The reason for this seems to have something to do with the band’s name being registered as a trademark to two people: Traccii Guns and Steven Riley. Guns the band has morphed into two simultaneous and competing versions). Guns are in a way a sort of North American equivalent of UK Subs (a substantial back-catalogue and an almost constant rotation of band members….only in the case of the L.A. Indeed, the line-up changes and the dramas surrounding the various incarnations of the ‘Guns over the years cannot be summarised within one album review. It is the latest instalment in a soap opera already a few years old. Guns features the drummer (Steven Riley) and bass player (Kelly Nickels) from the best known late 80’s/early 90’s line-up of the band, augmented by another former bass player from a 2010’s line-up (Scott Griffin) and a completely new lead vocalist (Kurt Frohlich). Singles List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album nameThis L.A. Live albums List of live albums, with selected chart positionĬompilations List of compilation albumsĮxtended plays List of extended plays Re-recording albums List of re-recording albums "-" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region.Ĭover albums List of cover albums Steve Riley's version of the band will release The Dark Horse on July 14, 2023.Īlbums Studio albums List of studio albums, with selected chart positions and certifications Tracii Guns' version of the band will release Black Diamonds in 2023. Checkered Past was released on November 21, 2021. The Devil You Know was released as the album's follow-up in March 2019. In 2017 the band released The Missing Peace, which reached number 16 on the Billboard Hard Rock Albums chart and number 12 on the Independent Albums chart. After three albums without the guitarist, Lewis and Guns reunited for the first time since 2002 in 2016. 2001's Man in the Moon featured Mark "Muddy Stardust" Dutton on bass, and 2002's Waking the Dead was recorded by a four-piece lineup of Lewis, Guns, Riley and Adam Hamilton, after which founding member Guns left the band. The classic lineup of Lewis, Guns, Cripps, Nickels and Riley reunited in 1999 to record Cocked & Re-Loaded, a new version of the group's second album. The group also went through a long line of personnel changes: 1996's American Hardcore featured new vocalist Chris Van Dahl and bassist Johnny Crypt, the 1998 EP Wasted featured Crypt and vocalist Ralph Saenz, and 1999's Shrinking Violet featured Crypt and vocalist Jizzy Pearl. The band continued to issue new albums throughout the 1990s, with limited commercial success. Guns was dropped by PolyGram and went through a number of lineup changes, with Lewis, Cripps and Nickels leaving in 1995. After the band's fourth album Vicious Circle failed to chart in the US, L.A. Three of the album's four singles charted on the Mainstream Rock chart, and "It's Not Over Now" charted at number 62 on the Hot 100. Hollywood Vampires, released in 1991, reached number 42 on the Billboard 200. Guns its debut on the Hot 100, reaching number 33. The single " The Ballad of Jayne" gave L.A. Alexander was replaced by Steve Riley, and the 1989 follow-up Cocked & Loaded reached number 38 on the Billboard 200. It reached number 50 on the US Billboard 200 and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). After some early lineup changes, the group – consisting of vocalist Phil Lewis, lead guitarist Tracii Guns, rhythm guitarist Mick Cripps, bassist Kelly Nickels and drummer Nickey Alexander – signed with PolyGram and released its self-titled debut album in 1988. Guns, an American hard rock band, consists of seventeen studio releases (fourteen original studio albums, two cover albums and one re-recording album), nine live albums, 13 compilation albums, four extended plays, 27 singles, six video albums and 25 music videos.
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