Guns end this abortion with a Christmas song! That’s right, a CD released in February ends on a festive note for those of you looking to get a jump on your holiday shopping… what a joke.Ĭovered In Guns is absolute shit and without a doubt the low point in L.A. By bouncing from rock to grunge to pop it flows like a creek blocked off by a beaver dam. Buckcherry‘s “Crazy Bitch” was released just over three years ago! Who in their right mind would decide we need another version of it already?Īnother problem with Covered In Guns is the song selection. Choosing a bunch of songs that you can hear on the radio daily makes this a completely useless release, even more so when you figure that L.A. Guns resurrecting April Wine, or worse yet Matthew Wilder? I doubt it. Is there anyone in the entire world that was salivating at the thought of L.A. Unlike 2004’s Rip The Covers Off in which the band put their own stamp on the covers, this new CD offers absolutely nothing to a handful of radio staples.Ĭovers albums are usually hit and miss to begin with, but when you don’t add anything different to the original recordings what is the point? Listening to Covered In Guns is not only painful but halfway through I got so pissed off I wanted to reach through the stereo, grab the guitar, and club each band member over the head while screaming, ‘WTF where you thinking?’ That’s how bad this CD is… it’s not only a joke, but a complete slap in the face of fans who have loyally followed L.A. Guns moniker isn’t enough, Covered In Guns just drags the once highly regarded name deeper into the mud. As if warring factions resulting in two bands using the L.A. Steve Riley's version of the band will release The Dark Horse on July 14, 2023.This is bad…very, very, very bad. 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.
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