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Los Angeles, United States (1983 – 1984, 1985 – present)

L.A. Guns is the name of two groups from Los Angeles, California. One group is led by Guitarist Tracii Guns while the other version is led by Vocalist Phil Lewis & Drummer Steve Riley.

The group was initially formed in 1983 and was composed of guitarist Tracii Guns, singer Axl Rose (who left to form Hollywood Rose and was replaced by Michael Jagosz), bassist Ole Beich and drummer Rob Gardner. The group disbanded in 1984 when Tracii Guns and Axl Rose decided to merge both L.A. Guns and Hollywood Rose to form the first lineup of Guns N’ Roses. The lineup included Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin from Hollywood Rose and Tracii Guns, Ole Beich and Rob Gardner from L.A. Guns however this was short lived when all three L.A. Guns members left the group.

In 1985, L.A. Guns was reformed by singer Paul Black, initially as Faster Pussycat, recruiting former Dogs D’Amour singer Robert Stoddard to be the new guitarist with the group being rounded up by Nickey Alexander on drums and Mick Cripps on bass. Following Tracii Guns addition to the group, they re-adopted the L.A. Guns moniker. After signing a deal with Polygram Records, Black was replaced by Phil Lewis (formerly of Girl), Cripps switched to guitar (replacing Stoddard) and bassist Kelly Nickels (formerly of Faster Pussycat) joined the group completing the lineup.

L.A. Guns debut album, L.A. Guns, was released in 1988 charting at number 50 on the Billboard 200. When they toured in support of the album, Alexander was replaced by former W.A.S.P. drummer Steve Riley.
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  • LA_RocknRoll

    New video from L.A. Guns! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZg5s-uAMbg

    Thursday evening

  • littlepunkqueen

    Crystal Eyes!!!

    Thursday afternoon

  • coa11

    http://www.last.fm/music/TNT/+images/6406363 hey can you vote down this pic .. it's fake TNT and very often this pic is main .. so i want to move it from there .. just go vote down ! tnx anyway .. :)

    16 days ago

  • LA_RocknRoll

    Maybe in 80s and early 90s Tracii Guns was good rocker, but since late 90s is fuckin lame.

    16 days ago

  • Sharp-Ton

    There is good things about Glam, ¿or not, L.A. Guns?

    18 days ago

  • Noxbi

    WAT!? There's no L.A. Guns without Tracii Guns... Come on, people.

    19 days ago

  • LA_RocknRoll

    That's right, Phil = L.A. Guns. L.A. Guns without Phil isn't L.A. Guns. L.A. Guns without Tracii sounds still good. Generally, for me Tracii is like Nikki Sixx or Tommy Lee - he very much like modern influences. I think will be better when reunion will never happen. But it's only my subjective opinion.

    22 days ago

  • Re-Kramer

    Tracii is a lame songwriter, Phil for the win! Anyway I would give all I've got to see the reunion again.

    22 days ago
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