L.A. Guns - L.A. Guns

Awesome Rock debut

Great debut album from a grossly underrated band. L.A. Guns are one of the finest rock bands to come about in the last 30 years. Tracii Guns after creating and leaving Guns N Roses formed the even better rock mosnter LA Guns. Sure GNR were more popular because of one album, but LA Guns always had the better music over all and the best musicanship. Awesome rock n roll band, great debut CD. May 30, 2008

Debut for the Hollyrock almost legends

LA Guns were about the closest of any of the hair metal bands to match the heights reached by Motley Crue without actually doing it. I always equated them with Ratt as a band that I enjoyed quite a bit at times but just never managed to cut through to full on megastardom. Which on the strength of this album is a bit unfair as speaking personally I'm far more likely to throw this on than either of the Crue albums Theatre of Pain or Girls Girls Girls. So trying to explain why those albums somehow sold more than the Guns early albums is beyond me.

This debut album by the good time Hollyrockers is a fairly simple affair. It's heads down party metal with liberal doses of stripper joint sleaze. Just the names of some of the songs tell you where this stretch limo of debauchery is heading - Shoot for Thrills, Hollywood Tease, Bitch is Back and the excellent Sex Action, darn near the bands flagship and rightly so. I mean once you've written lyrics like `Man she got style, boy she got sleaze' you've pretty much said it all. Definitely download or score a sample of this track as it will probably make up your mind.

With musicianship that relies more on gut instinct than high brow technical talent this album scoots along with hardly a let up. The production to me doesn't sound too dated, you can tell it wasn't recorded anytime post 2000 but that's fine, it doesn't sound creaky in the way you might get with some 70's albums.

This and Cocked and Loaded were LA Guns best albums because the stars were still shining brightly for them. From Hollywood Vampires onwards things weren't so crash hot and the mood is more down. But here, it's all party party party with as many girls as you can convince to come along for the ride. February 1, 2008

One of my old favorites...

This is my second copy of this album - I had a cassette 'back in the day'. Of course, I wore it out.
LA Guns was 'created' by Tracii Guns (original Guns of Guns n Roses) and fronted by Phil Lewis, whose slightly
accented (English) wailing makes them singularly different among their set (also comprised of GnR, Faster Pussycat, etc.) with a less polished look but similar 'sex, drugs, RnR' flavor to their music.

Although I never really got into their 'later' stuff (except for 'Ballad of Jayne' of course) this album has remained a 'must' whenever I need some hard, aggressive, screamy, FUN stuff...

Love them... May 23, 2007

OGs in LA

solid rock album, plenty of blues influence, the original cast was always the best February 7, 2007

L.A.Guns - self-titled (MCA)

The heavy metal band's 1988 stunning debut record. Saw L.A.Guns on this very tour. No doubt about it,this band had their bout with stardom for a few years there. Tracks that I remember digging the most were "Sex Action","One More Reason","Electric Gypsy"(always loved the MTV video for this song),the rocking "B**ch Is Back" and "Hollywood Tease". Couldn't help BUT to notice their Aerosmith and Motley Crue influences. Line-up: Phil Lewis-vocals, Traci Guns & Mick Cripps (does he still have his day job at the Cleopatra label?) - guitars, Kelly Nickels-bass and one-time W.A.S.P. member Steve Riley-drums. Something I wanted mention here, is that L.A.Guns is currently on a stateside tour of clubs. Their ads usually read, 'With Original Vocalist'. What some of you may not know is that their ORIGINAL...'original' vocalist was Paul Black,NOT Phil Lewis. So keep that in mind if you decided to check them out. A should-have, if you a fan of this genre. October 24, 2006

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