played a little bit of an influence in the creation of that, musically anyway. That’s where I’m going with this, and I was like you know, you got to do a space rock album and I didn’t mean, just a few seconds. Yeah, I hear that in the beginning of the song (“Let You Down”). It’s great! You should definitely look it up. You’ve got two hours of music, three hours of music, and it’s just so groovy, slow cool electric guitar. It’s very triffy and needs these, they’re like trumfits really. What it is, is this sort of meandering melody, spacy guitar riffing. Lewis: Well, if you go on YouTube and type in space rock. I told him recently, I thought it would be a great idea, you know what Space rock is? It just happens to be the first one that we’re working on. So yeah, it was a very different way of doing it and of course, you know, when we first put the song together, we knew we had something special and it was once again, Tracii was like, let’s just put it out instead of just making it part of this record, just another track on this record. The only thing he hasn’t done is been a front man. I mean, he’s been in this band three times in a different capacity. So, we went with Adam, and Adam is an honorary member. Drums are the hardest thing to record, let’s face it. Unfortunately, we couldn’t have our drummer, Scot Coogan play on it, because we couldn’t get into a studio. My case it was Vegas and then Adam Hamilton compiled it in LA. It was just the first song that we approached, and because of this lockdown it was like, ok instead of just like roughly going over it and then recording it the traditional way, let’s just all do our own bit wherever we’re at. He even, had it not been for this lock down, we were already planning to start the record. He just wants to make the best use of the time. Phil Lewis: Well, we are currently working on a new album and it will be the third record that Tracii and I, since the reunion, are working on. Ohio Music Experience: The new song was just released, “Let You Down.” It’s Awesome! What was the inspiration? Guns released in 1988 (which went Gold), to this present album which is in the making, founder Guitarist Tracii Guns and Lead Vocalist Phil Lewis are still going strong with the same extraordinary, creative talent that they had from the start.Ĭatching up with Lewis during the downtime of this current pandemic, he revealed some details of their new music, his inspirations, some fond memories of past experiences, and what fans can look forward to from L.A. Guns continuous drive and high standards of work ethic in making music. Checkered Past comes out on November 12 via Frontiers (who else?) pre-order here.Their song’s title and hook “It’s Never Enough” from their Platinum 2nd LP Cocked & Loaded (released in 1989) comes to mind when summing up L.A. As MS co-founder Axl Rosenberg observed when the last single, “ Knock Me Down,” came out, “fans who felt let down by the experimentalism GN’R demonstrated on ‘ Absurd‘ will especially enjoy the vintage, no-B.S. “Cannonball,” the band’s newest single, is as good an example of what’s on the album as any: it’s got a killer, bluesy guitar riff, an up-tempo groove and a catchy hook that’ll get your head boppin’ and your feet tappin’. ![]()
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