Guns is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California. Guns with vocalist Phil Lewis performing in 2008 (top), 2010 (middle) and 2015 (bottom). Checkered Past shows a band invigorated and ready to bash you over the head, as well as “wow” you with some epic, slower songs, and even make you dance a bit to some rock 'n roll.Three lineups of L.A. When fans absorb the album as a whole, they'll see that the tracklisting is divided up into 'sets' or 'suites', where a sonic style is explored across multiple songs before moving on to the next, making for a remarkable listening experience.įeeling inspired and excited like they did when they first started out, but with many years of wisdom and experience under their belts, and most importantly, a renewed and stronger creative and personal relationship, Guns and Lewis are maintaining a creative peak that started with The Missing Peace. Heavier songs are mixed with bluesier, boogie inducing tracks and dark, introspective ballads, often harkening back to the first three albums the band made, but also pushing the band forward. Written and recorded during late 2020 and early 2021, Checkered Past sees Tracii Guns, Phil Lewis, and company continuing with the darker lyrical tone of the preceding studio albums, The Devil You Know and The Missing Peace, while incorporating their classic rock influences into the mix. For Cocked And Loaded I felt like a integral band member." I’m honored to be on the debut, and I love it. We were starting an album from scratch, no songs had been lying around. Once we got to Cocked And Loaded, it was a clean slate. Very much a salvage job on the first one. I wouldn’t have touched them if I didn’t think I could make it better. If there were fantastic lyrics and good songs, that would be one thing. I’d slow down the cassette and all I could hear was this weird mumbling. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to sing the stuff he did, I couldn’t understand what he was singing. Certain songs were already written and recorded with the other singer. With the singer before me, they had done some recordings and a quite a lot of writing. He had accumulated a lot of songs and a lot of ideas. Tracii, in one form or another, had been playing under the L.A. "The first album, I consider to a bit of a salvage project. Once you start selling records and getting played on the radio, a few gold records. Guns go, I never expected it to have the longevity that it has had. I’m so glad that Girl didn’t hit the jackpot, because I wasn’t ready for it. It was never designed to stick around for a long time.
I always said Girl was like a two-page poem. You could tell if their career was a book, it would be a leather-bound, 10 book set. Bands like Maiden and Def Leppard, it was clear they were going to have a legacy. It was around the same time that Def Leppard and Iron Maiden started. Girl was my first band when I was in my late teens, early 20s. Honestly, I swear to God I thought that would be it. "I thought it would be a nice opportunity for me to go out to Hollywood and have a nice holiday for a couple months.
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