L.a. guns vicious circle11/14/2023 ![]() Still I am just grateful to have an opportunity to make new music and have an audience that appreciates it. I’d take on any arena band without their special effects, midgets and pyro and I know we would blow them out of the water. “Who else could have a song like ‘Killing Machine’ on the same record as ‘Why Ain’t I Bleeding?’ It is all about the songs and the music to me. “ Vicious Circle will always be on of my favorites it proved what a diverse band we are,” said Lewis. Guns 1991’s Vicious Circle is a prime example. ![]() One thing that has cursed many a band that got their start on the Sunset Strip in the 1980’s is that once the record companies lost interest and moved their talent scouts north to Seattle the bands that chose to keep making records often had some of their best works overlooked or underappreciated. I wish him the best of luck,” said Lewis. I think he’s done eating ham and cheese sandwiches in truck stops all around the world. “I don’t know exactly why Stacy quit the band after almost ten years, as he contributed heavily to the record, but I suspect he got tired of living in an uncertain environment. Guns will be employing a new guitarist, Michael Grant of the band Endeverafter, as long time guitarist Stacy Blades has departed the group. but the song is about revenge best being served cold,” said Lewis.įor the upcoming tour L.A. One song that really shows the English vibe of the record is called “Eel Pie,” a deceptively titled rocker that has little to do with the food that one random culinary blog describes as “Apple Pie…with eel in it.” :That song is actually one of Scotty’s (Scotty Griffin the bands bassist) I just helped write the verses and ‘Eel Pie’ was just a working title but Andy and the band liked the title so it stayed…. It’s funny I have lived in America longer than I lived in England and I don’t have a hint of an American accent, but I have developed a Mid-Atlantic singing accent apart from when I’m really going for the English thing.” “Of course, I love American music as well and Andy Johns has a tendency to make the records he produces have an English feel as well. “Those Brits sure know how to write a song,” said Lewis in a recent interview with The Marquee. In fact the new record highlights singer Phil Lewis’ British heritage more that any other L.A Guns record before it. ![]() (ala Motley Crue’s The Saints of Los Angeles ) but rather just a solid collection of songs that makes you wonder why Traci Guns was ever stupid enough to leave the band. Despite the title, the long player is not a tribute to the smog filled streets of L.A. Guns has put forth what is easily one of their finest efforts entitled Hollywood Forever. Guns represents a particularly bombastic group whose tales of women, wine and song have always been held in high regard. For those music aficionados of the 1980’s Los Angeles music scene L.A.
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