Inkswel's version of "When I'm Seeing You" is soaked in the warm sound of distorted drum machines and tape delays, while Jonny Miller remix of "Summer Vacation" immediately teleports you to the open air party in the Adriatic Sea coast. Me, I stuck to a bandanna and some inspired air microphone twirling.Īn odd choice for a reissue, but an oddly enjoyable one.Review: In-Beat-Ween Music programme of remixes from Lay Far's much loved debut album So Many Ways features an all star cast Ashley Beedle, Peter Oakden & Craig Smith, Tommy Rawson and Aroop Roy, to Atjazz, Inkswel, Jonny Miller and Thatmanmonkz, to name a few. But once they get their blues on for a blinding version of "Rip And Tear," a powerful spin through theīig lighter in the air hit, "The Ballad Of Jayne" and a final, electrifying version of "One More Reason," you’ll find yourself rooting around for those spandex trousers you last fitted into circa 1989. Still with us? I thought not.Īs befits the veteran musicians on display, the live tracks are really excellent, even if the first one, "Decide," is the weakest by far. Now, you might have thought that the live tracks would be from the 1999 lineup, but they’re actually from the 2009 return of Jizzy Pearl, who arrived back in the band via Ratt (yes, really) in a move which saw the sixth L.A Guns vocalist replacing the seventh L.A Guns vocalist who’d replaced the returning first L.A Guns vocalist. The legally obligatory power ballad "Dreamtime" is excellent, and although there is some filler mid album, the band really throw in a curveball with the slow blues of "Bad Whiskey," and somewhat amazingly pull it off. Opening numbers "Girl, You Turn Me On" and the title track are excellent tunes, harking back to the eighties with the obligatory hint of down tuned guitars, but it‘s the moody and magnificent "I‘ll Be There" that is the standout. Guns, but I was a big fan of Love/Hate back in the day, so that gets no complaints from me.
It actually sounds more like a grunged up Love/Hate than it does L.A. And by "deluxe" he means with an additional five live tracks. Meanwhile, for some strange reason, Steve Vai has decided to put out a deluxe reissue of that 1999 release, Shrinking Violet, with Jizzy Pearl on vocals, on his Favored Nations label. It didn’t take long before the Tracii Guns band became the second L.A. Guns members Paul Black (who was vocalist before Phil Lewis), Nickey Alexander on drums, and former Brides live member Jeremy Guns on bass. However, 2006 saw Tracii Guns, post Brides, touring a "Best Of L.A Guns" tour with former L.A. Unfortunately, for him, drummer Steve Riley owns 50% of the name, so he quite happily continued L.A Guns with Phil Lewis. Now things get even more confusing.Ģ002 saw Tracii Guns leave his own band to link up with Nikki Sixx from Motley Crue in the putative super group Brides Of Destruction. The band managed to get through four different singers including fellow sleaze rock survivor Jizzy Pearl from Love/Hate, who sang on this 1999 album Shrinking Violet before the inevitable return of Phil Lewis, shortly after its release. Then came the years of line-up changes and diminishing returns, culminating in the departure of vocalist Phil Lewis in 1995. Guns, Cocked & Loaded, and Hollywood Vampires - while the sleaze/ glam metal bandwagon was still going strong. Regardless, they managed three platinum and gold albums on the trot - L.A.
Guns emerged a few years on, culminating in the classic lineup of ex Girl / New Torpedoes / Torme vocalist Phil Lewis, Tracii Guns, Mick Cripps on rhythm guitar, Kelly Nickels on bass, and drummer Steve Riley, although Riley actually joined after the first album was recorded. Guns was formed by guitarist Tracii Guns in 1983, although that band split when he left to join the early Guns n’ Roses. So let’s try and get our heads around where we’re at.
But that’s the sort of crazy assed world we live in. After all, based on the eighties when they were at what passed for their peak, there scarcely seems the need for one. I never thought that I would live in a world where there were two L.A.
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