Friday, May 27, 2011

LA Guns

 LA Guns is an LA glam metal band that has had a "revolving door" policy that the band has had many line up changes throughout their career, the story is known to be one of the few bands in the glam metal movement, has consistently released new material, although their style of music that fall out of favor with the rise of grunge in the early 90's

LA Guns was formed in the early '80s with Michael Jagosz on vocals Tracii Guns on guitar Ole Beich on bass and Rob Gardner on drums for shortly replaced Jagosz Axl Rose while he was in prison, but later left LA Guns to form Hollywood Rose with his childhood friend Izzy Stradlin band dissolved later that year when drummer Rob Gardner Tracii Ole Beich and joined Axl and jagzzy to form Guns N ' Roses


TraCII Rob and Ole finally left Guns N 'Roses and Tracii went on to form a new band called Faster Pussycat Tracii recruited Nickey "Beat" Alexander on drums, Mick Cripps on bass and Paul "Mars" Black on vocals, after their friend Raz offered to financially back band if they changed the name back to LA Guns friend Taimen Downe took the name Faster Pussycat and started his own band


Tracii Guns were fired from LA Guns for a short time in their early days after agreeing to do a few gigs in New York for a friend, he was replaced by Dogs D'Amour first singer, Robert Stoddard When Tracii returned from New York, he joined the band again and they had two guitarists after this


After a blow in the band Paul Blackoch Robert Stoddard both quit before the band inked a contract withPolygram Records Earlier Girl vocalist Phil Lewis stepped in and they recorded their first album filled with different versions of Paul Black's original material after recording the first album, drummer Nicky Alexander quit and was replaced by WASP drummer Steve Riley The line consists of Lewis Guns Cripps Nicklas and Riley would play in their next three albums with little change in line up in addition to Riley exchanged for a few songs by Michael Gershima in "Vicious Circle Recordings

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